Jono McLeod's beguiling documentary, "My Old School," recounts the strange-but-true story of his classmate, Brandon Lee. The film, which is having its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, employs a variety of techniques to retell what transpired when Brandon Lee entered Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in the Glasgow suburbs nearly 30 years ago. (And yes, there is a discussion of him sharing the name of the late Bruce Lee's son).
McLeod explains that while the subject of his film will not show his face, he has recorded an audio interview with Brandon which is lip-synched by actor Alan Cumming. Animation is used to depict various scenes described from 1993, the time of Brandon's enrollment. Interviews with the now-adult classmates allow the students to give their impressions then and now about their unusual classmate. Eventually, video recordings, news footage, and photographs are used to round out the picture of who Brandon Lee was and is.
