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The BRM 2006 Sundance Journal: Entry #3

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A Look Back: Sundance Film Festival Jury and Audience Winners 1985 - present

Looking back at the more than two decades of the Sundance Film Festival, here's a complete list of the films that have won the coveted grand jury and audience awards at the United States' leading film festival. The list begins with the most recent winners and goes back all the way to the early days ...

"We Go Way Back" and "Empire in Africa" and "Sasquatch" Among Top Slamdance Film Festival Winners

The Slamdance Film Festival unveiled its winners Friday night with Lynn Shelton's "We Go Way Back," receiving the fest's Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature, and "Empire In Africa," directed by Philippe Diaz, taking the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary. Slamdance announced winners in ov...

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PARK CITY BIZ & BUZZ DAILY: "Man Push Cart" Deal, "Stay" Pact, "Quinceneara", "Wristcutters" and Mor

Sundance Film Festival director Geoff Gilmore praised Ramin Bahrani's Spectrum film "Man Push Cart" Thursday afternoon when introducing the screening and the film's director. Gilmore said during the intro that people often ask him how they decide which films run in competition and which ones are pro...

Katapult Acquires non-North American Rights to Sundance Doc "TV Junkie"

Foreign sales rep Katapult has purchased the worldwide rights excluding North America for producer/co-director Michael Cain and editor/co-director Matt Radecki's Sundance competition documentary "TV Junkie." ICM is co-repping the documentary with Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment and Roger Kass of Ring the Jing Entertainment Ltd. and are in discussions for theatrical distributors for the North American theatrical rights. Thomas Mai negotiated on behalf of Katapult. "TV Junkie" is a portrait of Rick Kirkham and his struggles to balance his personal life as a father and husband with his career as a professional journalist, while dealing wi...

"We Go Way Back," "Empire in Africa" and "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang" Among Top '06 Slamdance Winne

The Slamdance Film Festival announced its winners Friday night with Lynn Shelton's drama "We Go Way Back taking the grand jury award for best narrative feature, while Philippe Diaz's "Empire in Africa" won the grand jury award for best documentary feature. Slamdance's grand jury prize for best narrative short went to "The Saviour," by Peter Templeman and Lila Place's "Under The Roller Coaster" took best documentary short. Writer/director Tim Skousen's "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang" won the festival's audience prize for best narrative feature, and the audience prize for documentary went to "Abduction: The Megumi Yakota Story" by Chris Sherida...

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