See where the film has screened and what awards it has garnered.
To learn about upcoming screenings and events, please visit the web site at
Sun Fountain Productions, www.regrettoinform.org/events.shtml.
Awards and Distinctions
- Academy Award (Oscar®) Nomination for Best Documentary, 1999
- Sundance Jury Awards for Best Director and Best Cinematography, 1999
- Golden Spire Award, San Francisco International Film Festival, 1999
- Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award, IFP/West, 1999
- Nester Almendros Award, Human Rights Watch Festival, 1999
- Narrative Integrity Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1999
- Vermont International Film Festival, Best of Festival Award, 1999
- IDA Distinguished Achievement Award - ABCNews VideoSource Award, 1998
- Encore People's Choice Award, Best Documentary, Denver International Film
Festival, 1999
- First Prize for Documentaries, Semana Internacional de Cine de
Valladolid, 1999
Film Festival Screenings
- Sundance Film Festival
- IDA DOCtober Festival
- Film Arts Foundation Festival of Independent Cinema
- San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
- South by Southwest Film Festival
- Cleveland International Film Festival
- Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Dallas Video Festival
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival
- Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival
- Washington, D.C. Film Festival
- Boston Women's Film Festival
- Minneapolis Film Festival
- San Francisco International Film Festival
- Munich International Documentary Film Festival
- Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
- Seattle International Film Festival
- Denver Asian Film Festival
- Human Rights Watch Film Festival
- Florida International Film Festival
- New Zealand Film Festival
- Melbourne International Film Festival
- Vancouver International Film Festival
- Denver International Film Festival
- Hot Springs International Documentary Film Festival
- Vermont International Film Festival
- Valladolid International Documentary Film Festival, Spain
- Hawaii International Film Festival
- Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival
- International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
Press Quotes
"Unforgettable - so exquisitely filmed, edited and scored it is the
documentary equivalent
of a tragic epic poem. Every word and image quivers with an anguished
resonance."
Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"One of the most buzzed about films [at Sundance]....A deeply affecting
movie...that
approaches the war from a different viewpoint than all other Vietnam films."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Beautifully photographed...the film approaches a poetry that few
documentaries have
managed to achieve."
The New Yorker
"Perspective is everything in the Oscar-nominated documentary 'Regret to
Inform.'
Instead of again chronicling American losses in Vietnam, Barbara
Sonneborn...expands the
debate to include her North and South Vietnamese sisters. The new voices
put American
losses in context and add a near-shattering resonance rare in nonfiction
accounts."
Variety
"Visually superb."
People Magazine
"Poetic and powerful."
Jean Lee, Los Angeles Times
"A powerful directorial debut interweaving archival footage and intimate
interviews with
American and Vietnamese women, who inevitably experienced the war in deeply
personal, yet profoundly different, ways."
San Francisco Chronicle
"Wrenching in an intensely personal way, this is documentary filmmaking at its
spellbinding best."
Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle
"An emotionally overwhelming mosaic of feminine voices, American and
Vietnamese,
whose similarities far outweigh their differences."
Joanna Connors, Plain Dealer
"[An] epic voyage."
Sura Wood, San Francisco Arts Monthly
"A certain crowd-puller."
Film/Tape World
"It is rare when a documentary can be both extraordinarily personal and
make an
overwhelmingly universal statement at the same time. Regret to Inform, one
of Sundance's
most poignant, compassionate 1999 entries, is not only a deeply moving
exploration of
one woman's experience, but a powerful anti-war statement."
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