domingo, 31 de janeiro de 2010

Canadian actress picks up prize for 'breakout performance' at Sundance festival



Canada's newest movie star, Tatiana Maslany, is amongst the cavalcade of prizewinners at the close of the 26th Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
The Newfoundland native, 24, won a special jury prize for Breakout Performance in World Cinema as a sexually rebellious 14-year-old in Adriana Maggs' Grown Up Movie Star, which premiered at Robert Redford's 10-day fest. The awards were announced Saturday night.
It was the first major onscreen role for Maslany, hailed as a major talent by festival director John Cooper and industry journal Variety. She's best known to Canadians from her cowgirl character Kit Bailey on CBC-TV's Heartland.
Other highlights of the Sundance awards included:
• Grand Jury Prize, U.S. Documentary: Restrepo, an Afghanistan war drama directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington.
• Grand Jury Prize, U.S. Dramatic: Winter's Bone, a coming-of-age drama directed by Debra Granik.
• World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary: The Red Chapel, a comic tour of North Korea by Danish mischief makers.
• World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic: Animal Kingdom, a drama of the Melbourne underworld.
• Audience Award, U.S. Documentary: Waiting for Superman, an investigation of the U.S. educational crisis.
• Audience Award, U.S. Dramatic: happythankyoumoreplease, an ensemble New York relationship comedy.
• World Cinema Audience Award, Dramatic: Contracorriente (Undertow), a ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside.
• World Cinema Audience Award, Documentary: Wasteland, about artistic garbage pickers in Rio.
The complete list can be seen at www.sundance.org/festival.
Canadians did very well at the rival Slamdance Film Festival, which ran concurrently with Sundance on the other side of Park City.
Snow and Ashes by Quebec's Charles-Olivier Michaud, a mystery about a war correspondence who awakens from a coma in Eastern Europe, took the prize for Best Narrative Film.
The Toronto Star