From Roger Ebert’s Review of AMERICAN MOVIE: “If you’ve ever wanted to make a movie, see “American Movie,” a documentary about someone who wants to make a movie more than you do. Mark Borchardt may want to make a movie more than anyone else in the world. He is a 30-year-old, odd-job man from Menomonee Falls, Wis.,… more »
“AMERICAN MOVIE” was shortlisted for an Academy Award! It’s an honor to share it with our good friends who made AMARGOSA!
American Movie wins the Grand Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival! Chris Smith’s American Movie, which was produced by C-Hundred Film Corp’s Jim McKay and Michael Stipe, won the documentary competition Grand Jury Prize. The film, which documents Midwest filmmaker Mark Borchardt, was acquired this week by Sony Pictures Classsics.
(Documentary Short, 1996, Premiere IFC Channel) Sunflower Cablevision was profiled in this piece from John Pierson’s Split Screen which debuted as part of episode #2, first broadcast in 1996.
(Documentary Short, 1996, Premiere IFC Channel) In 1996 we made our first short documentary, when we were asked by John Pierson to do a piece for the pilot episode of IFC’s SPLIT SCREEN. First broadcast on the fledgling network in 1997, Minnesotan Wrye Martin directs this investigation of Brainerd, Minnesota, home of Paul Bunyan and immortalized… more »