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Screen displaying Sundance Film Festival logo at awards ceremony 2. Medium Sundance banner on wall at awards ceremony 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Brecher/Sundance Institute...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAssociated Press television\u003cbr/\u003ePark City Utah january 24 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Screen displaying Sundance Film Festival logo at awards ceremony \u003cbr/\u003e2. Medium Sundance banner on wall at awards ceremony \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Brecher/Sundance Institute executive director: \u003cbr/\u003e\"When we began this festival, George Bush was the president of the United States. And we end it with Barack Obama.\" \u003cbr/\u003e4. Cutaway cameraman \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Brecher/Sundance Institute executive director: \u003cbr/\u003e\"And I made this. It has a picture on it of our new president, and it says 'Barack Obama,' honourary head, Sundance Festival jury.\" \u003cbr/\u003e6. Audience applauding \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Presenter-actor: \u003cbr/\u003e\"And I would like to say I'm honoured to present these particular awards, this particular year. These awards are exercises in democracy, and it's a good time for democracy right now.\" \u003cbr/\u003e8. Cutaway cameraman \u003cbr/\u003e9. UPSOUND Joseph Gordon-Levitt presents audience award for U.S. dramatic film to \"Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire\" \u003cbr/\u003e10. UPSOUND \"Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire\" director Lee Daniels accepts audience award for U.S. dramatic film \u003cbr/\u003e11. UPSOUND Mike White presents grand jury prize for U.S. dramatic film to \"Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire\" \u003cbr/\u003e12. UPSOUND \"Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire\" director Lee Daniels accepts grand jury prize for U.S. dramatic film \u003cbr/\u003e13. UPSOUND Patrick Creadon presents the grand jury award for U.S. documentary to \"We Live in Public\" \u003cbr/\u003e14. Medium \"We Live in Public\" director Ondi Timoner hugs Patrick Creadon, accepting award 15. UPSOUND \"We Live in Public\" director Ondi Timoner accepts grand jury prize for U.S. documentary \u003cbr/\u003e16. Cutaway camera \u003cbr/\u003e17. UPSOUND Joseph Gordon-Levitt presents audience award for U.S. documentary to \"The Cove\" \u003cbr/\u003e18. UPSOUND Former \"Flipper\" trainer Richard O'Barry accepts audience award for \"The Cove,\" and criticizes Japanese media blackout of dolphin and whale fishing \u003cbr/\u003e19. Audience applauding \u003cbr/\u003e20. UPSOUND Virginia Madsen presents Waldo Salt screenwriting award to \"Paper Heart\" \u003cbr/\u003e21. UPSOUND Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi accept Waldo Salt screenwriting award for \"Paper Heart\" \u003cbr/\u003e22. Medium \"Push\" director Lee Daniels talks after Sundance awards ceremony \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Daniels/Director, on drinking during the Sundance awards: \"Every time we won an award, I went and I got a shot of Champagne, because I couldn't believe it. And then I had to come back and talk to ya'll. So -- hey! Hey!\" \u003cbr/\u003e24. Medium Lee Daniels walks with \"Push\" star, newcomer Gabourey Sidibe \u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Daniels/Director, on his thoughts after the three wins: \"I'm feeling spectacular. I feel really good. I feel this movie gives voice to so many obese people, illiterate people, people that are abused sexually, both physically and emotionally, kids. It gives a voice to people that we don't ever hear from. And that people from Sundance would acknowledge that, it's just like 'What?!' 'What?!' You know, so it's very exciting.\" \u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide Sundance awards stage \u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Daniels/Director, on showing \"Push\" at Sundance during the week that Obama was inaugurated: \"But I think that this movie sort of channels what Obama is about. And that's change.\" \u003cbr/\u003e28. Medium Lee Daniels talks to fan \u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Daniels/Director, on showing \"Push\" at Sundance during the week that Obama was inaugurated: \"It's been received so well because I think that we're in a different head-space. We're in a different head-space as Americans. And I think that's so beautiful.\" \u003cbr/\u003e30. Medium Sundance banner on curtain \u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee Daniels/Director, on his hopes for his movie \"Push\": \"I hope that it is my 'Colour Purple.' Except that it's told by a black man. So it delves into -- it drops to a place of unequivocal truth. And I hope that -- it is my hope that it transcends as it did here in Sundance. Because I don't know, this is like a specialised audience, you know. I hope that America sees it as Sundance has seen it -- as Sundance white guys have seen it, and women. Because I don't know, they're sort of artsy and hip. Is this going to play in Omaha? Omaha, don't let me down!\" \u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide dancing after Sundance awards \u003cbr/\u003e33. Close lights above dance floor at Sundance awards \u003cbr/\u003e34. Medium dancers on floor following Sundance awards \u003cbr/\u003e35. Medium Sundance banner on curtain   \u003cbr/\u003eThe Sundance Film Festival's prizes for best U.S. drama on Saturday went to \"Push,\" the dark yet hopeful story of a young woman finding her way out of nightmarish circumstances in 1980s Harlem. \u003cbr/\u003eBased on the 1996 first novel by the poet Sapphire and directed by Lee Daniels, \"Push\" won both the grand jury and audience awards. The film version is subtitled \"Based on the novel by Sapphire\" to distinguish it from the Dakota Fanning-Chris Evans sci-fi thriller due out next month.\u003cbr/\u003eThe penultimate night of the 11-day festival, the nation's premiere showcase for independent film, was marked by political references and jangled nerves.\u003cbr/\u003eSundance Institute executive director Ken Brecher hoisted an honourary festival pass with the new U.S. president's name on it, and presenter Joseph Gordon-Levitt tugged at his red Barack Obama T-shirt, saying: \"These awards are exercises in democracy, and it's a good time for democracy right now.\"\u003cbr/\u003eGordon-Levitt cheered and gave Daniels a big hug before presenting the audience award to his film, which stars Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey and Paula Patton alongside newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, who plays pregnant 16-year-old Precious Jones.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is so important to me because this is speaking for every minority that's in Harlem, that's in Detroit, that's in Watts, that's being abused, that can't read, that's obese and that we turn our back on,\" Daniels said. \"And this is for every gay little boy and girl that's being tortured. If I can do this ... ya'll can do this.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWhen he picked up the grand jury prize later in the evening, Daniels acknowledged: \"I'm drunk. I got like three shots right after we got the last one.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe grand jury prize for U.S. documentary went to \"We Live in Public,\" focusing on little-known Internet pioneer Josh Harris and his failed \"lifecasting\" art projects in 1999 and 2000. The film was directed by Ondi Timoner, whose \"Dig!\" won the same award in 2004.\u003cbr/\u003eTimoner dedicated the honour to Harris, calling him \"the first subject I've ever had that said I don't care how you portray me as long as you make a great film.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi won the Waldo Salt screenwriting award for \"Paper Heart,\" a hybrid documentary-improv road movie featuring Yi and Michael Cera.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel sick. I'm sweaty. I smell bad,\" said Yi, a performance artist and comedian best known for a bit part in \"Knocked Up\" and her relationship with Cera.\u003cbr/\u003eShe finished by addressing other filmmakers in the audience: \"Who knows what'll happen to our films but at least they were seen.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the ceremony, Daniels to AP Television: \"I think that this movie sort of channels what Obama is about. And that's change. ... It's been received so well because I think that we're in a different head-space. We're in a different head-space as Americans. And I think that's so beautiful.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThough \"Push\" does not yet have a distributor, Daniels seemed certain it would get out there: \"I hope that it is my 'Colour Purple.' Except that it's told by a black man. So it delves into -- it drops to a place of unequivocal truth. And I hope that -- it is my hope that it transcends as it here in Sundance. Because I don't know, this is like a specialised audience, you know. 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