How pumped was Joe Sill, L.A.-based filmmaker and lifelong Star Wars fan, about new movies like The Force Awakens? So pumped that he couldn’t just be a bystander as the franchise added new films—he decided he’d go and make one himself.
The result, a six-minute short called “Kara,” is one of the more touching and visually impressive Star Wars fan films to date (watch it above). The film features original characters, but it anticipated The Force Awakens in several ways: Sill had seen the first vague trailers for Episode VII when he wrote up his treatment, and chose to include an X-Wing pilot crash-landing on a desert planet and a young woman who has powers beyond her comprehension.
The twist here is that the young woman, named Kara, is accompanied by her father — which sets it apart from most Star Wars lore.
“I grew up on the idea that Star Wars really was family-driven,” said Sill, who makes commercials for a living, including work for Disney, Nickelodeon, and Google. “So I kind of wanted to tell a bit of that story. Parent and child are always split apart in Star Wars, so I wondered, if you’re going to tell a story of essentially splitting apart and coming together, why not tell a story of a father and daughter who are together?”
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