He looked at the screen and lost himself within its flashing images of stories and ideals. Two hours later he found himself a convert, along with a growing faction of people, and would never view the world the same again.

There were those, of course, that said a movie could never change a life. They had obviously never experienced the realization that the stories went well beyond the medium in which it was presented and could be found in all aspects of culture, history and art. Those with open minds could recognize it as something personal; truth, experienced by someone else, disguised in a spectacular package of sounds and images. It was life itself.

Armed with this new outlook of the world, he felt inspired to create his own stories inserted with the truths and perspectives he had gained from his own life experiences, hoping that someone, somewhere, would relate and walk away with the same eye opening wonder he experienced all those years ago, when one movie changed his perspective of the world forever.

See the animated short for my story A Rumor Confirmed, an entry for the 2010 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge, an my entry for the 2011 challenge Star Wars: A Sigh of Hope, based on The Obi-Wan Journals.