Sentences with phrase «documentary grand jury prize»

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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

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.

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.