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SXSW 2008: R.L. Turner student makes film debut

2:33 PM Mon, Mar 10, 2008 | Permalink |
Stephen Becker

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If Carrolton's John Gordon III isn't the youngest filmmaker at South by Southwest this year, he's got to be close. The 15-year-old R.L. Turner sophomore's short film, To the Ends of the Earth, was accepted into the Texas High School Shorts competition and screened to a packed house of parents and students on Friday night at the Dobie Theater.
The five-minute film follows a father (John's father, John Gordon II) and son (John's younger brother, Taylor) as they travel to the airport, where the boy wanders off and gets lost. There's no dialogue in the film; instead, a contemplative narrator speaks of the uneasiness of separation.
"The film comes from the feelings that you have when something we value is lost," John said during an interview Monday morning, his beaming mother, Benita, sitting near by. "It really came from my younger brother, who gets lost all the time. It's such a deep impact -- I know how I feel."
You can catch a trailer for it here.

Heady stuff from such a young filmmaker. But don't mistake him for a newby -- he's been making short films since middle school and is in his second year of the Academy of Media Arts and Technology at Turner, where he is learning all aspects of video production.
And he says he's settled on an idea for his next film, which he's already titled Cloudburst, which he says involves tornadoes.
But before he moves on to that, he says he's looking forward to the film awards ceremony Tuesday night and a screening of To the Ends of the Earth with his family on Saturday night.
"I have lots of ideas that I want to get done, but most aren't finished products. But this film was one that I was happy with the finished product."

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