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1989 Sundance Film Festival

The United States Film Festival opened with a restoration of F.W. Murnau's 1927 film SUNRISE and continued with over 60 feature films and 30 shorts. Notable works included MURDERS AMONG US: THE SIMON WIESENTHAL STORY, DEAD MAN OUT, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, COMING OUT, COVER UP: BEHIND THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR, MOTEL, APARTMENT ZERO, 84 CHARLIE MOPIC, HEATHERS, POWWOW HIGHWAY, SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE, LETTERS FROM THE PARK, SOME GIRLS and TRUE LOVE. The Festival featured a 15-film tribute to John Cassavetes (SHADOWS, FACES, MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ), as well as a centennial celebration of the work of Charlie Chaplin and two programs devoted to the much-loved cartoons of Jay Ward (ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE, DUDLEY DO-RIGHT). Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez spear-headed the Festival's continuing exploration of Latin American Film, overseeing the creation of six feature-length works based on his stories. Short films were also spotlighted, both in the Discovery Program for emerging filmmakers and the Rouges Gallery of new American shorts. The Festival introduced two new awards this year: the Audience Award and the Filmmakers Trophy.

Awards

Audience Award Documentary
For All Mankind
Audience Award Dramatic
sex, lies, and videotape
Filmmaker Trophy Documentary
John Huston
Filmmaker Trophy Dramatic
Powwow Highway
Grand Jury Prize Documentary
For All Mankind
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
True Love
Special Jury Recognition
The Roommate
Special Jury Recognition
Soviet Power

Credits

Karen Cooper
Documentary Competition Juror
Elliot Caplan
Documentary Competition Juror
Nick Hart-Williams
Documentary Competition Juror
Dennis O’Rourke
Documentary Competition Juror
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Documentary Competition Juror
Jodie Foster
Dramatic Competition Juror
Beth Henley
Dramatic Competition Juror
Monte Hellman
Dramatic Competition Juror
Debra Hill
Dramatic Competition Juror
David Burton Morris
Dramatic Competition Juror
Peggy Rajski
Dramatic Competition Juror
Tony Safford
Director, Sundance Film Festival

Panels

Critiquing Documentary CinemaForeign Sales And Finance
Have Independents Lost Their Social Conscience?John Cassavetes: "I'm Almost Not Crazy"
Latin American Cinema TodayLawyers And The Independent Filmmaker
Low-Budget ProductionVideo Presales
Video Presales 

Projects

... They Haven’t Seen This... 84 Charlie Mopic
A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief A Child is Waiting
A Day’s Pleasure A Happy Sunday (Un Domingo Feliz)
A Salute to the Jay Ward Studio A Slice of Life
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Un Senior Muy Viejo con Unas Alas Enormes) A Woman under the Influence
Apartment Zero Behind the Screen
Cheap Shots Chet’s Romance
Clownhouse Comic Book Confidential
Coming Out Coverup: Behind the Iran - Contra Affair
Crime in the Streets Dead Man Out
Edge of the City Eyeplay
Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier (Fabula de la Bella Palomera) Faces
Flying Blind For All Mankind
Funny Gingerale Afternoon
Gloria Heathers
Heavy Petting Homesick
How to Kiss Husbands
Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul I’m the One You’re Looking for (Yo Soy El Que Tu Buscas)
John Huston Journey to Spirit Island
La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead Letters from the Park
Let’s Get Lost Lighting over Braddock: A Rust Bowl Fantasy
Limelight Lobster Man from Mars
Lodz Ghetto Love Streams
Mikey and Nicky Minnie and Moskowitz
Miracle in Rome (Milagro en Roma) Miracle Mile
Morgan’s Cake Motel
Mr. Fixit Muddy Hands
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story Of Men and Angels
One A.M. One Day the Refrigerator Broke
Open Window Opening Night
Peacemaker Portrait of Imogen
Powwow Highway Prisoners of Inertia
Saint Catherine’s Wedding Ring sex, lies, and videotape
Shadows Short-Term Bonds
Some Girls Soviet Power
Sunnyside Sunrise, F.W. Murnau’s 1927 Silent Masterpiece
Swimming Teach 109
That’s Adequate The Big Dis
The Big Picture The Haircut
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie The Laserman
The Pawnshop The Personal Life of Mr. Phelps
The Rink The Roommate
The Summer of Miss Forbes (El Verano de la Senora Forbes) The Tempest
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser Those Guys
Too Late Blues Tracks
True Love Trust Me
Two - Lane Blacktop Tzara and Joyce
Who Killed Vincent Chin? Yosemite:The Fate of Heaven
Zadar! Cow from Hell  
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