Dramatic Audience Award: “The Birth of a Nation” World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: “Sonita” World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: “Sand Storm” Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: “The Birth of a Nation”
The ceremony took place at the Basin Recreation Field House in Park City and was hosted by New Zealand writer/actor/director Taika Waititi. Joe Seo won a breakthrough performance award for “Spa Night.”
films, and Vicky Hernandez and Manolo Cruz for “Between Sea and Land” in the world cinema field. Performance awards were voted to Melanie Lynskey and Craig Robinson for “The Intervention” and “Morris From America” among U.S.
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directing honors went to Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan for their so-called “farting corpse movie” with Daniel Radcliffe, “Swiss Army Man,” and to Roger Ross Williams for the documentary “Life, Animated.” World cinema directing awards went to Felix van Groeningen for “Belgica” and Michael Marczak for “All These Sleepless Nights.”Īlso Read: Daniel Radcliffe's Farting Corpse Movie 'Swiss Army Man' Sells to A24 In addition to “The Birth of a Nation,” audience awards went to “Between Land and Sea” in the dramatic categories, and “Jim: The James Foley Story” and “Sonita” in the documentary categories. The grand jury prize for documentary went to “Weiner,” Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s film about disgraced politician Anthony Weiner. Over the last few years, Sundance winners have included the Oscar Best Picture nominees “Whiplash,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Winter’s Bone” and “Precious,” as well as “Fruitvale Station,” “The Sessions” and last year’s jury and audience winner, “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.”Īlso Read: Inside Historic Sundance Bidding War for 'Birth of a Nation': Why Netflix Offered More But Still Lost It ignited a bidding war at Sundance, and was sold to Fox Searchlight for $17.5 million, less than the $20 million offered by Neflix. The film, which deals with the real-life rebellion led by Nat Turner, debuted to multiple standing ovations at Sundance only days after the Motion Picture Academy changed its voting rules in response to the #OscarsSoWhite furor. It will no doubt be discussed just as much as F*ck for Forest, Marczak’s last effort, which had many asking if he was a genius or a charlatan.Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation,” the drama about a slave revolt that became the sensation of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has won the festival’s audience and jury prizes. Warsaw’s tourism industry officials will be over the moon too, as the film makes the Polish city look not only like a riot but a beautiful gem in eastern Europe’s crown.
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There’s not much of a storyline to grab hold of here: the film is essentially a series of journal entries, but one which shows the ephemeral nature of youthful abandon and the value of the adage “a weekend wasted is never a weekend wasted”. It’d be easy to dismiss as jaded hipsterism but the film isn’t scared to laugh at itself and the unsustainable lifestyle its protagonists are clinging to.
Parties abound, narcotics are plentiful and if you’ve got it in you, you can make your own fun – like when Krzysztof decides to dress as a pink bunny while singing karaoke and complimenting passersby. Marczak builds an image of a city where there’s never really a dull moment. Their relationship is tested when Krzysztof starts seeing Michał’s ex-girlfriend Eva, but falling out with each other seems to be too uncool for them even to consider. There’s no hugging or learning though, as the pair run around Warsaw jumping in front of traffic, hoovering up drugs and generally having a laugh. Much like the Proustian fiction of Karl Ove Knausgaard, this little snippet of Krzysztof and Michał’s life builds up to tell some truths about youth, partying and friendship. A lot of the talk is inane – have you ever considered how long you spend watching fireworks over the course of your lifetime? – but as the film goes on there’s a cumulative effect. It’s reminiscent of Saam Farahmand’s rockumentary about Soulwax, Part of the Weekend Never Dies, with wigged-out profound conversations taking place at seemingly every hip club and afterparty in Warsaw. Art school friends Krzysztof and Michał share theories, girlfriends and lots of cigarettes as they journey through a year or so of life.
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