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Jim Wynorski, Scott Levy and Jonathan Winfrey, three directors participating in Showtime's Roger Corman movie series, all skipped the film school route. They learned their craft coming up through the ranks at Corman's Concorde-New Horizons independent studio.
"I had no film school training," says Winfrey, the director of "Black Scorpion," an action-comedy about a female super-hero. Winfrey began his film career as a set painter on Corman's production of "The Drifter" eight years ago. "I then became an assistant director and within less than two years, I was running his whole studio. Four years from when I pretty much stepped foot on his lot, I directed my first feature."
Levy, who directed the thriller "The Alien Within" and the remake of the popular "Jaws" parody "Piranha," says: "I just turned 30...