Sentences with phrase «indiecade grand jury prize»

This accomplished feature debut for director / co-scenarist Cutter Hodierne (expanding his 2012 Sundance grand jury prize - winning short of the same name) follows an oil tanker's hijacking and its aftermath through the primary viewpoint of a young Somali who's reluctantly taken part.

This accomplished feature debut for director / co-scenarist Cutter Hodierne (expanding his 2012 Sundance grand jury prize - winning short of the same name) follows an oil tanker's hijacking and its aftermath through -LSB-...]

Crammed into a lively 85 - minute package delivered with loads of dark humor and cinematic flair, this is a worthy winner of Sundance's Grand Jury prize for documentary.

Macon Blair's «I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,» in which Melanie Lynskey plays an ordinary woman who becomes empowered as a detective - avenger after she is robbed, won the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic category.

Opening night film Gun Hill Road (d. Rashaad Ernesto Green), which was nominated for the grand jury prize at Sundance, was an innovative choice.

Bravo won the festival's short film grand jury prize with her «Gregory Go Boom» in 2014 and directed an episode of the Golden Globe winning television show «Atlanta.»

In the World Cinema dramatic competition, the grand jury prize went to «The Nile Hilton Incident,» while «I Dream in Another Language» landed the audience award.

Bening and eight other international celebrity jurors will hand out the awards at the festival, including the Golden Lion for best film and Silver Lion for best director and the grand jury prize.

It debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where it was the winner of the U.S. documentary grand jury prize.

After winning the Audience Award and Grand Jury prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival it was clear that WHIPLASH is definitely one to...

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which won both the audience award and the grand jury prize at Sundance, was scooped up by Fox Searchlight and opens June 12.

«Personal Velocity,» directed by Rebecca Miller, won the grand jury prize as the best feature in the festival.

Netflix films have been released with comparatively little fanfare (the Grand Jury prize winner of Sundance, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore dropped onto the platform in February and registered nary a blip, with Bong Joon - ho's Okja also not succeeding in moving the needle all that much), as they seemed content with simply putting it up on the service and setting up a few awards qualifying runs in New York and LA and leaving it at that.

The Chloe Grace Moretz film «The Miseducation of Cameron Post» has won the Sundance Film Festival's grand jury prize.

«Kailash,» about a Nobel Prize winner's fight to end child slavery in India, was named the U.S. Documentary grand jury prize winner.

The film went on to win both the grand jury prize and audience award, a trend started 3 years ago with Fruitvale Station, then Whiplash, and then last year's Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Among other prizes, Kopple has won two Academy Awards for documentary features (Harlan County U.S.A. and American Dream), three Directors Guild of America Awards, and Audience, Filmmaker, and Grand Jury prizes from the Sundance Film Festival.

Director Jairus McLeary accepts the grand jury prize for documentary feature for his film «The Work,» co-directed by Gethin Aldous.

After breaking out in 2012 with «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare» — a film he co-directed with Susan Froemke, and which was nominated for a Grand Jury prize at Sundance — the 34 - year - old filmmaker followed up with a one - two punch: the Oscar - nominated drug documentary «Cartel Land» in 2015, and his latest film, «City of Ghosts,» which is already garnering buzz in advance of next year's nominations.

Notably, the top films in both the narrative and documentary categories differ from the ones that took home the grand jury prizes, which singled out «I don't feel at home in this world anymore» and «Dina» in the American categories.

It led the Sundance winners, claiming both the audience award and US grand jury prize, mirroring Whiplash's victory in 2014.

Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.

Bookending its 5 - day festivities are opening - night film Billy Bishop Goes to War, FeFF Honorary Director Barbara Willis - Sweete's crack at John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson's slice of Canadiana, and festival closer Union Square, a Mira Sorvino starrer from former Sundance Grand Jury prize - winner Nancy Savoca.

Ever since I first encountered Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves in Cannes, where it won the grand jury prize, I've been debating within myself about it, because I find it simultaneously shameless, boldly original, contrived, highly affecting, transparent, cynical, hopeful, ironic, sincere, ugly, beautiful, and downright baffling.

Palm d'Or goes to Blue is the warmest color, Grand Jury prize to Venus in Fur and Best Director to Passolini.

After winning the Un Certain Regard Grand Jury prize for her 2009 sophomore feature The Father of My Children, Mia Hansen - Love (who is married to Olivier Assayas), has quickly become one of the most notable directors working with her lauded trio of films.

Tomorrow is too late,» said Fedor Alexandrovich, the subject of The Russian Woodpecker, winner of the World Cinema Documentary grand jury prize.

«Tower» picked up the SXSW Grand Jury prize for documentary.

The winner of the Grand Jury prize at Sundance, best animated short at SXSW, best animated short at the Omaha Film Festival, an audience award at Glasgow Short Film Festival and special jury mention at the Regard Short Film Festival, «World of Tomorrow» is a 16 minute wonder about a little girl named...

The winner of the Grand Jury prize at Sundance, best animated short at SXSW, best animated short at the Omaha Film Festival, an audience award at Glasgow Short Film Festival and special jury mention at the Regard Short Film Festival, «World of Tomorrow» is a 16 minute wonder about a little girl named Emily

Its long list of awards includes the nod for its gorgeous cinematography at Tribeca, Audience and Grand Jury prizes at AFI Fest and of course, the Ariel for Best Picture and all other major categories in its home country.

Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Bear.

Unlikely winner of the Grand Jury prize at Sundance this year, I Don't Feel At Home has its laughs, no question.

At the center of this year's film selection is Benh Zeitlin's Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize winner «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» which revolves around a six year old's youthful imagination as she deals with the harsh realities of her ailing father and her rapidly sinking house following a huge storm.

rode the hype train of the Grand Jury prize into a respectable fall box office run and three Academy Awards.

The sophomore film from Houston born director Trey Edward Shults whose directorial effort Krisha won both the audience and grand jury prize at SXSW in 2015 (but mainstream audiences never heard of).

In addition to critical accolades, It managed to win multiple awards on the festival circuit too, including Grand Jury prizes at the Seattle International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.

The film's performances — which netted a special, separate Grand Jury prize for acting at Sundance — certainly have a lot to do with that.

The drama, directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon, won the grand jury prize and audience award for best U.S. dramatic feature at the Sundance Film Festival last month.

It's a hell of a role, and Taylor, who won a well - deserved Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her performance, is brilliant.

Among the names we find Josh Mond (who broke out big with James White in 2016), 2018 SXSW winners Nijla Mu» min and Olivia Newman (read our piping hot First Match review) along with Ana Asensio (Grand Jury prize for Most Beautiful Island in 2017), and Celia Rowlson - Hall whose MA is still a topical film discussion point in my spheres.

Often regarded as one of the greatest and most thoughtful science fiction films ever, Solaris won the Grand Jury prize and esteemed Palm d'or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.

This year's Narrative Grand Jury prize went to Ana Asensio's «Most Beautiful Island.»

list for March as the most anticipated docu feature) and Jim Cummings «Thunder Road (which was our highest ranked male filmmaker with a film project debut on our most anticipated American indies for 2018) were handed the Grand Jury prizes in their respective Comp sections.

There is a great narrative associated to Thunder Road: it serves as a brilliant proof of concept project as it was based on the Sundance Grand Jury prize winning short, and serves as a reminder that in this era, regardless of a small budget or limited means — that if you've got a great idea and a team of creative collaborators, you can make a feature film in the month of November and win a major film festival five months later.

For the record, Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale won both the Grand Jury prize and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic narrative, and Steve Hoover's Blood Brother took the corresponding prizes for documentary, the first time in Sundance history there was complete accord between juries and the public.

Spike Lee's Trump - baiting comedy BlacKkKlansman takes runner - up grand jury prize, while Capernaum, by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, comes in third

Daughters of the Dust bowed at Sundance in 1991 and lit up the festival, winning best cinematography for Jafa and ending up a finalist for the Grand Jury prize.

Not exact matches

A jury will select the top five entries to be screened at Sundance 2013, with the grand - prize winner receiving $ 100,000.

The PV Awards consist of four prizes, each recognizing excellence in textile production relating to a distinct category, specifically: The Grand Jury, Handle, Innovation and Imagination.