Sentences with phrase «special jury prize»

I am happy that the SXSW Jury granted it a «special jury prize for political courage.»

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.

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!

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...

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang, directed by Óskar Santos (Spain) JURY STATEMENT: For being a funny, adventurous story about the importance of creativity in children's lives.

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

She recieved the Special jury prize of the Premio Aldo Fasolo 2017 for this presentation.

At Sundance, you received a special jury prize for your work in «Glassland.»

The former won the special jury prize and the audience prize (shared with the Brazilian Lavoura Arcaica [To the left of the father, Luiz Fernando Carvalho, 2001]-RRB-.

At Locarno 70, Jeremy Elphick spoke at length with director Valérie Massadian, whose latest film MILLA took home the festival's special jury prize.

A special jury prize was voted to Samira Makhmalbaf, the 23 - year - old Iranian director whose «At 5 O'Clock in the Afternoon» was about Afghan women who are free of the Taliban but not yet free of a restrictive patriarchal society.

The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin Film Festival.

This is just one facet that directors Frida Barkfors and Lasse Barkfors tackle when they examine Registered Sex Offenders — or at least a very specific group of them — in Pervert Park, their Sundance Special Jury prize - winning documentary.

As the Gotham's don't hand out any supporting actor honors, this year the acting committee awarded a special jury prize to the film's cast.

«Strong Island,» which won a special jury prize at Sundance last year where it premiered, tells the story of how Ford's family was affected by the April 1992 killing of his brother William, then a 24 - year - old teacher, by a white 19 - year - old mechanic.

Spotlight, which was previously awarded a Special Jury prize for its ensemble also took home the screenplay trophy.

A special jury prize will be given to a filmmaker from Latin America.

The film won a Special Jury prize at SXSW for the Breakthrough Performance of James Freedson - Jackson.

This first premiered at the SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the Special Jury prize for a Breakthrough Performance.

Spotlight, which was previously awarded a Special Jury prize...

It's been a subject of dispute ever since it won the special jury prize in Berlin in 1997, and I can't exactly quarrel with those who complain that it's sick or boring; I can understand how one could have these responses, even though I don't share them.

A special jury prize went to Mark Ruffalo's «Sympathy For Delicious.»

In the opening scene, an impressive twenty minute long - take, Marqués - Marcet establishes the comfortable rhythms and routines that couple Alex and Sergi (Natalia Tena and David Verdaguer, who won a special jury prize for their performances) have carved out in their small Barcelona flat.

Created and written by Vicki Madden (The Bill, Blood Brothers), directed by Rowan Woods (Little Fish, The Broken Shore) and produced by Madden and Vincent Sheehan (Animal Kingdom, Rover), it was an ambitious project which has already earned international applause and a special jury prize at a French festival when in premiered over there in April.

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.

A special jury prize was awarded to the ensemble cast of Dee Rees» Jim Crow epic «Mudbound,» a Netflix release.

His film «We Are X» won a special jury prize for editing.

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.

A special juried prize for the 70th anniversary of the festival went to Nicole Kidman, who thanked the audience via video message from Nashville.

(For what it's worth, Egoyan was a member of the Cannes jury that awarded Crash a special jury prize — despite the reported antipathy of head juror Francis Ford Coppola — and he's said to have lobbied strenuously on the film's behalf; Elias Koteas, who plays Vaughan, is a Canadian actor who's appeared in many of Egoyan's movies.)

Joris - Peyrafitte made waves when he directed, co-wrote, scored and acted in As You Are, a teen drama set in the 1990s that won the special jury prize at the 2016 Sundance Film.

Like his 2009 debut, «Samson & Delilah,» the new film, which won a special jury prize in Venice, finds Thornton expressing a palpable anger at the brutal mistreatment of his country's Aboriginal people, in a style that melds classical western filmmaking with studied art - film longueurs.

It won a special jury prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where it played in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, and is nominated for an Academy Award in the animated feature film category.

As for «Strong Island,» which won a special jury prize at Sundance last year, it charts Yance Ford's journey to reconnect with the officers and prosecutors involved in the case about his brother's killing and discover how the grand jury could have made its decision.

The film also received a special juried prize for its ensemble.

IFC Films has acquired US rights to Andrea Arnold's second feature Fish Tank following its world premiere in Cannes where it shared the special jury prize.

Case in point: Mia Hansen - Løve's remarkable sophomore feature «Father of My Children,» which impressed critics and won a special jury prize in the -LSB-...]

The film, which won a special jury prize at Sundance, charts Ford's journey to reconnect with the officers and prosecutors involved in his brother's case and discover how the grand jury could have made its decision.

The Red Turtle won a Special Jury prize in the festival's Un Certain Regard section.

But the young Wicklow actor has assuredly left the straitjacket of the summer blockbuster behind, winning acclaim - and a special jury prize - at the Sundance Movie Festival this week for his turn in the independent Irish feature Glassland.

The special jury prize was presented to — Femi Oguns MBE — founder of Identity School of Acting and Identity Agency Group.

With the backing of Film4, he directed his second short film Jonah, which won both the Special Jury prize and Best Short Film at the Commercial Film Producers of Europe and Shots Young Directors Awards.

Brick, a low - budget debut feature by writer - director Rian Johnson, won a special jury prize at last year's Sundance film festival for «originality of vision,» though that may say less about his movie than about what passes for originality in the movie business these days.

But Justin Simien, who had already done the impossible by refashioning his Sundance hit feature «Dear White People» (which nabbed him a special jury prize for breakthrough talent), into binge - worthy water - cooler TV, wasn't interested in retracing his steps.