| Note | Following his graduation from the University of Southern California, where he earned an MFA in producing, Rawson Marshall Thurber came up with an idea for a short. It was Terry Tate, Office Linebacker, a film about an American football player office manager whose job was to tackle anyone who breaks an office rule, no matter how benign. He shot it over a weekend for $2,000, hoping to sell it to one of the many Internet companies looking for content. Terry Tate ended up being bought by Reebok and re-commissioned as a series of shorts, which were played during the 2003 Super Bowl. |