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Sundance Film Festival: Channing Tatum drama ‘Josephine’ wins top jury and audience awards

Sundance Film Festival: Channing Tatum drama ‘Josephine’ wins top jury and audience awards

PARK CITY, Utah — Beth de Araújo’s potent family drama “Josephine,” about an 8-year-old girl who witnesses a sexual assault, won top prizes at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The juries announced the winners Friday in Park City, Utah. Sundance Film Festival: Channing Tatum drama ‘Josephine’ wins top jury and audience awards “Josephine,” starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan as the girl’s parents, became one of the festival’s early consensus hits despite its difficult subject matter, which was based on the filmmaker’s own experience at that age. The young girl is played by newcomer Mason Reeves, whom de Araújo discovered at a San Francisco farmer’s market. The film won both the U.S. dramatic grand jury prize and the festival’s audience award but does not yet have distribution. Filmmakers Janicza Bravo, Nisha Ganatra and Azazel Jacobs were the jury for the U.S. Dramatic Competition. They cited the film’s “depth and nuance of storytelling” and its “delicate and elegant execution of a challenging subject matter.” Other titles in the U.S. dramatic competition included Josef Kubota Wladyka’s “Ha-chan, …