Sundance Winners
“Padre Nuestro,” a drama about illegal immigrants in the U.S., took the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday. The audience award went to “Grace Is Gone,” starring John Cusack as a man whose wife is killed while on duty in Iraq, which also took the screenwriting award. The dramatic directing award went to Jeffrey Blitz (“Spellbound”) for his charming teenage comedy “Rocket Science.”
In documentaries, the grand jury prize was given to “Manda Bala,” a study of corruption in prize, while audiences awarded “Hear and Now,” director Irene Taylor Brodsky’s documentary about her deaf parents’ choice to have cochlear implants. Special jury awards for acting went to Jess Wexler, who plays a teenager whose vagina has shark-like teeth, and Tamara Podenski in “Four Sheets to the Win.”
My final word on Sundance will appear Monday in The Post.


