Nate Parker’s directorial debut claimed the US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and corresponding audience award at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, capping off a barnstorming week for the slave revolt drama.
Last week The Birth Of A Nation sparked a bidding frenzy that resulted in the biggest on-site deal in the festival’s history as Fox Searchlight paid $17.5m for worldwide rights.
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s film about a rapping Afghan teenager opposed to arranged marriage, earned similar double honours as it won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary and audience awards.
The US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary award went to Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s Weiner, while the audience voted for Brian Oakes’ Jim: The James Foley Story.
The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic went to Elite Zexer’s Sand Story and the audience choice was Carlos del Castillo’s Between Land And Sea.
In other winners:
The Audience Award: NEXT
First Girl I Loved (USA), dir Kerem Sanga
The Directing Award: US Documentary
Roger Ross Williams, Life, Animated (USA)
The Directing Award: US Dramatic
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, Swiss Army Man (USA)
The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary
Michal Marczak, All These Sleepless Nights (Poland)
The Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Felix van Groeningen, Belgica (Belgium-France-Netherlands)
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic
Chad Hartigan, Morris From America (USA-Germany)
US Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing
Penny Lane and Thom Stylinski, NUTS! (USA)
US Documentary Special Jury Award for For Social Impact Filmmaking
Trapped (USA), dir Dawn Porter
US Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing
Kate Plays Christine (USA), dir Robert Greene
US Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking
The Bad Kids (USA), dirs Keith Fulton, Lou Pepe
US Dramatic Special Jury Award
As You Are (USA), dir Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance
Joe Seo, Spa Night (USA)
US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance
Melanie Lynskey, The Intervention (USA)
Craig Robinson, Morris From America (USA)
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Debut Feature
Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel, When Two Worlds Collide (Peru)
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Pieter-Jan De Pue, The Land Of The Enlightened (Belgium)
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing
Mako Kamitsuna and John Maringouin, We Are X (UK-USA-Japan)
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting was presented by Fernanda Solórzano to:
Vicky Hernandéz and Manolo Cruz in Between Sea and Land (Colombia)
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting
Ana Katz and Inés Bortagaray in Mi Amiga del Parque ( Argentina, Uruguay)
A World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision and Design was presented by Fernanda Solórzano to: Agnieszka Smoczyńska for The Lure (Poland)
The following awards were presented at separate ceremonies at the festival:
SHORT FILM AWARDS
Short Film Grand Jury Prize
Thunder Road (USA), dir Jim Cummings
Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction
The Procedure (USA), dir Calvin Lee Reeder
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction
Maman(s) (France), dir Maïmouna Doucouré
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction
Bacon & God’s Wrath (Canada), dir Sol Friedman)
Short Film Jury Award: Animation
Edmond (UK), dir Nina Gantz
Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance
Grace Glowicki, Her Friend Adam
Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction
Peacock (Czech Republic), dir Ondřej Hudeček,
Global Filmmaking Awards
August (Cuba) dir, Armando Capo
Insha’ Allah (India), dir Geetu Mohandas
Sicilian Ghost Story (Italy), dirs. Antonio Piazza, Fabio Grassadonia
The Treasure (Morocco), dir Abdellah Taia
SLOAN SCIENCE IN FILM AWARDS
Embrace Of The Serpent (Colombia), dir Ciro Guerra.
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