I work for a DVD authoring house and we just received a rush order to author a DVD for a film titled Starwoids that is narrated by Kevin Smith. The film is a documentary about Star Wars fans and according to these notes, won the Nodance Film Festival, and played the San Diego Comic-Con. The company putting it out is IndieDVD, a guy named Jonah is in charge of the project. They are trying to get everything done in time for the “Star Wars Phantom Menace release on DVD” but in the video business they don’t have very much time to market it. We’re usually done three months before the product is available and Oct. 9th is just around the corner. From what I’ve seen the documentary is hilarious and it features an great interview with Kevin Smith about why he’s obsessed with Star Wars.

The film follows two lines that form 42 days before the tickets to Star Wars Episode One, go on sale. In those 42 days mini governments form to stave off the Police who try to shut it all down. One line forms outside of the Mann’s Chinese theater and that line gets the support of dot-com money and soon becomes a circus. Another line is formed by a high school kid who gets his High School equivalency test just to stay in line. The two lines compete with each other and themselves throughout the film. The film also takes sideways trips into total obsession, from rapping Boba Fetts, to people getting trampled on the first day the toys are for sale. One group tries to sneak onto Skywalker Ranch and a fan takes his toys out to the original Star Wars locations. Uncle Owen’s even in it!

The film is great, I just hope that they don’t shoot themselves in the foot by not having enough time to get it on the shelves. I think this is newsworthy, I just thought that you might want the first word on it, I know you like to have insider information whenever possible.