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31 January 2005 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Ira Sachs' Forty Shades of Blue, starring Rip Torn, was the surprise winner of the American Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival Saturday, while the Audience Award went to Craig Brewer's Hustle & Flow. In the documentary category, Eugene Jarecki won the Grand Jury Prize for his Why We Fight, an appraisal of the military-industrial complex. Jarecki's brother Andrew, the founder and voice of Moviefone, won the same award two years ago for Capturing the Friedmans.

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31 January 2005 | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Rip Torn movie Forty Shades Of Blue was the big winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival as the annual independent exhibition wrapped up on Saturday night. The family drama, directed by Ira Sachs, claimed the top prize in the competition at the Utah festival. Director Eugene Jarecki made it a double Sundance success for his family when his film Why We Fight claimed the festival's grand-jury prize for documentaries - his brother Andrew Jarecki's acclaimed Capturing The Friedmans won the same award in 2003. Meanwhile, the festival's Audience Award went to hip-hop film Hustle & Flow, which earlier in the week became the most successful film in Sundance history when it was sold to bosses at Paramount Pictures and MTV for $9 million. The other Sundance winners were directors Henry Alex Rubin and Adam Shapiro's Murderball, a film about disabled athletes, which claimed the Audience Documentary Award.

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