Sentences with phrase «audience prize»

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.

The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin Film Festival.

But the top audience prize doesn't always go to Oscar hopefuls, as evidenced by such titles as Where Do We Go Now?

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl was bought for more than 8 million dollars back in January, collecting the Grand Jury Prize and Sundance Audience prize in the process.

Mickle had first become aware of the film as he traveled the circuit of genre film festivals with his own post-apocalyptic vampire adventure «Stake Land,» winner of the Midnight Madness audience prize at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

Silverbush has spent time in Park City as well — her debut, ON THE OUTS (2004), claimed jury and audience prizes at Slamdance after making its world premiere at Toronto.

The former won the special jury prize and the audience prize (shared with the Brazilian Lavoura Arcaica [To the left of the father, Luiz Fernando Carvalho, 2001]-RRB-.

Thanks to Shults» unflinching vision and Fairchild's searing performance, Krisha has become an unlikely indie sensation, winning both the jury and audience prizes at the 2015 SXSW film festival, landing a spot at Cannes, receiving the Independent Spirit Award for the year's best film shot for under $ 500,000, and earning its director a two - picture deal from A24.

Winner of both the Grand Jury and Audience prizes at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, this adaptation of the popular teen novel follows a pair of high - school students who befriend a girl with leukemia.

, these events, hosted by Criterion staff members, will feature special guests, screenings and audience prizes, while offering unique insight into the company's process and the stories behind the films they release on Blu - rays and DVDs.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl pulled off the rare double win of both the audience prize and the jury prize at Sundance and it's easy to see why.

Being an audience prize rather than a juried one, it tends to be more predictive of where the tastes of a broad group of people (i.e. the Academy) might lean.

The title won the Audience prize at the latter event.

There was also a section dedicated to the «long list» of EFA nominations that was offered up for an audience prize, taken by Maren Ade's Cannes - neglected Toni Erdmann, also a favourite to pick up most prizes at the December Awards.

Whiplash This story of the beyond - intense relationship between a young drummer (Miles Teller) and his ferocious musical mentor (J.K. Simmons) cleaned up at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, winning both the Grand Jury and Audience prizes.

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.