Description

ELSTREE 1976 is a feature-length documentary that looks at the lives of the people behind the masks and beneath the helmets in the original "Star Wars". Over the summer of 1976, a wide array of North American and British actors and a nearly inexhaustible supply of film extras, donned crazy costumes and headgear to populate what would become one of the most beloved cinematic universes of all time. Few of them understood what the film even was, let alone the global impact it would go on to have. Filmmaker Jon Spira has tracked down a cross-section of these people and explored the bizarre community they have formed in order to understand what it means to exist in the shadow of such a phenomenon.