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    “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” Wins Grand Jury Prize, U.S. Dramatic Audience Award At Sundance

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    Alfonzo Gomez-Rejon, director of "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" (photo by Annie Marie Fox, courtesy of Sundance Institute).

    By Lindsey Bahr, Film Writer

    PARK CITY, Utah (AP) --

    Sundance breakout "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," a quirky, heartfelt story about a pair of high school film lovers who befriend a girl with cancer, won both the U.S. dramatic audience award and the grand jury prize at the 31st Sundance Film Festival awards, announced Saturday.

    Thomas Mann, R.J. Cyler, and Olivia Cooke lead the cast of the idiosyncratic tearjerker from director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who dedicated the audience award to all the filmmakers and artists in his hometown of Laredo, Texas. Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, and Molly Shannon also star.

    "My love goes out to the entire cast and crew," said Gomez-Rejon. "This movie was about processing loss but really to celebrate a beautiful life and a beautiful man, which is my amazing father … to celebrate his life through humor."

    "The Wolfpack," Crystal Moselle's documentary about six movie-loving teenage boys isolated from society picked up the grand jury prize for best documentary.

    "I stalked these kids on the street one day and here I am," said Moselle.

    Comedian Tig Notaro, whose documentary "Tig" premiered at the Festival, hosted the ceremony. She also told the audience that she used to volunteer at the Festival in the mid-'90s.

    The 31st Sundance Film Festival wraps on Sunday.

    Other winners Saturday:

    — U.S. drama, grand jury prize: "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"

    — U.S. drama, audience award: "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl"

    — U.S. drama, directing: "The Witch," Robert Eggers

    — U.S. drama, special jury award for cinematography: "Diary of a Teenage Girl," Brandon Trost

    — U.S. drama, special jury award for collaborative vision: "Advantageous"

    — U.S. drama, special jury award for editing: "Dope," Lee Haugen

    — U.S. drama, special jury award for musical score:

    — U.S. drama, special jury award for breakthrough talent:

    — U.S. documentary, grand jury prize: "The Wolfpack"

    — U.S. documentary, audience award: "Meru"

    — U.S. documentary, directing: "Cartel Land," Matthew Heineman

    — U.S. documentary, special jury award for social impact: "3 1/2 Minutes"

    — U.S. documentary, special jury award for verite filmmaking: "Western"

    — U.S. documentary, special jury award for cinematography: "Cartel Land," Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll

    — U.S. documentary, special jury award for breakout first feature: "(T)error"

    — Alfred P. Sloan feature film prize: "The Stanford Prison Experiment"

    — Waldo Salt screenwriting award: "The Stanford Prison Experiment," Tim Talbott

    — World cinema drama, grand jury prize: "Slow West"

    — World cinema drama, audience award: "Umrika"

    — World cinema drama, directing: "The Summer of Sangaile," Alante Kavaite

    — World cinema drama, special jury award for cinematography: "Partisan," Germain McMicking

    — World cinema drama, special jury award for acting: "The Second Mother," Regina Case and Camila Mardila

    — World cinema drama, special jury award for acting: "Glassland," Jack Reynor

    — World cinema documentary, grand jury prize: "The Russian Woodpecker"

    — World cinema documentary, audience award: "Dark Horse"

    — World cinema documentary, directing: "Dreamcatcher," Kim Longinotto

    — World cinema documentary, special jury award for unparalleled access: "The Chinese Mayor"

    — World cinema documentary, special jury award for impact: "Pervert Park"

    — World cinema documentary, special jury award for editing: "How to Change the World," Jim Scott

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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