Sundance NHK winners
The Sundance Institute and NHK have announced the winners of the 2008 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Awards.
The four filmmakers are Chile's Alejandro Fernandez Almendras (HUACHO), United States' Braden King (HERE), Japan's Aiko Nagatsu (APOPTOSIS), and Romania's Radu Jude (THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD). Each director will receive $10,000 and a promise from NHK, Japan's largest broadcaster, to purchase the Japanese television rights when the film's are done. Sundance Institute staff will work with each filmmaker.
Winners were picked by members of an international jury including Gregg Araki, Jeremy Pikser, Erin Cressida Wilson, Martin Rejtman, Andrucha Waddington, Shekhar Kapur, and Anand Tucker.
Past recipients of the award include: Andrucha Waddington, THE HOUSE OF SAND (Brazil); Miranda July, ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (USA); Walter Salles, CENTRAL STATION (Brazil); Chris Eyre, SMOKE SIGNALS (USA); and Alex Rivera (USA) whose film SLEEP DEALER is in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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