IFH 545: The Godfather of Ninja and Cannon Films with Sam Firstenberg

Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast · Jan 13, 2022 · 1h 18m

You are in for a treat today. We have legendary 80's action director Sam Firstenberg.

At a young age Sam began to "create" movies to entertain his friends. Horrifying his mother, he would cut up books, stringing together the pictures and rolling them up. He would then put the roll into a box with a cut out window, shine a flashlight from behind, and manually pull the roll, revealing the pictures through the window in sequence.

Sometimes he would plan a special show in which his sister narrated the "film" based on a script Sam would concoct, and his father would accompany on the violin. As he…