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Top row: CODA, Courtesy of Sundance Institute; Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), photo by Mass Distraction Media; Flee, courtesy of Sundance Institute. Bottom row: Hive, photo by Alexander Bloom; Writing With Fire, courtesy of Sundance Institute; Ma Belle, My Beauty, courtesy of Sundance Institute. *Park City, UT — After six days and 73 feature films, the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt, with jurors presenting 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for Short Films. Honorees,...

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) secured the coveted U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary and Audience Award: U.S. Documentary at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards, held last night (Feb. 2). The festival’s awards ceremony was hosted by actor and comedian Patton Oswalt. Jurors presented 24 prizes for feature filmmaking and seven for short films. Thompson’s Summer Of Soul (pictured), produced by David Dinerstein, Robert Fyvolent and Joseph Patel, tells the story of the Harlem Cultural Festival, held during the sam...

Top doc honors went to 'Summer of Soul' from director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, who accepted his award from inside a car on his "way to work" in New York City at 'The Tonight Show.'

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 by Chris Evangelista Today, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and the results were pretty bad! So perhaps we should try to cleanse our palates with the 2021 Sundance Film Festival awards. This year’s Sundance was virtual, and while that experience can’t hold a candle to being on the ground in Park City, the festival organizers deserver lots of credit for putting the fest together in any capacity and running it smoothly. While I found a lot of the films I saw this year to be lacking, there were still plenty of noteworthy titles. Lots of at...

Sundance 2021 Winners: 'CODA' Sweeps With Four Prizes, Questlove's Documentary 'Summer Of Soul' Earns Two Adam B. Vary, provided by Feb. 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The 2021 Sundance Film Festival concluded Tuesday night with a virtual awards ceremony, honoring “CODA” — a family drama centered on a high school student who is the child of deaf adults (hence the title) — with four prizes in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category: the grand jury prize, the directing prize, the audience award and a special jury prize for best ensemble. It is the first film in Sundance history to win all...