Sentences with phrase «festival audience award»

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There's a reason why this movie has won audience awards at nearly every festival it's played, and I can't wait for mainstream audiences to be blindsided by it in 2018.

For those who enjoyed Radnor's first effort, this is leaps and bounds better in writing and direction while still retaining what made his Audience Award Winning film from Sundance 2010 such a beloved festival film.

Directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon from Jesse Andrew's adaptation of his own novel, Me and Earl earned some of the best reviews at this year's Sundance festival, where it swept the top awards from the festival jury (Grand Jury Prize) and festival attendees (the Audience Award).

Her follow - up film, Eden, won the Audience Award at SXSW 2012 and was showered with rave reviews on the festival circuit and its brief theatrical run.

«Audience awards help bring film lovers together, while building momentum for the filmmakers in this year's festival.»

A24's Krisha won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at the festival before heading to Cannes in May.

«Room» has been chosen by the audience as the best film at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, winning the festival's Grolsch People's Choice Award at a ceremony in Toronto on Sunday.

This drama about a young mother and her 5 - year - old son held prisoner by a sexual predator has been collecting audience prizes at just about every film festival it has played, including the bellwether People's Choice Award at Toronto.

So, seizing the opportunity of a sympathetic audience, and amidst a season where many of the 84 movies put forward by their home countries as Academy Award contenders are floating around at festivals — big and small, rural and urban, American and elsewhere — I thought I'd weigh in on the titles I've caught.

One such film struck such a chord with viewers that it took out the festival's audience award, with The Intouchables exuberant and empathetic within its heartfelt, humorous buddy comedy mould.

King Jack premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival where it took home the Narrative Audience Award and was called, «A stylish, sensitive coming - of - ager,» by Variety.The film will continue its festival run during 2015, with an international premiere in London in September.

That Evening Sun Rated PG - 13 for brief strong language, some violence, sexual content and thematic elements Available on DVD and Blu - ray While this little indie took home some huge prizes at major festivals including the Audience Award at South by Southwest in 2009, it largely escaped most audiences and will hopefully find a better home on peoples» televisions.

The big prizes from the festival are the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, one given by a select group of jurors and the other chosen by the festival attendees themselves.

TIFF doesn't go overboard with awards, but because it is a public festival in the middle of a big city, the Audience Award is one of the most important awards they give out because it not only indicates which film is truly spectacular, but it means it also plays very well with general audiences.

Additionally, the Sundance Film Festival: London will introduce an Audience Favourite award for 2017, giving festivalgoers the chance to vote for their favourite features, with the winner announced at the close of the festival.

Some of these launched at prestige fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.

However, Sono's current 4 hour opus «Love Exposure» is not plagued with such woes, as it is currently on a rampage winning audience awards at festivals (and is one of my most anticipated films for 2009).

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

It won the «Audience Award» there, yet left the festival under the Lions Gate banner.

Greeted by a rapturous standing ovation at its Sundance premiere — which precipitated it becoming one of the highest - selling acquisitions in the history of the festival, and the third consecutive film to win both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award — this slick, funny and bruising high - school saga transcends its YA trappings by dropping the full weight of film history on a thoroughly modern milieu.

In last year's selection of sixteen U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings, it was Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl that landed both U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic awards, it was Rick Famuyiwa's Dope who landed the richest deal ($ 7 million range), it was Patrick Brice's The Overnight that had the most post festival momentum, it was Marielle Heller's The Diary of a Teenage Girl that received a longer term accolades (Bel Powley won Best Actress at the Gothams) and it might be Robert Eggers» The Witch that becomes the cult item we reference back in a decade from now.

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The festival's Audience Award (which has in the past gone to future hits like Whiplash, Precious, and Hustle & Flow) this year went to Crown Heights, a drama set in the Brooklyn neighborhood in the early 1980s.

• Nathaniel Rogers digs back into the recent past of the festival's Audience Award to see what is in store for «Slumdog Millionaire.»

It went on to win the audience awards at the Edinburgh, Toronto and Chicago film festivals, and I note on the Internet Movie Database that it is currently voted the 54th best film of all time, and hasn't even opened in America yet.

Jersey Village native Robbie Pickering's feature directorial debut snagged multiple awards at the SXSW festival Tuesday night in Austin, including the jury and audience awards for best narrative feature.

Since winning the audience award at the Toronto film festival, Room has unsurprisingly generated healthy awards buzz.

Inspired by «80s adventure films like THE GOONIES and LEGEND and the big - screen work of Jim Henson and Ray Harryhausen, the film has won a number of festival awards, including the Slamdance Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.

The festival presents two sets of prizes: juried awards and audience awards.

The film, which had a limited theatrical engagement on May 3 through Fathom events, has been touted at various film festivals with awards including Winner Best Picture, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Screenplay and Best Breakout Performance — Boston Film Festival; Winner Audience Award for Best Picture — Austin Film Festival; Winner Outstanding Achievement in Film making, Best Actor — Newport Beach Film Festival; and Audience Award for Best Film, Audience Award for Best Actor, Winner Best Actor — Napa Valley Film Festival.

It racked up a number of honors on the festival circuit, most notably the Audience Award and a Grand Jury Prize for Drama at the Sundance Film Festival.

Veering away from the business side of the festival, Beast of the Southern Wild was honored with the Grand Jury Prize while The Surrogate won the Audience Award.

Whale Rider was seen by millions of people and won over two dozen prizes around the world, including top honors at the Toronto (the People's Choice Award), Sundance (the Audience Award), Rotterdam, San Francisco, Maui, and Seattle (Best Film) Film Festivals.

But it doesn't stop there: this is an important festival both because of its timing as a final stop on the Fall Awards circuit, and because it draws national media and a national upscale audience who go home telling all of their friends about our movies, said David Glasser, COO / President, The Weinstein Company.

In recent years, the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award go to the breakout hit of the festival.

He won the audience award with 1993's «Snapper» and remembers one festival reviewer likening «Dangerous Liaisons» to «eating chocolate in bed.»

The Birth of a Nation, which takes and twists its title from D.W. Griffith's 1915 KKK film of the same name, won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Festival; Fox Searchlight acquired the distribution rights to the biopic for $ 17.5 million, a record for the film festival.

«I imagine we'll be seeing that kind of response a lot,» filmmaker Spike Jonze, in Toronto showing scenes from his relationship comedy «Her,» said of the reaction afforded «12 Years,» which also took the Toronto festival's audience prize awarded Sunday, the event's final day.

Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush have released the first Me and Earl and the Dying Girl trailer for director Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's (American Horror Story) smash Sundance hit — it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the festival in January.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» took the coveted audience award, Lady Gaga performed for the premiere of her Netflix documentary, «Bodied» director Joseph Kahn kicked the Beyhive and Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» emerged as the season's festival darling.

won audience awards at the New York Int» l Children's Film Festival, the largest festival for kids and teens in North America, the Jury Award at Annecy Film Festival, as well as additional prizes at numerous festivals around the globe.

PARK CITY, UT — Me, Earl and the Dying girl, a tender coming - of - age drama about befriending a girl with leukemia, won the high - profile U.S. Grand Jury Prize as well as an audience award at the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony Saturday night, crowning a festival debut that wowed audiences from the word go.

But securing a spot in the competition — and providing an early screener to critics — helped build buzz,, and the thriller about the Border Patrol went on to win the audience award — which means festival attendees thought it to be the best of the bunch.

«We discovered we've found a place for audiences to come and experience films that have played at other festivals, that have won awards, that they've been hearing about, that have great buzz — and they can see them in the context of a free film festival and conversations with master filmmakers.»

In September, Three Billboards was a surprise winner of the audience award at Toronto International Film Festival, the festival's top prize.

A psychological drama that registered with audiences and critics alike because of its heartfelt painful story, as this indie flick did itself proud in the award department in the Australian version of the Oscars (won 13 awards, including best film, director, actor and actress) and was viewed in competition at Cannes and at a number of other film festivals throughout the world including the prestigious Edinburgh Festival.

5 Broken Cameras has been picking up awards on the festival circuit this year winning amongst others the Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and the World Cinema Directing Award at the World Documentary Competition at Sundance.

MVFF Audience Awards 2015 The MVFF Audience Awards represent the people's choice favorites at this year's festival.

With a hometown advantage, I can easily imagine it taking home the festival's often auspicious Audience Award.

The film was the most decorated of the festival, also winning the Grand Jury and Audience Awards.