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Sundance prize for independent Irish film

AN Irish film has won a prestigious prize at the Sundance Film Festival in the United States.

The low-budget film Once received the World Cinema Audience Award last weekend at the festival which was founded by actor-director Robert Redford to promote independent productions.

The musical charts a relationship between a Grafton Street busker —played by Glen Hansard —and a Czech pianist — played by Marketa Irglova — who sells roses and the Big Issue on the street.

It was written and directed by John Carney, one of the team behind the RTÉ series Bachelors Walk.