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The Secret Magdalene

Savoca is an independent filmmaker whose first filmwon the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.


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2010 Sundance Film Festival

Winter's Bone, which won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress, John Hawkes as Best Supporting Actor, and Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini for Best Adapted Screenplay.

2by4

At the January 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize and Declan Quinn won the Cinematography Award.

Alexander Yellen

Quinceañera won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.

Bahamas International Film Festival

Submissions to this genre are eligible to win the Grand Jury prize sponsored by Chopard.

Big River Man

The film was nominated for the grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and won the Excellence in Cinematography Award (Maringouin also shot the film).

Daniel Woodrell

The more recent Winter's Bone (2006) was adapted by writer and director Debra Granik for a film of the same title, released commercially in June 2010 after winning two awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Grand Jury Prize for a dramatic film.

Fall Time

Although it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival (it lost to The Brothers McMullen), it never got domestic distribution in the United States.

Girlfight

The film won the Director's Award the Grand Jury Prize (tied with Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count on Me) at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Heather Morgan

Morgan wrote, produced and starred in the movie Bark! which was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.

Jimmy Smallhorne

The drama about a closeted gay construction worker in New York City was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and received the Festival's Cinematography award for the camera work of Declan Quinn (Leaving Las Vegas, Vanya on 42nd Street, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love).

Living on Tokyo Time

The film received a nomination for a Grand Jury Prize at the 1987 Sundance Film Festival.

Patrick Stettner

He went on to direct and write the screenplay for The Business of Strangers in 2001, which earned him a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the Sundance Film Festival of that year and earned lead actress Stockard Channing an AFI nomination for Best Female Actress.

Peter Kinoy

Four of his films (Poverty Outlaw, Takeover, Teen Dreams and Teatro!) were nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and When the Mountains Tremble won the award in 1984.

Public Access

When Public Access screened at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, it was one of the two films to win the Grand Jury Prize in dramatic competition, sharing the award with Ruby in Paradise.

Richard Berkowitz

Berkowitz is the subject of the 2008 documentary Sex Positive directed by Daryl Wein and winner of the 2008 Outfest Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.

Roberta Hanley

She directed the 1998 movie Brand New World for which she was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the 2001 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.

Ruby in Paradise

Together with Public Access it won the 1993 Grand Jury Prize for Drama at the Sundance Film Festival.

Silverlake Life: The View from Here

It shared the 1993 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival with the film Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family.

The Snell Show

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Slamdance Film Festival, The Snell Show went on to play many festivals across the nation, including the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival, Maryland Film Festival, AFI Film Festival, and Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.