”Sundance 2016”. Winners
The 32nd Annual Sundance Independent Film Festival is ending in Park City, Utah.The organizing committee of the festival received more than 12,000 applications, of which 123 full-length and short films from 37 countries of the world were selected for participation in the main competition program. Forty-eight of them were filmed by debutant directors. 16 films participated in the American feature film competition, and 12 films competed for the title of the best independent foreign drama. New Zealand actor and director Taika Waititi was the presenter of the awards ceremony. The winners of the Sundance Film Festival in 2016 are: Best American Dramatic Film - A Nation Is Born - Director Nate Parker  Best Director, American Drama - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Shinert ("The Pen Man") Special Jury Prize for Best Actor in an American Drama Film - Melanie Lynskey ("Intervention") and Craig Robinson ("Morris of America") American Drama Audience Award - The Birth of a Nation (directed by Nate Parker ) Best Foreign Drama Film - "Sandstorm" (Israel, director Elite Zekser)  Best Director of Foreign Drama Film - Felix Van Groenginen ("Belgium") Special Jury Prize for Best Actor in a Foreign Drama Film - Vicky Hernandez and Manolo Cruz ("Between Sea and Land") Audience Award in the Foreign Drama Film Category - Between Sea and Land (Colombia, directors Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo) Best American Documentary - Weiner, directed by Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman  Best American Documentary Director - Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated) American Documentary Audience Award - Jim: The Story of James Foley - directed by Brian Oakes Best Foreign Documentary Film - "Sonita" (Germany / Iran / Switzerland, director Roksareh Kaem Maghami)  Best Director of a Foreign Documentary Film - Michal Marczak (“All These Sleepless Nights”) Audience Award in the Foreign Documentary Category - Sonita (Germany / Iran / Switzerland, director Roksareh Kaem Maghami ) Best Short Film - Thunder Road - Director Jim Cummings  NEXT Audience Award - "The First Girl I Loved" (directed by Kerem Sanga) The Topic of Article: ”Sundance 2016”. Winners. |
