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44th Sundance Film Festival 28 JAN - 3 FEB 2021 in Park City, Utah
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U.S. D R A M A T I CGrand Jury Prize: CODA Audience Award: CODA Directing: Sian Heder (CODA) Screenwriting: Ari Katcher & Ryan Welch (ON THE COUNT OF THREE) Acting: Clifton Collins Jr (JOCKEY) Ensemble: CODA Editing: Kristina Motwani & Rebecca Adorno (HOMEROOM) Neorealism: W O R L D C I N E M A D R A M A T I C Grand Jury Prize: HIVE Audience Award: HIVE Directing: Blerta Basholli (HIVE) Acting: Jesmark Scicluna (LUZZU) Creative Vision: Baz Poonpiriya (ONE FOR THE ROAD) Alfred P Sloan Prize: SONS OF MONARCHS NEXT Audience Award: MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY NEXT Innovator: Dash Shaw (CRYPTOZOO) |
U.S. D O C U M E N T A R YGrand Jury Prize: SUMMER OF SOUL Audience Award: SUMMER OF SOUL Directing: Natalia Almada (USERS) Emerging Filmmaker: Parker Hill & Isabel Bethencourt (CUSP) Nonfiction Experimentation: Theo Anthony (ALL LIGHT EVERYWHERE) W O R L D C I N E M A D O C Grand Jury Prize: FLEE Audience Award: WRITING WITH FIRE Directing: Hogir Hirori (SABAYA) Impact for Change: Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh (WRITING WITH FIRE) Verite Filmmaking: Camilla Nielsson (PRESIDENT) S U N D A N C E I N S T I T U T E NHK Award: Meryman Joobeur (MOTHERHOOD) Producers Award - Nonfiction: Nicole Salazar (PHILLY D.A.) Producers Award - Fiction: Natalie Qasabian (RUN) Editing: Juli Vizza & Terilyn Shropshire | ||
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AILEY (Wignot, US)ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE (Anthony, US) AMY TAN: UNINTENDED MEMOIR (Redford, US) AT THE READY (Crow, US)
THE BLAZING WORLD (Young, US)BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE (Walker, US)
CENSOR (Bailey-Bond, UK)
CODA (Heder, US)COMING HOME IN THE DARK (Ashcroft, NZ)
CRYPTOZOO (Shaw, US)CUSP (Hill/Bethencourt, US) THE DOG WHO WOULDN'T BE QUIET (Katz, Arg) EIGHT FOR SILVER (Ellis, US) EL PLANETA (Ulman, Sp) FAYA DAYI (Beshir, Eth) FIRE IN THE MOUNTAINS (Singh, Ind)
FIRST DATE (Crosby/Knapp, US)FLEE (Rasmussen, Den) A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX (Ascher, US) HIVE (Basholli, Kos) HOMEROOM (Nicks, US) HOW IT ENDS (Wein/Lister-Jones, US)
HUMAN FACTORS (Ger) (Trocker, Ger)I WAS A SIMPLE MAN (Yogi, US)
IN THE EARTH (Wheatley, UK)IN THE SAME BREATH (Wang, US) JOCKEY (Bentley, US)
JOHN AND THE HOLE (Sisto, US)
KNOCKING (Kempff, Swe)
LAND (Wright, US)LIFE IN A DAY 2020 (Macdonald, UK) LUZZU (Camilleri, Mlt) MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY (Hill, US) MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE (Tsang, US) MASS (Kranz, US) MAYDAY (Cinorre, US) |
MISHA AND THE WOLVES (Hobkinson, UK)
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (Lindstrom/Petri, Swe)MOTHER SCHMUCKERS (Guit/Guit, Bel) MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY (West/Cohen, US)
NIGHT OF THE KINGS (Lacote, CdI)ON THE COUNT OF THREE (Carmichael, US) ONE FOR THE ROAD (Poonpiriya, Chn) PASSING (Hall, US) THE PINK CLOUD (Gerbase, Br) PLAYING WITH SHARKS (Aitken, Aus)
PLEASURE (Thyberg, Swe)PRESIDENT (Nielsson, Den) PRIME TIME (Piatek, Pol)
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND (Sono, Jpn)R#J (Williams, US) REBEL HEARTS (Kos, US) RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT (Riera, US)
SABAYA (Hirori, Swe)SEARCHERS (Velez, US) SON OF MONARCHS (Gambis, Mex)
THE SPARKS BROTHERS (Wright, UK)STRAWBERRY MANSION (Birney/Audley, US) STREET GANG: HOW WE GOT TO SESAME STREET (Agrelo, US)
SUMMER OF SOUL (Thompson, US)SUPERIOR (Vassilopoulos, US) TAMING THE GARDEN (Jashi, Swi)
TOGETHER TOGETHER (Beckwith, US)TRY HARDER! (Lum, US) USERS (Almada, US) VIOLATION (Sims-Fewer/Mancinelli, Can) WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (Schoenbrun, US) WILD INDIAN (Corbine, US)
THE WORLD TO COME (Fastvold, US)WRITING WITH FIRE (Thomas/Ghosh, Ind) | ||
43rd Sundance Film Festival 23 JAN - 2 FEB 2020 in Park City, Utah
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D R A M A T I CGrand Jury Prize: MINARI Audience Award: MINARI Directing: Radha Blank (THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION) Screenwriting: Edson Oda (NINE DAYS) Ensemble: CHARM CITY KINGS Auteur Filmmaking: Josephine Decker (SHIRLEY) Neorealism: Elilza Hittman (NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS) W O R L D C I N E M A Grand Jury Prize: YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS Audience Award: IDENTIFYING FEATURES Directing: Maimouna Doucoure (CUTIES) Screenwriting: Fernanada Valadez & Astrid Rondero (IDENTIFYING FEATURES) Acting: Ben Whishaw (SURGE) Visionary Filmmaking: Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT'S A RESURRECTION) S U N D A N C E I N S T I T U T E NHK Award: HIGHER Feature Producers: Huriyyah Muhammad (FAREWELL AMOR) Documentary Producer: Diane Becker & Melanie Miller (WHIRLYBIRD) |
D O C U M E N T A R YGrand Jury Prize: BOYS STATE Audience Award: CRIP CAMP Directing: Garrett Bradley (TIME) Editing: Tyler H Walk (WELCOME TO CHECHNYA) Emerging Filmmaker: Arthur Jones (FEELS GOOD MAN) Social Impact Filmmaking: Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman & Eli Despres (THE FIGHT) Innovation in Nonfiction Storytelling: Kirsten Johnson (DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD) W O R L D C I N E M A D O C U M E N T A R Y Grand Jury Prize: EPICENTRO Audience Award: THE REASON I JUMP Directing: Iryna Tsilyk (EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE) Cinematography: Mircea Topoleanu & Radu Ciorniciuc (ACASA, MY HOME) Editing: Mila Aung-Thwin, Sam Soko & Ryan Mullins (SOFTIE) Creative Storytelling: Benjamin Ree (THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF) Alfred P Sloan Prize: TESLA NEXT Audience Award: I CARRY YOU WITH ME NEXT Innovator: I CARRY YOU WITH ME | ||
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AND THEN WE DANCED (Akin, Geo)
THE ASSISTANT (Green, US)
BLACK BEAR (Levine, US)
BLOODY NOSE EMPTY POCKETS (Ross/Ross, US)
BOYS STATE (Moss/McBaine, US)
THE CLIMB (Covino, US)
COLLECTIVE (Nanau, Rom)
COME AWAY (Chapman, US)
THE COURIER (Cooke, UK)
CRIP CAMP (Newnham/LeBrecht, US)
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Johnson, US)
DISCLOSURE (Feder, US)
THE DISSIDENT (Fogel, US)
DREAM HORSE (Lyn, UK)
EMA (Larrain, Chl)
FALLING (Mortensen, Can)
FAREWELL AMOR (Msangi, US)
THE FATHER (Zeller, UK)
THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION (Blank, US)
THE GLORIAS (Taymor, US)
HERSELF (Lloyd, Ire)
HIS HOUSE (Weekes, UK)
I CARRY YOU WITH ME (Ewing, US)
IDENTIFYING FEATURES (Valadez, Mex)
KAJILLIONAIRE (July, US)
THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS (Machoian, US)
LA LLORONA (Bustamante, Gua)
LUXOR (Durra, Egy)
MINARI (Chung, US) |
MISS JUNETEENTH (Peoples, US)
MUCHO MUCHO AMOR (Costantini/Tabsch, US)
THE NEST (Durkin, UK)
NINE DAYS (Oda, US)
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (Hittman, US)
ON THE RECORD (Dick/Ziering, US)
THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF (Ree, Nor)
PALM SPRINGS (Barbakow, US)
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE (Mansour, KSA)
POSSESSOR (Cronenberg, Can)
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Fennell, US)
THE REASON I JUMP (Rothwell, UK)
RELIC (James, Aus)
SCARE ME (Ruben, US)
SERGIO (Barker, US)
SHIRLEY (Decker, US)
SOME KIND OF HEAVEN (Oppenheim, US)
SPACESHIP EARTH (Wolf, US)
SPREE (Kotlyarenko, US)
SYLVIE'S LOVE (Ashe, US)
TESLA (Almereyda, US)
TIME (Bradley, US)
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (Dweck/Kershaw, It)
UNCLE FRANK (Ball, US)
WANDER DARKLY (Miele, US)
WELCOME TO CHECHNYA (France, US)
WENDY (Zeitlin, US)
ZOLA (Bravo, US)* review coming | ||
Sundance Film Festival: London | |||
 9th Sundance Film Festival: London 29 JULY - 1 AUGUST 2021 at Picturehouse Central Best Film: CODA Surprise Film: HERSELF Updates & reviews at: SHADOWS BLOG
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THE BLAZING WORLD (Young, US)
CENSOR (Baily-Bond, UK)
CODA (Heder, US)
CRYPTOZOO (Shaw, US)
FIRST DATE (Crosby/Knapp, US)
HERSELF (Lloyd, Ire) - Surprise Film
HUMAN FACTORS (Trocker, Ger) IN THE SAME BREATH (Wang, US)
MISHA AND THE WOLVES (Hobkinson, UK) |
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD (Lindstrom/Petri, Swe)
THE NEST (Durkin, UK)
PLEASURE (Thyberg, Swe)
THE SPARKS BROTHERS (Wright, UK)
TOGETHER TOGETHER (Beckwith, US)WRITING WITH FIRE (Thomas/Ghosh, Ind)
ZOLA (Bravo, US)
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Features:
BOYS STATE (Moss/McBaine, US)
LUXOR (Durra, Egy)
UNCLE FRANK (Ball, US)Events: |
Shorts:* BEYOND THE NORTH WINDS (Cubides-Brady, UK) * THE DEVIL'S HARMONY (Williams, UK) JUNIOR BANGERS (Lee) NO, I DON'T WANT TO DANCE (Vinciguerra)
POMPEII (Lighton/Alessi/Morgan, UK)SLUG LIFE (Gate) WHITE GIRL (Latif) WOOD CHILD & HIDDEN FOREST MOTHER (Irwin) | 2 0 1 9 F I L M S | |
AFTER THE WEDDING (Freundlich, US)ANIMALS (Hyde, UK)
APOLLO 11 (Miller, US)ASK DR RUTH (White, US) THE BRINK (Klayman, US) CORPORATE ANIMALS (Brice, US) THE DEATH OF DICK LONG (Scheinert, US) |
THE FAREWELL (Wang, US)
GREENER GRASS (DeBoer/Luebbe, US)
HAIL SATAN? (Lane, US)
THE LAST TREE (Amoo, UK)
LATE NIGHT (Ganatra, US)
THE NIGHTINGALE (Kent, Aus) | 2 0 1 8 F I L M S | |
AMERICAN ANIMALS (Layton, US)
EIGHTH GRADE (Burnham, US)
FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, US)
AN EVENING WITH BEVERLY LUFF LINN (Hosking, UK)
GENERATION WEALTH (Greenfield, US)
GIRLHOOD (Sciamma, 14/Fr)HALF THE PICTURE (Adrion, US)
HEREDITARY (Aster, US)
LEAVE NO TRACE (Granik, US)
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST (Akhavan, US) |
MORVERN CALLAR (Ramsay, 02/UK)NEVER GOIN' BACK (Frizzell, US)
SKATE KITCHEN (Moselle, US)THE TALE (Fox, US)
TARNATION (Caouette, 04/US)
YARDIE (Elba, UK)
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