Winner of numerous awards, this one-hour documentary received its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, followed by a New York Film Society screening at Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum. A Legacy of Filmmakers focuses on the creation of Francis Ford Coppola’s landmark San Francisco film company American Zoetrope, set against the changing landscape of American cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This documentary, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss and featuring interviews with Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and many others, is now part of the curriculum at the film schools of NYU and USC.

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The Making of THX 1138

George Lucas’ experience making this, his first feature film, would shape the rest of his career, and with it, American cinema. This 30-minute documentary follows Lucas and his collaborators, Francis Coppola and Walter Murch, as they venture into the whirlpool of the studio system, only to emerge bruised and battered - and more determined than ever to forge their own cinematic independence.