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| January 29, 2007 |
| Immigrant saga, Iraq drama win at Sundance |
Christopher Zalla's debut film "Padre Nuestro" was named best U.S. drama
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) -- The searing immigrant saga "Padre Nuestro," about a Mexican teen's heartbreaking search for his father in America, won the grand-jury prize for best U.S. drama Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)," another Latin American story recounting government corruption and kidnapping in Brazil, earned the grand-jury award in the U.S. documentary competition at the festival, the nation's top showcase for independent film.
"Grace Is Gone," a tear-jerker starring John Cusack as a father who takes his young daughters on a road trip to postpone breaking the news that their Army sergeant mother has been killed in Iraq, won the audience award for favorite U.S. drama as chosen by balloting among Sundance moviegoers.
Writer-director James C. Strouse won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award for "Grace Is Gone."The U.S. audience award for documentaries went to Irene Taylor Brodsky's "Hear and Now," a portrait of her aging, deaf parents as they undergo risky surgery that could allow them to hear.
Writer-director Christopher Zalla's debut film "Padre Nuestro" is the story of a Mexican youth (Jorge Adrian Espindola) who sneaks into the United States to find the father (Jesus Ochoa) he never met, only to have his identity usurped by a conniving fellow illegal immigrant (Armando Hernandez) he meets along the way.
"Padre Nuestro" followed last year's "Quinceanera" as the second-straight Mexican-immigrant tale to win top dramatic honors at Sundance.Jason Kohn's "Manda Bala" connects such disparate elements as a frog farm used as a front for money-laundering and a plastic surgeon who works on mutilated kidnap victims to capture the violence pervading life in Brazil.
"Manda Bala" also won the documentary cinematography prize for Heloisa Passos. |
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