The actors behind them will never be as recognizable as Carrie Fisher or Mark Hamill, but documentarian Jon Spira thinks their largely untold stories offer just as much. Spira, producer Hank Starrs, and a small team of filmmakers have launched a Kickstarter for Elstree 1976, a documentary following ten people whose lives have been shaped by their work on the North London set of a then-unknown film called Star Wars. Spira and his team have spent 18 months following the films subjects, all of whom meet two criteria: they were given some part, no matter how small, in the original Star Wars, and they appeared in some kind of mask or helmet that obscured their face.
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