Marc Mangum is a local guy made good.

The Utah native is profiled in today's Washington Post, talking how he went from being a corporate lawyer in New York and northern Virginia to writing and producing movies.

Mangum and his brother Sam, who lives in Utah and was finishing film school, teamed up to produce "The Adventures of Food Boy," a family-friendly comedy (written by Marc, and edited by Sam) starring Lucas Grabeel ("High School Musical") as Ezra, a teen who discovers he has food-related superpowers.

The movie hits DVD shelves Tuesday.

As a moviemaker, Mangum told the Post, "I am being stretched as far as I ever have in anything I've ever done in my life." And yet, he says, "I felt like I was using every skill and everything I had ever learned, up to that point in my life."

(Photo: Copyright - Keith Barraclough.)