'Connected' wins award

The Berlin Film Festival as well as the activist org Interdependence Movement have named Tiffany Shlain's doc "Connected" the champion in the first Interdependence Film Prize for emerging filmmakers. Kudo was given out through the Interdependence Day Forum, held Sept. 12 near Ground Zero in Gotham. Shlain's doc, which combines an autobiographical tale about her family with phone intensifying links between everything and everyone inside the new-media age, preemed at Sundance taken and may soon hit theaters in the Paladin release. The trophy is among two being given out within the forum, while using many other to activism. Pic begins its theatrical rollout Friday, Sept. 16, in San Francisco Bay Area, getting a Gotham run, beginning March. 14, also concerning the itinerary. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com