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Indian documentary 'Writing with Fire' wins audience award at Sundance Film Festival Updated: Updated: This Indian film follows this ambitious group of Dalit women who run a newspaper. Share Article This Indian film follows this ambitious group of Dalit women who run a newspaper. "Writing with Fire", an Indian film chronicling the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India's only newspaper run by Dalit women, has won the audience award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival 2021. The festival, which started from January 28 and will close on February 3, is presented by Sun...

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,...

Sian Heder’s “CODA,” one of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s opening-day screenings, was the big winner at the awards ceremony Tuesday night. The film took home the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize, the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, as well as the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast. Heder was also honored with the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Photo by Seacia Pavao A dramatic feature about the only member of a family who can hear and a documentary about a forgotten 1969 music festival stole the hearts of viewers and swept the top honors ...

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.'

847 Park City, February 3 “Writing with Fire”, an Indian film chronicling the rise of Khabar Lahariya, India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women, has won the audience award in the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival 2021. The festival, which started from January 28 and will close on February 3, is presented by Sundance Organisation, a nonprofit that discovers and supports independent artists, and introduces audiences to their work. According to the film gala’s official website, the virtual award ceremony was remotely hosted by actor-comic Patton Oswalt on T...