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While "Virtually Heroes" is his first Sundance premiere, Corman was the subject of the 2011 festival documentary "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel," examining the nearly 60-year career of the maverick who helped launch the directing careers of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard and James Cameron. Corman's films include such cult hits as "The Little Shop of Horrors," "Grand Theft Auto," "Piranha" and "Death Race 2000." In 2009, he received an honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement in independent film. Echternkamp got the "Virtually Heroes" directing job with a little help from his mom, who was Corman's assistant. A documentary filmmaker making his narrative feature debut, Echternkamp likes the sound of it when Corman calls him the latest in a line of filmmakers who got their start in the prolific producer's camp. "I'd love to be the next of those guys. But there's also guys you've hired who haven't become one of those guys," Echternkamp told Corman. "So I hope I'm one of the good ones and not one of the bad ones."
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