Sundance Winners Announced

The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival was The Believer. Written and directed by Henry Bean, the scriptwriter of Internal Affairs and Deep Cover, the film stars Billy Zane, Theresa Russell, Summer Phoenix and Ryan Gosling. Gosling plays Danny Balint, a Jewish student who becomes an anti-Semitic fascist. On accepting the award, Bean said "This is truly a story of love and hate." He added, "I love the provocative aspects... the notion of being a Jew and a Nazi at the same time". Other winners include Southern Comfort, directed by Kate Davis, which won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize. It records the last year of life of female to male transsexual Robert Eads. The Dramatic Audience Award went to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which is adapted from the hit musical. Christopher Nolan won the Screenwriting Award for Memento and Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson received a Special Jury Prize for their performances in Todd Field's In The Bedroom.