Star Wars Spoof

Starring: Derek Boyes, Richard Wilkinson, Chris Eldridge, Miles Watts and Oliver Kneesbeck

This was a competition to re-enact scenes from Star Wars and for me to express independent filmmakers struggle against the Hollywood system. The 'force' became the 'Lucas' and the 'Empire' became 'Hollywood'. The entry was successfully published in Computer Video Games magazine in 1993. But the prize (a tour around Skywalker Ranch) fell through. In 1997 George LucasÕ daughter and Rick McCallum, the Producer of the prequels eventually saw the film and told me I could go to Skywalker Ranch anytime. In March 2005, while attending a film Festival in Tiburon, I finally got the tour.

Colour ⁄ Video 8 ⁄ 5:4 (1.85:1 Masked) ⁄ Duration 13”00’ ⁄ © Delfilm 1993

In 2002 we continued our homage producing a 10th anniversary special edition, re-mastering the original video 8 footage to dv and adding digital effects including glowing lightsabres, blast doors and laser fire. It soon became a cult hit in Bradford and is my most popular film on you tube with over half a million views.