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Spellbound (2002 film) Spellbound. (2002 film) Spellbound is a 2002 American documentary that was directed by Jeffrey Blitz. The film follows eight competitors in the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The film received positive reviews and won several awards, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Spellbound: Directed by Jeffrey Blitz. With Angela Arenivar, Ubaldo Arenivar, Jorge Arenivar, Scott McGarraugh. Spellbound follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.
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Jeffrey Blitz. Producer: Spellbound. Jeffrey Blitz is an American director, screenwriter and producer best known for the documentary Spellbound (2003), the fiction film Rocket Science (2007) and his television work on The Office (2007 - 2010) and Review (2014 - 2017).
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- Producer, Director, Writer
Jeffrey Blitz is an American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for the documentary Spellbound (2003), The Office (2007 - 2010), the fiction film Rocket Science (2007) and Comedy Central’s Review (2014 - 2017). Blitz is a two-time Emmy Award winner, the winner of the Directing Prize at Sundance and an Academy Award nominee.
May 16, 2003 · Jeffrey Blitz takes his documentary into their homes and schools, looks at their families and ambitions, and shows us that they’re all smart in a lot of other ways–including the way that makes them a little lonely at times. Consider Harry Altman. He is a real kid, but has so many eccentricities that he’d be comic relief in a teenage comedy.
Cinematic Time Capsule - 2002 Ranked. 40 likes. Evan T ★★★★. Flat-out ridiculous. Also touching, tense, and seriously funny. From a visual standpoint, Spellbound (not to be mistaken for the Hitchcock classic of the same name) is a little on the Windows 99 side, but its subjects are what make it count.
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Spellbound, Jeffrey Blitz’s endearing, heartbreaking, deeply rewarding documentary about eight brainy middle-school kids competing with nearly 250 other spellers in front of the ESPN-watching world, is full of such unforgettable moments. Not just a documentary of a contest, Spellbound is a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of contestants of various regional and socioeconomic backgrounds ...
