Sean Baker’s dramedy starring Mikey Madison won the annual film festival’s top honor.
When accepting his award, Baker spoke from the podium about the importance of the moviegoing experience. „Watching a film with others in a movie theater is one of the great communal experiences,“ Baker said. „We share laughter, sorrow, anger, fear and hopefully have a catharsis with our friends and strangers. So I say the future of cinema is where it started: in a movie theater.”
„I will be forever changed, I think, as a filmmaker because of this experience,“ Gerwig said at the jury’s closing press conference.
