''Ballot Measure 9'' is a 1995
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
directed and produced by
Heather MacDonald.
The film examines the cultural and political battle that took place in 1992 over
Oregon Ballot Measure 9, a
citizens' initiative proposition that would have declared homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse."
Awards
*Audience Award at the
Sundance Film Festival, 1995.
*
Teddy Award
The Teddy Award is an international film award for films with LGBT topics, presented by an independent jury as an official award of the Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale). In the most part, the jury consists of organisers of gay ...
at the
Berlin International Film Festival
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, 1995.
*"Best of the Fest" at the
Edinburgh International Film Festival
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, 1995.
*People's Choice Award at the
Denver International Film Festival
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, 1995.
References
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External links
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1995 films
Films set in Oregon
LGBT in Oregon
1995 LGBT-related films
Documentary films about American politics
LGBT politics in the United States
1995 documentary films
Documentary films about Oregon
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
American LGBT-related documentary films
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