R2-D2: Beneath the Dome

Spencer Susser is an American film director and screenwriter. Susser is the only American member of the Australian filmmaking collective Blue-Tongue Films. His short film I Love Sarah Jane, featuring Mia Wasikowska, won Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Nashville Film Festival, the Reel Frontier... Merit Award at the Arizona International Film Festival, and the Canal+ Award at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Susser co-wrote the project with David Michôd. In February 2011, it was reported that Susser is developing a feature-length film based on the short. His feature film debut Hesher stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman. It appeared at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on May 13, 2011.
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Don Bies, one of the very few who can claim to be R2 operator has been with Lucasfilm for many years. Both Don Bies and Nelson Hall played Boba Fett in the new shots in Return of the Jedi . His first job at Industrial Light and Magic was in 1987 as a puppeteer on The Witches of Eastwick, and later... that year joined Lucasfilm Ltd. as their official R2-D2 operator for a series of Japanese commercials. In 1988, Don became the second Lucasfilm Archivist and helped organize the first major exhibition of Lucasfilm memorabilia for the 1988 Marin County Fair. As the Archivist, he coordinated the move of the archive collection to Skywalker Ranch in June, 1991. In 1993, he supervised the restoration of over 100 items for Japan's "George Lucas Exhibition" and coordinated that exhibition which traveled throughout Japan for 15 months. During his tenure as archivist, he arranged personal appearances of many of the Star Wars characters, and operated R2-D2 for most of them.
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