Dia Sokol nominated for an Independent Spirit Award
Indie Spirit Awards
Nominations for the 25th annual Independent Spirit Awards were announced earlier this month and “Sorry, Thanks” director/writer Dia Sokol was nominated for the prestigious Piaget Producer’s Award for her work on Beeswax (written & directed by Sorry, Thanks’s own beloved Andrew Bujalski) and Nights and Weekends.
Indiewire’s coverage online is located here “Spirit Awards: the Nominees.” Also, watch Matt Dillon announce the nominations here online. Congratulations to Dia for recognition of her outstanding contribution to independent film.
This week in the The Los Angeles Times, Mark Olsen praises Andrew Bujalski’s latest film, Beeswax, as being one of the best independent films of 2009, saying it captured the ”new spirit of independent film.”