The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented by Rose McGowan to: Cast: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Mark Boone Jr. After witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, Nat devises a plan to lead his people to freedom. (Director and screenwriter: Nate Parker) - Set against the antebellum South, this story follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. Dramatic, Presented by Acura was presented by Matt Ross to: The Birth of a Nation / U.S.A. Seen through the lens of his close childhood friend, Jim: The James Foley Story moves from adrenaline-fueled front lines and devastated neighborhoods of Syria into the hands of ISIS. (Director: Brian Oakes) - The public execution of American conflict journalist James Foley captured the world’s attention, but he was more than just a man in an orange jumpsuit. Documentary, Presented by Acura was presented by Matt Ross to: Jim: The James Foley Story / U.S.A. Cast: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal-Asfour, Hitham Omari, Khadija Alakel, Jalal Masrwa. The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Apichatpong Weerasethakul to: Sand Storm / Israel (Director and screenwriter: Elite Zexer) - When their entire lives are shattered, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way. She finds out that her family plans to sell her to an unknown husband for $9,000. The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Asif Kapadia to: Sonita / Germany, Iran, Switzerland (Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami) - If 18-year-old Sonita had a say, Michael Jackson and Rihanna would be her parents and she’d be a rapper who tells the story of Afghan women and their fate as child brides. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Franklin Leonard to: The Birth of a Nation / U.S.A. (Directors: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg) - With unrestricted access to Anthony Weiner’s New York City mayoral campaign, this film reveals the human story behind the scenes of a high-profile political scandal as it unfolds, and offers an unfiltered look at how much today’s politics is driven by an appetite for spectacle. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Louis Psihoyos to: Weiner / U.S.A. (Cummings has been videoblogging his Sundance experience here at Filmmaker.)įrom the press release, a complete selection of the Sundance winners follows. The Best Short Film Award went to Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road. ![]() ( Swiss Army Man was bought by A24 during the festival.) “Sundance, our country’s premiere launchpad for independent cinema, should be a place where a film that zags as aggressively as this one does is embraced,” he wrote. Writing in Filmmaker, Daniel Schoenbrun hailed the film’s countercultural verve and shamed closed-minded, industry-kowtowing online critics. But, by mid-fest, a counter argument for the film was building. A buddy movie about a man befriending a farting corpse, the film attracted viral attention for the walkouts at its premiere. Winning the Best Director prize was the directing team of The Daniels, Filmmaker 25 New Faces this year and the directors of one of the festival’s most controversial titles, Swiss Army Man. And the legacy of that still lives with us.” And, heading into the festival, Weiner was the most-buzzed documentary due to the presence on-screen of Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, one of presidential candidate Hilary Clinton’s top aides. You can watch this film and see there are systems that were in place that were corrupt and corrupted people. Said Turner at the film’s Q&A, “I made this film for one reason - in the hope of creating change agents. With its record-breaking, $17.5 million sale to Fox Searchlight, The Birth of a Nation had dominated conversation at the festival earlier in the week. Josh Kriegman and Elye Sternberg’s Weiner, a documentary about beleaguered NYC mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, scored the U.S. Grand Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award last night at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival closing awards ceremony. The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker’s transporting historical drama about Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion, won the U.S. ![]() ![]() Sundance Film Festival 2016, The Birth of a Nation, Weiner
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