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Jordan-Paige Sudduth writing, directing and starring in her own movie By MILES GARRETT news@appenmediagroup.com CUMMING, Ga. — Many sophomores in high school are still trying to figure out what they want to do with their futures once they graduate. Most don’t even know what they want to pursue yet. That’s not the case with Jordan-Paige Sudduth. Sudduth is a rising sophomore at South Forsyth High School and is about to wrap up filming a movie that she wrote, directed and starred in. Oh yeah, she’s only 15 years old. The young filmmaker has been involved with theatre since the 4th grade and became interested in filmmaking about a year ago. When coming up for the concept of her movie titled “Cracked,” Sudduth took time to decide whether she wanted it to become a movie, a series or pass it KIM SUDDUTH along to a film crew. Jordan-Paige’s mother “I’d always thought of story ideas, but I never thought of turning it into a script or a movie,” she said. After putting pen to paper, she finally saw her passion take over. “If I want this to be done now, why don’t I just do it,” she said. Sudduth has always been an avid movie fan and lists films such as “The
Breakfast Club” and “Dead Poets Society” as some of her favorites. She points to watching movies as giving her inspiration for her own work. “Every time I watch a movie, I get an idea from it,” she said. “It always spurs my ideas, and that’s why I love movies.” “Cracked,” a movie about high school kids, has been filming since the end of May and is scheduled to wrap in the coming days. Sudduth expects to finish editing the film by early December and estimates the runtime will come in at just over an hour. Sudduth said the concept of the movie did not come from prior experiences in high school or middle school and that the entire story came from her mind. “Pretty much everything in there is made up which is kind of the dramatic part,” she said. “It’s all basically story.” Sudduth has been working with about 25-30 people since the start of filming and has had additional extras with acting experience or who are assistant directors for the film. Sudduth consulted the help of the drama department at South Forsyth, but in the end, did most of the casting and work on her own. “It was more of a ‘me’ thing,” she said. “The entire department is very supportive of it and a lot of them are excited to see it
It’s been easy for my husband and I, other than just being supportive. She’ll ask for our opinions on certain things but she’s really done a lot of it on her own. She knows that we’re here for whatever she needs from us.”
Jordan-Paige Sudduth along with Cobin Bugni, an actor in her film, await to film a scene.