AWARDS and NOMINATIONS |
2004 Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Prize
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2004 Sundance Film Festival: Alfred P. Sloan Prize
(for a film dealing with science and technology)
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2004 Nantucket Film Festival: Best Writer/Director
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2004 Gotham Awards Nomination: Best Feature
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2005 London International Festival of Science Fiction: Best Feature
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2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best Feature
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2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best Director
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2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best First Screenplay
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2005 Independent Spirit Award Nomination: Best Debut Performance (David Sullivan)
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CRITICAL ACCLAIM |
"An ingenious movie about the perils of ingenuity. Invigorating. Like 'Pi' or 'Memento', 'Primer' is the kind of movie likely to inspire both imitators and cultists. Carruth has invented something fascinating."
-A.O Scott, The New York Times
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"Anybody who claims they fully understand what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar. That's hardly a problem, though, since the experience of watching Primer is so intensely pleasurable that you'll want to see it several times, not so much to figure it out (that's a fringe benefit) as to revel in its striking composition and wry sense of humor.”
-Mike D'Angelo, ESQUIRE
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"The year's most effective science fiction film. 'Primer' is a reminder that the best sci-fi action requires you to think."
-Jason Silverman, Wired |
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"Finally, a piece of clockwork science fiction that works. This smart, committed genre exercise well deserves its Sundance Grand Jury Prize."
-New York Magazine |
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|  "One of the more inventive, tantalizing and ingeniously directed indies of the past few years."
-John Anderson, Newsday |
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“Evidence of a unique and unified vision. Every shot has the surprise and intensity of a new idea.”
-Amy Taubin, Film Comment
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“Riveting. Radically independent.”
-David Ansen, Newsweek |
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Shane Carruth is 2004's no-budget, cinematic Cinderella story
-Las Vegas City Life
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“PRIMER is the minimalist 2001 for the post – Bill Gates generation!”
-Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix |
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“Fascinatingly obtuse. Unfolds in the manner of Robert Altman or Stanley Kubrick. PRIMER is a sci-fi film that can play convincingly even to a theoretical physicist.”
-Cinefantastique |
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PRIMER HAS BEEN FEATURED AT THE FOLLOWING FILM FESTIVALS:
Sundance Film Festival
New Zealand Film Festival
Venice Film Festival (Italy)
Nantucket Film Festival
Seattle Film Festival
Lake Placid Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland)
Atlanta Film Festival
Waterfront Film Festival
CineVegas Film Festival
Kansas International Film Festival
Boston Film Festival
San Diego Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
Chicago Film Festival
Denver Film Festival
Hawaii Film Festival
Adelaide Film Festival (Australia)
London International Festival of Science Fiction
Williamstown Film Festival
Ankara International Film Festival (Turkey)
Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival
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