Sundance Grand Jury Prize-Winners Through the Years10 of 92
Heat and Sunlight
1988 Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Synopsis: Photojournalist Mel Hurley returns home to San Francisco on the eve of his birthday, expecting his lover, Carmen, to meet him at the airport and tell him if she will be exclusively his. She's not there; she wants more time. Twenty years earlier, he'd photographed civil war in Biafra, wanting to tell a story that would save people. He now equates that war with his personal struggle: Can his photographs save this relationship?
1988 Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Synopsis: Photojournalist Mel Hurley returns home to San Francisco on the eve of his birthday, expecting his lover, Carmen, to meet him at the airport and tell him if she will be exclusively his. She's not there; she wants more time. Twenty years earlier, he'd photographed civil war in Biafra, wanting to tell a story that would save people. He now equates that war with his personal struggle: Can his photographs save this relationship?
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