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After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

He also helped write and produce the documentary Out of the Past, which won the 1998 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary.

For the first nine years the 1st Irish... s site - specific comedy Guy Walks into a Bar, which won the Festival's audience award for best play in 2010.

When it comes to the opposite sex, it's Trailer for Irish film Speed Dating - Winner of the Audience Award at The European Independent Film Festival, 2007, Indianapolis International

Coming to select theaters August 28th is the SXSW Midnight Audience Award winner Turbo Kid, which is definitely not for kids but looks like fun.

Synopsis: Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting Vicky Hernandéz and Manolo Cruz Sun.

Director and co-writer Joshua Marston, whose debut, Maria Full of Grace, won the Audience Award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, returns with another fascinating character study.

The directorial debut of MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE producer Josh Mond, JAMES WHITE, which had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2014 where it was the winner of the «Best of Next» Audience Award, is a confident and closely observed debut that explores loss and the deep relationship between a mother and son.

For as Mehari said in an interview at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film won the World Cinema Audience Award for drama, «Difret» (the word means «to dare» but can also refer to rape) is a work without specific evil - doers.

Winner of the Audience Award at the New York Asian Film Festival, Fine, Totally Fine is a dramedy about two listless friends - Teruo, a perpetual dreamer and haunted house enthusiast, and his friend Hisanobu, a uber - sensitive salaryman.

In Love,» «Extreme Close Up,» and «Man of the Century,» which won the Audience Award at Slamdance.

In 1997, Tickell set out on the road with a biodiesel powered «Veggie Van» and a video camera and began filming what would eventually become known as FUEL, the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winning documentary film that investigates the possible replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy.

Riesco's big screen performances include memorable roles in ADULT WORLD, GARDEN STATE, NATIONAL TREASURE, FEVER PITCH, CHE PART ONE & TWO, Oliver Stone's WORLD TRADE CENTER and Toronto Film Festival Audience Award winner BELLA.

This Footloose is directed by Craig Brewer, whose Memphis - set Hustle & Flow won the 2005 audience award at the Sundance Film Festival and a best - song Oscar for It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp.

The runner - up for the audience award at last year's Toronto Film Festival, the movie represents a change of pace for director Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, Elegy), best known for clunky dramas on weighty themes.

Lone Star States, 24 Beats Per Second and Midnighters Audience Awards will be announced separately on Saturday, March 19.

The Jury and Audience Award winners of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival have been announced.

Even the Audience Awards winners didn't seem to have much buzz.

Films in these categories, as well as Spotlight Premieres, Emerging Visions, Midnighters, Lone Star States and 24 Beats Per Second, were also eligible for 2011 SXSW Film Festival Audience Awards.

This winner of the audience award for best narrative film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival is the kind of whimsically smart - aleck British film that goes down well on this side of the Atlantic.

«Cold Fish,» inspired by one of Japan's most notorious serial killers, and «Bedevilled,» the Korean revenge film and audience award winning favorite of the fest.

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.

It's notable because (as TIFF reminded us with tags in front of every film) in past years Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech were winners of the «Audience Award», later going on to also win Best Picture as well as the hearts of the entire world.

Yet, the plot feels truthful and really connected with audiences; so much so, that it won Russell the Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, and an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

* Audience Awards for 24 Beats Per Second, Lone Star States, and Midnighters sections will be announced on Saturday, March 19, 2011.

Films in this section are eligible for Audience Awards for Best International Feature, Best Narrative Feature, or Best Documentary Feature.

Israeli / Palestinian co-production 5 Broken Cameras by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi won the IDFA Audience Award as well as a Special Jury Award.

The Audience Award went to Nier: Automata.

The Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, Presented by Acura was presented to: The Sentence (Director: Rudy Valdez, Producers: Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee)-- Cindy Shank, mother of three, is serving a 15 - year sentence in federal prison for her tangential involvement with a Michigan drug ring years earlier.

The Jury and Audience Award winners of the 2011 SXSW Film Festival were announced.

Unsurprisingly, word - of - mouth hit Green Room won the Audience Award, followed by the Hungarian comedy - fantasy Liza The Fox Fairy, which I'm still kicking myself for missing and was not made available as a screener.

Later, the film won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Gandhi, whose Kumare won the audience award at SXSW in 2011, is repped by UTA and attorney Victoria Cook of Franklin Kurnit.

Piven's first big movie, «Fully Loaded,» won PBIFF's 2011 audience award.

The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic, Presented by Acura was presented to: Burden (Director & Screenwriter: Andrew Heckler, Producers: Robbie Brenner, Jincheng, Bill Kenwright)-- After opening a KKK shop, Klansman Michael Burden falls in love with a single mom who forces him to confront his senseless hatred.

The Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic was presented to: The Guilty / Denmark (Director: Gustav Möller, Screenwriters: Gustav Möller, Emil Nygaard Albertsen, Producer: Lina Flint)-- Alarm dispatcher Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman; after a sudden disconnection, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins.

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.

The film debuted at the SXSW Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

The audience award for the Next section went to Justin Chon for «Gook,» about the friendship between two Korean teens and a young African - American woman on the brink of the L.A. riots.

«The Shape of Water's» Golden Lion win isn't as much of a slam dunk prognosticator as the TIFF Audience Award, but del Toro's fairy tale does join «Somewhere,» «The Wrestler,» and Brokeback Mountain» as recent American productions to win top honors at Venice.

Cho, best known for the «Harold & Kumar» franchise, will next star in Aneesh Chaganty's drama «Searching,» which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, earning the NEXT Audience Award.

Cooke stars on «Bates Motel» and drew widespread acclaim for her impressive performance as a young cancer patient in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,» which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at Sundance.

The former won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, while the latter shocked mostly everyone in the industry by winning the Audience Award at TIFF.

It was the basis for Disappear, which picked up the audience award for best narrative feature at SXSW back in March of this year.

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The Jury and Audience Award - winners of the 2011 South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival were announced tonight at the Festival's Awards Ceremony, hosted by comedian Owen Egerton in Austin, Texas.

In previous years, the TIFF Audience Award has gone to «Room,» «The Imitation Game,» «12 Years a Slave,» «The King's Speech,» «Slumdog Millionaire,» «Silver Linings Playbook,» and «La La Land.»

The coming - of - age film also earned the coveted Best Screenplay honor along with the Special Gotham Jury award and IFP Gotham Audience award.

However, Japan «Äôs official entry in the Oscar race, Tetsuya Nakashima «Äôs Confessions won a deserved Audience Award which is a good sign for its chances come nomination time.