Joshua Marston wins Audience Award at Sundance '04!
I usually avoid doing personal posts (you know, stalkers and all), but I am so jubilant at this news that I just can't keep it in. My friend and former classmate, Joshua (we in the know call him "Josh", and on special occasions, "JJ") Marston, won the highly coveted Audience Award last night at Sundance for his lyrical, riveting film, "Maria Full of Grace".
The film is about a young Colombian woman who, through unfortunate circumstance, becomes a drug "mule". HBO and Fine Line will be releasing it in theaters later this year, so go see it ya'll. I'm not sure how a Jewish guy from California ended up making such a detailed, intimate portrait of a young woman in South America (where it was largely shot), but I guess all his "research" down there really paid off.
Yea, JJ!
IN ADDITION to all this greatness, another super classmate of ours, Debra Granik, won the VERY VERY prestigious Jury Directing Award at Sundance for her fim about a couple trying to kick their drug habit, "Down to the Bone".
Congratulations, Josh and Debra! I don't know what Debra's next project will be, but I heard that Josh is developing a film called "Coiffing Adventures".
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