Tribeca Talks Directors Series: George Lucas with Stephen Colbert

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TRIBECA TALKS DIRECTORS SERIES: GEORGE LUCAS WITH STEPHEN COLBERT

George Lucas discusses his career as a trailblazing innovator, as a screenwriter, director, and producer of films including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.

George Lucas
George Lucas’ devotion to storytelling and innovation has resulted in some of the most successful and beloved films of all time, including the Star Wars Saga and the Indiana Jones franchise. While also a pioneer of digital standards for sophistication in film visuals and sound, Lucas seeks to inspire future generations to follow their imagination and dreams, and is building the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, emphasizing American illustrative, digital, cinematic and animation art as an avenue for the exploration of the great storytelling history, populist works and artistic innovation of the past 150 years.

Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert is best known as the host, writer and executive producer of the long-running Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central. Throughout its nine-year run, the series was nominated for a total of 40 Primetime Emmy Awards and won six times, including twice in the “Outstanding Variety Series” category and four times in the “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series” category. Colbert will succeed David Letterman on CBS as the host of the “Late Show” following Letterman’s retirement later this year. Raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Colbert is a graduate of Northwestern University.