Sentences with phrase «grand jury prize»

We were asked to select a single grand jury prize, name a best director winner and present four special jury awards at our discretion.

It has won Grand Jury prizes at several festivals, including the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, where it also won the Human Rights award.

From 2015 nominee Matthew Heineman, City of Ghosts (A&E / Amazon) follows a renegade group of journalists documenting ISIS at great personal risk; HBO's Cries from Syria, from Oscar - nominated Winter on Fire helmer Evgeny Afineevsky, depicts the Syrian civil war using raw footage shot by local people, and Firas Fayyad and Steen Johannessen's Last Men in Aleppo (Grasshopper Film), won the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury prize for its depiction.

While his previous low - budget indies were largely improvised, this concept would require Doremus to work from a script and take on production and costume design significantly more complex than anything in his four prior films including «Spooner,» «Douchebag,» and Sundance Grand Jury prize winner «Like Crazy.»

Recent releases include Mia Hansen - Love's award - winning THINGS TO COME starring Isabelle Huppert, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Sternberg's Sundance Documentary grand jury prize winner WEINER; Andrew Haigh's Oscar - nominated 45 YEARS, starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay; Olivier Assayas» CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA, starring Juliette Binoche and Kirsten Stewart; Christian Petzold's PHOENIX; and Laura Gabbert's CITY OF GOLD.

Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood appear in Macon Blair's «I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,» which won the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic category at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

This year's Narrative Grand Jury prize went to Ana Asensio's «Most Beautiful Island.»

Macon Blair's «I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,» in which Melanie Lynskey plays an ordinary woman who becomes empowered as a detective - avenger after she is robbed, won the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic category.

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

The movie premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. dramatic grand jury prize.

Bravo won the festival's short film grand jury prize with her «Gregory Go Boom» in 2014 and directed an episode of the Golden Globe winning television show «Atlanta.»

It led the Sundance winners, claiming both the audience award and US grand jury prize, mirroring Whiplash's victory in 2014.

In reflecting on his relationship with Outfest and its importance 35 years after inception, Andrew Ahn, whose debut feature «Spa Night» won the festival's grand jury prize last year, credited the festival for his career.

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.

After winning the Un Certain Regard Grand Jury prize for her 2009 sophomore feature The Father of My Children, Mia Hansen - Love (who is married to Olivier Assayas), has quickly become one of the most notable directors working with her lauded trio of films.

Maoz came close to repeating that victory Saturday: His long - overdue follow - up feature, «Foxtrot,» won Venice's second - place grand jury prize.

At the center of this year's film selection is Benh Zeitlin's Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize winner «Beasts of the Southern Wild,» which revolves around a six year old's youthful imagination as she deals with the harsh realities of her ailing father and her rapidly sinking house following a huge storm.

In addition to critical accolades, It managed to win multiple awards on the festival circuit too, including Grand Jury prizes at the Seattle International Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.

The film's performances — which netted a special, separate Grand Jury prize for acting at Sundance — certainly have a lot to do with that.

It's a hell of a role, and Taylor, who won a well - deserved Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her performance, is brilliant.

Spike Lee's Trump - baiting comedy BlacKkKlansman takes runner - up grand jury prize, while Capernaum, by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, comes in third

However, based on the fact that the last game I wrote and co-produced (Unmanned, a very linear game) won the Indiecade Grand Jury prize in Los Angeles last month, it seems that the rest of the game community is more accepting of it than I am.

The sophomore film from Houston born director Trey Edward Shults whose directorial effort Krisha won both the audience and grand jury prize at SXSW in 2015 (but mainstream audiences never heard of).

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

A shocked Ana Asenio — writer, director and star of «Most Beautiful Island» — moments after her film was announced as the winner of the SXSW grand jury prize winner for narrative feature.

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.

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.

But by the end of the festival, my hands down favorite film ended up winning the dramatic grand jury prize; «The Miseducation of Cameron Post.»

This accomplished feature debut for director / co-scenarist Cutter Hodierne (expanding his 2012 Sundance grand jury prize - winning short of the same name) follows an oil tanker's hijacking and its aftermath through the primary viewpoint of a young Somali who's reluctantly taken part.

This accomplished feature debut for director / co-scenarist Cutter Hodierne (expanding his 2012 Sundance grand jury prize - winning short of the same name) follows an oil tanker's hijacking and its aftermath through -LSB-...]

The winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 71st Venice International Film Festival focuses on the victims, not the killers, of an Indonesian genocide, and follows an optometrist as he confronts his brother's murderers.

Directed by Destin Cretton (I AM NOT A HIPSTER) and starring Brie Larson and John Gallagher Jr., the film won both the Grand Jury prize and the Audience Award at the annual Austin film festival.

1) The Tale Jennifer Fox won the grand jury prize at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival for her documentary «Beirut: The Last Home Movie.»

In the World Cinema documentary competition, director Feras Fayyad's Syria - focused «Last Men in Aleppo» earned the grand jury prize, while the audience award was given to «Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower.»

Opening night film Gun Hill Road (d. Rashaad Ernesto Green), which was nominated for the grand jury prize at Sundance, was an innovative choice.

In the World Cinema dramatic competition, the grand jury prize went to «The Nile Hilton Incident,» while «I Dream in Another Language» landed the audience award.

Bening and eight other international celebrity jurors will hand out the awards at the festival, including the Golden Lion for best film and Silver Lion for best director and the grand jury prize.

In 2006 they followed it with Mexican - American family drama Quinceañera, which took both the audience award and the grand jury prize at Sundance.

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

After winning the Audience Award and Grand Jury prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival it was clear that WHIPLASH is definitely one to...

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, which won both the audience award and the grand jury prize at Sundance, was scooped up by Fox Searchlight and opens June 12.

«Personal Velocity,» directed by Rebecca Miller, won the grand jury prize as the best feature in the festival.

On the documentary side of the competition, the grand jury prize went to Rich Hill.

The Chloe Grace Moretz film «The Miseducation of Cameron Post» has won the Sundance Film Festival's grand jury prize.

Netflix films have been released with comparatively little fanfare (the Grand Jury prize winner of Sundance, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore dropped onto the platform in February and registered nary a blip, with Bong Joon - ho's Okja also not succeeding in moving the needle all that much), as they seemed content with simply putting it up on the service and setting up a few awards qualifying runs in New York and LA and leaving it at that.

Ex-documentarians known for their realism and compassion for troubled characters — «The Promise» (1996), «Rosetta» (1999), «The Son» (2002), «The Child» (2005), «Lorna's Silence» (2008)-- the Dardenne brothers won the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Jury prize for their latest work.

The film went on to win both the grand jury prize and audience award, a trend started 3 years ago with Fruitvale Station, then Whiplash, and then last year's Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.

Winner of the grand jury prize in the international dramatic competition at Sundance, the U.K. - New Zealand co-production is a slow burn that is awash in contradictions.