He chose UCL solely for film facilities which happened to include Steenbeck editing and 16 mm film cameras. He studied English Literature at University College London. Nolan worked with Roko and future Pulitzer Prize winner, Jeffrey Gettleman for documenting a safari across four continents, organized by the late Dan Eldon in early 1990s.Ĭhristopher Nolan attended an English boarding school Haileybury and Imperial Service College in the Hertford Heath. When his family relocated to Chicago, Christopher Nolan started making films with Roko and Adrien Belic and received credit for editorial assistance on the brothers’ Oscar-nominated documentary Genghis Blues (1999). Since the age of 11, Nolan had hoped to be a professional filmmaker. He sent him some launch footage which he re-filmed off the screen and cut in.
Being a Star Wars fan since childhood, he made a stop motion animation tribute called Space Wars.Ĭhristopher Nolan had an uncle who worked for NASA and used to build guiding systems for the Apollo rockets. He borrowed his father’s Super 8 camera and started shooting short films with his action figures. It all began when his father took him to see the first release of Star Wars (1977) and the theatrical re-release of “ 2001”. When Nolan was seven years old, he started making movies at the same age. Having a childhood moving both in London and Chicago, Nolan has both American and British citizenship. Who isn’t familiar with the mastermind who resurrected Batman and made people watch Interstellar twice and thrice even just to find some new angle of the movie?īeing London-born, Christopher Nolan was born to an English father and an American mother, Brenden James Nolan who was an advertising executive while his mother Christina worked both as a flight attendant and English teacher.
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