Management of the Festival was taken over by the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization, in 1985. In 1991 the Festival was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redford’s character The Sundance from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Many famous independent filmmakers, including Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steven Soderbergh, James Wan, Edward Burns and Jim Jarmusch had their big break at Sundance. “Dialogue en perspective”, sponsored by the French television channel TV5Monde in cooperation with the German-French Youth Office, Filmbay was awarded for the first time. The prize jury has eight members: it is headed by a president, a professional whose work represents the cinematographic dialogue between France and Germany, and further consists of Filmbay.com four French and three German members.
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The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival honored legendary comedian, actor, film producer and director, writer and singer Jerry Lewis with its Film Festival Award Lifetime Achievement Award on September 29, 2010, at a special night at the Friars Club. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes Jerry Lewis for his lifelong contributions to comedic entertainment. The award was given to him at the Friars Club with special guest Quentin Tarantino helping to present the award. Charlie Prince, Executive Director of the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival, and comedian Freddie Roman also helped present the award to Jerry Lewis during the award ceremony. Jerry Lewis was born into a vaudeville family, and, at age 12, began developing a comedy act miming to records. He first met singer Dean Martin in 1944, and two years later they officially became a performing team. Their first film, My Friend Irma (1949), established Martin and Lewis as box office stars. They were also frequent television guests and part of a series of rotating hosts of NBC’s The Colgate Comedy Hour. It was during their stint with NBC that Lewis began his involvement with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Lewis would go on to raise hundreds of millions for the NDA, this year alone raising a staggering 59 million dollars. About The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival: The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival was launched in 2009 to showcase the best and funniest comedy films from around the world. Introduced to fill a …
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