Sundance. Awards.

"A pair of Latin American stories won the top prizes at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival," writes Eugene Hernandez at indieWIRE, where's he's got a full report on how the awards ceremony played out last night.

Here's the bare bones list:

• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Jason Kohn's Manda Bala (Send a Bullet). GCD entry.

• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: Christopher Zalla's Padre Nuestro. GCD.

• World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary: Eva Mulvad and Anja Al Erhayem's Vores Lykkes Fjender (Enemies of Happiness).

• World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic: Dror Shaul's Adama Meshugaat (Sweet Mud).

• Audience Award: Documentary: Irene Taylor Brodsky's Hear and Now.

• Audience Award: Dramatic: James C Strouse's Grace is Gone. GCD.

• World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary: David Sington's In the Shadow of the Moon. GCD.

• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic: John Carney's Once. GCD.

• Directing Award: Documentary: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for War/Dance.

• Directing Award: Dramatic: Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science. GCD.

• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary: Heloísa Passos for Manda Bala (Send a Bullet).

• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic: Benoît Debie for Joshua. GCD.

• Documentary Editing Award: Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillan, Michael Schweitzer for Nanking. GCD.

• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: James C Strouse for Grace is Gone.

• Documentary Jury: Special Jury Prize: Charles Furguson's No End in Sight. GCD.

• Special Jury Prizes for Acting:
  • Jess Weixler in Teeth. GCD.
  • Tamara Podemski in Four Sheets to the Wind.

• Special Jury Prize for Singularity of Vision: Chris Smith for The Pool.

• World Cinema Competition Jury: Special Jury Prize: Shimon Dotan's Hot House.

• World Cinema Dramatic Competition Jury: Special Jury Prize: Gela Babluani and Temur Babluani's L'Heritahe (The Legacy).

• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking: Don Hertzfeldt's Everything Will Be OK. GCD.

• Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking: Radu Jude's The Tube With a Hat.

• Shorts Jury Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking:
  • Ray Tintori's Death to the Tinman.

  • Mariam Jobrani's The Fighting Cholitas.

  • Marjan Alizadeh's Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand (Men Understand Each Other Better).

  • Joerg Wagner's Motodrom.

  • William Lorton's Spitfire 944.

  • Tom Brown and Daniel Gray's t.o.m..

• Shorts Jury: Special Jury Prize: Cynthia Wade's Freeheld.

• Alfred P Sloan Prize: Chen Shi-Zhen's Dark Matter.

• Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award:
  • Lucia Cedron for Agnus Dei.

  • Caran Hartsfield for Bury Me Standing.

  • Tomoko Kana for Two By The River.

  • Dagur Kári for The Good Heart.

Coverage of the coverage: The Park City Index.

Posted by dwhudson at January 28, 2007 5:05 AM