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Bulgaria Short Movie receives Award at Prestigious Sundance Festival

by Sofia News Agency www.novinite.com, 25 Jan 2009

The Bulgarian short movie Omelette", directed by Nadezhda Koseva has received the Honorable Mention Award in Short Filmmaking at the prestigious US independent Sundance film festival. The jury and audience award-winners of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival were announced Saturday evening at the Festival's closing Awards Ceremony hosted by actor Jane Lynch in Park City, Utah. Films receiving jury awards were selected from the four categories: US Dramatic and Documentary Competition and World Dramatic and Documentary Competition. Films in these categories were also eligible for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Audience Awards. The US Audience Awards were announced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The World Cinema Audience Awards were announced by Benjamin Bratt. The Grand Jury Prize: US Dramatic was presented to Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels and written by Damien Paul. The film tells the redemptive story of Precious Jones, a young girl in Harlem struggling to overcome tremendous obstacles and discover her own voice. The film also received the US Audience Award. The Grand Jury Prize: US Documentary was presented to We Live in Public, directed by Ondi Timoner. The film portrays the story of the Internet's revolutionary impact on human interaction as told through the eyes of maverick web pioneer, Josh Harris, and his transgressive art project that shocked New York. The World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to The Maid (La Nana, Chile), directed by SebastiÃ¡n Silva. When her mistress brings on another servant to help with the chores, a bitter and introverted maid wreaks havoc on the household. The World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary was presented to Rough Aunties, directed by Kim Longinotto. Fearless, feisty and unwavering, the 'Rough Aunties' protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa. United Kingdom. The 2009 Jury Prize in US Short Filmmaking was awarded to: Short Term 12, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The jury also presented the International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking to Lies, directed by Jonas Odell. "Omelette" represented Bulgaria at the festival for the first time since 1989. The 5-minute long movie about a woman making an omelette shows viewers how difficult it is to make ends meet. "Omelette" is directed by by Nadezhda Koseva and produced by Martichka Bozhilova. Gerogi Gospodinov is the screenwriter, Anton Bakarski is the director of photography while Svetla Tsotsorkova portrays the woman making the omelette. Each year the Sundance Film Festival selects 200 films for exhibition from more than 9,000 submissions. More than 50,000 people attend screenings in twelve theatres in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah. The Sundance Film Festival is the premier showcase for US and international independent film. Presenting 120 dramatic and documentary feature-length films in seven distinct categories, and 80 short films each year, the Sundance Film Festival has introduced American audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Trouble the Water and Central Station. Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a not-for-profit organization that fosters the development of original storytelling in film and theatre, and presents the annual Sundance Film Festival. Internationally recognized for its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Angels in America, Spring Awakening, Boys Don't Cry and Born into Brothels.

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