Sentences with phrase «special jury prize for»

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.

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

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

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.

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

The jurors — filmmaker Emily Yoshida, film critic Justin Chang, and IMDb founder Col Needham — also singled out director Carly Stone's comedy «The New Romantic,» about a college girl who starts dating older men, and presented a special jury prize for writing to Nijla Mu» min's «Jinn,» about a 17 - year - old girl whose mother suddenly converts to Islam.

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.

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.

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 for its ensemble also took home the screenplay trophy.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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

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 crime thriller premiered earlier this year at the SXSW Film Festival where it was awarded the Special Jury Recognition prize for Breakthrough Performance for Freedson - Jackson; take a look below...

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.

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...

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

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).

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

Scriptwriting Award (and a cash prize for $ 1000) for Syeed's script, and a Special Jury Prize for Best Duo for the performances in the film of Barkhad Abdirahman and Ayla the dog.

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

A Mermaid Tale The tale of two mermaids who come ashore to work as nightclub performers, the ambitious first effort captured a World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision and Design for director Agnieszka Smoczyńska to go along with the Best Debut Feature prize she won at her native Poland's Gdynia Film Festival when the film made its world premiere in September.

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.

Among his other credits are two Sundance alums: he was an associate producer for ON THE ROPES (1999, special jury prize) and a producer for WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE (2009).

In 2004, Gargash received first prize in the Emirates Film Festival, as well as Ibdaa Special Jury Award for her movie titled, Wet Tiles.