Newfoundland native Tatiana Maslany wins prize for ‘breakout performance’ at Sundance festival
Posted January 31, 2010 7:41 am.
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Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany was among the prizewinners at the close of the 26th Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
The Newfoundland native won a special jury prize for Breakout Performance in World Cinema playing a sexually rebellious 14-year-old in Adriana Maggs’ Grown Up Movie Star, which premiered at Robert Redford’s 10-day fest.
The awards were announced Saturday night.
It was the first major onscreen role for Maslany, 24, who was hailed as a major talent by festival director John Cooper and industry journal Variety. She’s best known to Canadians from her cowgirl character Kit Bailey on CBC-TV’s Heartland.
Canadians also did well at the rival Slamdance Film Festival, which ran concurrently with Sundance on the other side of Park City.
Snow and Ashes by Quebec’s Charles-Olivier Michaud, a mystery about a war correspondence who awakens from a coma in Eastern Europe, took the prize for Best Narrative Film.