Vietnam Story ‘Three Seasons’ Tops Sundance

PARK CITY, Utah —  “Three Seasons,” featuring Harvey Keitel in a story of four people’s struggles in chaotic postwar Vietnam, won top prizes Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, the nation’s best showcase for films made outside the big Hollywood studios.

Directed by Tony Bui, with Keitel as executive producer, and featuring a Vietnamese cast, “Three Seasons” won three trophies--the Grand Jury Prize in the festival’s dramatic competition, an award selected by audience balloting, and the cinematography award for Lisa Rinzler.

The documentary “American Movie,” about a man’s obsession with making independent films, won the Grand Jury Prize in the nonfiction competition.

In voting by the festival audience, awards also went to the documentary “Genghis Blues,” about a blind blues musician who ventures to the obscure republic of Tuva (between Siberia and Mongolia) to learn the even more obscure art of throat-singing (in which a singer can produce as many as four notes simultaneously.)