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1. <b>Lights, Camera, Action!</b><br><i>Girls write, direct and star in their own film</i> 4/30/12 2:37 PM
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Lights, Camera, Action!
Girls write, direct and star in their own film
by Pamela Hitchins
04.21.12 - 01:00 am
Little girls dream of being in the
movies. Few grow up to do it — fewer
still as writer, director and actress.
Vicksburg’s Cameron Kitchens, 12,
and her cousin Kirsten Kitchens, 16, a
Clinton native, have done just that.
The girls’ 35-minute film, “Fire It up,”
made in their grandparents’ backyard
in Flora and edited with Apple’s
iMovie software, was screened April 13 at Mississippi’s Crossroads Film
Festival.
“It’s about two young warriors taken from their life of security, their normal
lives, and taken on an adventure,” said Kirsten, reached by phone in Charlotte,
N.C., where she is in the pre-professional ballet program at the North Carolina
Dance Theater.
“Fire It Up” was one of 18 films shown in the “Shorts: Films 4 Kids” division at
the Malco Grandview Theater in Madison during the festival.
“My dream since I was in the first grade has been to become an actress,” said
Cameron, who has been in school plays and Vicksburg Theater Guild Fairy Tale
Theater productions. “Seeing myself on the big screen — it was like heaven.”
Cameron, the daughter of Andrea and Chris Kitchens, is a seventh grader at
Warren Central Junior High and previously attended Bowmar Avenue
Elementary School. Cameron’s sister Ragan Hunter, 20, is a student at Hinds
Community College.
Kirsten, who is home-schooled, is the daughter of Mark and Cathy Kitchens. The
family moved in June to Charlotte for Kirsten’s ballet studies.
The girls started turning stories into scripts about four or five years ago, said
Andrea Kitchens.
“They started off with puppets behind the couch,” playing around with a couple
of “Hippity” Beanie Babies, she said. “From there they graduated to using video
cameras and writing scripts.”
The girls created music videos and taped interviews before making “Fire It Up.”
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