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Sundance Announces Top Prizes!

The Sundance Film Festival announced the winners of their 2007 Jury and Audience prizes at the Closing Awards Ceremony in Park City, Utah.

The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, considered the top prize of the festival, went to Christopher Zalla's Padre Nuestro, while the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary went to Jason Kohn's Manda Bala (Send a Bullet). In the World Cinema categories, Jury Prizes went to Enemies of Happiness for documentary and Sweet Mud for dramatic.

The Audience Awards in the four categories went to:

Dramatic: James C. Strouse's Grace is Gone (previously reported as having won the Jury Prize and the first festival sale to The Weinstein Company)

Documentary: Irene Taylor Brodsky's Hear and Now

World Cinema Dramatic: John Carney's Once (I called this winner shortly after seeing the movie!)

World Cinema Documentary: David Sington's In the Shadow of the Moon (Picked up for released by THINKFIlm a few days ago)

Directing Awards went to Sean and Andrea Nix Fine for War/Dance (doc) and Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science (dramatic), while Cinematography Awards went to Manda Bala (doc) and Joshua (dramatic), and the documentary Nanking received an award for Editing.

You can download a PDF listing all of the winners including the Special Jury Prizes by clicking here.


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