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The 2016 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 21 to January 31, 2016. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 2, 2015. The opening night film was Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.
The Birth of a Nation premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where Fox Searchlight Pictures bought worldwide rights to the film in a $17.5 million deal (at the time the largest deal at the festival), and won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. The film was theatrically released in the ...
Jan 27, 2016 · The Sundance Film Festival has always been a friendly home for any movie that takes on the demons of racial politics. In the case of The Birth of a Nation, which dramatizes the Virginia slave ...
At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, three films went on to garner eight Oscar nominations. Manchester by the Sea took the lead in Sundance-supported films with six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The next year, about 40 films were acquired by distributors, among them including Amazon, Netflix, Lionsgate, and Universal.
By. Jeff Labrecque. Published on January 30, 2016 12:00PM EST. Photo: Elliot Davis. The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker’s unflinching epic about Nat Turner’s 1831 slave uprising that sold to Fox...
Jan 31, 2016 · Kim Raff/Getty Images. -- Nate Parker's directorial debut, "The Birth of a Nation," swept the top prizes at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Awards Saturday night in Park City, Utah. The film ...
Jan 31, 2016 · Director thanked Sundance for platform The Hollywood Reporter — After 10 days of premieres and deals, the awards for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival were handed out Saturday night in Park City.
