Ladies Take Top Honors at Sundance

Film Reel

So this is pretty cool. I hope these directors get to direct some major films, because that would be awesome and stuff.

  • U.S. Directing Award for Documentary Film: Lauren Greenfield, director of The Queen of Versailles
  • U.S. Directing Award for Dramatic Film: Middle of Nowhere, director Ava DuVernay
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, directed by Alison Klayman
  • Special Jury Prize: Dramatic: Smashed producers Andrea Sperling and Jonathan Schwartz
  • U.S. Documentary Editing Award to: Detropia, edited by Enat Sidi
  • World Cinema Screenwriting Award, Dramatic: Young & Wild, written by Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutierrez, Pedro Peirano (Chile)
  • World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: Indie Game: The Movie, edited by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky. (Canada)
  • Shorts Audience Award: The Debutante Hunters, directed by Maria White
  • Audience Award, Documentary: The Invisible War a film by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering

Congrats all around!

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