Sentences with phrase «jury prize winner»

Jury prize winner Yorgos Lanthimos» «The Lobster,» meanwhile, envisioned a bizarre world in which being single was illegal with a savvy blend of social critique and genuine romanticism.

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.

Pozdorovkin is also a Sundance alum as director / producer of last year's special jury prize winner PUSSY RIOT — A PUNK PRAYER.

Directed by Danny Madden, this passionate vignette is notable for its seething performance by Shirley Chen (SXSW Special Jury prize winner) and visceral depiction of gathering rage...

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

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.

Topical HBO production and Sundance Special Jury prize winner Gasland ranks among the highlights the section (with director Josh Fox slated to be in attendance), whilst other offerings such as Jean - Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors (part of the «Beatbox» music program), William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Not exact matches

The jury's first prize winner Alexandre Artaud, a Ph.D. candidate with the Université Grenoble Alpes in the Laboratoire de Transport Electronique Quantique et Supraconductivité, presented a thesis titled «Tunneling spectroscopy at very low temperature of graphene grown on superconducting rhenium.»

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

A peer jury then deliberates and the prize winner or winners are identified.

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.

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.

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.

NEW YORK — A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night.

Five TIFF audience winners have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture; «HURT» takes new 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.

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.

Relievedly, the competition jury headed by Italian auteur Nanni Moretti felt differently, naming Reygadas as the surprise winner of the festival's best director prize.

Genre played a welcome role in the Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).

In Strong Island, still another Sundance jury prize — winner and a standout of this year's True / False Film Fest slate, director Yance Ford employs direct address and first - person voice - over for an investigation and consideration of both his brother's murder, which took place more than two decades prior, and the ongoing fallout from a failure of justice for Ford's family and friends.

English writer / director Andrea Arnold, winner of a 2004 Oscar for Best Live Action Short, has now made two highly - regarded features, including «Fish Tank,» which won the 2010 jury prize at Cannes, and a BAFTA (the British Oscar).

The debut film from Sean Durkin, a newcomer and the recent winner of the special jury prize for directing at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, has been trickling out in theaters across the country.

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.

Winner of a special jury prize for «scariest film» at the recent inaugural edition of the Overlook Film Festival and co-produced and - written by Colin Minahan, director of the other closing - night selection, It Stains the Sand Red, the film is indeed chockful of frights.

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.

The Jury of this 67th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Jane Campion, revealed the names of the prize winners this evening during the Awards Ceremony.

In this Cannes post-mortem podcast I'm accompanied by Gold Rush Gang Member Jason Osiason and International Cinephile Society member David Acacia, both of whom attended the 68th Cannes Film Festival last week and we dish about the movies they saw, the jury and the uninspired prize winners.

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

The winner of the Grand Jury prize at Sundance, best animated short at SXSW, best animated short at the Omaha Film Festival, an audience award at Glasgow Short Film Festival and special jury mention at the Regard Short Film Festival, «World of Tomorrow» is a 16 minute wonder about a little girl nameJury prize at Sundance, best animated short at SXSW, best animated short at the Omaha Film Festival, an audience award at Glasgow Short Film Festival and special jury mention at the Regard Short Film Festival, «World of Tomorrow» is a 16 minute wonder about a little girl namejury mention at the Regard Short Film Festival, «World of Tomorrow» is a 16 minute wonder about a little girl named...

Davis's story provided the backbone for the tragically timely 3 1/2 minutes, winner of a special jury prize for «Social Impact.»

The winner of the Grand Jury prize at Sundance, best animated short at SXSW, best animated short at the Omaha Film Festival, an audience award at Glasgow Short Film Festival and special jury mention at the Regard Short Film Festival, «World of Tomorrow» is a 16 minute wonder about a little girl named EJury prize at Sundance, best animated short at SXSW, best animated short at the Omaha Film Festival, an audience award at Glasgow Short Film Festival and special jury mention at the Regard Short Film Festival, «World of Tomorrow» is a 16 minute wonder about a little girl named Ejury mention at the Regard Short Film Festival, «World of Tomorrow» is a 16 minute wonder about a little girl named Emily

Unlikely winner of the Grand Jury prize at Sundance this year, I Don't Feel At Home has its laughs, no question.

SIFF competitions are intended to reflect the diversity and excellence of global filmmaking with awards and / or cash prizes given to the winners as determined by independent juries as well as by audience voting.

Among the names we find Josh Mond (who broke out big with James White in 2016), 2018 SXSW winners Nijla Mu» min and Olivia Newman (read our piping hot First Match review) along with Ana Asensio (Grand Jury prize for Most Beautiful Island in 2017), and Celia Rowlson - Hall whose MA is still a topical film discussion point in my spheres.

Juried by film professionals, the winner of each of these 5 feature film competitions will be announced at the Golden Space Needle Awards on June 12 and will split the proceeds of a $ 32,500 cash prize - pool ($ 5,000 for features and $ 2,500 for shorts).

SIFF 2017 DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE BECOMING WHO I WAS (d: Chang - Yong Moon, Jin Jeon, South Korea 2016) JURY STATEMENT: We admired the filmmaker's skill and commitment to capturing the relationship between the two subjects in this artfully crafted documentary.

SIFF 2016 OFFICIAL COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE Girl Asleep (Australia 2016), directed by Rosemary Myers JURY STATEMENT: The Jury would like to recognize an ambitious feature deJURY PRIZE Girl Asleep (Australia 2016), directed by Rosemary Myers JURY STATEMENT: The Jury would like to recognize an ambitious feature deJURY STATEMENT: The Jury would like to recognize an ambitious feature deJury would like to recognize an ambitious feature debut.

SIFF 2017 OFFICIAL COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE SAMI BLOOD (SAMEBLOD)(d: Amanda Kernell, Sweden / Norway / Denmark 2016) JURY STATEMENT: After viewing this excellent selection of eight outstanding, diverse films from eight different countries, we faced the challenging task of choosing a wWINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE SAMI BLOOD (SAMEBLOD)(d: Amanda Kernell, Sweden / Norway / Denmark 2016) JURY STATEMENT: After viewing this excellent selection of eight outstanding, diverse films from eight different countries, we faced the challenging task of choosing a winnerwinner.

SIFF 2017 IBERO - AMERICAN COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE THE WINTER (EL INVIERNO)(d: Emiliano Torres, Argentina / France 2016) JURY STATEMENT: A complex and multi-layered first feature that bends the Western genre to create a remarkable film that is as much about the relationship between two men, as it is about Man's relationship to the landscape.

SIFF 2016 NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE Sand Storm (Israel 2016), directed by Elite Zexer JURY STATEMENT: This first - time director brings a sense of wonder and a surprising, sobering emotional maturity essential for those pursuing this endeavor.

SIFF 2016 IBERO - AMERICAN COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE You'll Never Be Alone (Chile 2016), directed by Alex Anwandter JURY STATEMENT: The jury would like to award You'll Never Be Alone, the feature debut from Chilean writer - director Alex AnwandJURY PRIZE You'll Never Be Alone (Chile 2016), directed by Alex Anwandter JURY STATEMENT: The jury would like to award You'll Never Be Alone, the feature debut from Chilean writer - director Alex AnwandJURY STATEMENT: The jury would like to award You'll Never Be Alone, the feature debut from Chilean writer - director Alex Anwandjury would like to award You'll Never Be Alone, the feature debut from Chilean writer - director Alex Anwandter.

That also applies to Lee Chang - dong's masterful «Burning,» winner of the Fipresci jury's top prize and a favorite of many critics at the fest.

In addition to the jury prize the audience will be invited to pick the winner of the Audience Choice Awards.

Other prize winners include Lebohang Kganye and Simon Gush, South Africa (Prix Coup de Cœur du jury, prix de l'Institut français: $ 1,500); Aboubacar Traoré, Mali (International Organisation of La Francophonie Prize: $ 3,000); Em» Kal Eyongakpa, Cameroon (The Tierney Bamako Award: project development in collaboration with Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg); George Senga, DRC (Royal Air Maroc, Prix Léon l'Africain: 2 business class tickets to Marrakech including accommodation), Lucia Nhamo, Zimbabwe (Special prize, Lanchonete.org: residency in Sao Paolo).

A panel picks the artists, while an international jury choses the winner, who will receive a # 30,000 prize, announced next month.

COUNTRY: The United States AWARDED BY: The DeVos Foundation WHAT IT IS: Numerous prizes ranging from $ 20,000 to $ 200,000, with the top honor awarded by public vote AIM: To promote critical dialogue and collaboration throughout the year with the goal of decentralizing the traditional, top - down art competition ELIGIBILITY: Any artist 18 or older who is able to secure an exhibition venue in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to show a specially created work NUMBER OF WINNERS: 10 winners chosen by the public and six winners chosen by a jury of art world professWINNERS: 10 winners chosen by the public and six winners chosen by a jury of art world professwinners chosen by the public and six winners chosen by a jury of art world professwinners chosen by a jury of art world professionals.

As Andrea Büttner is announced as the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Laura McLean - Ferris talks to her and to Iwona Blazwick, Chair of the Jury, and Director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, where the prize is hosted.