Big U.S. winner: 'The Birth of a Nation'

"The Birth of a Nation," a U.S. film set in the pre-Civil War American South, is one among the winners at the Sundance Film Festival 2016, receiving two covetted prizes. The drama received the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic. In "The Birth of a Nation," a literate slave and preacher accepts an offer from his financially strained owner to use his preaching skills to subdue unruly slaves. However, after witnessing countless atrocities against fellow slaves, the preacher devises a plan to lead his people to freedom. The movie stars Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, and Mark Boone. "The Birth of a Nation" is one of few films that walked away with two awards. Iran's documentary "Sonita," about a 18-year-old rapper, won World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary and the Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary. Colombia's "Between Sea and Land" won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic and a special award for acting. –CESAR ARREDONDO