'Wire' docu wins Sundance Grand Jury

January 27, 2008 PARK CITY -- "Man on Wire," James Marsh's documentary look at Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, took home both the Grand Jury and the Audience Prize in the World Cinema category Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. In other top prizes, Courtney Hunt's single-mother immigrant drama "Frozen River" scored the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Jonathan Levine's coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness," in which a young pot dealer in mid-'90s New York finds a mentor and customer in his shrink, took home the Dramatic Feature Audience award. Also at the ceremony, the grand jury handed best documentary to Tia Lessin's and Carl Deal's Hurricane Katrina docu "Trouble the Water," which uses extensive footage from before and after the 2005 disaster to expose the real stories of the hurricane's impact on New Orleans.

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