Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an American film festival held annually in Park City and Salt Lake City , Utah . It is considered an important platform for independent American and international productions .
In 2020, the 36th Sundance Film Festival will take place from January 23rd to February 2nd.
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The festival began in 1978 under the name Utah / US Film Festival to attract more filmmakers to Utah. At the time, the festival consisted mainly of presenting a few retrospectives and panel discussions for filmmakers. Even then, there were smaller screenings for films that were made outside of Hollywood .
The festival was saved from marginal existence as a small, insignificant regional festival by two factors. The first was Robert Redford from 1981 . The well-known actor and director lived in Utah and became the festival's chairman. This managed to draw far more attention to the festival than would have been possible without the name Redfords.
The second factor was the rescheduling of the event from September to January, i.e. from summer to winter. This allegedly came on advice from Sydney Pollack , who noted that having a festival at a ski resort in winter would result in "Hollywood breaking down the door to attend" .
The management was taken over in 1985 by the Sundance Institute , a non-profit organization . In 1991 the festival was officially renamed the Sundance Film Festival . Many independent filmmakers owe their breakthroughs to the festival, including Kevin Smith , Robert Rodriguez , Quentin Tarantino , James Wan , Marc Forster , the Coen brothers and Jim Jarmusch . The festival also brought some films into the limelight, such as Saw , Inside a Skinhead , Blair Witch Project , El Mariachi , Clerks , Sex, Lies and Video , Napoleon Dynamite , American Splendor , Super Size Me , Donnie Darko and most recently Little Miss Sunshine .
From 2012 to 2014, a smaller offshoot with highlights from the festival in London was carried out.
Origin of name
The Sundance Film Festival was named by Robert Redford after his role as the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , his favorite character.
Price categories
A selection of the awards given in 2013 :
American film
| category | Original designation | awarded since |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Jury Prize - Best Documentary | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | 1984 |
| Grand Jury Prize - Best Feature Film | Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | 1984 |
| Audience Award - Best Documentary | Audience Award: US Documentary | 1989 |
| Audience Award - Best Feature Film | Audience Award: US Dramatic | 1989 |
| Best Director - Documentary | US Directing Award: Documentary | 1998 |
| Best Director - Fiction | US Directing Award: Dramatic | 1998 |
| Best script | Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award | 1998 |
| Best Editing - Documentary | US Documentary Editing Award | 2006 |
| Best Cinematography Documentary | Excellence in Cinematography Award: US Documentary | 1987 |
| Best Cinematography - Fiction | Excellence in Cinematography Award: US Dramatic | 1987 |
Foreign film ("world cinema")
| category | Original designation | awarded since |
|---|---|---|
| Jury Prize - Best Foreign Documentary Film | World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary | 2005 |
| Jury Prize - Best Foreign Feature Film | World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic | 2005 |
| Audience Award - Best Foreign Documentary Film | World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary | 2004 |
| Audience Award - Best Foreign Feature Film | World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic | 1999 |
| Best Director - Foreign Documentary | World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary | 2008 |
| Best Director - Foreign Feature Film | World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic | 2008 |
| Best Screenplay - Foreign Film | World Cinema Screenwriting Award | 2008 |
| Best Editing - Foreign Documentary | World Cinema Documentary Editing Award | 2008 |
| Best Cinematography - Foreign Documentary | World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary | 2008 |
| Best Cinematography - Foreign Feature Film | World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic | 2010 |
literature
- Peter Biskind: Sex, Lies & Pulp Fiction. Behind the scenes of the new American film. Rogner & Bernhard , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8077-1004-3 .
- Lory Smith: Party in a box. The story of the Sundance Film Festival. Gibbs Smith Publisher, Salt Lake City 1998, ISBN 0-87905-861-7 .
- Kenneth Turan: Sundance to Sarajevo. Film festivals and the world they made . University of California Press, Berkeley 2002, ISBN 0-585-46625-4 , chap. Sundance , S. 31-48 .
Web links
- Festival organization
- IMDb biography of Robert Redford
- Manohla Dargisjan: Any Little Gems? Who Cares? Sundance Is a Hot Brand Now . New York Times , January 29, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sundance Film Festival: “Padre Nuestro” wins the Sundance Festival . dpa article Tagesspiegel , January 29, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
- ^ Leo Barraclough: Sundance Cancels 2015 Edition of London Spinoff Festival. variety.com. January 16, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.