Becky: Research into previous and existing short films Directors, Actors and Editors.
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born 14 May, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter and director.
He went to the University of Southern California
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-cvJq3m7pw (link to his first short film).
In 1967-68 he won first prize at the National Student Film Festival with the short film ‘Electronic Labyrinth’. Shortly after, he was awarded a scholarship by the Warner Brothers to observe the making of ‘Finian`s Rainbow’ which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. This gave him experience and knowledge that benefit him in his journey to success.
In 1999 he produced the short film ‘George Lucas In Love’ which was an independent short film. It was passed around Hollywood Offices as a filmmakers ‘calling card’. This got him noticed in the filming industry as it showed potential; it was only a hint of what he was able to do.
He is best known for being the creator of the impressive and well known sci-fi film ‘Star Wars’ and the joint creator of the adventures character, Indiana Jones.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas)
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born in 7 April, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a graduate from Hofstra University
He started his professional career by writing screen plays as well as making low-budget films both short and mainstream films, with Roger Cornman; an American Producer and director of low budget movies. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Coppola)
Steven Allan Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg (born in 18 December 1946) is an American film director, screen writer and film producer.
Spielberg was interested at filming since a young age; at the age of 14 he won an award for a 40-minute war movie (short film) he called ‘Escape to Nowhere’.
(www.entertainment.howstuffworks.com/14-films-directed-by-steven-spielberg)
In 1968 he was an intern and guest of the Universal Studios; this is where he made his first short film ‘Amblin’ which lasts 24 minuets. Shorty after he became the youngest director ever to be signed for a long-term deal with a major Hollywood studio (universal); this was the beginning of his career as a professional director.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg)
He is well known for his touching films addressing issues such as the holocaust, Slavery, war and terrorism. As well as this he directed successful films such as Jurassic Park
Laura Dern
Laura Dern was born on 10 February 1967 into a successful moviemaking family; her father, Bruce Dern is an Academy Award is nominated American film actor who often plays the villainous and unstable characters in many films such as the ‘Silent Running’. Her mother is Dianne Ladd who is an American Actress, film director and producer.
After her successful role in ‘Adrian Lyne’s Foxes’ (1980) along side Jodie Foster, she stared in several short films such as ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) and the ‘Teachers (1984).
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000368/bio)
In 1994 Laura Dern was the director in the short special (short film) ‘The Gift’ which was 30 minuets long.
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born 20 January, 1946) is an American filmmaker and visual artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001).
In 1966 he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) and created a series of complex mosaics in geometric shapes which he called ‘Industrial Symphonies’. As well as this he had began working in film and created some short films. His first short film was ‘Six Men Getting Sick’ (1966) which lasted 60 seconds (1 minuet).
In 1968 he combined animation and live action to produce the 4 minuet short film called ‘The Alphabet’ which related to the expression of childhood and aging.
In 1970 Lynch drifted way from fine arts and turned his attention to film. Soon after he produced a 30 minuet short film ‘The Grandmother’ which displayed many elements that later on became his trademarks including unsettling sound and surrealistic imagery and a focus on unconscious desires instead of traditional narrative; this made him stand out in the filming industry as his ideas were different and unique.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch#Early_career_and_short_films)
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg (born 15 Mach 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, screen writer and occasional actor. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in Literature after switching from the science department. He uses an unusual style of filmmaking which explores people’s fears of bodily transformation and infection; this is commonly known as Body horror. Shivers (1975) and Rabid (1977) are two of many of his unique type of films.
In 1966 Cronenberg written, shot, edited and directed the 7 minuets short film ‘Transfer’. A year later (1967) he directed another short film ‘From the Drain’ whilst he was in film school.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/bio)
Christopher Nolan.
Christopher Nolan (Born in London on the 30th July in 1970) is a director, writer and editor. He was educated at Haileybury College and later studied English literature at University College London while filming several short films in the college film society such as ‘Tarantula’ (1989) and ‘Larceny’ which was shown during Cambridge Film Festival in 1996. A year later he written and produced another short film called ‘Doodlebug’ starring Jeremy Theobald.
He is best known for producing and written the famous mainstream films ‘The Dark Knight’ (2008), ‘Batman Begins’ (2005) and ‘Insomnia’ (2002). (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Nolan_Short_films).