1985 was the year of 'Back to the Future', Michael Jackson’s "Pepsi hair-on-fire" disaster, and Tribunal Films’ 'The Next to the Last Starfighters' -- my first movie!  I was seven years old and the memory is absolutely as much a part of my pop-culture influences as it is just a nice family experience. 

I recall the first screening that our family held.  It was late at night (though now I am not sure how late, for a seven year old 10:00 is well beyond bed-time) and we all sat silent in the giant room at Home Savings of America where my father worked and had spent a lot of time editing.  

Craig, Zech, and Caleb in 1985

The lights dimmed, the credits rolled.  The first, most exciting part of the whole movie, so help me, was just seeing my name flash on the screen. 

Just thinking about it now, all my dad would really have had to do to make the kids happy would have been to put their names in black and white and play them with some music.  Everything after that was fun, but just seeing something like that for a child is like tearing the cover back from a great invention and showing them that there is no limit to the potential that they hold. (Craig Collier, June 1999, 21 years old)

Other Roles

Among numerous other roles, movies, and skits, here are a couple of other shots from movies.

	After a seven year break from making a movie, we made our first sequel in 1992: Boldan's Revenge where everybody played the same characters.  From left to right that's Zech, Caleb, and Craig.

This shot comes from the movie Mephinofola, a comic mystery about the exploits of a private detective.