George Lucas' innovative and imaginative work has attracted some of the very best talents in moviemaking, ever since the director's first teams started creating new technologies to make his vision a reality. From producers to art directors, visual effects supervisors to swordmasters, the movies of the Star Wars Saga have inspired new ideas and generated great stories.

At Celebration IV you can hear from masters of the original trilogy in interview sessions on stage. These craftsmen were key in changing the face of the movie industry when George Lucas worked with them on the original movies, and they have continued to make a dramatic impact since. Come armed with questions for the Q&A sessions at each panel! This is a rare opportunity to hear from original trilogy crew stars, assembled to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Wars!

Howard Kazanjian
While attending film school at the University of Southern California, Kazanjian met a young George Lucas, and they soon became friends, as well as Delta Kappa Alpha cinema fraternity brothers. Kazanjian worked an assistant director on such memorable films as The Wild Bunch, The Great Bank Robbery, and Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot. He also worked as the assistant director on the popular TV series The Rockford Files.

It wasn't until he teamed up again with Lucas on More American Graffiti that Kazanjian began to take a new direction as a producer. He later worked with Lucas again to produce Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, as well as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Kazanjian has continued in his role, and recently produced The Bridge of San Luis Rey starring Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates and Harvey Keitel.

Irvin Kershner
A graduate of the University of Southern California film school, Irvin Kershner began his career in 1950, producing documentaries for the U.S. Information Service in the Middle East. He turned to television in the 1950s, directing and photographing a series of documentaries called Confidential File. Kershner was one of the directors given his first break by producer Roger Corman, for whom he shot Stakeout on Dope Street in 1958. Many of the movies that Kershner has worked on depict gritty realism and social alienation. In contrast, his biggest commercial success was The Empire Strikes Back. Kershner has recently worked on the James Bond picture, Never Say Never Again, and is currently working on two movie projects for 2007.

Norman Reynolds
British production designer Norman Reynolds has worked on some of the most memorable movies of the past three decades, including A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Mission Impossible. Reynolds started out working in the U.K. division of MGM Studios' art department. He worked with other British studios until 1976, when he became an art director. His first film in that capacity, The Incredible Sarah, netted him an Oscar® nomination.

Robert Watts
Robert Watts began his career in 1967 as a location manager for the James Bond classic You Only Live Twice, and a year later worked as production manager on 2001: A Space Odyssey. But Watts didn't cross paths with George Lucas until he was hired to be the production supervisor for a soon-to-be blockbuster, Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. He continued his role as production manager and got a taste for more responsibility as an associate producer for Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, and associate producer for Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back.

Watts continued to produce for such films as Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Alive.

	Production Stars at Celebration IV Throughout the Weekend May 25 -- 28, 2007 Los Angeles Convention Center Check onsite schedule and the "Insider's Guide to Celebration IV," coming next week on starwars.com!