Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse

Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
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Directed by	Tom Neff
Starring	Red Grooms
Cinematography	Tom Neff Steve Schklair Mark Pleasant
Edited by	Barry Rubinow
Music by	Jeffrey Steinberg
Distributed by	Direct Cinema[1]
Release date	1986 (1986)
Running time	21 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse is a 1986 short film biography of the Nashville-born artist Red Grooms.^[2] It was written by Tom Neff, co-directed by Neff and Louise LeQuire, and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell.^[3] The film was funded by the Tennessee State Museum and was nominated for an Academy Award^[4] for Documentary Short Subject.

A glimpse of Red and reflection of his humor and humanism on his artwork.^[5]

• Red Grooms
• Barbara Haskell - curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Wins

• CINE: CINE Golden Eagle, Documentary; 1986.^[6]

Nominations

• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Documentary, Short Subjects, Tom Neff and Madeline Bell; 1987.^[7]

• Tom Neff official web site (see Films for film clip)
• Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse at IMDb
• AllMovie