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    Saturday, January 26, 2008
    Sundance winners
    Here are the winners for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival:

    Grand Jury Prizes:
    • U.S. Dramatic -- "Frozen River," directed by Courtney Hunt.
    • U.S. Documentary -- "Trouble the Water," directed Carl Deal and Tia Lessin.
    • World Cinema Dramatic -- "King of Ping Pong" (Sweden), directed by Jens Jonsson.
    • World Cinema Documentary -- "Man on Wire" (UK), directed by James Marsh

    Audience Awards:
    • U.S. Dramatic -- "The Wackness," directed by Jonathan Levine.
    • U.S. Documentary -- "Fields of Fuel," directed by Josh Tickell.
    • World Cinema Dramatic -- "Captain Abu Raed" (Jordan), directed by Amin Matalqa.
    • World Cinema Documentary -- "Man on Wire" (UK), directed by James Marsh

    Directing Awards:
    • U.S. Dramatic -- "Ballast," Lance Hammer
    • U.S. Documentary -- "American Teen," Nanette Burstein
    • World Cinema Dramatic -- "Mermaid" (Russia), Anna Melikyan.
    • World Cinema Documentary -- "Durakovo: Village of Fools" (France), Nino Kirtadze.

    Screenwriting Awards:
    • U.S. Dramatic (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award) -- "Sleep Dealer," Alex Rivera and David Riker.
    • World Cinema Dramatic -- "I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster" (France), Samuel Benchetrit.

    Documentary Editing Awards:
    • U.S. Documentary -- "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," Joe Bini
    • World Cinema Documentary -- "The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins" (New Zealand), Irena Dol.

    Cinematography Awards:
    • U.S. Dramatic -- "Ballast," Lol Crawley.
    • U.S. Documentary -- "Patti Smith: Dream of Life," Phillip Hunt and Steven Sebring.
    • World Cinema Dramatic -- "King of Ping Pong" (Sweden), Askild Vik Edvardsen.
    • World Cinema Documentary -- "Recycle" (Jordan), Mahmoud al Massad.
    Special Jury Prizes:
    • U.S. Dramatic -- Chusy Haney-Jardine, director of "Anywhere, U.S.A." for "spirit of independence"; Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald and Brad William Henke, the stars of "Choke," for "work by an ensemble cast."
    • U.S. Documentary -- Lisa F. Jackson, director of "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo."
    • World Cinema Dramatic -- Ernesto Contreras, director of "Blue Eyelids" (Mexico)
    • World Cinema Documentary -- none
    Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking (tie): "My Olympic Summer" by Daniel Robin, and "Sikumi (On the Ice)" by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean.
    International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking: "Soft" (UK) by Simon Ellis.
    Honorable mentions -- "Aquarium" by Rob Meyer; "August 15th" (China) by Xuan Jiang; "La Corona (The Crown)" by Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega; "Oiran Lyrics" (Japan) by Ryosuke Ogawa; "Spider" (Australia) by Nash Edgerton; "Suspension" (Belgium) by Nicolas Provost; and "W." (Germany) by The Vikings.

    Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize (for a filmmaker who depicts science or technology, or includes a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character): "Sleep Dealer," Alex Rivera.

    Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award (for scripts to be produced): Alejandro Fernandez Almendras (Chile), for "Huacho"; Braden King (U.S.A.) for "Here"; Aiko Nagatsu (Japan) for "Apoptosis"; and Radu Jude (Romania) for "The Happiest Girl in the World."

    -- Sean P. Means

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