fan film n.

Back in 1956, when we PS-FSers premiered our 8 mm fanfilm at the New York worldcon, I hopefully predicted that fannish film production would soon take its place beside publication as a major form of fanac.

‘If we make enough films, eventually the time frame will flow into the first movie,’ Stan Woo states as he awaits his own entrance into mainstream filmmaking by producing amateur movies that boldly go where no fan film has gone before.

The fate of fan films will depend largely on how strictly media companies enforce their copyrights. Lucasfilm, for example, may simply be trying to protect its ‘Star Wars’ vision without cracking down on fans.

The classic definition is that a fan film in a fictional movie created by fans imitating their heroes from pop culture.

If anything, Troops gets more immersive as it moves along. The ten-minute short turns out to be an elaborate alternate explanation for what happened to Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru. Without the Cops layer, it would be an earnest fan film—which in some senses it still is.