January 29, 2007 Saturday night marked the closing of the festival with hoopla and pageantry at the big Awards Ceremony Night. The main prizes given are Drama and Documentary as selected by "jury" and also "audience". Here's how it works: a jury is 7 film snobs. An audience is thousands of votes, tallied the old-fashioned way - by paper ballots, turned in by audience members. Here's a tip: if you want to know what's truly the "best in the fest", see the films chosen by "audience" first. As they say: "numbers don't lie." » Check out the latest at HP's Sundance Blog Hear and Now by Irene Taylor-Brodsky (center) Photo provided by The Sundance Institute The Best of the Best - Sundance Award Winners (a.k.a. films you must see) You're really good if your film is showing here; however, if your name was called at the Awards Ceremony last Saturday night, you're really, really good. We saw and loved Irene Taylor-Brodsky's amazing documentary Hear and Now (pictured above). Keep an eye (and ear) out for it on HBO in the coming months. SUNDANCE 2007 AWARD WINNERS Select by Audience (these are truly the best of fest) American Documentary - Hear and Now American Drama - Grace is Gone World Documentary - In the Shadow of the Moon World Drama - Once Selected by Jury American Documentary - Manda Bala American Drama - Padre Nuestro World Documentary - Enemies of Happiness World Drama - Sweet Mud Past 9 issues of HP's Film Fest Flash Marketa Iglova & Glen Hansard © Matt Caldwell / HP Newsgram Irene Taylor-Brodsky from Hear and Now Photo provided by The Sundance Institute Did You Miss a Flash? Now You Can Read All Past Issues Perhaps you missed Alexi Murdoch performing live or our interview with Gina Gershon? Some of you have asked how you can read back issues - now here's your chance. Relive the past 9 days of festival happenings via HP Film Fest Flash. » Check out the emails from the past 9 days The Stars from Once perform exclusively for HP Two musicians stole the show at Sundance. John Carney's Irish pseudo-musical grabbed the "best world drama as chosen by audience" award. We were lucky enough to tape a duet by them amongst the snow, aspens and mountain tops. » Watch the performance by Glen Hansard & Marketa Iglova HP interviews Irene Taylor-Brodsky from Hear and Now HP was able to sit down with "Best-Documentary-by- Audience" winner Irene Taylor-Brodsky just after her world premiere. We'd prepared a list of questions, but the film was so powerful and moving, all we could do, while sitting across from her on a cheap sofa in the projector room, was give her a great big hug. » Read the interview with Irene Taylor-Brodsky