LOS ANGELES. The independent film festival Sundance (Park City, Utah) presented their awards, which recognized the film “The Birth of a Nation”.
With the award for best dramatic film and the American prize awarded by the public in that category, The Birth of a Nation was one of the big winners of this year.
The directed film starring, written and produced by the black artist Nate Parker tells the story of Nat Turner, a former slave who leading a liberation movement in 1831 and caused a backlash from whites. Over the film festival could not be more successful as this week it emerged that the studio Fox Searchlight acquired the distribution rights for The Birth of a Nation for a record 17.5 million.
Meanwhile, the award for best documentary went to the American film Weiner , a film of Josh Kriegman following steps political Anthony Weiner . In the international categories, the fiction film Sand Storm , which is the world of family and traditions in Israel, and the documentary Sonita (Germany, Iran and Switzerland) on an Iranian rapper, they were the winners.
The Latino film also had its place in the awards ceremony and the Colombian film Between Sea and Land Carlos del Castillo , received the award of the public to the best international fiction film and the Jury Prize for his actors Vicky Hernández and Manolo Cruz thanks a tale about a mother and her sick child.
Also, the film co-produced by Uruguay and Argentina My Friend Park , which went Ana Katz and wrote next to Inés Bortagaray , won the international award for best screenplay for a story about motherhood. For its part, the Peruvian film When Two Worlds Collide , the filmmakers Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel , received the award for best documentary debut international.
Completed the list of recognized Latino films in Sundance The embrace of the serpent , Colombian tape Ciro Guerra that received the Alfred P. Sloan prize for films that deal with the science, and the Cuban August Armando Capo , which was awarded a prize from the Institute Sundance Film in support of independent film worldwide.
Founded in 1981 by Robert Redford , the Sundance Film Festival has discovered over years of independent gems like Beasts of the Southern Wild , Fruitvale Station , Blackfish , Super Size Me , Little Miss Sunshine , Sex, Lies and Videotape , Reservoir Dogs , Precious or Napoleon Dynamite . In this year 12,793 jobs were submitted, which were chosen for the competition to 123 films from 37 countries.
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