Ballot Measure 9

{{Short description|1995 documentary film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Ballot Measure 9

| image = Ballot Measure 9 poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Heather Lyn MacDonald

| producer = Heather Lyn MacDonald

| music = Julian Dylan Russell

| cinematography = Ellen Hansen

| editing = Heather Lyn MacDonald & BB Jorissen

| distributor = Sovereign Distribution

| released = {{Film date|1995}}

| runtime = 72 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Ballot Measure 9 is a 1995 documentary film directed and produced by Heather MacDonald.{{cite news |last1=Maslin |first1=Janet |title=FILM REVIEW; How Numbers Count, in Countering a Minority |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/21/movies/film-review-how-numbers-count-in-countering-a-minority.html |work=The New York Times |date=21 June 1995 |page=C15 |issn=0362-4331 |url-access=limited}} 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.{{cite web |title=1995 Sundance Film Festival |url=http://history.sundance.org/events/30 |website=sundance.org |access-date=7 October 2023}}
  • Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, 1995.{{cite web |title=Ballot Measure 9 |url=http://www.teddyaward.tv/en/archive/?a-z=1&select=B&id_film=437 |website=teddyaward.tv |access-date=7 October 2023}}
  • "Best of the Fest" at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1995.{{cite web |title=Ballot Measure 9 |url=https://www.tootscrackin.com/ballot-measure-9 |website=Toots Crackin Productions |access-date=7 October 2023}}
  • People's Choice Award at the Denver International Film Festival, 1995.

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |editor1-last=Summers |editor1-first=Claude |title=The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television. |date=2012 |publisher=Cleis Press |location=San Francisco, Calif. |isbn=978-1-5734-4882-6 |pages=96–97}}