Oscar-winner Michael Douglas has announced a memoir set for release on Oct. 6.

ROANOKE, Va. – The Star City isn’t necessarily known for movie stars, but an aspiring filmmaker from Roanoke decided to capture his hometown on camera. Michael Fleming directed the short thriller film “Parallax,” which premiered at the Grandin Theatre earlier this month. Fleming shot the nine-minute film on a $300 budget in the Roanoke area, mostly at the Shell gas station on Electric Road near Tanglewood Mall. This was Fleming’s first film, and he is now submitting his movie to several film festivals. “You don’t see very many films being made in Roanoke, even short films,” Fleming said.

At Virginia Tech Fleming worked on the technology to make a vehicle drive by itself. It was so early in the game that the term, self-driving vehicle hadnt yet been coined. And I walked down the hall to my adviser and said,'Hey we have an incredible group of students, great technology. In another, the TORC vehicle stops and yields when a car comes at it the wrong way on a one-way street. Weve been operating on public roads here in Blacksburg for 13 years, incident free, and safety has always been paramount here in the TORC organization, Fleming said.