Last modified: Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:12 PM EST Justin Sulham of Foxboro demonstrates the technique he wants for his film "Always Kiss Me Goodnight." (Submitted photo) Local filmmaker takes you inside his head BY MICHAEL GELBWASSER / SUN CHRONICLE STAFF FOXBORO -- Justin Sulham always carries a notebook and a pencil, but it's a camera that's making him known locally. The independent maker of short films is bringing his television program, "In My Head," to every local cable access station that will have him. On the 30-minute program, Sulham shows clips from some of his work and then discusses it in the studio. "People don't realize how much goes into it," the 26-year-old Foxboro native said during a recent interview. "They think you just point and click a camera. "To me, it's not easy." The show has aired Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 11 on Foxboro's Channel 8 for the past two months. The next new episodes will air starting Dec. 7. The show is also on in Wrentham and Norton. Sulham is trying to bring it to the Greater Boston area. He is asking anyone interested in helping him to e-mail him at acsaproductions@gmail.com. "I just have a feeling that this is different," he said. "Every cable access has the same shows: selectmen, high school basketball, and ballet recitals." Sulham said his show is "like practice" for what he called "a professional hobby. I do it night and day." The 2000 graduate of Foxboro High School has written short films for 10 years, acted in them for three years and filmed them for two years. Fans of the recent Disney film "The Game Plan," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, might recognize Sulham from it. In the film, which was shot at Gillette Stadium, Sulham played Campbell, a wide receiver. "They pretty much cut my part to ribbons, which I expected," Sulham said. At Foxboro High School, Sulham took a film and TV class. He also enjoyed sculpture and drawing. "I've always been into anything creative, any kind of art," he said. "Entertainment was always the direction I wanted to go in." Sulham made his first film, "Unexpected Company," two years ago. The 9-minute film is about a delusional man who ultimately realizes he's a figment of someone else's imagination. "It was all a big delusion," Sulham explained. "Of course, at the end, you look at it like, 'Was it really a delusion?'" Another Sulham production, "Always Kiss Me Goodnight," is airing on YouTube, as well as on Erie, Pa.'s public broadcasting channel, he said. Sulham now is halfway through filming "Breakneck Hill," about a woman stranded in suburban Massachusetts. She encounters a man who turns out to be her estranged husband. "We had to put that on hold because the foliage started changing," Sulham said. He shot part of this film at Foxboro's Camp St. Augustine. Sulham said he writes his scripts with neutral locations. "I just go through towns and cities, looking for something good," he said. However, Sulham has been denied access to some spots. Wrentham Developmental Center officials wouldn't let him use their campus "because people live there," he said. Sulham said that because he pays all of his films' expenses - his last one cost him about $3,000 - "if somebody can help me by giving me a location, it's huge." "Most people understand that at this level of the game, it's difficult for me to get stuff done as it is," Sulham said. MICHAEL GELBWASSER can be reached at 508-236-0439 or at mgelbwasser@thesunchronicle.com.