Background
Peter Jackson was born to immigrant English parents - Joan and William Jackson. While his mother was a factory worker cum housewife, his father was a wages clerk.
Since his childhood days, he has a strong affinity towards films and filmmaking. An avid movie buff, he started making short films as a child.
Films like ‘King Kong’, ‘Casinos’, ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Waterloo’ inspired him as a child.
Ever since watching ‘King Kong’ he long aspired to make a remake of the same. At the age of 12, he did make a first attempt at the same using a puppet.
His most impressive filmmaking during this phase included the special prize winning short film, ‘The Dwarf Patrol’. In it, he first employed special effects which later on became a key feature in most of his films.
He gained his formal education from Kapiti College but dropped out of the same when he was sixteen, to pursue his film hobby.
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