2006 Sundance Winners

The 2006 Sundance award winners have been announced.
The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was given to Christopher Quinn’s God Grew Tired of Us (right), which chronicles the experiences of three young Sudanese refugees trying to adjust to life in the U.S.
The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Quinceañera (above, with Jesse Garcia), written and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, who had previously collaborated on The Fluffer. Quinceañera revolves around a group of disaffected teenagers whose mostly Hispanic Los Angeles neighborhood becomes increasingly gentrified.
Juan Carlos Rulfo’s In the Pit, a Mexican documentary about the daily lives of those working on the second deck of Mexico City’s Periferico freeway, won the World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary. [...]

by Andre Soares | January 28, 2006   
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Sundance Awards 2006

2006 Sundance Film Festival Awards
2006 Sundance Film Festival: Park City, Utah, January 19-29, 2006
2006 Sundance Winners
 

Jesse Garcia, Emily Rios in Quinceañera
 

Dramatic Grand Jury Prize (U.S.): Quinceañera directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer
Documentary Grand Jury Prize(U.S.): God Grew Tired of Us directed by Christopher Quinn
World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: 13 Tzameti (France) directed by Géla Babluani
World Documentary Grand Jury Prize: In the Pit (Mexico) directed by Juan Carlos Rulfo
Director: Dito Montiel, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (U.S.)
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Hilary Brougher, Stephanie Daley
Documentary Director: James Longley, Iraq in Fragments (U.S.)
World Cinema Audience Award: No. 2 (New Zealand), directed by Toa Fraser
World Documentary Audience Award: De nadie (Mexico) directed by Tin Dirdamal
Audience Award (U.S. [...]

by Andre Soares | January 28, 2006   
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