Home video has always been a crude, oddball medium, but Hollywood is a town where innovation often comes from strange places. At the Visions of US video contest sponsored by the American Film Institute and Sony Electronics, Tinseltown mavens go looking for creative geniuses trapped in low-end technology. The work may be done on the cheap, but champion Visions videos have kicked off successful careers. In 1985, an obscure comic named Tim Allen won the grand prize for an 11-minute comedy about a family's fight to save its lakeside home from big business. This year's panel of judges includes Francis Ford Coppola and Kathleen Kennedy, so fast forward to www.afionline.org/visions/97/visions.home.html in August to meet their home video favorites for 1997.
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