Sundance Film Festival

Sundance 2008

January 17-27, 2008  •  Park City, Utah

2008
Edition
Frozen River Grand Jury: Dramatic
Trouble the Water Grand Jury: Documentary
Grand Jury Prize — U.S. Dramatic
Grand Jury
Frozen River
Directed by Courtney Hunt

Courtney Hunt's spare, tense drama about a desperate upstate New York woman who teams with a Mohawk woman to smuggle illegal immigrants across the frozen St. Lawrence River.

Grand Jury Prize — U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury
Trouble the Water
Directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

A documentary about a young couple from New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward who filmed their own Hurricane Katrina experience and returned to find their neighborhood destroyed.