The Last Airbender Movie

STEPHEN PARFITT will have his work in the movie “The Last Airbender,” directed by famed writer and director M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN, and in a shop Parfitt will open at 107 E. Washington St. at the end of April. Parfitt’s work caught the attention of a prop person with “The Last Airbender” through Parfitt’s online sales of his items.

“It started off that they were going to want a good handful of things,” says Parfitt, 35. “Then it turned out that they were working with somebody else, but I’ve got a few things that I’ve sent to them that were for the movie.”

The two main items Parfitt sent were effigy carvings — one of a whale and another of a walrus head. Part of the movie will take place in an Eskimo village.

“I was real excited, actually, because he’s directed ‘Signs’ and ‘The Sixth Sense.’ He’s a big, cool, well-respected director,” Parfitt says.

Parfitt and his wife, Lisa, have two sons — Bruin, 11, and Phelan, 13 — who are fans of the Nicktoons series “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” upon which the movie is based. Parfitt plans to continue working part-time at La Bead, Oh! at 1500 S. Sixth St., after he opens his downtown shop (303-2772), which he plans to call Ancient Circles.

“I do a lot of carving in bone and shell and antler and things like that. It’s going to be mostly finished jewelry,” Parfitt says. “I do everything from formal crystal and silver all the way to ethnic and tribal designs and men’s jewelry.”