"Clerks" won the Prix de la Jeunesse and the International Critics Week Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

The screenplays to two films by one of the bright hopes of American independent film. Clerks is set in and about a convenience store in suburban New Jersey and revolves around the obsessions, love lives and friendships of the clerks who serve behind the counters. Chasing Amy - called 'comic Nirvana' by Rolling Stone - is about two friends who create a comic book together and how that relationship is tested when a woman comes between them. Kevin Smith has the ability to capture ordinary life in the raw and with a gentle humor that is completely captivating.