Sundance Winners
Filmmaker Magazine has an efficient rundown of the winners at this year's Sundance:
The dramatic Grand Jury prize went to Debra Granik's Winter's Bone (pictured), which was picked up by Roadside Attractions earlier in the day. Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's look at a platoon stationed in Afghanistan, Restrepo, won the Grand Jury doc prize.
Josh Radnor's relationship dramedy happythankyoumoreplease took the dramatic audience award, and Davis Guggenheim's Waiting For Superman, which was the first big acquisition of the fest, won the documentary audience award.
And winning the first ever best of the NEXT films was Todd Barnes & Brad Barnes's Homewrecker.
Full list of winners at the link. The consensus seems to be that this was a good year for festgoers and for filmmakers. Probably because of the commercial strength of last year's Precious and Paranormal Activity, there were several 7-figure sales. Hollywood Reporter counts 10 total sales, same as last year, expects more deals will be made into next week.
SEE ALSO:
Metacritic's in depth Sundance 2010 recap
posted by J. Ott @ 2/01/2010 07:26:00 AM
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we submitted our feature film "ill square" to sundance and received an automated reply, saying we didn't make the cut. no feedback or reasons, nothing. i suppose there's far too many submissions for a sincere explanation or perhaps it was far too low budget for them. we shot it on a canon hv20, using natural light sources, in sort of a dogmatic fashion. not to mention the abstract editing and narrative is no easy catch. we believe it's a film that will challenge people to think and hopefully rethink the formula a bit. for anyone interested in our film, feel free to pay us a visit at www.illsquare.com or chat with us at facebook.com/illsquare. we'd love to hear from you, any feedback is well appreciated.
aaron
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