Sundance Awards Go to Films on War, U.S. Immigrant
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The Sundance Film Festival gave  top awards to anti-war documentary "Why We Fight" and human  drama "Forty Shades of Blue" on Sunday at the end of its 10-day  run.
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Film takes place, Sundance told us in its motto this year.
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One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days. A third offers sympathy to a nation wounded on Sept. 11, but includes foreign filmmakers' points of view.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The Sundance Film Festival  kicked off on Thursday with a political tone struck by founder  Robert Redford, who called independent film a voice of dissent  and encouraged movie-makers to speak their minds.
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The Sundance Film Festival, the top  U.S. gathering for movies made outside Hollywood, unveiled 64  competing titles on Wednesday for January's event that  organizers said show a sense of optimism among their artists.
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The Clint Eastwood film âLetters From Iwo Jima,â about the lives and deaths of Japanese soldiers in the battle for Iwo Jima in World War II, was named best foreign film at the 31st Japan Academy Awards ceremony on Friday in Tokyo, Variety reported. Joji Matsuokaâs âTokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad,â about a mother-son relationship, took the prizes for best film, best director, best actress (Kiki Kirin as the dying mother), best supporting actor (Kaoru Kobayashi as the absent father) and best screenplay (Masuo Suzuki). Hidetaka Yoshioka, who won the best actor prize in 2006 for his performance as a struggling novelist in âAlways,â won again for reprising the role in the nostalgic drama âAlways 2.â.
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A film about the prisoner abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq will become the first documentary to enter the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival when it is shown next month, Agence France-Presse reported. Made by the Oscar-winning director Errol Morris (âThe Fog of Warâ), above, the documentary, âStandard Operating Procedure,â uses film, re-enactments and photographs that were published around the world to shed light on the treatment of inmates. Twenty-one films will vie for awards during the 58th Berlin film festival, running Feb. 7-17.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Director Robert Rodriguez came  to the Sundance Film Festival in 1992 with his $7,000 movie "El  Mariachi," walked away with the Audience Award and entered  Hollywood where he became a big-time moviemaker.
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Hollywood's earnest antiwar films were a bomb at the box office. But Mike Nichols' picture about war and politics, says Richard Corliss, manages to be both rational and inspirational
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Robert Redford says the Sundance Film Festival has maintained a sense of community for independent filmmakers despite the increasing number of celebrities and partiers who attend each year.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - "I.O.U.S.A." may not be the sexiest film at the Sundance Film Festival, but it could be the most timely as the documentary about deepening U.S. debt problems debuted in a week of tumbling financial markets and heightened fears of recession.
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When Amin Matalqa made his  first feature film in his native Jordan, he got some local  attention, but when his "Captain Abu Raed" earned a spot at the  Sundance Film Festival, the director saw his ticket into U.S.  movie theaters.
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Charles Ferguson's  documentary "No End in Sight" has more than lived up to its  name. A year ago, the political scientist-turned-documentarian  was preparing to launch the Iraq-themed film at the Sundance  Film Festival.
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At the Berlin International Film Festival, the subjects range from Abu Ghraib to the Rolling Stones.
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South Africa&#39;s Charlize Theron  gained dual U.S. citizenship this year and in her first movie  since, the A-list actress tackles a very American subject with  &quot;In the Valley of Elah,&quot; which looks at the human toll of the  Iraq war in this country.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - With buyers exercising caution at Sundance, a documentary about the trials of being a teenager offered the most suspenseful dealmaking plotline.
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The Sundance Film Festival, the premier U.S. showcase for independent cinema, named the films on Monday that will compete at its 2005 festival in January, including documentaries about energy company Enron and Peru's fugitive president, Alberto Fujimori.