{"id":1315,"date":"2008-01-27T17:39:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T16:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/27\/sundance-2008-winners\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T06:29:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:29:30","slug":"sundance-2008-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/01\/27\/sundance-2008-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance 2008: Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundance.org\/festival\/\" title=\"Sundance FF 2008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/copy-of-sundance-ff-logo.JPG\" alt=\"Sundance FF 2008\" title=\"Sundance FF 2008\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Here are the winners of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundance.org\/festival\">Sundance Film Festival<\/a>:<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>AMERICAN CINEMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grand Jury Dramatic: Frozen River<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David Riker<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Directing Award: Lance Hammer, Ballast<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Special Jury Prize for \u201cthe Spirit of Independent Cinema\u201d: Chusy Haney<\/p>\n<p>Jardine for Anywhere, USA<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Special Jury Prize for \u201cWork by an Ensemble Cast\u201d: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly MacDonald and Brad Henke for Choke<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Cinematography Award: Ballast, Lol Crawley<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Trouble the Water<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Audience Award: Fields of Fuel<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Directing Award: Nanette Burnstein, American Teen<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Special Jury Prize: The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Cinematography Award: Patti Smith: Dream of Life<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Editing Award: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Joe Bini<\/p>\n<p><strong>WORLD CINEMA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Documentary Jury Prize: Man on Wire<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Audience Award: Man on Wire<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Cinematography Award: Mahmoud al Massad, Recycle<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Editing Award: Irena Dol, The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins<\/p>\n<p>Documentary Directing Award: Nino Kirtadze for Durakovo: Village of Fools<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Jury Prize: The King of Ping Pong<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Cinematography Award: Askilld Vik Edvardsen, King of Ping Pong<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Screenwriting: Samuel Benchetrit, I Always Wanted to be a Gangster<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Directing: Anna Melikyan, Mermaid<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Audience Award: Captain abu Raed<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHORTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>International Jury Prize: Soft<\/p>\n<p>Jury Prize: My Olympic Summer and Sikumi<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundance.org\/festival\">Official site for Sundance<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/index.asp?layout=festivals&amp;jump=story&amp;id=2470&amp;articleid=VR1117979659\">Variety article on whether blogs and the Internet influence buyers at Sundance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the winners of this year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival: AMERICAN CINEMA Grand Jury Dramatic: Frozen River Dramatic Audience Award: The Wackness Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera, David Riker Dramatic Directing Award: Lance Hammer, Ballast Dramatic Special Jury Prize for \u201cthe Spirit of Independent Cinema\u201d: Chusy Haney Jardine for Anywhere, USA Dramatic Special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}