At the debut of his movie, “Murder on 5th Street,” teenage director, producer and script-writer Garret Meyers posed in front of the North Bend Theatre with his name in lights.

Last summer, 15-year-old Garrett created his 12-minute thriller with the help and talents of his family and his neighbors working as cast and crew.

Cindy Walker at the North Bend Theatre agreed to arrange a special big-screen showing of the movie, complete with popcorn and candy, for Garrett and his family, including visiting grandparents. “I thought it was pretty fun,” said Garrett, whose other movies can be found on YouTube.

The Snoqualmie boy started making movies just over a year ago, when he got his first camera for Christmas. His still camera also took video, and from there, it was a reasonable jump to filmography, video-editing, and special effects.

“I had a couple of guns in movies, but I didn’t have any muzzle flashes,” Garrett explained, so he learned how to add them in with video-editing software, and worked his way up to explosions, car chases, and bigger gun battles.

His mom, Deborah, sighs, “Everything is guns nowadays with these kids,” but she’s very proud of Garrett for taking safety so seriously when he filmed “Murder.”

All of the guns were fake, or course, but Garrett made large signs so that anyone passing by the filming locations would know that, too. He also used Caution tape to block off the filming scenes, and made sure that every Air Soft gun in use was obviously orange— he turned them black in the final edits.

“I’m so proud of him,” said Deborah. “It makes you go ‘wow, they really are listening!'” Garrett has taken filmmaking very seriously, and he loves being able to do all of the work himself, from script-writing to composing the score, filming, directing, and producing.

For “Murder,” he says, “It took me two weeks to film it and a couple of days to edit it,” and he is looking forward to ever bigger projects, including helping some local film school students with their projects. His Mom sees him as an in-demand Hollywood film-maker some day, but says, “Even if he only makes his family Christmas card, I’m sure he’ll do a wonderful one.”