Cancer Movie Wins Top Prize At Sundance

Los Angeles (AFP) - "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl," a moving drama about a teenager who befriends a classmate with cancer, won the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival Saturday.Sundance winners regularly go on to critical and awards success at Hollywood's main prize-giving ceremonies. Last year's top winner, "Whiplash," is nominated for best picture at this year's Oscars.The US documentary award meanwhile went to "The Wolfpack," while in the non-US categories the main prizes went to a Scottish filmmaker and a movie about Ukraine's ongoing struggle in the shadow of its former Soviet masters."Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon took the Grand Jury Prize for a US drama at the end of a two-hour awards ceremony in the Utah mountain resort Park City.It also took the US drama audience prize -- the third year in row that the top US film has won both Grand Jury and audience awards, following "Whiplash" last year and "Fruitvale Station" in 2013.The best director for US drama was named as Robert Eggers for his horror movie "The Witch." - Stiff competition - The win for "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" came against what was considered strong competition this year from other entries that stirred considerable buzz at Sundance, including "The Witch" and the coming-of-age hip hop drama "Dope."Among US documentaries, "The Wolfpack" by Crystal Moselle took the Grand Jury Prize, while best director went to Matthew Heineman for "Cartel Land" about drug wars in Mexico.In the world cinema categories, the Grand Jury Prize for a drama went to "Slow West" by Scottish filmmaker John Maclean, which follows a teenager on a journey across 19th century frontier America in search of the woman he loves."Thanks to dad for taking me to see Westerns when I was a wee boy," he said in a message to the festival.

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