Sundance Awards Get Global

“With a determinedly global outlook, the 2007 Sundance Film Festival awarded Padre Nuestro, Christopher Zalla’s drama of Mexican nationals making their treacherous way in New York City, the grand jury prize for dramatic feature. The documentary jury awarded its prize to Manda Bala, chronicling political violence in Brazil. Announced at Saturday’s closing ceremony, the Park City, Utah, festival audience award for best dramatic feature went to Grace Is Gone, starring John Cusack as the widower of a soldier killed in Iraq.”