Sentences with phrase «documentary grand prize winner»

DINA — A Review by Cynthia Flores U.S. documentary grand prize winner at Sundance 2017, Dina, is the story of a...

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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.»

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

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.

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