"Wild Beasts" Southern won the grand jury prize for U.S. dramatic competition, and "The House I Live In" won the same honor in the U.S. documentary category that ceremony Saturday of the festival of independent cinema.
Directed and written by first time Director 29 years Benh Zeitlin, "Southern Wild beasts" follows a girl named Hushpuppies who lives with his father in the Delta in the South. The film also won the prize for photography.
Zeitlin has said he was grateful to the Sundance Institute and laboratories, where he worked on the film for more than three years.
"This project was a runt, this sort of messy-hair, dirty, wild child, and we just have been edited and just relieved long until we were ready to stand up," he said in an interview after the ceremony. "Is just great that has happened here. This is the right place for the world meet movies ".
Zeitlin described his courageous young star, Quvenzhane Wallis, as "the biggest person I know". Said that she is ready to be a movie star, but before you go back to third grade.
Fox Searchlight has acquired the film earlier this week.
Eugene Jarecki's documentary "The House I Live In" examines the social costs of financial, human and drug war. The Director won the same award in 2005 for his documentary "why we fight."
As he accepted his prize, Jarecki called the war on drugs "tragically wrong and immoral, poignant."
"If we're going to reform things in this country, put people in jail for non-violent crime, in many cases for life without parole, for possession of a drug, for sentences longer time is given for murder in this country, must end," he said.
Kirby Dick's documentary on rape in the military, "The invisible war" won the audience award, as did the sincere drama Ben Lewin "The Surrogate", which stars John Hawkes as a man of 38 years paralyzed that hires a sex surrogate, played by Helen Hunt, to help him lose his virginity. Fox Searchlight acquired that film, too.
"I don't think most people have never seen this kind of story before," Lewin said after the ceremony. "I think it was very new and unexpected ... From the experiences that I was seeing it with an audience, it seems to be a real emotional ride. "
"The surrogate" also won a special jury prize for its ensemble cast.
Prizes of the jury of world cinema documentary went to "The Law in These Parts," on the legal system of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories and the drama "Violeta went to Heaven," Chilean Violeta Parra on musician.
The Favorites of the audience were the world cinema documentary "the search for sugar Man" which also won a special jury award and the drama "Valley of the Saints," which also claimed the prize of Alfred p. Sloan. A second Sloan prize, which recognizes the film with science as a subject or a scientist as a major character, was "Robot and Frank." The film, which debuted at Sundance, stars Frank Langella as a jewel thief who befriends the robot guardian that his sons have given it to him, leading to the end the robot along on his illegal trips.
Other winners:
— U.S. Drama directing Prize: Ava DuVernay, "Middle of Nowhere".
— U.S. Documentary Directing Award: Lauren Greenfield, "Queen of Versailles".
— World cinema drama directing Prize: Mads Matthiesen, "Bear."
— World cinema documentary directing award: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, "5 broken cameras."
— U.S. drama screenplay award: Derek Connolly, "safety not guaranteed."
— World cinema Screenwriting Award: Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutierrez, Pedro Peirano, Sebastian Sepulveda, "Young & Wild".
— Change U.S.: Documentary prize at Sidi, "Detropia."
— The world of film editing Award: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky, "Indie game: the movie."
— U.S. documentary photography award: Jeff Orlowski, "Chasing Ice."
— Prize of cinematography world cinema drama: David Raedeker, "my brother the devil."
— Prize for world cinema documentary photography: Lars Skree, "Putin's Kiss."
— Special Jury Prize for U.S. dramatic production: Andrea Sperling and Jonathan Schwartz, "Smashed" and "Nobody walks".
— U.S. documentary special jury prizes: "free love or die," ' Ai Weiwei: why I'm sorry. "
— Special Jury Prize for world cinema drama: "Can."
— Audience award short film: "novice hunters."
— Best of the next public Prize
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