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Warriors’ Steph Curry Adds Sundance Film Award to His Trophy Case
The short film highlights Clarence B. Jones’s role with Martin Luther King Jr. and won for its compelling call to action, said Sundance jury members.
- On Tuesday night at the Short Film Awards Ceremony in Park City, The Baddest Speechwriter of All, co-directed and produced by Stephen Curry and Ben Proudfoot, won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize.
- Now 93, Clarence B. Jones, longtime lawyer and speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr., reflects on the Civil Rights Movement as Short Film Jury members praised the film's timely call to action.
- A three-person short-film jury of A.V. Rockwell, Liv Constable-Maxwell and Martin Starr chose winners from 54 titles, while Ben Proudfoot, a two-time Academy Award winner, produced the short with Erick Peyton, Breakwater Studios, and Unanimous Media.
- Stephen Curry now adds a Sundance Grand Jury Prize to his accolades, but he will celebrate with Ben Proudfoot after the Warriors' Wednesday game in Salt Lake City against the Utah Jazz; most shorts stream online Jan. 29–Feb. 1.
- Proudfoot added that collaborating with Curry, a renowned athlete, gave him a chance to grow as a filmmaker amid the festival's almost 100 feature-length and 54 short films curated from 40 submissions.
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