Sebastián Hoffman, and J. Chavez Montes from Mexico, Alvaro Gago from Spain, and Valeria Bertucelli from Argentina; Awarded
By Leopoldo Soto
"Sundance" is as personal as the name of the character that Redford himself played in "Buctch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid" (George Roy Hill, 1969) as well as the tribute paid to screenwriter Waldo Salt, who wrote the screenplay for " Midnight cowboy "(1969), in which Redford also participated. It is also a recognition of one of those persecuted during McCarthyism, accused of communism; as Dalton Trumbo (Johnny took his rifle) Joseph Losey (The boy with Green hair) among others of the so-called "Hollywood ten". It praises to the festival that the prize of script takes the name "Waldo Salt".
The festival was born in 1978, as "U.S. Film Festival, shortly thereafter, Sundance Institute assumed creative control in 1984; from the 1985 edition it would begin to bear the name Sundance Film Festival, under the direction of Tony Safford.
It is currently the most important independent film festival of E.U.
The festival that year included the screening of titles like "The Falcon and the Snowman", "The Killing Fields", Blood Simple ", the debut of the Coen brothers," and Stranger Than Paradise.
Over the years, films like "Hannah and Her Sisters" by Woody Allen, "Hairspray" (which years later would be re-turned in Hollywood), Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Night on Earth, the Mexican "Como agua para chocolate" have been presented , "Four Weddings and a Funeral", the Cuban "Strawberry and Chocolate", the Franco-Brazilian "Central do Brasil", "The Opposite of Sex", "The Blair Witch Project", "The Virgin Suicides", "American Psycho "," Donnie Darko "," Memento "and" Little Miss Sunshine ", among others.
SUNDANCE 2018
The festival awards that were held from January 22 to 28, under the cold of the Utah mountains are divided into two categories: E.U. and International; at the same time in documentary and Drama (fiction). In the section E.U. was awarded "The Miseducation of Cameron Post," drama about gay conversion therapy by director Desiree Akhavan, played by American actress Chloë Grace. Chloe, was recognized by the public at its world premiere; is the story of a teenager who is forced to undergo therapy after being discovered having sex with a school graduation queen. "On behalf of the entire 'Cameron Post' team we want to dedicate this award to the survivors of the LGTB community for conversion therapy," said Moretz, in a recorded message that could not be reproduced due to technical errors. The Documentary Prize of E.U. it was for "Kailash" by Derek Doneen, About the Nobel Prize winner, Kailash Satyarth who enacted a crusade to end child slavery. The prize of the audience for the best film of E.U. it was taken by "Burden", by Andrew Heckler. The award for the best documentary director of E.U. Alexandria Bombach took it for "On Her Shoulders," a portrait of a Yazidi girl who survived sexual slavery at the hands of the Islamic State group, while the audience award in this category was taken by "The Sentence.""Butterflies" won the grand jury award for best international film while "Of Fathers and Sons," on the jihadist radicalization in the home, by the celebrated Syrian filmmaker Talal Derki, won in the category of international documentary. The best short film, selected among the projected 69, was "Matria" by Alvaro Gago, a work that narrates the daily life of a woman, with a precarious job and little communication with her husband, who takes refuge in the relationship that unites him to his daughter and her granddaughter. "Mudbound", by Dee Rees, who took Netflix for $ 12.5 million at last year's festival, has Oscar nominations for best adapted screenplay, best supporting actress, best cinematography and best original song.
AWARDS
U.S. DRAMA
Grand Jury Prize: "The Miseducation of Cameron Post"
Audience Award: "Burden"
Direction: Sara Colangelo, "The Kindergarten Teacher"
Screenwriting Award Waldo Salt: Christina Choe, "Nancy"
Special jury prize for the first outstanding presentation: Reinaldo Marcus Green, "Monsters and Men".
Special jury prize for excellence in realization: Reed Morano, "I Think We're Alone Now"
Special jury prize in acting: Benjamin Dickey, "Blaze"
U.S. DOCUMENTARY
Grand Jury Prize: "Kailash"
Audience Award: "The Sentence"
Address: Alexandria Bombach, "On Her Shoulders"
Special prize of the jury of social impact: "Crime + Punishment"
Special jury prize for creative vision: "Hale County This Morning, This Evening"
Special jury prize for storytelling: "Three Identical Strangers".
Special jury prize for the first successful performance: "Minding the Gap"
Next Prize: "Night Comes On" (United States), by Jordana Spiro; photographed by the Mexican Hatuey Viveros.
INTERNATIONAL FILM DRAMA
Grand Jury Prize: "Butterflies"
Audience Award: "The Guilty"
Direction: Isold Uggadottir, "And Breathe Normally"
Special jury for acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, from Argentina, "The Queen of Fear"
Special jury prize for script: Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastian Hofmann, "Timeshare"
Special jury prize for joint performance: "Dead Pigs".
The Mexican "Night On Fire", by Tatiana Huezo, won one of the awards from the Sundance Film Institute in support of independent films around the world. (Parallel Prize)
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY
Grand Jury Prize: "Of Fathers and Sons"
Audience Award: "This is Home"
Direction: Sandi Tan, "Shirkers"
Special jury prize for masterful narration: Steven Loveridge, "M.I.A."
Special edition jury prize: "Our New President"
Special prize of the photography jury: Maxim Arbugaev, Peter Indergand "Genesis 2.0"
SHORT
"Matria" by Alvaro Gao, Spain