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Sandy Collora

Sandy Collora was born August 8, 1968 on Long Island NY. Growing up on a healthy dose of comic books, Sid and Marty Krofft, and Dungeons and Dragons, he showed incredible artistic talent at a very young age, actually getting disqualified from art contests at school because his teachers thought his drawings were traced.

He gravitated to film quickly, the early Spielberg films and the “Star Wars” trilogy being his early inspirations. Work for independent comic books and gaming magazines in his early teens led to a move to Los Angeles at 17 in 1985 to pursue his dreams in Hollywood. Landing a job at Stan Winston Studios in 1987 on “Leviathan”, Collora honed his skills as a creature designer and sculptor, eventually going on to work with industry giants Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Rick Baker and Rob Bottin. After over a decade of concept design, sculpting, storyboarding, and visual FX art direction on major motion pictures, he made his foray into directing with several award winning short films, including “Archangel”, “Batman Dead End” and “World’s Finest”.

He also signed with Level 7 productions as a commercial director, and has done work for Volkswagen, got milk?, and Pocari Sweat, for which his “Underwater Soccer” commercial for Asatsu DK swept the World Cup in Japan, and won an ACC silver award for best director, as well as a National Broadcast Award for best foreign :30 commercial. Currently, Sandy is set to direct, busy developing the first of his feature film projects with producer Julio Caro (“The Cell”, “Red Planet”) called “The Circle” and working on two comic book projects. Writing and painting the comic adaption of “The Circle” with fellow artist David Nakayama, and writing the other, collaborating with longtime WB artist, David Williams. In development also is a Sci-Fi/Horror film project with “Hellboy” producers, Lloyd Levin and Larry Gordon and director Guillermo Del Toro.

He lives at the beach, and enjoys surfing, fishing, reading comic books and watching movies. View Collora's website.

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