January 26, 2008–The jury and audience award-winners of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at the closing awards ceremony hosted by William H. Macy. The Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary was presented to TROUBLE THE WATER, directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to FROZEN RIVER, directed by Courtney Hunt, about a
desperate trailer mom and a Mohawk Indian girl who team up to smuggle illegal immigrants into the U.S. from Canada.

Sundance Film Fest 2008: The following list includes films with a California connection, shown in the festival's various sections. The list is arranged alphabetically.

January 25, 2008–The 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival has announced 15 film and screenplay prize winners in three categories who will share more than $200,000 in cash and prizes, plus, for one winner, guaranteed production of a feature film. The just-concluded Festival in Park City, Utah, received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 programming slots.

January 25, 2008–The 2008 Sundance Film Festival is pleased to announce that SLEEP DEALER, directed by Alex Rivera, is the recipient of this year‚Äôs Alfred P. Sloan Prize. The Prize, which carries a $20,000 cash award to the filmmaker provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is presented to an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.

January 25, 2008–Star-driven features like the Robert De Niro inside Hollywood movie, “What Just Happened” and “The Great Buck Howard,” which Tom Hanks produced and co-starred in, would leave Sundance without a distribution deal.