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How cool is this??? I wish I’d had a teacher like this when I was in high school. I received this e-mail last night from Lea McMahan, formerly of Blount County and a Heritage High alum. It’s too cool not to share.
Hi. My name is Lea McMahan and I’m a theater teacher at Farragut High School. I grew up in Blount County (Wildwood) and graduated from Heritage High School in ‘86.
This semester my advanced theater students and I decided to produce a movie instead of doing a spring play. We decided on an old-school horror movie -zombies, to be exact. Six of my students wrote the 32 page script. Then we filmed it – now we are in editing. We will premiere our movie on April 24 & 25 on the Farragut High School campus.
Would you please print one of the photos I’ve attached for publicity purposes? My students and I have worked so hard on this project & we would love to have an audience to view it!
Most awesome, Leah. Congrats! I hope you handed out Max Brooks’ “World War Z” as assigned reading!
In other “local folks do good” news, got an e-mail from Blount County boy Rob “Storm Taylor, whom some of you may know from his days as a Knoxville deejay and from TV. (He hosted “Yokel,” which aired on Turner South for a season or so.) Lately, he’s been hard at work on a new film, producing “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.” It’s a documentary being made under the MTV banner about “Dancing Outlaw” Jesco White, and it seems to be going places, Storm told us — he’s taking it to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, taking place at the end of the month, and he’s got a sweet 9 p.m. slot on Saturday, April 25, to show it. Congrats, Storm!