Digital News Report- The Sundance Film Festival has ended with Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, claiming three top prizes, including Best Drama by Jury and Audiences. The film focuses on the life an African-American teenaged girl living in Harlem and stars newcomer Gabourey Sidibe as Precious Jones. The film also stars Mo’Nique as her mother, Paula Patton as her teacher, Lenny Kravitz as a nurse, and Mariah Carey, who may have redeemed herself after Glitter with her role as a social worker.
The Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary went to the U.S. Documentary We Live in Public, which tells the story of the Internet’s revolutionary impact on human interaction and the transgressive art project of John Harris, the maverick web pioneer. The audiences choice for documentaries went to The Cove, which focuses on the slaughter of dolphins in a small Japanese village of Taiji.
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