Description: a website about a film about videogames
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a documentary film about a life in videogames
Jeff has been writing software for nearly four decades, since the dawning of the current era of ubiquitous video games. He has released over 100 video game titles under the banner of his development company, Llamasoft, which he formed back in 1982. He is without doubt one of the most significant and influential game developers in the history of home video game entertainment. And yet very few people know who he is. So, from a video game history point of view, this is a story that deserves to be told.
I went to film school back in 1999 to learn how to make my own films. I was very clear about that. Then in 2004 I became an editor and an animator as a way to pay my rent while I learned the craft as a working professional. In the years since I've worked for many talented and successful filmmakers - Ken Burns, Frank Pavich, David Van Taylor, Michael Epstein, Rose Rosenblatt, Jay Bulger - and absorbed their struggles with the craft, and their solutions to the many problems that come with the filmmaking proce