Sundance festival summed up

On Sunday, February 1, the 31st Festival of Independent Cinema Sundance ended in the United States. The best American game full-length film was recognized by the painting by Alfonso Gomeza-Rokhon “I, Earl and Dying Girl” (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl).

The heroes of the film are two senior friends and their classmate, who was discovered by cancer. The picture was based on the book of the writer Jesse Andrews, published in 2013, writes the film about .

“I want to devote this award to young filmmakers from my hometown Lado, Texas,” said Alfonso Gomez-Rakhon at the award ceremony. His picture also received a prize of spectator sympathy.

According to Deadline.com , the rights to rent the film “I, Erl and the Dying Girl” were acquired by Fox Searchlight and Indian PaintBrush for the record for the festival $ 12 million. The picture will be released this year.

The previous film Gomeza Rakhon, “The City that was afraid of sunset” ( The Town That Dreged Sundown ) was released in 2014. The director is also known for work on television series, among which, in particular, the “choir” ( Glee ), “ Carrie Diaries” and “American Horror Story” ( American Horror Story ).

The prize for the best directing was awarded to Robert Eggers for working on the film “ The Witch”. The best foreign game full -length film is named Western John Maklin “ Slow West” with Michael Fassbender.

In the category of documentary cinema, the winners were the “wolf flock” ( The Wolfpack , the USA) - about teenagers who spent almost all their lives at home in their apartment in Manhattan and never left it - and “Russian woodpecker” (The Russian Woodpecker , Great Britain) whose main character Fedor Alexandrovich goes to Ukraine to find out the true true Causes of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The list of all laureates of the 2015 Sundance festival is given on its website