Saturday, January 28, 2017

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL


















The first important festival of the year is the most important one in the US that has four competitions and almost all world premieres. The festival started to support the independent films and filmmakers but is now an integrated part of Hollywood.

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Band Aid by Zoe Lister-Jones
Beach Rats by Eliza Hittman 
Directing Award 
Brigsby Bear by Dave McCary
Burning Sands by Gerard McMurray
Crown Heights by Matt Ruskin 
Audience Award
Golden Exits by Alex Ross Perry
The Hero by Brett Haley
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair 
Grand Jury Prize
Ingrid Goes West by Matt Spicer 
Screenwriting Award
Landline by Gillian Robespierre
Novitiate by Maggie Betts
Patti Cake$ by Geremy Jasper
Roxanne Roxanne by Michael Larnell
To the Bone by Marti Noxon
Walking Out by Alex & Andrew Smith
The Yellow Birds by Alexandre Moors


U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Casting JonBenet by Kitty Green
Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski 
Audience Award
City of Ghosts by Matthew Heineman
Dina by Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini 
Grand Jury Prize
Dolores by Peter Bratt
The Force by Pete Nicks 
Directing Award 
ICARUS by Bryan Fogel
The New Radical by Adam Bhala Lough
NOBODY SPEAK: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press by Brian Knappenberger
Quest by Jonathan Olshefski
STEP by Amanda Lipitz
Strong Island by Yance Ford
Trophy by Shaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau
Unrest by Jennifer Brea
Water & Power: A California Heist by Marina Zenovich
Whose Streets? by Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis


WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Axolotl Overkill by Helene Hegemann
Berlin Syndrome by Cate Shortland
Carpinteros by José María Cabral
Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! by Felipe Bragança
Family Life by Alicia Scherson & Cristián Jiménez
Free and Easy by Geng Jun
My Happy Family by Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross
God's Own Country by Francis Lee
The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh 
Grand Jury Prize
Pop Aye by Kirsten Tan
I Dream in Another Language by Ernesto Contreras 
Audience Award
The Wound by John Trengove


WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The Good Postman by Tonislav Hristov
In Loco Parentis by Neasa Ní Chianáin & David Rane
It’s Not Yet Dark by Frankie Fenton
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella 
Audience Award
Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad 
Grand Jury Prize
Machines by Rahul Jain
Motherland by Ramona Diaz
Plastic China by Jiu-liang Wang
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World by Catherine Bainbridge
Tokyo Idols by Kyoko Miyake
WINNIE by Pascale Lamche
The Workers Cup by Adam Sobel


NEXT
Columbus by Kogonada
Dayveon by Amman Abbasi
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train by Sydney Freeland
A Ghost Story by David Lowery
Gook by Justin Chon 
Audience Award
L.A. Times by Michelle Morgan
Lemon by Janicza Bravo
Menashe by Joshua Z Weinstein
Person to Person by Dustin Guy Defa
Thoroughbred by Cory Finley


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For more info: http://www.sundance.org

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