Sentences with phrase «with special jury»

Lucy Walker's Waste Land won the Target Documentary Feature award, with a Special Jury Prize awarded to Michael Pertnoy and Michael Kleiman's The Last Survivor.

We presented «Crime + Punishment» with a Special Jury Award for Social Impact and «Three Identical Strangers» with a Special Jury Award for Storytelling.

However, the nominating panel saw fit to honor the entire ensemble with a special Jury Award, so they had their cake and ate it, too.

«We recognize the restraint of filmmakers letting image and sound speak for itself,» the jury said in honoring Bill and Turner Ross with a special jury award for verite filmmaking.

Warwick Thornton (Australia) The sort of quiet, taken - for - granted movie that tends to disappear in the frenzy of an international festival competition (not this time, though — it returns from Venice with the Special Jury Prize in hand), Sweet Country is Thornton's follow - up to 2009's Camera d'Or - winner Samson and Delilah.

Her feature debut Dede was the other real stand - out of the East of the West section and was recognised with a Special Jury Award, continuing a great run for Georgia in the section, which was won last year by Rusudan Glurjidze's work of haunting poetry Skhvisi sakhli (House of Others).

The documentaries also fared well: Jacob Kornbluth's «Inequality for All» and Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson's «American Promise» came away with Special Jury Prizes, and Zachary Heinzerling won the directing award for «Cutie and the Boxer.»

Sure enough the film came away with the Special Jury Prize, losing out on the Palme d'Or to Michael Haneke's Love.

Teller is currently on the press circuit in America with co-star Shailene Woodley to promote James Ponsoldt's coming - of - age drama THE SPECTACULAR NOW which has been winning rave reviews since it premiered at Sundance in January and walked away with the Special Jury Prize for the two young actors.

Nominations are made by programmers at film festivals from around the world, with special juries convened to decide in some categories.

Not exact matches

Prosecutors proposed that the jury be presented with a special verdict form that would have revealed on which theory, if either, the jury convicted on.

The deal, which Republicans have painted as evidence of collusion between Clinton and Russia, made its way back into headlines in October, shortly before it emerged that a federal grand jury approved the first charges filed by special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.

President Bill Clinton, meanwhile, testified to a grand jury via video from the White House during special counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation into Clinton's investment in an unsuccessful land deal in Arkansas that expanded to include his extramarital relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Brennan became a family friend who often visited the home, where the 14 - year - old «was the subject of special attention from the priest, who persistently wrestled with the boy, rubbed his back and shoulders, and openly brought up sex talk,» according to the grand jury report.

The measures include long - sought bills such as raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18 and enhancing grand jury transparency as well as enshrining a special prosecutor for cases in which civilians die in encounters with police.

An adviser to the United Arab Emirates with ties to current and former aides to Trump is reportedly cooperating with the special counsel, Robert Mueller, and gave testimony last week to a grand jury.

He also proposed lifting some of the secrecy that surrounds the grand jury process, and the creation of a special monitor to investigate cases where a citizen dies after an encounter with a police officer, and the officer is not indicted.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — District Attorney Daniel Donovan has released the following statement after a special grand jury declined to indict Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in connection with Eric Garner's death:

A special grand jury has voted to indict several people in connection with the Nassau County district attorney's monthslong investigation into corruption in the Town of Oyster Bay, according to sources with knowledge of the case.

Cuomo has said he backs more transparency in the grand jury process as well as potentially appointing special prosecutors with deaths that involve police officers.

Steve Pigeon, the WNY political operative indicted by a special grand jury on nine counts of bribery and extortion, is answering the charges with a 1 1/2 - inch - thick sheaf of pre-trial motions filed by his defense attorneys this week in State Supreme Court.

State Sen. John Bonacic, the Republican who chairs the Senate's judiciary committee, took issue with language in the bill that would make an exemption in the state's grand jury secrecy laws to allow the special counsel to hand over usually confidential information to the governor «or his designee» as part of the recommendation for action.

After he took office and inherited DeAngelis's grand jury investigation, McNally had the option of seeking a special prosecutor to handle the matter, according to four attorneys familiar with the practice.

Working in remote places with simple tools and jury - rigged devices breeds a special kind of competence that can set a global - minded engineer apart.

IRB Barcelona has named Joan Font - Burgada (Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, 1977) winner of the 2018 IRB Barcelona Alumni of Excellence Award «for his important contributions to understand the development of cancer, in particular, why cancers evolve with mutations that are poorly immunogenic, and also for the identification of special hepatic reparative cells with low propensity to produce cancer,» states the report by the jury — a body formed by senior IRB Barcelona researchers with expertise across several fields of research.

Despite that somewhat mixed reaction from critics, the festival jury awarded Godard with a Special Palme d'Or for what Cate Blanchett described as «continually striving to define and redefine what cinema can be.»

The Underdog: Mudbound, which, despite favorable reception and other accolades (the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards and a special Gotham Jury Award for the film's ensemble), still must contend with the Netflix of it all.

She was a 2016 Sundance Feature Film Creative Producing Fellow with the film Monsters and Men, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature.

The jury also recognized co-writer Marni Jackson's contribution to Al Purdy Was Here with a Special Mention.

The coming - of - age film also earned the coveted Best Screenplay honor along with the Special Gotham Jury award and IFP Gotham Audience award.

Vinterberg came to worldwide attention by co-authoring the Dogme 95 manifesto along with the notorious Lars von Trier, and by winning the Special Jury Prize at Cannes with his 1998 Dogme film «The Celebration.»

Winner of the Directing Award Dramatic and Special Jury Prize for Vera Farmiga for Down to the Bone in (2004), and winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Winter's Bone (2010), this originally had Casey Affleck in the lead, but Ben Foster might be a better casting bet for a survivalist protective father with a complicated past and will be a perfect spotlight to launch a new career for the young co-lead kiwi thesp Thomasin McKenzie.

Alongside the jury awards, this year's festival honored actor Charlize Theron with a special tribute followed by a screening of her new film, Jason Reitman's «Tully,» and a Q&A with both actor and director.

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!

Yance Ford, whose cinematic memoir «Strong Island» received a special jury award for storytelling at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, was awarded with the emerging filmmaker award by veteran filmmaker Charles Burnett.

Mijke de Jong (Director / Writer, The Netherlands) has shown great social engagement in her work over the past 25 years: starting with her co-authored feature film debut, LOVE HURTS (1992), which won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno, through to her latest film, LAYLA M. (2016).

just picked up the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing with her co-writer Thom Stylinski.

Favorites of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition (Cohen, Blu - ray, DVD), winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, is a deadpan satire of modern life and social hypocrisy with characters, rich and poor alike, from a lively Paris suburb whose lives criss - cross and tangle with one another.

Dickson directed from a script he co-wrote with Micah Bloomberg, and the film won the Special Jury Award at the SXSW film festival.

Filmmaker Dawn Porter's Trapped, the abortion rights film that won Sundance Film Festival 2016 ′ s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking, is set to open theatrically on March 4, with subsequent broadcast dates in June on Independent Lens.

The filmmaker has only screened one film at Cannes, but it was a winner: her 2009 «Father of my Children» tied for a Special Jury Prize with Bahman Ghobadi's «No One Knows About Persian Cats.»

A US Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance was presented to Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, directed by Alison Klayman — Renowned Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has garnered international attention as much for his ambitious artwork as his political provocations and increasingly public clashes with the Chinese government.

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.

Special Jury Prize was awarded to B For Boy director Chika Anadu, who accepted the award with great excitement and a shout - out to winner Marques - Marce, proclaiming to the room that 10,000 KM was her favorite film of the festival.

Winner of Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award, THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS is an exuberant celebration of family that transforms into a thriller with colossal implications and proof that life is truly is stranger than fiction.

The film attracted The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow as an executive producer, and when Cartel Land premiered at Sundance this year, Heineman was acknowledged with an award for Best Documentary Direction and a Special Jury Award for Cinematography.

Awarded a Special Jury Prize at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival «for originality, for daring and for audacity», Crash was still sideswiped with controversy in many places for its graphic sex and disturbing violence.

After «Persepolis,» which won a Cannes Special Jury Prize, Satrapi went on to direct «Chicken With Plums» and «The Voices.»

,» a serious - minded comedy with musical elements that premiered to warm reviews in Cannes» Un Certain Regard section, where it earned a special mention from the Ecumenical Jury.

The IFP Gotham Awards were handed out at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City tonight, and A24's Moonlight was off to a good award - season start, taking home Best Feature and Best Screenplay to go with its previously announced special jury ensemble award.