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As we head toward the end of the South by Southwest Film Festival (technically the “film” portion ended yesterday), Devin and I have a few more video interviews to post, including first and foremost one with director Alexandre O. Philippe, the man behind THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS. We’ve been following this film pretty closely, doing early promotion here on the site, and even noting it as one of the ten films we were most looking forward to seeing at SXSW. I caught up with Alexandre at The Driskill in downtown Austin. We talked a bit about how the documentary came together, and his personal passion for STAR WARS.
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The director (Ben Hickernell) and producer (Jason Contino) of LEBANON, PA talk to Devin Pike about the process to bring their film to fruition, from fund-raisers at bars to locking in the right cast, at the film’s World Premiere at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival.
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
BTW the PvsG video is labeled as only viewable to those who subscribe. Not sure if that was intended or not.
Again, to belabor the point, if you are one of the chosen few who saw the Holiday Special first before any of the movies, all the discussion of PvsG makes everyone sounds like Tatooine Luke.
Time for everyone to start discussing something pertinent to their existance, the medium. Why in 2008 did George Lucas go to Congress and lobby for unrestricted internet access, while in 2005 he allowed a trade organization to coerce government to pass laws to send people to jail for seeing his movie online? and then in 2010 Lucasfilm has allowed someone (Star Wars Uncut project) to have the complete original film online? Times change and things progress, minds change, it would seem.
PvsG seems to have captivated a certain audience. But before the movie gets labeled: “Fandom DVD Only” let’s try to see if we can work out a theatrical release, to get the opinions of those who haven’t spoken yet. Give them a chance to weigh in. That kind of discussion will only happen if this project gets the chance to see more eyeballs.
If your curious what the SW phenomenon looked like 5 years ago, or want more interesting but largly unanswerable questions, view some chapters of ‘Thee Backslacpkping With Media’. A recomposite of the media released around the release of Revenge of the Sith which will have it’s 5 year aniversary this May.
http://www.noneinc.com/tBSWM/tBSWM_Video.html
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