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the 2004 Full Frame
Documentary Film
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Speedo
Winner of the Audience Award
Full Frame Documentary Festival, 2003
Reviewed by Allan Maurer
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While many of the films screened at Full Frame have value as important social documents and are not entertainments, I suspect the festival's real contribution to defining America was less formally noted. The film that won the audience appreciation award, "Speedo," by Jesse Moss, more clearly represented a type of intensely personal portrait — akin to home movies in their intimacy but filmed or videoed with the same sort of high quality camera work we're accustomed to from Hollywood's guildcraft precision. Speedo lacked one element notable in most of the rest of the films in that category: the clear involvement of the filmmaker with his subjects. |
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