2012 Sundance Film Festival
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Festival poster | |
| Location | Park City |
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| Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
| Festival date | January 19–29, 2012 |
| Language | English |
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The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah.[1]
64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions.[2]
Award winners
- Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - The House I Live In
- Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
- World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - The Law in These Parts
- World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)
- Audience Award: U.S. Documentary - The Invisible War
- Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic - The Surrogate (retitled The Sessions)
- World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Searching for Sugar Man
- World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Valley of Saints
- Best of NEXT Audience Award - Sleepwalk with Me
- U.S. Directing Award: Documentary - The Queen of Versailles
- U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic - Middle of Nowhere
- World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - 5 Broken Cameras
- World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Teddy Bear
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Safety Not Guaranteed
- World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Young & Wild
- U.S. Documentary Editing Award - Detropia
- World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Indie Game: The Movie
- Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary - Chasing Ice
- Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
- World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Putin's Kiss
- World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - My Brother the Devil
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change - Love Free or Die
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing - Smashed and Nobody Walks
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting - The Surrogate (retitled The Sessions)
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision - Can
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit - Searching for Sugar Man
- Jury Prize: Short Filmmaking - Fishing Without Nets
- Jury Prize: Short Film, U.S. Fiction - The Black Balloon
- Jury Prize: Short Film, International Fiction - The Return
- Jury Prize: Short Film, Non-Fiction - The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
- Jury Prize: Animated Short FIlm - A Morning Stroll
- Short Film Audience Award - The Debutante Hunters[3]
Premieres
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) web documentary Bear 71 premiered January 20 in an installation at the festival's New Frontier multimedia program.[4] The NFB documentary Payback, based on Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, and the documentary A Place at the Table, also premiered at the festival.[5]
References
- ↑ "Festival Info". Sundance Institute. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- ↑ "2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program". Sundance Institute. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
- ↑ "2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards". sundance.org. January 28, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ↑ Monk, Katherine. "Sundance: Interactive film, Bear 71, blurs lines between wild and wired". canada.com. Postmedia News. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ↑ Fulton, Ben (27 January 2012). "Sundance: A documentary about debt offers a big 'Payback'". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
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