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Sundance celebrates award winners from afar LINDSEY BAHR | Associated Press Questlove accepted his documentary grand jury prize and audience award from his car on the way to work and “CODA” director Sian Heder accepted her top awards in American Sign Language from her own home with her kids by her side and her husband filming. The 2021 Sundance Film Festival Awards were unlike any before and had filmmakers calling in from around the world Tuesday night to cap off the festivals first virtual...

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Her film, a breakout of the festival, sold to Apple TV+ for a reported $25 million. Heder had her kids and husband join her for the directing honor. Questlove, who made his directing debut with "Summer of Soul (...or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)" at the largely forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, was caught a little more off guard and got word his first award, the audience prize, from the passenger seat of a car. “Wait a minute, this is too soon,” he said. “I didn’t ...

The full list of awards: U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic: “CODA,” Sian Heder U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Documentary: “Summer of Soul,” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Directing Award – U.S. Dramatic: Sian Heder, “CODA” Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch, “On the Count of Three” Directing Award – U.S. Documentary: “Users,” Natalia Almada Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award – U.S. Documentary: Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno, “Homeroom” U.S...

G. Allen Johnson February 2, 2021Updated: February 4, 2021, 3:49 pm The cast of “CODA,” which won four awards at the Sundance Film Festival and has been picked up by Apple TV+, includes Marlee Matlin (second from right). Photo: Sundance Film Festival “CODA,” Sian Heder’s drama about a child of deaf parents seeking to strike out on her own, won the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday, Feb. 2. But the win was no surprise, because “CODA” dominated from the...

Questlove’s ‘Summer of Soul’ Wins at Sundance The documentary took home two prizes while “Coda” won several honors for its fictional tale of a hearing teenager in a deaf family. Sly Stone in the documentary  “Summer of Soul,” about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.Credit...Mass Distraction Media Feb. 2, 2021 A documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, often called the Black Woodstock, and a feature about a hearing daughter in a deaf family took ...

Sian Heder’s portrait of a deaf family with a hearing child “CODA” won the top awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, including the grand jury prize,...

Sian Heder’s portrait of a deaf family with a hearing child “CODA” won the top awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, including the grand jury prize,...

Her film, a breakout of the festival, sold to Apple TV+ for a reported $25 million. Heder had her kids and husband join her for the directing honor. Questlove, who made his directing debut with "Summer of Soul (...or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)" at the largely forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, was caught a little more off guard and got word his first award, the audience prize, from the passenger seat of a car. “Wait a minute, this is too soon,” he said. “I didn’t ...

Questlove accepted his documentary grand jury prize and audience award from his car on...