Speed Cinema Presents: Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
Saturday, August 6, 3:00pm
Speed Art Museum Cinema
Directed by Jeremy Coon and Tim Skousen
“Never short of entertaining, Raiders! captures the obsessive hold movies have on young people’s imaginations.”—Peter Debruge, Variety
Imitation is a form of flattery, and in this case love of Raiders of the Lost Ark led three eleven year-old boys from Mississippi to make their own shot-by-shot remake of the film over the course of seven years. A testament to the powerful role of cinema on young minds and to the creative passion of children, the boys finished every scene, but one—the film’s explosive airplane sequence.
This documentary picks up on the story two decades later as the three childhood friends are reunited in order to complete the film—the greatest fan film ever produced. 2015, U.S., DCP, 95 minutes.