Born in 1964 and raised in Flint, Michigan, Kerry Conran came from a family of aspiring artists: his older brother Kevin Conran was an illustrator and his younger sister Kirsten Conran an art director at an ad agency. Growing up watching classic sci-fi films such as Metropolis (1927), King Kong (1933) and Superman (1941), Kerry often imagined ...
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
Movies
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Star Sign
Scorpio
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For me, the filmmaker who has made films that have continued to reinvent themselves is Robert Zemeckis.
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I never expected anything I'd created to be seen outside of perhaps the Sundance Film Festival.
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By the time I'd graduated from school, I'd gotten a decent working knowledge of what you could do with the Mac. I had written a few little things for it, and somehow word got out that I was doing quirky nonintuitive things with the computer that filled certain gaps. I had gotten a phone call to write a piece of animation software. Instead of being paid, I asked to keep the equipment that had to be purchased to do it, always with a mind of trying to make this short film of mine. I was really on life support. I had just enough money to survive. That also contributed to me dropping out of society. I just dedicated every waking hour I had to working on that short.
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