Sentences with phrase «jury grand prize»

In a big night for female filmmakers, the jury grand prize award went to Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska's Mug, «a film that explores bigotry in its story about a young man forced to undergo face transplant surgery after he is disfigured in an accident.»

Along with the public vote, this year the juried awards were extended significantly, with the notable addition of a juried grand prize worth $ 100,000 that was selected by a panel of three arts professionals.

Not exact matches

A jury will select the top five entries to be screened at Sundance 2013, with the grand - prize winner receiving $ 100,000.

The PV Awards consist of four prizes, each recognizing excellence in textile production relating to a distinct category, specifically: The Grand Jury, Handle, Innovation and Imagination.

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-...]

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.

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.

Thus, I can only vageuly speculate as to their merits, and report the other four main prize winners: Joseph Madmony's Restoration received the Grand Prix, the Special Jury Prize was given to Martin Šulík's Gypsy, David Morse got Best Actor for his work in Collaborator, and Best Actress went to Stine Fischer Christensen for Cracks in the Shell.

The jury decision, he revealed, came only after some old - fashioned horse - trading: Bille August's «Pelle the Conqueror» won over Chris Menges» «A World Apart» in a 6 - 4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prjury decision, he revealed, came only after some old - fashioned horse - trading: Bille August's «Pelle the Conqueror» won over Chris Menges» «A World Apart» in a 6 - 4 vote, but jury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prjury president Ettore Scola only got the «World Apart» supporters to stop arguing when he offered to not only give that film the Grand Jury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prJury Prize (second prize), but also let its lead actresses share the best - actress award, making it the only film to win more than one prize.

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

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.»

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.

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.

Four took home prizes, including Ryan Coogler's «Fruitvale Station,» which won both the U.S. dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award.

Back in 2001, the film won the Grand Special Jury prize at the Venice Film Festival and ever since then people have been debating whether the film actually accomplishes anything significant.

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.

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.

Elsewhere, Greek film «Miss Violence» also proved popular, taking both the Silver Lion and the Best Actor prize for Themis Panou, while Tsai Ming - Liang «s «Stray Dogs» won the Grand Jury Prize, Elena Cotta took Best Actress for «Via Castellana Bandiera» (which we unfortunately didn't see), Tye Sheridan was awarded Best Young Actor for David Gordon Green «s «Joe,» Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope picked up Best Screenplay for «Philomena,» and Philip Groning «s «The Police Officer's Wife» won a Special Jury Prize.

The big prizes from the festival are the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, one given by a select group of jurors and the other chosen by the festival attendees themselves.

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.

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.

Park Chan - wook's grand prize - winner at Cannes — probably thanks to jury president Quentin Tarantino — is about a man, inexplicably imprisoned in a room for 15 years, who is suddenly released and has five days to find his captor.

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

Since its premiere last year, Krisha has garnered numerous accolades, including SXSW's Grand Jury and Audience Awards, critics» prizes at Deauville and Reykjavik, and, most recently, the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.

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.

Filmed entirely in Austin on a low budget and telling a story that takes place over one Thanksgiving, Krisha won a well - deserved Grand Jury top prize at SXSW.

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.

The history: In his four previous Competition appearances, Haneke has been garlanded with the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for «Code Unknown» (2000), the silver - medal Grand Prix for «The Piano Teacher» (2001), and the Best Director prize for «Cache» (2005), but the Palme d'Or has remained just beyond his reach.

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.

The jury for the first film prize comprises recent Cannes Grand Prix winner Alice Rohrwacher, Argentine director Lisandro Alonso, Canadian direction Ron Mann, Chinese producer Vivian Qu, and Romanian director and writer Razvan Radulescu.

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.

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

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.

Bookending its 5 - day festivities are opening - night film Billy Bishop Goes to War, FeFF Honorary Director Barbara Willis - Sweete's crack at John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson's slice of Canadiana, and festival closer Union Square, a Mira Sorvino starrer from former Sundance Grand Jury prize - winner Nancy Savoca.

Ever since I first encountered Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves in Cannes, where it won the grand jury prize, I've been debating within myself about it, because I find it simultaneously shameless, boldly original, contrived, highly affecting, transparent, cynical, hopeful, ironic, sincere, ugly, beautiful, and downright baffling.

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Palm d'Or goes to Blue is the warmest color, Grand Jury prize to Venus in Fur and Best Director to Passolini.

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.

All the canines of Matteo Garrone's Dogman share the top prize this year, with the Grand Jury Prize going to the CGI - generated pink «fluffy puppies» of Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's Diamantino.

One Korean filmmaker, Park Chan - wook, at least has a shot this year with «The Handmaiden,» and his strong track record («Oldboy» won the Grand Prix in 2004, while «Thirst» won a jury prize in 2009) augurs well for his chances.

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

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

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