"Star Wars: Brightstar" (Winner: Best Fan Film: London, Berlin, Tokyo; Fantasia Audience Award)

I don't ask this often with fan films...but can we please get a sequel!? For once I can believe the accolades in the thumbnail of a fan film. This was so special and well done. I'll never understand why it's so hard for Disney to do this kinda thing. Even Disney's better sw films don't capture the feeling of star wars as well as the fans can. Bravo! Fantastic work to all involved in making this.

How to create a strong female lead in only 20 minutes, that Disney couldn't do over 3 films. Well done.

"I'm not crying, I'm concentrating... on protecting my family." Absolute masterpiece!!!

It's sad to me I felt more for these characters than a lot of Disney-era projects. But when it's a story told out of passion, you can feel it. Great fan film y'all.

This is clearly one of the best fanfilm I have ever seen.

Commendations to Mikhael Bureau, as he created music that captured some of the tone, musicality and spirit of John Williams; it sounded like a real Star Wars movie. Really well done!!

The force is strong with this film. Wonderful work from the entire cast and crew. This is truly a Brightstar in the Star Wars universe.

The thing I really like about this, is that when they are fighting, they are using all sorts of tricks to win the fight. in the regular starwars fights, they usually just use their light sabers, and just feel invincible against everything else for no good reason. This feels more grounded, because people are trying to sneak rocks to hit people and having people use lasers to distract their opponents. This type of dirty fighting feels a lot more real and fresh than the stale mainstream fights. The chaos of everything going on just adds to it.

One thing I noticed is that one of the Sith (I assume he is a Sith or Sith apprentice) has a green lightsaber, although I'm sure everyone saw that. But to me, this is a great example of visual storytelling; you see, when a Sith first creates (or obtains) a lightsaber the color will never be red at first due to it not being a natural lightsaber color. The Dark Side user must undergo a process known as "bleeding" the Kyber crystal, filling the semi-sentient crystals with the user's negative emotions, fueled by the Dark Side. This is where the red color comes from. Even Darth Vader did this with Jedi Master Kirak Infil'a's lightsaber after he had slain the Jedi. But what this shows even before the fighting has begun that the Sith who wields the green saber is inexperienced, seeing that he hasn't even bled his crystal yet. This is proven to be correct when at 11:15 at the beginning of the fight he is tossed around by Brightstar, eventually losing his saber and becoming the second one to die at 12:21, killed by a blaster bolt. All this to say this is an incredible FanFilm, and it's little touches like that that make a story feel real and lived in, which is one of the biggest appeals to Star Wars in general. Props to Archangel Epics who has earned my subscription. May the Force be with you, always.

Brightstar is, even while being severely sick, is a badass to the end

This is GOOOOD. I keep forgetting it's a fan film, multiple times while watching.

This is by far the fan film I've ever seen. It everything that the Disney movies didn't have . A strong father/mentor . A daughter going thru a hero's journey. And they have supportive mother and a younger brother . Can't wait for the sequel

This feels so much more cohesive than most fan films and I love it

If Disney's movies had been this good, the fanbase would be exceptionally happy.

I love how detailed everything was in this. When Brightstar got up with his lightsaber ignited, he dragged the tip along the leaves on the ground slightly and they smoldered. Detailing something as inadvertent as that shows a true passion for what you've made and I applaud you. The acting was a bit stiff and the dialogue a bit awkward but they always are in fan films but nowhere near as bad as some I've seen. Those skills develop over time and both the actors and storyline are far better than I expected. I cannot wait to see the next installment.

I can't believe I've just witnessed one of the best fan made Star Wars films in the history of cinema. This was sublime!

Its insane how you can have so much better character development in 20 minutes than Disney can have in an entire movie! Amazing film!!! Will definitely share with my friends!

What this film has (that some of the Disney films lack) is love for Star Wars. We can clearly see that the creator, cast, and crew all love the Star Wars universe. Great job, everyone.

This is so well made: the sound editing, scoring, writing, directing.....Darn it, this FEELS like Star Wars & Im not even part of the fandom!!

Wow! I usually pass on watching fan projects, but this was phenomenal. Kept my attention throughout and got me invested in the characters and story. Take notes, Disney.