Kentaro Hagiwara Wins 2013 Sundance/NHK International Filmmaker Award

Related: Kentaro Hagiwara, 2013 Sundance Film Festival

Over its 30-year history, The Sundance Institute Feature Film Program has supported an extensive list of award-winning and groundbreaking independent films which include Benh Zeitlin's Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Craig Zobel's Compliance, Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me, Haifaa Al Mansour's Wadjda, Sally El Hosaini's My Brother the Devil, Ira Sachs' Keep the Lights On, Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene, Dee Rees' Pariah, Maryam Keshavarz's Circumstance, Eric Mendelsohn's 3 Backyards, Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men, Cherien Dabis' Amreeka, Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre, Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer, Fernando Eimbcke's Lake Tahoe, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Half Nelson, Andrea Arnold's Red Road, Miranda July's Me and You and Everyone We Know, Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now, Debra Granik's Down to the Bone, Ira Sachs' Forty Shades of Blue, Josh Marston's Maria Full of Grace, Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon, Peter Sollett's Raising Victor Vargas, John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, Tony Bui's Three Seasons, Walter Salles' Central Station, Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca, Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight, Tamara Jenkins' Slums of Beverly Hills, and Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. For more information, visit www.sundance.org/featurefilm.

Founded by Robert Redford in 1981, Sundance Institute is a global, nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to nurturing artistic expression in film and theater, and to supporting intercultural dialogue between artists and audiences. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to unite, inform and inspire, regardless of geo-political, social, religious or cultural differences. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival and its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, film composers, playwrights and theatre artists, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America.

<< Page 1