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Award winner!
Victoria Film Festival: Audience Award
Durango Film Festival: Best Narrative Feature Film
San Francisco Film Festival: Audience Award
OUTFEST: Outstanding Actor Award (Evan Adams);
Outstanding Screenwriting Award (Sherman Alexie)
Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: Audience Award
Spliced Wire: Best Films of 2002 Honorable Mention
Spokane Northwest International Film Festival: Best Feature Film; Best Actor (Evan Adams)

"...It bristles with a passion and intelligence too intense to allow the film's style to seem pretentious."
--Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

"The director's dry sincerity leavens the sentiment of this quasi-autobiographical film, a tale about the burden of constantly being asked who you are and where you come from - a question that artists of color constantly hear, either from others or themselves. Mr. Alexie is smart enough to know it's never satisfactorily answered."
--Elvis Mitchell, New York Times

"POETIC.  A touching and often funny tale — and a promising directing debut from a multitalented local treasure."
--Moira MacDonald, The Seattle Times

"Once the viewer understands the movie's cadance and rhythm, the story gets better and better until it builds into a crescendo that's emotional, dramatic and--best of all, perhaps--fitting."
--Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle

"Scene by scene...The Business of Fancydancing makes some fascinating points about identity politics, history, loyalty and the price of success -- not a bad payoff for a first-time filmmaker."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety

"GREAT! The film is charged at every possible point by Alexie's poetry. Alexie is a great writer and the film is able to transmit that greatness through the dialogue. The movie is not really a movie, nor is it a documentary, but a new medium to redistribute Alexie's marvelous (and at times shocking) poetry."
--Charles Mudede, The Stranger

"Fancydancing is not quite cinematic, not quite theatrical, viewing more like a poem in 3-D, with lyrical evocations of life on the 'rez' and beyond."
--LA Weekly

"VIVID and INSIGHTFUL. Full of great music and strong performances. Every filmmaker should have such talent."
--Sheila Benson, Seattle Weekly

"An ambitious leap for poet, author and screenwriter Sherman Alexie. A complex mosaic of character portraits, flashbacks, stories and art."
--Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer