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Trouble the Water won the Grand Jury Prize for documentary
THE GRAND JURY PRIZE
Documentary:TROUBLE THE WATER, directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. Armed with a video camera, an aspiring rap artist and her streetwise husband show what survival means when they are trapped in New Orleans by deadly floodwaters, then seize a chance for a new beginning.
Dramatic: FROZEN RIVER, directed by Courtney Hunt. A desperate trailer mom and a Mohawk Indian girl who team up to smuggle illegalimmigrants into the United States from Canada.
THE WORLD CINEMA JURY PRIZE
Documentary:MAN ON WIRE/United Kingdom, directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles French artist Philippe Petit’s daring dance on a wire suspended between New York’s Twin Towers and his |
subsequent arrest for what wouldbecome known as “the artistic crime of the century.”
THE WORLD CINEMA JURY PRIZE
Dramatic: KING OF PING PONG (PING PONGKINGEN) Sweden, directed by Jens Jonsson. An ostracized and bullied teenager who excels only in ping pong descends into an acrimonious strugglewith his younger, more popular brother when the truth about their family history and father surfaces over the course of a spring break.
Fields of Fuel won the Audience Award for documentary
THE AUDIENCE AWARD
Documentary: FIELDS OF FUEL, directed by Josh Tickell. A look at America ‘s addiction to oil. Tickell is a man with a plan and a Veggie Van, who is taking on big oil, big government, and big soy to find solutions in places few people have looked. |
Dramatic: THE WACKNESS, directed by Jonathan Levine. During a sweltering New York summer, a troubled teenage drug dealer trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist, and in the process falls for the doctor’s daughter.
THE WORLD CINEMA AUDIENCE AWARD
Documentary: MAN ON WIRE/United Kingdom, directed by James Marsh. See previous description. Dramatic: CAPTAIN ABU RAED/Jordan, directed Amin Matalqa. The first feature film to come out of Jordan in 50 years, tells the story of an aging airport janitor who is mistaken for an airline pilot by a group of poor neighborhood children. His fantastical stories offer hope for a sad, sometimes unchangeable, reality.
THE DIRECTING AWARD
Documentary: Nanette Burstein won the Director’s award for her film AMERICAN TEEN, a documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques. Dramatic: Lance Hammer won for BALLAST, a film set in the Mississippi Delta, which details how one man’s suicide affects three people’s lives. |
