PADRE NUESTRO, MANDA BALA, GRACE IS GONE Win Sundance Grand Prizes

By Wind(up)bird on 2007-01-27 21:10:55

Padre Nuestro (Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic) is about two immigrants who meet on the way to New York city, Manda Bala (Grand Jury Prize: Documentary) looks into harsh lives in Brazil. ?Grace is Gone, stars John Cusack as a father suffering after losing his ?wife in Iraq.

Sundance 2007 Award Winners
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
"Manda Bala" ("Send a Bullet"); directed by Jason Kohn

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
"Padre Nuestro"; directed by Christopher Zalla

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary
"Enemies of Happiness" ("Vores Lykkes Fjender"); directed by Eva Mulvad and Anja Al Erhayem

World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic
"Sweet Mud" ("Adama Meshugaat"); directed by Dror Shaul

Audience Award: Documentary
"Hear and Now"; directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky

Audience Award: Dramatic "Grace is Gone"; directed by James C. Strouse

World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary
"In the Shadow of the Moon"; directed by David Sington

World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic
"Once"; directed by John Carney

Directing Award: Documentary
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for "War/Dance"

Directing Award: Dramatic
Jeffrey Blitz for "Rocket Science"

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary
Heloisa Passos for "Manda Bala" ("Send a Bullet")

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic
Benoit Debie for "Joshua"

Documentary Editing Award
Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillian, Michael Schweitzer for "Nanking"

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
James C. Strouse for "Grace is Gone"

Documentary Jury: Special Jury Prize
"No End in Sight"; directed by Charles Furguson

Special Jury Prizes for Acting
Jess Weixler in "Teeth," Tamara Podemski in "Four Sheets to the Wind"

Special Jury Prize for Singularity of Vision
Chris Smith for "The Pool"

World Cinema Competition Jury: Special Jury Prize
"Hot House"; directed by Shimon Dotan

World Cinema Dramatic Competition Jury: Special Jury Prize
"The Legacy" ("L'Heritahe"); directed by Gela Babluani and Temur Babluani

Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking
"Everything Will Be OK"; directed by Don Hertzfeldt

Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking
"The Tube With a Hat"; directed by Radu Jude

Shorts Jury Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking
"Death to the Tinman"; directed by Ray Tintori
"The Fighting Cholitas"; directed by Mariam Jobrani
"Men Understand Each Other Better" ("Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand"); directed by Marjan Alizadeh
"Mododrom"; directed by Joerg Wagner
"Spitfire 944"; directed by William Lorton
"t.o.m."; directed by Tom Brown and Daniel Gray

Shorts Jury: Special Jury Prize
"Freeheld"; directed by Cynthia Wade
Alfred P. Sloan Prize
"Dark Matter"; directed by Chen Shi-Zhen

Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award
Lucia Cedron for "Agnus Dei"
Caran Hartsfield for "Bury Me Standing"
Tomoko Kana for "Two By The River"
Dagur Kari for "The Good Heart"

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