Ayden Grant Payne
Student
Ayden Grant Payne is 11 years old, lives in Alabama and has an older sister who is a nationally ranked high school basketball player. He likes watching movies and talking about them with friends, family and anyone who will listen. He likes to write stories with his friends, collect superhero action figures and take MMA classes. His favorite film is Avengers: Endgame because of its gradual build up to the ending. It isn’t unrealistically happy, which is the same with real life. Plus, it leaves room for spin-offs on what happened in the five years between the first and last movie. Tom Holland is his favorite actor. He is a huge Spider-man move fan, because it is the one series that is most like the comic books and cartoon character. He really likes the film critic Eric Carter. Even though he doesn’t always agree with him, he likes his arguments. Ayden performed in his first play in the children’s theater. He remembers not being nervous and, most importantly, remembering all his lines. He aspires to be a writer and director of movies and TV shows when he grows up and really wants to create his own cinematic universe.