Tia Lessen and Carl Deal's TROUBLE THE WATER, the story of Hurricane Katrina survivors, and James Marsh's MAN ON WIRE, which recalls Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, were the top nonfiction prize winners at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, with TROUBLE winning the Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize and MAN ON WIRE taking the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the closing award ceremony Saturday night.
MAN ON WIRE also won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary category, while FIELDS OF FUEL took the Documentary Audience Award.
Nanette Burstein received the Documentary Directing prize for AMERICAN TEEN. In the World Cinema competition, the winner was Nino Kirtadze for DURAKOVO: VILLAGE OF FOOLS.
indieWIRE has the full winners (including those in the narrative categories). Here are the rest of the winners for documentary:
Documentary Editing Award
Joe Bini for ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award
Irena Dol for THE ART STAR AND THE SUDANESE TWINS
Documentary Cinematography Award
Phillip Hunt and Steven Sebring for PATTI SMITH DREAM OF LIFE
World Cinema Documentary Cinematography Award
al Massad for RECYCLE
Special Jury Prize: Documentary
GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO directed by Lisa F. Jackson
Can anyone confirm or deny the rumor that Salim Baba did not not get an honorable mention at Sundance due to an article critical of the film that broke in a Calcutta newspaper just days before? I was surprised it was overlooked after its Oscar nomination. It is nicely shot, although it is edited too long. The second half drags. Does the doc jury vote on shorts at Sundance or is it a shorts jury?
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Posted by: LD | January 28, 2008 at 10:23 AM