Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center.
It competed in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary and the World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary.
In an interview conducted with Zoom In Online during Man on Wire's run at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, director James Marsh explained many of the reasons why he was drawn to such an inspirational, iconic documentary after his last project, the dark, incest-dabbling feature The King. First and foremost, Marsh claims the film immediately struck him as "a heist movie" and after seeing how much collaboration and exhaustive planning went into planning "the coup," it's easy to understand Marsh's sentiments. Secondly, Marsh also comments that as a New Yorker himself, he sees the film as something to give back to the city. One of the greatest comments he could receive, he says, is to hear someone say that they will now always think of Petit and his performance when recalling the World Trade Center's twin towers.
Responding to questioning as to why the towers' impending destruction was not mentioned in the film, Marsh explained that Phillippe Petit's act was "incredibly beautiful" and that it "would be unfair and wrong to infect his story with any mention, discussion or imagery of the Towers being destroyed."
Man on Wire has won the prestigious Special Jury Award and Audience Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, the International Audience Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Standard Life Audience Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The film has also won the Jury Prize and Audience Award in the World Cinema: Documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival. To date, Man on Wire is only the 6th film ever in the history of Sundance to pick up both top awards and the first from outside the US.
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