In fifth grade, I wrote my first computer program on my brother's TSR-80. It was mostly a word game where you had to escape from the planet Endor. I say that it was "mostly" a word game, because I was able to animate the destruction of the Death Star , pixel by pixel by pixel by pixel by....
It was also in fifth grade, with the help of my classmates, I wrote and filmed my first "movie". It was actually about a mysterious man terrorizing the survivors of a plane crash on a deserted island. I was "Lost" a few years too soon.
I've been waiting for the convergence between my devotion to both developing innovative technology and making movies.