The film "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" Alfonso Gomez Rehonb, won the Grand Prize at this year's edition of the cult American Independent Film Festival at Sundance, and the decision of the jury and the audience confirmed granting his reward for this story of friendship misfit teenager and sick girl, organizers announced on the official website of the festival.
It should be noted that the simultaneous winning two awards, the jury and the audience in the history of the Sundance festival proved to be a key factor in the progress of the film. So, last year was the "Growth" Richard Lilkater and "Rhythm of madness" Demi Shazel that year in the race for Oscars in several categories, after they were granted the Golden Globes.
The main prize for documentary went to "The Wolfpack" of director Crystal Moselle, whose focus is a New York family with seven children who are studying which house mostly by films that we see.
For directing the documentary film category was awarded to Matthew Heyman "Cartel Land" which asks halls is acceptable to take the law into their own hands when you hold my state institutions and protect against violence and organized crime, and the category of the same film award went to Robert Eggers for his horror dancer titled "The Witch".
In the category of foreign film award went to work "Slow West" of Scottish director John McLean, European classical story of the migration of immigrants to the American Wild West, and in the category of foreign documentaries achievement award winning "The Russian Woodpecker", made during the fiercest clashes in eastern Ukraine.
Best documentary by choosing the audience is "Meru" Elizabeth Chai Vasarheli and Jimmy Chin who deals with the topic of achieving the impossible in the story of three best American climbers Conrad Enker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk.
This year at Sundance (Sundance) showed 123 feature films from almost 30 countries, of which 106 will be premiered. By selectors arrived 12 166 films, of which four thousand feature more than eight thousand short, according to the official website of the festival.