Which year did Courtney Hunt win the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for her debut feature film, "Frozen River", about immigrant smuggling across the Canadian border?
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Courtney Hunt Courtney Hunt (born in 1964) is an American director and screenwriter. Her debut feature film, "Frozen River", won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
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Frozen River Frozen River is a 2008 American crime drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt. The screenplay focuses on two working-class women who smuggle illegal immigrants from Canada to the United States. It received two Academy Award nominations: Best Actress (Melissa Leo) and Best Original Screenplay (Courtney Hunt).
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Alisha Morrison Alisha Morrison (born April 23, 1986) is a Canadian actress known for roles in "Harriet the Spy" and "Mean Girls".
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Courtney Solomon Courtney Solomon (born September 1, 1971) is a Canadian producer, director and screenwriter. He is the founder of the film production company After Dark Films.
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The Slaughter Rule The Slaughter Rule is an independent film, released in 2002 and starring Ryan Gosling and David Morse. The movie, set in contemporary Montana, explores the relationship between a small-town high school football player (Gosling), and his troubled coach (Morse). The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
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Moosonee Moosonee is a town in northern Ontario, Canada, on the Moose River approximately 19 km south of James Bay. It is considered to be "the Gateway to the Arctic" and has Ontario's only saltwater port. Nearby on Moose Factory Island is the community of Moose Factory to which it is connected by water taxi in the summer and ice road in the winter.
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Driftwood (2016 film) Driftwood is an American independent film written and directed by Paul Taylor. The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival where it was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for best narrative feature.
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Canada (novel) Canada is a 2012 novel by American author Richard Ford. The novel follows 15-year-old Dell Parsons, who must learn to fend for himself after his parents are arrested for robbing a bank. The book also re-visits Great Falls, Montana, a setting that Ford frequently uses in his work. It was Ford's first "stand alone" novel since "Wildlife" (1990).
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Before I Disappear Before I Disappear is a 2014 American drama film directed by Shawn Christensen. The film is a feature-length adaptation of his 2012 Oscar-winning short film, "Curfew". The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest Film on March 10, 2014. The film was acquired for distribution by IFC Films on August 5, 2014 and released on November 28, 2014.
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The Whale (2011 film) The Whale is a 2011 documentary film directed by Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds, it tells the story of Luna, a killer whale (orca) living in Nootka Sound, Canada, who was separated from his pod at a young age.
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Waiting for Summer Waiting for Summer is a 2012 Canadian drama film directed by Senthil Vinu and produced by Krzysztof Pietroszek, starring Caleb Verzyden and Virginia Leigh. The film was released on March 30, 2012 at the Canadian Film Fest in Toronto, Canada and won the 2012 Film North Best Feature Award at the Film North – Huntsville International Film Festival.
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Cindy Chiu Cindy Chiu (born May 12, 1980) is a Chinese-American actress born in Taiwan and raised in Texas. Her films include "Coach Carter" (2005), "Prison-A-Go-Go!" (2003), "" (2006), "The Shanghai Hotel" (filmed 2006 and still not released), "A Foundling" (2010), and the short film "Interpretation" (2008) which has won over 50 awards (including the Cannes Film festival and Sundance).
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Kalyanee Mam Kalyanee Mam (born in Battambang, Cambodia) is an award-winning filmmaker whose film, "A River Changes Course", which she directed and produced, has won several awards, including the Grand Jury Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 San Francisco International Film Festival.
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The Rocket (2013 film) The Rocket is a 2013 Australian drama film written and directed by Kim Mordaunt. It is set entirely in Northern Laos, and spoken in the Lao language. As an Australian production, it was the country’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards but was not nominated. "The Rocket" won the Audience Award and the award for Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was screened at the AFI Fest.
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Wind River (film) Wind River is a 2017 American neo-western murder mystery thriller film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Gil Birmingham and Graham Greene also star. According to Sheridan, the opening "inspired by true events" card was a reference to the "thousands of actual stories just like it" involving sexual assault of women on reservations, his primary motivation for writing the film.
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Katharine Isabelle Katharine Isabelle Murray (born November 2, 1981) is a Canadian actress best known as a scream queen for her roles in various horror films. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she made her screen debut as a child in "Cousins" (1989), followed by supporting roles in numerous films and television series. Initially credited as Katie Murray, she later began using the name Katherine Isobel and subsequently Katharine Isabelle. She has starred in the werewolf horror films, "Ginger Snaps" (2000), its sequel, "" (2004), and "" (2004). Her portrayal of the death-obsessed teen, Ginger Fitzgerald, became one of her most notable roles. Additional roles in horror films include "Disturbing Behavior" (1998), "Carrie" (2002), "Freddy vs. Jason" (2003), "" (2010), and "American Mary" (2012). For her performance in the horror film, "American Mary" (2012), she earned several nominations for best actress, including Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, Screamfest Horror Film Festival and Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
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Saskatchewan River The Saskatchewan River (Cree: "kisiskāciwani-sīpiy", "swift flowing river") is a major river in Canada, about 550 km long, flowing roughly eastward across Saskatchewan and Manitoba to empty into Lake Winnipeg. Through its tributaries the North Saskatchewan and South Saskatchewan, its watershed encompasses much of the prairie regions of central Canada, stretching westward to the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and northwestern Montana in the United States. It reaches 1939 km to its farthest headwaters on the Bow River, a tributary of the South Saskatchewan in Alberta.
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My Internship in Canada My Internship in Canada (French: "Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre" ) is a Canadian political satire film written and directed by Philippe Falardeau. The film premiered in 2015 at the Locarno International Film Festival.
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Camille Munro Camille Munro (born September 6, 1990) is a Canadian dancer and beauty pageant titleholder. In 2013, she became the first woman from Saskatchewan to be named Miss World Canada in 50 years. The competition took place in Richmond, British Columbia. There were 35 contestants at the pageant, but Munro was the only one from Saskatchewan. She said that she planned to use her crown to "really engage Canadians in what's in Saskatchewan and let them know that we're not just a cold province in the winter." She also planned to spend the year practicing humanitarianism. Her win secured her entry into the Miss World 2013 pageant in Jakarta, Indonesia that September where she made the top 20 out of 127 contestants. Also that year, Munro graduated from the University of Regina with a bachelor's degree in human justice. As part of her program, she did an internship with the United Way of Canada. Munro teaches dance to young offenders who are female.
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Red River of the North The Red River (French: Rivière rouge or Rivière Rouge du Nord , American English: Red River of the North) is a North American river. Originating at the confluence of the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers between the U.S. states of Minnesota and North Dakota, it flows northward through the Red River Valley, forming the border of Minnesota and North Dakota and continuing into Manitoba, Canada. It empties into Lake Winnipeg, whose waters join the Nelson River and ultimately flow into the Hudson Bay.
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Jennifer Abbott Jennifer Abbott is a Canadian director and editor, who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries. She is best known as the co-director and editor of the widely acclaimed documentary, "The Corporation" (2003), which critically examines large corporations in the modern world. The Corporation was held over in commercial theatres internationally, has a 90% critics and audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes , won 26 awards including from the Sundance Film Festival, a Genie for best documentary and a top ten film of the year by the Toronto International Film Festival - though disqualified from the Oscars as an Ontario broadcast preceded the LA theatrical release. The Corporation is also credited as one of the top ten films to inspire the Occupy Movement. Most recently, Abbott co-wrote and edited Sea Blind , about the sea route opening along the melting Arctic Ocean and the price of shipping our stuff. It screened at the 2015 Paris climate talks and is making the rounds to the ports of Europe projected onto walls of shipping containers. Abbott is the co-writer, co-director and editor of Us and Them  about four homeless and addicted street people shot over the course of 10 years and the Executive Producer and Editor of I Am . She was commissioned to create the short film Brave New Minds for the interactive website Unspeak by Amsterdam's Submarine Channel . Abbott's first feature documentary, "A Cow at My Table" (1998), explores contemporary Western attitudes to livestock and meat production. Her early work includes the experimental short "Skinned" screened at NY's Museum of Modern Art . She has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver and lives on a permaculture farm on a small island on Canada's West Coast.
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The Wolfpack The Wolfpack is a 2015 American documentary film about a family who homeschooled and raised their seven children in the confinement of their apartment in the Lower East Side of New York City. The film, directed by Crystal Moselle, premiered on January 25, 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize. The film went on to be the Closing Night film of Maryland Film Festival 2015.