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Ft. Mill Filmmaker Lands National Distribution

Thomas Torrey
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

Independent filmmakers crash and burn more than stock car racers, figuratively speaking, of course.  However, our next guest says that may be changing in today’s world of ever-increasing digital film distribution channels.  His first film, “Fare”, after winning audience awards at festivals (and for which he, himself, recently won awards for best actor and best director at the Beaufort International Film Festival), is now in national distribution.

Mike Switzer interviews Thomas Torrey, co-founder of Bad Theology Pictures in Ft. Mill, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.