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The Cinequest Film Festival is the first major annual independent film festival held after the Academy Awards. Located in San Jose, California, Cinequest has grown to be one of the largest and most influential film festivals featuring new film makers. An independent film (or indie film) is a film produced without the support of a major movie studio or a big budget. ...
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History
1990-1995 1990: Cinequest began with a rocky start as guest of honor Jon Jost (All the Vermeers in New York} failed to show up to the event to get his Maverick Spirit Award. In all, 2,300 moviegoers paid to see 60 films in the four day event held in the lone Camera 3 theatre in San Jose.. Guest of honor Jon Jost .
1991: Cinequest adds an additional venue, at the nearby Towne Theater. 61 films are shown, including My Own Private Idaho and Antonia & Jane. My Own Private Idaho (1991) is a film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeares Henry IV, part 1. ...
1992: After the popular success of Jurassic Park and Michael Jackson's Black or White music video, Cinequest tied into its Silicon Valley roots and featured the technology of using computers in a process called, "morphing" with an emphasis on the film , Terminator 2. The Maverick Spirit Award is presented to Lena Stolze. Original film poster for Jurassic Park Jurassic Park is a book written by Michael Crichton and published in 1990, which was later turned into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg. ...
Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana), is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. ...
Silicon Valley is a nickname for the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California, USA, originally referring to the concentration of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually becoming a metaphor for the entire concentration of high tech businesses. ...
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Morphing is a special effect used in motion pictures and animations. ...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (commonly abbreviated T2) is a 1991 movie directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Patrick. ...
1993: Maverick Spirit Awards are presented to Paul Bartel and Carl Franklin.
1994: The festival expands to five days and attendance grows to 11,300. Maverick Spirit Awards go to Russ Meyer, Werner Herzog and John Waters. Russell Albion Russ Meyer (March 21, 1922–September 18, 2004) was an American motion picture director. ...
Werner Herzog was born Werner Stipetic on September 5, 1942 in Munich. ...
Photo of John Waters by Robert Birnbaum John Waters (born April 29, 1946) is an American filmmaker. ...
1995: No festival as the event moves from November to February.
1996-2000 1996: The festival adds two more days to fill a full week. The festival also is moves from November to February. The newly built UA Pavilion Theatres in downtown San Jose host some screenings. The Maverick Spirit Award is given to Luis Valdez.
1997: Again the Silicon Valley location of the festival is displayed as it becomes the first to use streeming media technology to webcast the awards ceremony live over the Internet. The Maverick Spirit Award is presented to Jennifer Jason Leigh. A webcast is similar in intent to a broadcast television program but designed for internet transmission. ...
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Jennifer Jason Leigh (born February 5, 1962) is an American actress. ...
1998: Fully embracing technology, Cinequest adds the "DXD" (Digital by Digital) section of the competition, honoring artistic use of technology in film. Maverick Spirit Awards are given to Kevin Spacey, Elmer Bernstein, Jackie Chan, Walter Murch, John Schlesinger and Barry Sonnenfeld. Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) in South Orange, New Jersey, better known as Kevin Spacey, is an American actor. ...
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer best known for his work writing music for film and television. ...
Jackie Chan, born Chan Kong-sang on April 7, 1954, is a Hong Kong martial artist, film actor, director and stuntman. ...
Walter Murch (born 1943) is an Academy award winning film/sound editor. ...
John Richard Schlesinger (February 16, 1926–July 25, 2003) was a British film director. ...
Barry Sonnenfeld (born April 1, 1953) worked as cinematographer for the Coen Brothers, then later he directed and produced big budget films such as Men in Black. ...
1999: After the popularity of the previous year's technology section Cinequest expands the DXD section to include panels on digital cinematography, including a sneak preview of the making of the film, Antz. Maverick Spirit Awards go to Gabriel Byrne and Rod Steiger. Antz is a computer animated film produced by Dreamworks, released in 1998. ...
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2000-2005 2000: Cinequest stretched to an 11-day event witha 135 films scattered at three locations throughout San Jose. Maverick Spirit Awards go to Robert M. Young, Dario Argento, Alec Baldwin, Wes Craven and Peter Fonda. Dario Argento (born September 7, 1940) is a film director and screenwriter well known for his work in the typically Italian giallo genre, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies. ...
Alexander Rae Baldwin III (born April 3, 1958, in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA) is an American actor who is the most famous of the Baldwin brothers, with brothers Daniel, Stephen and William. ...
Wesley Earl Craven (born August 2, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film director and writer best known as the creator of many horror films, including the Nightmare on Elm Street feature film series. ...
Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1939) is an American actor. ...
2001: Cinequest is named one of the 10 best film festivals by Chris Gore. The Maverick Spirit Award is given to Spike Lee. Biography Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957), better known as Spike Lee, is an film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his bold, overtly political films. ...
2002: Attendance sets a record at 50,000. Films number. Maverick Spirit Awards go to Lalo Schifrin, David Strathairn, Lili Taylor, Ian McKellen. Lalo Schifrin (born on June 21, 1932) is an Argentinian pianist and composer, most famous for composing the burning-fuse theme tune from the Mission:Impossible television series. ...
David Russell Strathairn (born 26 January 1949) is an American film and television actor. ...
Lili Taylor (born February 20, 1967 in Glencoe, Illinois) is an American film and television actress. ...
Sir Ian McKellen takes a day out at Universal Studios, Hollywood, April 2000. ...
2003: Maverick Spirit Awards are presented to Ralph Bakshi, Stephen Frears, Lupe Ontiveros, William H. Macy, Val Kilmer, James Woods. Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is a director of animation and occasionally live-action films. ...
Stephen Frears (born June 20, 1941) is a British film director. ...
Publicity photo of William H. Macy William Hall Macy (born March 13, 1950) is an actor, teacher, and director, in theatre, film, and television. ...
Val Edward Kilmer (born December 31, 1959) is an American actor considered by fans to be one of the most talented and underappreciated actors currently working in film and television. ...
James Howard Woods (born April 18, 1947) is an American actor. ...
2004: Attendance is an estimated 54,000 with 168 films. The Maverick Spirit Award is presented to California governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of California, with the gubernatorial seal in the background. ...
2005: Festival organizers retrofit the San Jose Repertory Theatre into a digital movie house to allow the festoval to have four venues within walking distance of eachother, showing the scheduled 180 films. Maverick Spirit Awareds were scheduled to be presente to Blanchard Ryan, Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, Ben Kingsley, and Jon Polito PDF. Susan Blanchard Ryan (b. ...
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943) is an English actor of Indian (Gujarati) and Russian-Jewish descent. ...
Notable debuts Independent films that premiered at Cinequest that went on to further distribution by a major movie studio: A movie studio is a location, room, building, or group of buildings and/or sound stages, offices and storage facilities, which may include a backlot, where movies are made. ...
There have been at least two movies with the title Spellbound: Spellbound, a 1945 movie about a mental asylum directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ...
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External links - Official site (http://www.cinequest.org)
- Cinequest Online - Official film download site (http://www.cinequestonline.org/2005/index.php)
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