Sundance Film Festival Winners

Indies in the Rockies
Deb Mayo
29 January 2007

The illustrious ten-day Sundance Film Festival is has come to an end. As always, the event enthralled its audiences with some of the best films from around the globe. Not without controversy, the festival again scored high with all those who participated.

The Grand-jury prize for Best U.S. Drama went to Padre Nuestro;
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), earned the Grand-jury Award Saturday in the U.S. Documentary Competition;
Grace Is Gone won the Audience Award for favorite U.S. Drama as chosen by balloting among Sundance movie-goers;
the U.S. Audience Award for Documentaries went to Irene Taylor Brodsky's Hear and Now;
the Jury Prize for World Cinema was awarded to the Israeli film Sweet Mud;
the Danish film Enemies of Happiness won the Documentary Jury Prize for World Cinema; and
the Audience Award winners for world cinema were given to John Carney's Once and David Sington's British documentary In the Shadow of the Moon.

Among other Sundance honors - and SourceEcreative members - included Special jury prize for singularity of vision, U.S. drama: Chris Smith, director, The Pool. Editorial: Barry Poltermann.

Other member entries included:

Adrift in Manhattan
Produced by Washington Square Films

The Pool
Director Chris Smith / Sugar Film Production
Editor Barry Poltermann / LTB Films

Documentary Competition:

Girl 27
Editor Tessa Davis / Cosmo Street

World Cinema Competition: Dramatic

Ghosts
Director Nick Broomfield / Saville Productions

Premieres:

Chicago 10
Director Brett Morgen / Anonymous Content / Steam Films

Trade
Director Marco Kreuzpaintner / e+p Commercial Filmproduktion

Park City @ Midnight:

The Ten
Composer Robert Miller / RMI

American Spectrum: