PUSH CLAIMS SUNDANCE'S TOP PRIZES
Posted 9:20am 01/26/09
A hard-hitting new movie about a pregnant teen is the toast of the Sundance
Film Festival in Utah after claiming three top awards on the final night of the
event.
Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, the story of an illiterate Harlem
teenager struggling with her studies as she copes with pregnancy, was voted
Best U.S. Drama by both a Sundance jury and audience members at the festival on
Saturday (24Jan09).
Actress/comedienne Mo'Nique also took home a Special Jury Prize for her
portrayal as a welfare-swindling mum in the drama.
Push becomes one of six films to claim three awards at Sundance in the
festival's 25-year history. It's also only the third movie to claim both jury
and audience honors.
We Live in Public won the Jury Prize for Best U.S. Documentary, while the
Audience Award in that category went to Louie Psihoyos’s The Cove. Chilean film
The Maid took home the Jury Prize for Best Foreign Drama, while the movie
adaptation of British writer Nick Hornby's screenplay, An Education, claimed
the Audience Prize. (KL/WN/LR) *WENN
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