The Student Films of 20 Famous Directors. We all have to start somewhere. Before they conquered Hollywood, these famous directors made student films. 1. George Lucas // Freiheit The creator of Star Wars has become an industry unto himself, but George Lucas had some inauspicious beginnings. When Lucas graduated in 1967, he immediately re-enrolled as a USC grad student and eventually made a film called Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which won first prize at the 1967/68 National Student Film Festival, and was adapted into Lucas’ first full-length film, THX 1138. 2. Contrary to popular belief, Spielberg did not attend USC with his buddy George Lucas. 3. Before movie brats like Lucas, Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola went to school and made films on the West Coast, Martin Scorsese stuck around in his hometown of New York and enrolled at NYU in 1960 under the tutelage of film professor Haig P.
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