True Story of Daring High-Wire Dance Big Winner at Sundance
Winnipeg Free Press › August 22, 2009
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PARK CITY, Utah -- The incredible story of Philippe Petit's high-wire dance between the towers of the World Trade Center was the big winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, picking up both a Jury Prize and an Audience Award in the international documentary category at a gala presentation Saturday night.
The U.S. was honoured for two movies about water: Trouble the Water, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's documentary feature about being trapped in the New Orleans flood picked up the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, while Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, a story about a trailer park mom and a First Nations girl, picked up the Grand Jury Prize for Drama.The domestic audience awards went to Jonathan Levine's stoner comedy The Wackness, and Josh Tickell's Fields of Fuel -- which takes a long, hard and often funny look at America's "addiction to oil."See the full content of this document
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True Story of Daring High-Wire Dance Big Winner at Sundance
By Katherine Monk
PARK CITY, Utah -- The incredible story of Philippe Petit's high-wire dance between the towers of the World Trade Center was the big winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, p...See the full content of this document
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