Tale of Jewish skinhead wins honors at Sundance festival
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARK CITY, Utah — “The
Believer,” a grimly intense tale of a
Jewish neo-Nazi skinhead, won
the grand jury prize, the top
honor for dramas at the
Sundance Him Festival.
Sundance jurors gave the
documentary grand jury prize to
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“Southern Comfort,” an intimate
portrait of a dying female-to-male
transsexual and his romance with
a male-to-female transsexual.
Awards were presented
Saturday night, with top winners
screening one last time on
Sunday as the 11-day independ
ent-cinema showcase closed.
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch,"
a raucous musical adapted from
the off-Broadway play about a
rock singer struggling with her
botched sex-change operation,
won the dramatic audience
award, chosen in balloting by
Sundance movie-goers. “Hedwig”
also won the dramatic directing
award for John Cameron
Mitchell, who stars in the title
role.
The documentary audience
award was split by two films:
“Dogtown and Z-Boys,” the story
of a band of misfit skateboarders
in Santa Monica, Calif., who pio
neered extreme sports in the
1970s; and "Scout's Honor,” direc
tor Tom Shepard’s study of anti
gay policies in the Boy Scouts.
“Dogtown and Z-Boys” also
won the documentary directing
award for Stacy Peralta, a member
of the original "Z-Boys.” "Scout’s
Honor” also received Sundance’s
freedom of expression award.
Drama jurors at Sundance
gave a special acting prize to Sissy
Spacek and Tom Wilkinson for
their gripping performances in
“In the Bedroom.” Spacek and
Wilkinson play parents struck by
family tragedy, whose grief gives
way to a desire for vengeance.
“The Believer,” written and
directed by Henry Bean, stars
Ryan Gosling as a youth who mil
itantly argues against conserva
tive Jewish teachings as a boy and
grows up hiding his heritage as he
falls in with latter-day, anti
Semitic fascists.
“Southern Comfort,” directed
by Kate Davis, traces the last year
in the life of Robert Eads, a trans
sexual who died of ovarian cancer
toward the end of the film shoot in
1999. The movie, much of which
was shot by Davis working on her
own with a handheld digital cam
era, chronicles Eads’ budding
romance with a transsexual
named Lola Cola.
Among other Sundance
awards:
—The jury prize for short
films was given to "Gina, An
Actress, Age 29,” a 20-minute
movie directed by Paul Harrill.
■ The screenwriting prize
went to Christopher Nolan for
“Memento,” a convoluted tale of a
man unable to form new memo
ries who is bent on revenge for the
death of his wife. Guy Pearce,
Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe
Pantoliano star in the film, which
also was directed by Nolan.
■ A special jury prize was
awarded to “Children Under
ground,” a documentary about
children living in a Romanian
subway station.
■ “The Road Home,” a
Chinese film from director Zhang
Yimou, won the world-cinema
audience award. The movie cen
ters on a man's musings over his
parents' courtship as he returns
home for his father’s funeral
■ The Latin America cinema
prize was shared by “Without a
Trace,” a Mexican road movie
about a single mother and a
smuggler of ancient art, and
“Possible Loves,” a Brazilian entry
that tracks three alternate des
tinies for a man and woman.
Sundance's Latin American panel
also gave a special jury mention
to “Coffin Joe: The Strange World
of Jose Mojica Marins,” a docu
mentary about the obscure
Brazilian horror director.
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