Congratulations, Richard!

I want to use this space today to congratulate my old screenwriting teacher, Richard Glatzer.

Richard, with whom I studied at The New School, won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival for his film "Quinceanera," which he wrote and directed with Wash Westmoreland. It's the first time that a film has won both awards in the same year at Sundance.

As they say across the pond, well done!

Tom Moran

Note: This makes two people I've known personally who have won awards at Sundance. The first was Eric Mendelsohn, who won Best Director in 1999 for "Judy Berlin."