2005 Sundance Winners

Darren Burrows in Forty Shades of Blue. Photo courtesy of FSOB LLC.

Forty Shades of Blue, a love triangle involving a country singer (Rip Torn), the Russian immigrant with whom he lives (Dina Korzun), and the singer’s estranged son (Darren Burrows) won the best American fiction film award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Ira Sachs directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Rohatyn.
The best American documentary award went to Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight, which explores decades of American war-making through a social, political, economic, and ideological prism. (The director’s brother, Andrew Jarecki, won the same award in 2003 for Capturing the Friedmans.)
The World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize went to Zezé Gamboa’s O Herói / The Hero, the story [...]

by Andre Soares | January 30, 2005   
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