Paul Gorman:  

CLASS OF 1968
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Redmond High SchoolClass of 1968
Redmond, WA

Paul's Story

Hi Classmates, Guess I could sum up the past 46 years with Joe Walsh's song lyrics, "Life's been good to me so far". And it has. I've been married 35 years to my best friend and soul-mate, Susan. She is the founder and director of New Discovery School in Seattle. We have two wonderful sons in their early thirties (Kelly and Patrick), a beautiful 5 year old Yellow Lab, and a house on Ames Lake just outside of Redmond. My wife, Susan, and I love to travel, and own a condo in Chelan, where we get away frequently. After high school, I traveled around Europe for 6 months, and then played in a Rock n Roll band, managed a local band, and finally went back to school. I spent the next 33 years working as an Electro-Mechanical Designer in the Hi-Tech industry designing printed circuit boards and electronic product enclosures for Fluke, Honeywell, Lucent and Avaya. In the mid-eighties I attended film school and afterwards started writing screenplays and making short films. Several of which were broadcast on TV in Seattle. I also spent several years working on feature films, national commercials and training films. I retired in 2008 and now spend most of my time filmmaking and cycling. In 2010 I completed my first feature film, "BROKEN FRAME". Incredibly, I had shot it 22 years earlier, but it sat in the can all that time. In 2013 it was awarded as 'Film Of The Day' in the UK by film critic Bret Gerry. My second feature film, "Ride The Sky" is a skydiving film about pioneering skydiver, Joan Carson. She was a classmate of ours (Class of 1967) and helped found Lost Prairie Skydiving Center in Mon...Expand for more
tana, which has one of the top five boogies in the country. Joan and her skydiving buddies built the airport, hangar and restaurant at Lost Prairie and her dream was to live there. Tragically she died there in a skydiving mishap shortly after it opened. The cause of her double malfunction remains a mystery. The airport is named Carson Field in her honor. Ride The Sky retraces Joan's skydiving footsteps backwards from Montana to Medford and finally to San Francisco where her skydiving journey began. Delving into Joan's past, it provides details on a painful personal experience that probably motivated her to take up skydiving in the first place. Ride The Sky made its world premier January 2014 at Flathead Lake International CinemaFest. It has since appeared at three more festivals. My third feature film, "Roma Vendetta" is the world's FIRST narrative feature film made from actors' auditions. Their monologues are tied together to tell a quirky, black-comedy about a director who suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder and is being stalked by a hit-man while making a vampire movie in Rome. What ensues is a cat and mouse battle over sanity and justice between the hit-man, the Director and his alternate personality. Trailers for all three of my films and a link to "Broken Frame" can be found by searching for Rain City Cinema. Yes, life has been interesting, and good to me...and it isn't over yet. Hope all of you are healthy and that life has been good to you too. All the best, Paul Gorman Class of 1968 PS. If anyone knew Joan Carson and has any stories about her I'd love to hear them. Thanks.
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