The 10th annual Savannah Film Festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design presented John Sayles with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Directing. Writer-director-editor John Sayles' career began as a novelist and short-story writer with the 1975 publication of Pride of the Bimbos, followed by the National Critics' Circle- and National Book Award-nominee Union Dues in 1977. A short-story collection, The Anarchists' Convention appeared in 1979, when he also began working as a screenwriter for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. Early screenwriting credits include Piranha (1978), Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), The Howling (1981) and Alligator (1980).
