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AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS FOR BALLOT MEASURE 9:
Sundance Film Festival—Audience Award for Best Documentary
Berlin International Film Festival—Teddy Bear (Jury Award Best Gay Film)
Edinburgh International Film Festival—Best of the Fest Award
Los Angeles Outfest—Grand Jury Prize
Denver Int'l Film Festival—People's Choice Award
GLAAD Media Award — Best Documentary
National Educational Film/Video Festival — Silver Apple Award
Chicago GBLT Film Festival— Grand Jury Prize
Theatrical release — Zeitgeist Films
Broadcast — Cinemax, Sundance Movie Channel, PBS; and in Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.
DVD Release, 2008 — Sovereign Distribution
REVIEWS AND PRESS (see below for links to full reviews):
“Galvanizing.” –The New York Times
"Unnerving." –New Yorker
“A picture to make you scream.” –The Nation
“A remarkable portrait, modern politics in dramatic action.” –Toronto Star
“One of the year's outstanding documentaries.” –Seattle Times
“Easily one of the best movies of the year, positively simmers.” –LA Weekly
“Chilling and suspenseful.” –New York Post
“Riveting ... emotionally sizzling.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“Burns with energy and conviction.” –Bay Area Reporter
“Shocking and vivid.” –Toronto Globe & Mail
“Splendid...breathlessly paced.” –New York Newsday
“Incisive, stirring, deeply troubling account.” –Los Angeles Times
"Hair raising horror film." –Oregonian
"While the original movie is both shocking and uplifting, it's the special features on the DVD
that make it important to watch now." BlogCritics Magazine, Feb. 11, 2008
Download Full Reviews by Region:
- New York - L.A. & San Francisco - Seattle & Portland OR -
- Chicago & other cities - Canada - Press during Measure 9 -
“Director Heather MacDonald ducks behind the headlines to lay bare the passions, strategies and clear-eyed organizing that drove the forces, pro and con. She has chosen a cool, low-voltage style, examining heated issues with near-clinical precision. As the level of violence escalates, the documentary acquires the tension and suspense of a fiction film. Ballot Measure 9 is that rare film that an audience enters sure of what's to come only to find expectations overturned. Its local chronicle evolves into a far-ranging exposé of hate politics that crosses lines of race, religion and sexual identity.” —B. Ruby Rich