The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29, 2017. There was some degree of tension with this particular year's event, as Robert Redford addressed concerns about alleged assault accusations against Harvey Weinstein, and the event's organizers took measures to improve the safety of guests.
Awards
The following awards were presented:
- U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan
- U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Burden, directed by Andrew Heckler
- U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Kindergarten Teacher, directed by Sara Colangelo
- U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nancy, written by Christina Choe
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: Monsters and Men, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: I Think We're Alone Now, directed by Reed Morano
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: Benjamin Dickey, Blaze
- U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: Kailash (later released as The Price of Free), directed by Derek Doneen
- U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence<u>,</u> directed by Rudy Valdez
- U.S. Documentary Directing Award, On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Crime + Punishment, directed by Stephen Maing
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Hale County This Morning, This Evening, directed by RaMell Ross
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle
- World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Butterflies, directed by Tolga Karacelik
- World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: The Guilty, directed by Gustav Möller
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: And Breathe Normally, directed by ÃÂsold Uggadóttir
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Time Share (Tiempo Compartido), written by Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: Dead Pigs, directed by Cathy Yan
- World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki
- World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: This is Home, directed by Alexandra Shiva
- World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Shirkers, directed by Sandi Tan
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., presented to director Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A.
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Genesis 2.0, Peter Indergand and Maxim Arbugaev
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Our New President, Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov
- NEXT Audience Award: Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty
- NEXT Innovator Award: (tie) Night Comes On, directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Matria, directed by Alvaro Gago
- Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Hair Wolf, directed by Mariama Diallo
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Would You Look at Her, directed by Goran Stolevski
- Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: The Trader (Sovdagari), directed by Tamta Gabrichidze
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Glucose, directed by Jeron Braxton
- Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; Fauve, directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by Luis De Filippis
- Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Of Fathers and Sons (Syria), directed by Talal Derki; Untitled film (India), directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; and Night on Fire, directed by Tatiana Huezo
- Sundance Institute / NHK Award: His House, directed by Remi Weekes
- Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Searching, Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian
- Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award: Sev Ohanian
Films
U.S. Dramatic Competition
U.S. Documentary Competition
Premieres
Documentary Premieres
Midnight
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Special Events
Juries
Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018.
U.S. Documentary Jury
U.S. Dramatic Jury
World Documentary Jury
World Dramatic Jury
Alfred P. Sloan Jury
NEXT Jury
Short Film Jury
See also
References
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