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Sundance Film Fest Winners Announced
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by Jarrett Martineau | January 28, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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This year's 2008 Sundance Film Festival has drawn to a close and the winners have just been announced. Although a mumblecore feature took home the audience prize, I'm personally excited to check out the Patti Smith doc 'Dream of Life' - and anything entitled 'King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen) is bound to be good.
Leading this year’s awards were Courtney Hunt’s “Frozen River”, a drama about women helping illegal aliens enter the U.S., and Jonathan Levine’s “The Wackness”, a comedy about a teenage dope dealer in mid-’90’s New York. “Frozen River” took hope the grand jury prize, while “The Wackness” snagged the audience prize.
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Trouble the WaterGrand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Frozen River
Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - Man on Wire
Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
Audience Award: Documentary - Fields of Fuel
Audience Award: Dramatic - The Wackness
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Man on Wire
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Captain Abu Raed
Directing Award: Documentary - American Teen
Directing Award: Dramatic - Ballast
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Durakovo: The Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Mermaid (Rusalka)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Sleep Dealer
World Cinema Screenwriting Award - I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (J’ai Toujours Rêvé d’�tre un Gangster)
Documentary Editing Award - Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Patti Smith: Dream of Life
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Ballast
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Recycle
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Blue Eyelids (Párpados Azules)
Special Jury Prize: Documentary - The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, The Spirit of Independence - Anywhere, USA
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, Work by an Ensemble Cast - Choke
Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - My Olympic Summer
Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Sikumi (On the Ice)
International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Soft
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Aquarium
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - August 15th
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - La Corona (The Crown)
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Oiran Lyrics
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Spider
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Suspension
Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - W.
2008 Alfred P. Sloan Prize -
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at 14:20 on January 28th, 2008
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at 15:50 on January 28th, 2008
Sundance 2008 trailer. Snapped before the screening of the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic winner, Frozen River. I was there representing Tampa Theatre, a 1926 movie palace that hosts indie and classic films, concerts, education programs and special events. Tampa Theatre was chosen by LIFE Magazine as one of "America's 21 Wonders" and is the most wondrous theater on the planet. www.tampatheatre.org
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at 15:55 on January 28th, 2008
Rappers featured in the movie Slingshot Hip Hop answered questions and performed after a screening of the movie.
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at 16:58 on January 28th, 2008
taken saturday, january 19 on main street, park city.
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at 18:12 on January 28th, 2008
the night life in park city during sundance is taken over by la's a-list hipsters. guest list only please. an interesting scene if you're not from la and just the same old, same old in the snow if you're an la veteran.
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at 23:19 on January 28th, 2008
Reserved seats for Marianna Palka, Director of "Good Dick"
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at 13:28 on January 29th, 2008
IFC News host Matt Singer got a chance to talk to Reece Thompson and Mischa Barton, who were at Sundance to promote "Assassination of a High School President."
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at 10:33 on February 1st, 2008
The New Fronteir space was one a place of refreshing innovation --as well as a sea of relative tranquility amidst the pandemonium of the festival.
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