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Preteen makes her movie debut at Sundance, SXSW

Several months ago Caroline Horn was just another cute and brainy seventh-grader at Travis Elementary School, but since being plucked from obscurity by Dallas-based movie producer Brandon Freeman for a role in his film ISkatelandJ, the 12-year-old Lakewood resident has been rubbing elbows with HollywoodLs young celebrities.

IAshley Green [most famous for her role in PTwilightL] was in the movie, but I didnLt get to actually meet a lot of [the other actors] until the premiere,J Horn says.

Because ISkatelandJ premiered at the world famous Sundance Film Festival, she had her fill of Gen Y star sightings.

II saw America Ferrera [PUgly BettyL], Zoey Deshanel [PAlmost FamousL and PElfL] and Jessica Alba,J recalls Horn. IIt was so much fun. I

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H er small role required her to take just a couple days off of school to shoot in East Texas.

“The movie is about this guy, R ichie, and it’s sort of a coming-

Both H orn and her mom, Shawne H orn, say that it was a little strange seeing a younger C aroline on the big screen.

“She was barely 11 when they shot the movie, so it was bizarre. She has changed so much since then,” Shawne H orn says.

C aroline H orn agrees with a laugh, “I looked like a chubby cheeked little kid.” Though it was one of the best experiences ever, C aroline H orn says, she doesn’t plan to pursue acting as a career, necessarily. “If I get another opportunity to act, I would take it, but for now I am just concentrating on making good grades.” of-age film … I play a kid whose babysitter throws a party at the house, and my line, I’m talking to my brother, and I say, ‘What about me?’ A nd then, ‘Mom thinks it’s too dangerous!’ That’s it.”

The movie, which will screen this month at South by Southwest film and music festival in A ustin, was a great work, Shawne H orn says.

“Brandon (Freeman) did such a great job — for anyone who lived in the late ‘80s roller rink days, they did a fantastic job of capturing that.”