Sentences with phrase «jury documentary prize»

Winner of the 2015 Grand Jury Documentary prize at Sundance this past January, this film — produced and edited by women, and with a mostly - female crew — tells the story of the six young Angulo brothers, who were raised in New York City with little to no contact with the outside world.

Not exact matches

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.

NEW YORK — A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

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

It also earned a Jury Prize at the Documentary Edge Festival in New Zealand and the Best Documentary prize at the 5th American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.

«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 four top jury prizes at Sundance 2010 were awarded Saturday night to Debra Granik's «Winter's Bone» for best U. S. drama, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's «Restrepo» for U. S. documentary, David Michôd's «Animal Kingdom» for world drama, and Mads Brügger's «The Red Chapel» for world documentary.

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.

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.

«Talya Lavie's Zero Motivation, a dark comedy about the life of Israel's female soldiers, took the jury prize for best narrative feature at the Tribeca Film Festival, while Marshall Curry's Point and Shoot, the account of a young American caught up in the Libyan Revolution, was named best documentary feature.

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.

Deb Shoval's AWOL won the jury award (and a $ 1000 cash prize) for Best Narrative Feature, Maisie Crow's JACKSON took home the jury award (and $ 1000 courtesy of Classic American Hardwoods) for Best Documentary Feature, and Madsen Minax's KAIROS DIRT & THE ERRANT VACUUM received the nod (and a $ 1000 cash prize) as Best Hometowner Feature.

GRAND JURY PRIZE These C*ck sucking Tears (USA 2016), directed by Dan Taberski JURY STATEMENT: We're proud to present the Best Documentary Short Award to These C*ck sucking Tears!

It recounts such a fascinating, absorbing, and instructive tale, full of delayed revelations and subtle pleasures, that the jury unanimously gave it the top prize, citing it as both the best documentary and the best narrative film.

SIFF 2017 DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE BECOMING WHO I WAS (d: Chang - Yong Moon, Jin Jeon, South Korea 2016) JURY STATEMENT: We admired the filmmaker's skill and commitment to capturing the relationship between the two subjects in this artfully crafted dDOCUMENTARY COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE BECOMING WHO I WAS (d: Chang - Yong Moon, Jin Jeon, South Korea 2016) JURY STATEMENT: We admired the filmmaker's skill and commitment to capturing the relationship between the two subjects in this artfully crafted documentarydocumentary.

For a film that beautifully tells the story of a truly incredible emotional and spiritual journey, the jury awards the grand prize for documentary filmmaking to Becoming Who I Was.

Kino Lorber is heading out with Keith Maitland's partially animated documentary Tower, which won jury and audience prizes at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, while Roadside Attractions is launching drama Priceless, spearheaded by Christian rock band King & Country.

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.

The Look of Silence (2016 Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI award, and went on to receive another 70 prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award, the IDA Award for Best Documentary Feature, a Gotham Award, and three Cinema Eye Honors.