AZM Ally Kensei Dave sent along this article about an upcoming book, Clive Young’s Homemade Hollywood, detailing the plight of fan filmmaker and aspiring director Sandy Collora.

At ComicCon 2003, Collora premiered Batman: Dead End (shown above), a reinterpretation of Batman he produced, filmed, and directed for $30,000. The film was met with much geek love and it seemed Hollywood was warming up to what he had to offer. He planned to kick things up a notch and return to ComicCon 2004 with a World’s Finest fan film featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman that was sure to win him a real Hollywood deal. Unfortunately, ComicCon was not interested. ComicCon issued a statement that they were discontinuing their fan film track as of ComicCon 2004 at the request of Warner Brothers. Seems they had a change of heart after the geek success of Dead End. Collora was shut out of ComicCon and Hollywood seemingly forgot all about him.

But like any good dreamer, Collora ain’t taking shit from nobody! He’s back on the wagon shooting an indy sci fi/horror pic in Mexico called Hunter Prey. Damn straight!

Looking forward to reading the juicy details in Homemade Hollywood. Should serve as inspiration and warning for all us budding indy creators.

[Via io9]

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