Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

Saturday, September 20th
7:15pm Willard Straight
Sign up sheet at ACH Office, meet @ 6:45pm by New Wing fireplace.
You are also welcome to join Director Eric Zala for dinner at 5:30pm in the ACH Dining Room.

Directed by Eric Zala,with Chris Stompolos, Eric Zala, Angela Rodriguez, Michael Bales. Film will be presented by Director Eric Zala.
FREE for ACH residents.

From Wired.com:
In 1982, three 12-year-olds from Mississippi set out to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark. This was no weekend project: Eric Zala, Jayson Lamb and Chris Strompolos intended to replicate the 1981 George Lucas/Steven Spielberg blockbuster shot-for-shot. They'd use a rented video camera, rather than shooting on 35mm. With no access to A-list (or B- or even D-list) actors, they cast their buddies from middle school instead.

While Lucas and Spielberg spent $26 million on their Raiders, the Mississippi kids had only their pocket money. Plus, none of them had ever made a movie. Nonetheless, over the course of seven sweltering summers, with a total budget of about $5,000, Zala, Lamb and Strompolos completed a 100-minute work that, if passion, commitment and degree of difficulty are your criteria, stands as the greatest fan film yet made.