A very special memory from 2025 Academy Award nominee Coralie Fargeat (writer, director, and producer of The Substance).

“30 years ago, when I was seventeen years old, I made a little Star Wars film. Using my family’s camcorder, I animated my toys frame by frame in stop motion, disguised my friends as Ewoks and stormtroopers, and edited on a VHS video recorder (which was the top device at the time!).

It was such an amateur endeavor, but everything I loved about making films was already there… It was the place where I felt free, ionate and alive, and able to fully express myself. It’s after I made this little film that I knew that I wanted to be a director… Today as I am nominated for Best Director, I can’t help but this little film…

Follow your dreams!”

—Coralie Fargeat, February 17, 2025.

Select the “CC” option for English subtitles. La guerre des étoiles was directed by Fargeat in 1993 and has no affiliation with Lucasfilm or MUBI.