LIGHT & MAGIC (2022)

Granted unparalleled access, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan takes viewers on an adventure behind the curtains of Industrial Light & Magic, the special visual effects, animation and virtual production division of Lucasfilm. Learn what inspired some of the most legendary filmmakers in Hollywood history, and follow their stories from their earliest personal films to bringing George Lucas’ vision to life.

LIGHT & MAGIC

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as Self as Self - Founder, Industrial Light & Magic

as Self - Model Shop as Self - Model Shop Supervisor

as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor as Self - Camera Department

as Self - Creatures and Stop Motion as Self - Creatures and Stop Motion (archive footage) as Self - Model Shop as Self

as Self as Self - Director, Willow as Self - Director, Cocoon as Self - Academy Award Winning Filmmaker

as Self - Camera Department as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor

as Self - Computer Graphics as Self - Head of Lucasfilm Computer Division, 1979-1985 as Self - UC Berkeley, 1981 (archive footage)

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

as Self (uncredited) as Self - Co-Writer, Producer as Self - Director, Jurassic Park as Self

Patricia Rose Duignan

Patricia Rose Duignan

as Self - Production Supervisor as Self - Visual Effects Producer as Self - Production Assistant

as Self as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor

Chrissie England

Chrissie England

as Self - ILM President, 2006-2010 as Self - Production Department

Harrison Ellenshaw

Harrison Ellenshaw

as Self - Matte Painting

as Self - Editor

as Self - ILM President, 1994-2005 as Self - Visual Effects Producer / ILM General Manager, 1991 - 1993

as Self - Editor as Self - Sound Designer and Editor

as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor as Self - Computer Graphics

as Self - Director as Self - Director, The Abyss / Director, Terminator 2 as Self

as Self - Digital Artist as Self - Model Shop

as Self - Art Department as Self - Design Director

as Self - Art Department

as Self - Producer

Mark A.Z. Dippé

Mark A.Z. Dippé

as Self - Computer Graphics

as Self - Computer Graphics

as Self - Model Shop

as Self - Model Shop

Ralph McQuarrie

Ralph McQuarrie

as Self (archive footage) as Self - Art Department (archive footage)

as Self as Self - Director

as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor

as Self - Model Shop (archive footage)

Robert Zemeckis

Robert Zemeckis

as Self - Director, Back to the Future

as Self - Computer Graphics

Kathleen Kennedy

Kathleen Kennedy

as Self - Producer / President, Lucasfilm

as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor

as Self - General Manager, Lucasfilm

as Self - Director, The Underground Railroad

as Self - Animation Supervisor, Iron Man

as Self - Chief Creative Officer, ILM

as Self - Research and Development, ILM

as Self - Director, The Mandalorian

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

as Self (archive footage)

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

as Self - Effects Producer, Ghostbusters II (archive footage)

as Self - UC Berkeley, 1981 (archive footage)

as Self - Computer Graphics Supervisor (archive footage)

Carolyn Ensle Rendu

Carolyn Ensle Rendu

as Self - Digital Artist (archive footage)

Stefen Fangmeier

Stefen Fangmeier

as Self - Computer Graphics Supervisor (archive footage)

as Self - Visual Effects Producer

as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor

as Self - Animation Supervisor

as Self - Model Shop Artist

as Self - Producer

as Self - ILM General Manager

as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor

Terryl Whitlatch

Terryl Whitlatch

as Self - Concept artist (archive footage)

as Self - Casting Director (archive footage)

as Self - Visual Effects Producer (archive footage)

Habib Zargarpour

Habib Zargarpour

as Self - CG Supervisor

as Self - CG Artist

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Episodes season 1

1x1

"gang of outsiders."
1x2

"on the bucking bronco."
1x3

"just think about it."
1x4

"i think i found my people."
1x5

"morfing."
1x6

"no more pretending you're dinosaurs."

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