Newfoundland native Tatiana Maslany wins prize for ‘breakout performance’ at Sundance festival

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.

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