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1994 Sundance Film Festival

The 1994 Festival presented over ninety features and sixty shorts, including an international selection spanning Asia, Latin America, and Europe. 1994 was a big year for films that went on to considerable box office success and critical acclaim. Among them: CLEAN SHAVEN, CLERKS, GO FISH, SPANKING THE MONKEY, THIRTY-TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, BACKBEAT, SIRENS, REALITY BITES and MI VIDA LOCA (MY CRAZY LIFE). 1994 also featured a comprehensive tribute to Arthur Penn (BONNIE AND CLYDE, ALICE'S RESTAURANT), the first of a continuing series of films by Native Americans, and the Piper-Heidseick Tribute to Independent Vision was awarded to Gena Rowlands.


Awards

Audience Award Documentary
Hoop Dreams
Audience Award Dramatic
Picture Bride
Audience Award Dramatic
Spanking the Monkey
Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary
Colorado Cowboy: The Bruce Ford Story
Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic
Suture
Filmmaker Trophy Documentary
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Filmmaker Trophy Dramatic
Clerks
Filmmaker Trophy Dramatic
Fresh
Freedom of Expression Award
Dialogues with Madwomen
Freedom of Expression Award
Heart of the Matter
Grand Jury Prize Documentary
Freedom on My Mind
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
What Happened Was
Special Jury Recognition
Coming Out Under Fire
Special Jury Recognition
Fun

Credits

Bill Couturie
Documentary Competition Juror
Barbara Hammer
Documentary Competition Juror
Chris Hegedus
Documentary Competition Juror
Betsy McLane
Documentary Competition Juror
Marco Williams
Documentary Competition Juror
Allison Anders
Dramatic Competition Juror
Tantoo Cardinal
Dramatic Competition Juror
Maggie Greenwald
Dramatic Competition Juror
Neal Jimenez
Dramatic Competition Juror
Matthew Modine
Dramatic Competition Juror
Geoffrey Gilmore
Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival
 

Panels

A Conversation with Arthur PennEuropean Cinema: Crisis at Home and Opportunities Abroad?
In the Tradition: New Dimensions in Native American FilmIndependents in Broadcasting and Cable: Financing and Production for the Small Screen
Interactivity and CinemaLatin American Filmmaking: New Horizons
Political Filmmaking in the United States: Does It Still Exist?Sundance Informational
The Fate of the Short Film 

Projects

Abyssinia Alice’s Restaurant
American Standoff An Autumn Wind
Anchoress Are They Still Shooting?
Assimilation/a simulation Aswang
Avenue X Awakening
Backbeat Beijing Bastards
Betrayal (Trahir) Big Concrete Place
Bleeding Heart blessing
Blood Ties: The Life and Times of Sally Mann Boatman
Bonnie and Clyde Boxer Rebellion
bui doi: life of dust Bullethead
Cancer in Two Voices Central Park
Chicks in White Satin Child Murders
Clean, Shaven Clerks
Closing Numbers Colorado Cowboy: The Bruce Ford Story
Coming Out Under Fire Consuming Sun
Cooking Tandoori Chicken Creatures of Instinct
Cronos Cuba Va: The Challenge of the Next Generation
Darkness in Tallinn (Tallinn pimeduses) Dialogues with Madwomen
Dogumentary Dollar Mambo
Dottie Gets Spanked Down on the Waterfront
Equal Opportunity Everything Has a Spirit
Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship Family Remains
Fare Doger (Black Rider) Fast Trip, Long Drop
Fire Eyes Floundering
Four Friends Four Weddings and a Funeral
Freedom on My Mind Fresh
Fun Glennda and Camille Do Downtown
Go Fish Golden Gate
Grief Gutter Pirates (Rinnsteinpiraten)
Haircuts Hurt Happy Loving Couples
Hardwood Dreams Heart of the Matter
Heavy Blow High Five
Hoop Dreams I Love a Man in Uniform
I Think I Was an Alcoholic Ice Cream
Independence Day Isle of Joy
It Starts with a Whisper Ivan and Abraham
Johnny One Hundred Pesos (Johnny Cien Pesos) Just Desserts
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance Karaiba
Kid Killing Zoe
Lady Last Supper
Late Fall Lighting the Seventh Fire
Little Big Man Lives in Hazard
Living on the River Agano Lord of the Sky
Makin' Up Mama Awethu!
Martha & Ethel Mi Vida Loca
Mickey One Minotaur
Musical Max Naked in New York
Night Moves Night Ride
Nina Takes a Lover One Thing I Know
Opening Night Our Gay Brothers
Partners Picture Bride
Pleasant Hill, U.S.A. Pool Days
Poor Little Rich Girl Reality Bites
Risk River of Grass
Roosters Satya
Second Dance Shopping
Sirens Smoking
Soapy Soapy Samba Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Sour Death Balls Spanking the Monkey
Speed Racer Starting Fire with Gunpowder
Straight to One Suture
Sweet Potato Ride Tango Feroz
Temptation Temptation of a Monk
The Bear Dance Story: As Told by Henry Cesspooch, Bear Dance Chief The Bed You Sleep In
The Beginning and the End The Blue Kite (Lan Fengzheng)
The Coriolis Effect The Fence (Alambrado)
The Fire This Time The Hudsucker Proxy
The Inkwell The Killing Jar
The Left-Handed Gun The Make
The Making of . . . And God Spoke The Miracle Worker
The Nostradamus Kid The Orange
The Perfect Woman The Place of Falling Waters Part III
The Pornographer The Right to Be
The Scent of Green Papaya The Secret Life of Houses
The Silent Alarm The Slingshot
The Snail’s Strategy The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Young Americans Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
Thirty-two Short Films about Glenn Gould Three Things I’ve Learned
Threesome Tick . . . Tick . . . Tick . . .
Totally F***ed Up Transitions: Destruction of a Mother Tongue
Two Small Bodies Unforgettable Face
Warrior Chiefs in a New Age What Happened Was
What I Learned in America Where the Rivers Flow North
Who’s Tommy: The Amazing Journey You Only Live Once
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