PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Two dramas, one about illegal immigration and one with the Iraq War as a backdrop, won the top prizes at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
"Padre Nuestro" -- director Christopher Zalla's story of a Mexican boy who travels illegally to New York to see his long-lost father -- won the grand jury prize Saturday.
"Grace Is Gone" -- starring John Cusack as a man who has to tell his children their military mother was killed in action in Iraq -- won the audience award, Daily Variety reported.
James C. Strouse took the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for his screenplay for "Grace Is Gone."
"Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)" -- an account of corruption in Brazil -- won the grand jury prize for documentary films. The audience award for documentaries went to director Irene Taylor Brodsky's "Hear and Now," about the decision by her deaf parents to have implants that might allow them to hear.
Director Charles Ferguson's film about the Iraq War, "No End in Sight," received a documentary special jury award.
