Texas filmmaker Wes Anderson cut his directing teeth making Super 8mm movies with his brothers and went on to cable access television before meeting frequent collaborator Owen Wilson at the University of Texas in the late 1980s. The two made their film debut with the 1992 short "Bottle Rocket", a sparse, black and white film about two young burglars starring Wilson and his younger brother Luke. Championed by screenwriter-actor-director L. M. 'Kit' Carson and screened to acclaim on the festival circuit, the project gained the attention of producers Polly Platt and James L. Brooks and Columbia