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Spellbound is a american film of genre Documentary released in USA on 13 november 2002

Spellbound (2002)

Spellbound
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Released in USA 13 november 2002
Length 1h37
OriginUSA
Rating75% 3.7980353.7980353.7980353.7980353.798035

Spellbound is a 2002 documentary that was directed by Jeffrey Blitz. The film follows eight competitors in the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature; Yana Gorskaya's editing won the ACE Eddie award for best editing of documentary. Spellbound won the Emmy for Cultural/Artistic Programming and Jeffrey Blitz was nominated for directing. In 2007, it was included as #4 of the "IDA's Top 25 Documentaries" of all-time by the members of the International Documentary Association. Frank Neuhauser, winner of the first National Spelling Bee held in 1925, also appears in the film.

Synopsis

Le parcours de huit participants au concours d'orthographe de 1999.

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