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Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers AwardsThursday, January 25----As the Sundance Film Festival moves into its final days (and the announcement of its competition awards on Saturday evening), the first of several awards announcements was made today. The Sundance Institute and NHK/Japan Broadcasting Corporation announced the winners of the 2007 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards. The four winners were selected from among 12 finalists by members of an international jury which included: Guillermo Arriaga, Carlos Diegues, Toshio Endo, Bent Hamer, Yoshio Kakeo, Mitsuo Yanagimachi, Pawel Pawlikowski, Brad Silberling, and Rafael Yglesias. These annual awards were created in 1996 to honor and support visionary film directors from four global regions (Europe, Latin America, the United States and Japan) in realizing their next projects. The four winners will be presented with their awards at the Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening. Each winning director will receive a $10,000 cash award and a guarantee from NHK to purchase the Japanese television broadcast rights upon completion of their project. The winning filmmakers and projects are: Lucía Cedrón (Argentina): AGNUS DEI
Tomoko Kana (Japan): TWO BY THE RIVER Caran Hartsfield (USA): BURY ME STANDING “The Sundance/ NHK award is part of the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Program which provides year-round creative and strategic support to U.S. and international filmmakers. We are thrilled by the vision and diversity of the winning directors,” stated Michelle Satter, Director, Sundance Institute Feature Film Program. Past recipients of the award include: Miranda July, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (USA); Andrucha Waddington, THE HOUSE OF SAND (Brazil); Lucrecia Martel, LA CIENAGA (Argentina); Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, WHISKY (Uruguay); Walter Salles, CENTRAL STATION (Brazil); Chris Eyre, SMOKE SIGNALS (USA); György Pálfi, TAXIDERMIA (Hungary) and Catalin Mitulescu, THE WAY I SPENT THE END OF THE WORLD (Romania).
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