The Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition has announced Rafel Duran Torrent from Barcelona, Spain, as their grand prize winner. Torrent has been awarded $100K for his short film "Cyborg Foundation." You can watch the winning film below. The cash prize was presented to Torrent during a ceremony at the Sundance Film Festival. As part of Focus Forward's collaboration with the fest, Torrent will get to participate in a Sundance Institute ShortsLab of his choice in 2013. The runner-up awards were presented to Jared P. Scott & Kelly Nyks (“The Artificial Leaf," USA), Paul Lazarus (“Slingshot," USA), Kim Munsamy (“Bones Don't Lie and Don't Forget," Guatemala), and Callum Cooper (“Mine Kafon," UK), whose combined winnings totaled $200,000, the largest cummulative cash prize ever given to short documentary films. Twenty films were chosen as finalists in the competition from more than 600 submissions from 69...
- 1/24/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Spanish director Rafel Duran Torrent has won the $100,000 cash prize in the Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. The awards, the most lucrative ever given to short documentaries, went to five different shorts, with the top one being Duran Torrent's "Cyborg Foundation." The director will also be invited to a Sundance Institute ShortsLab program of his choice this year. Runners-up were Jared P. Scott and Kelly Nyks for "The Artificial Leaf," Paul Lazarus for "Slingshot," Kim Munsamy for "Bones Don't Lie and Don't Forget" and Callum Cooper for...
- 1/22/2013
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Ge and cinelan today announced the five Jury Prize winners of its $200,000 Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition: Callum Cooper (Mine Kafon), Kim Munsamy (Bones Don’t Lie And Don’t Forget”, Paul Lazarus (Slingshot), Jared P. Scott & Kelly Nyks (The Artificial Leaf), and Rafel Duran Torrent (Cyborg Foundation). The Grand Jury Prize of $100,000 will be announced at a live Awards Ceremony on January 22 during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The jury for the Competition includes Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer Caroline Libresco, actress Daryl Hannah (Kill Bill), and award-winning filmmakers Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA), José Padilha (Elite Squad), Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost), Floyd Webb (Daughters of the Dust), and Peter...
- 1/7/2013
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition Names Five Jury Prize Winners; Grand Prize Announced at Sundance
The five jury-prize winners of the $200,000 Focus Forward Filmmaker competition have been announced. The Grand Jury Prize of $100,000 will be announced at a live awards ceremony on January 22 at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Full list of names and projects below. The five jury prize winners are: Callum Cooper (“Mine Kafon”) Kim Munsamy (“Bones Don’t Lie And Don’t Forget”) Paul Lazarus (“Slingshot”) Jared P. Scott and Kelly Nyks (“The Artificial Leaf”) Rafel Duran Torrent (“Cyborg Foundation”) In the Focus Forward "Short Films, Big Ideas" competition, participating filmmakers submit three-minute films featuring stories about people or organizations whose innovative efforts in medicine, computer science, robotics, engineering, green energy, or other fields of art and knowledge have had a significant positive impact on humanity. Last fall, a selection of 95 semifinalist...
- 1/7/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
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