”Sundance - 2019”. Winners
The 35th Annual Sundance Film Festival is ending in Park City, Utah. This year, the organizers of the world's premier independent film show received a record 14,259 applications. 112 films from 33 countries of the world were selected for the main competition programs. Forty-five of them were filmed by budding directors.Sundance is a great opportunity for the creators of humble independent films to make a name for themselves and make great deals with distributors. This year, representatives of the Amazon online service showed the greatest activity at the festival. On the third day of the screening, the streaming giant broke the Sundance record by paying $ 13 million for the rights to the American distribution of the dramedy Late Night. Within a few days, this figure was broken when New Line studio laid out $ 15 million for the picture "Blinded by the Light". Nevertheless, Amazon retained the title of the most generous distributor. According to insiders, the total amount of transactions involving the streaming service has exceeded $ 50 million. The jury of the festival included actress Tessa Thompson, screenwriter Phyllis Nage and director Damien Chazelle, who won the Sundance Grand Prix with the music tape "Obsession". This year, the main award was won by the drama "Pardon" about the head of a maximum security prison who had to reconsider her views on the death penalty. The winners of the Sundance Festival in the main categories are: Best American Drama Film - Pardon - Director Chinonye Chukwu  Best American Drama Director - Joe Talbot ("The Last Black Man in San Francisco") Waldo Salt Award for Best Screenplay in an American Drama Film - Pippa Bianco (Online) American Drama Audience Award - Brittany Runs the Marathon - directed by Paul Downes Colaiso Best Foreign Drama Film - "Souvenir: Part 1" - directed by Joanna Hogg  Best Director of a Foreign Drama Film - Lucia Garibaldi (Sharks) Audience Award in the Foreign Drama Film category - Queen (directed by May el-Tuhi) Best American Documentary - One Child Nation, directed by Nanfu Wang and Zhang Lynn.  Best American Documentary Director - Stephen Bognar & Julia Reichert (American Factory) American Documentary Audience Award - Shake the Chamber, directed by Rachel Lears Best Foreign Documentary Film - "Honey Land" (directed by Lubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska)  Best Foreign Documentary Film Director - Mads Bruegger (Hammarskjold's Unsolved Case) Audience Award in the Foreign Documentary Category - Sea of Shadows (directed by Richard Ladkani) Audience Award NEXT - Scouts (directors Alex Rivera and Christina Ibarra)  Best Short Film - Aziza (directed by Sudad Kaadan) The Topic of Article: ”Sundance - 2019”. Winners. |
