Science Fiction film wins at Sundance

[waltersgirl]

from showbizdata.com

Shane Corruth's Primer , a $7,000 sci-fi film that had received little buzz at the Sundance Film Festival, was the surprise winner of the festival's Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Saturday. The Documentary Grand Jury Prize went to Ondi Timoner's DIG! Joshua Marston's Maria Full of Grace took the Dramatic Audience Award, while the Documentary Audience Award went to Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski's Born Into
Brothels.

[Jul]

That's fabulous!!! :D

[JadedLegend3]

:D Score one for the good guys! :P


Jacqui :love:

[Eve11]

cool.

If anyone's interested:

http://primermovie.com/

[Kyntio]

About time too! :D

Now the Oscars next! I can't believe the Academy has not once given its Best Picture honors to anything science fiction or fantasy! :mad: What a bunch of boring snobs, they don't know what they're missing.

[AnnieBW]

Looks a lot like some of the existential SF that came out of the late 60's and early 70's. What "Solaris" was trying to be, but it was just plain boring. This sounds pretty good. And, for a first movie done on $7K, it's giving hope to all of us would-be filmmakers. :D

As for prizes never going to SF or fantasy movies/TV shows... hopefully that will change this year. If RoTK doesn't get Best Picture, there ain't no justice!

- Annie

[Darth Buddha]

'Solaris' was a matter of taste and life experience.

I really liked it.

It hit me far to close to home. I cried for an hour afterwards.

[PrairieScaper]

Did I read that correctly -- $7,000? WOW. That's impressive.

But my question is, did "Primer" leave Sundance with a distribution deal?