Minari Wins Grand Prize, Women Sweep Directing Awards At Sundance

Minari, which is an autobiographical feature based on Lee Isaac Chung’s childhood in rural Arkansas, won both Audience and Grand Prize. “All four of the jury directing prizes went to female filmmakers: Garrett Bradley’s Time in U.S. Documentary, Radha Blank’s Netflix acquisition The 40-Year-Old Version in U.S. Dramatic, Iryna Tsilyk’s The Earth is Blue as an Orange from Ukraine/Lithuania in World Documentary and Maïmouna Doucouré’s Cuties (another Netflix title) from France in World Dramatic.” – Los Angeles Times