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Feb.27,2005 -Mar.6,2005 |
Outtakes
Romeo Wins at Sundance
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2005-02-06
Canada's Shake Hands With the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire won the audience award for world-cinema documentary at the Sundance Film Festival last weekend. Directed by Peter Raymont, the documentary centres on the Canadian military man who had to stand by helplessly during the Rwandan genocide because his UN force was too small to intervene.
The family drama Forty Shades of Blue, centering on a modern Oedipal triangle involving a music producer, a Russian wife half his age and his son, won top dramatic honours. Directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, the film stars Rip Torn.
Why We Fight, examining the United States' chronically militant stance over the last half century, took the grand jury prize for documentaries. The film was directed by Eugene Jarecki, brother of Andrew Jarecki, whose Capturing the Friedmans won the Sundance documentary prize in 2003.
The audience award for dramatic films went to Hustle & Flow, the tale of a two-bit pimp and drug dealer (Terrence Howard) who enlists odd allies in a bid to break into the hip-hop music scene. It was written and directed by Craig Brewer, and produced by John Singleton. Directors Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro's Murderball, a portrait of the competitive spirit of wheelchair athletes, was the audience-award winner for documentaries.
Special jury prizes for acting were given to Amy Adams, who plays a childlike Southern waif captivated by her worldly new sister-in-law from up north in Junebug, and to Lou Pucci as a teenager whose oral fixation causes a ruckus among his family in Thumbsucker. Noah Baumbach won the dramatic directing prize and the Waldo Salt screenwriting award for The Squid and the Whale, starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney; and Jeff Feuerzeig received the documentary directing honour for The Devil and Daniel Johnston, chronicling the life of a musician and artist with bipolar disorder.
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Seven films from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival will by screened by Cinematheque Ontario from February 4 to 10. They include Born into Brothels, about children in Calcutta's red-light district; Disi Carolino's Life on the Tracks, about a family living in a Filipino railroad shantytown; Deadline, a study of the American criminal justice system; Repatriation, about the sad fate of North Korean spies; and Persons of Interest, which shines light on the "War on Terror." All screenings take place at AGO's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. W. For more information call 416-968-FILM.
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