1991 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary Winner
American Dream
Barbara Kopple
Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers, overwhelmingly rejects a contract offer with a $2/hour …
Paris Is Burning
Jennie Livingston
A chronicle of New York’s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
1991 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize – Documentary Nominees
Absolutely Positive
Peter Adair
Amazonia: Voices from the Rainforest
Glenn Switkes
Blood in the Face
Anne Bohlen
Broken Meat
Pola Rapaport
Christo in Paris
David Maysles
Coney Island
Ric Burns
In the Shadow of the Stars
Irving Saraf
Legends in Concert
Ilana Bar-Din
Maria’s Story
Monona Wali
Takeover
Pamela Yates
Thank You and Good Night
Jan Oxenberg
The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945
Hava Kohav Beller