Are you looking forward to seeing Frozen River, the US indie which has garnered Oscar nominations for Best Actress (Melissa Leo) and Best Original Screenplay (Courtney Hunt)?

Be prepared to wait a while because the movie has yet to be acquired for distribution here, even though it’s been on the festival circuit since Sundance a year ago, when it won the Grand Jury Prize.

In Frozen River, Leo, who played detective Kay Howard in the 1990s TV series Homicide: Life on the Street, stars an impoverished single mother who desperate for money, teams with a neighbour (Misty Upham) to smuggle illegal immigrants into the US.

Presenting writer-director Hunt with her award at Sundance, Quentin Tarantino stated that the film “put my heart in a vice and proceeded to twist that vice until the last frame.”