Sundance Film Festival 2011
The 27th Sundance Film Festival was held in Park City , Utah from January 20, 2011 to January 30, 2011 . Film screenings were shown in 19 movie theaters in Salt Lake City , Ogden and Sundance , each in the US state of Utah.
The jury's grand prize went to the film Like Crazy by director Drake Doremus. The leading actress Felicity Jones was also honored with a special jury award for her performance. She plays the British Anna, who falls in love with the American Jacob - played by Anton Yelchin - at college . When she stays with him past the term of her student visa, she is banned from further entry into the United States.
How to die in Oregon won the documentation category . The film tells the story of a terminally ill patient in Oregon - the first US state to legalize euthanasia .
Another main prize in the “World Cinema” category went to the Norwegian comedy comedy Sykt lykkelig by director Anne Sewitsky.
organization
The film festival was opened with the following five articles, one each competition category: Sing Your Song , Pariah , The Guard , Project Nim , and the short film drama I . The film All That Is Solid Melts into Air was shown in the “New Frontier” category . The festival ended with the film The Son of No One .
The festival was organized by 750 sponsors and 1,670 volunteers. The performances had an estimated 60,000 visitors.
A total of 10,279 films were submitted, including 3,812 feature films, of which 1,943 were from the United States and 1,869 from abroad. 118 feature films were selected, including 95 world premieres. 81 of the 6,467 short films submitted were selected. 40 filmmakers from 29 countries made their debut at the festival, 25 of whom entered the competition with their films.
Awarding
The winners in the short film category were announced on January 25, 2011. On the same day, the Alfred P. Sloan Prize was awarded to the film Another Earth .
All other winners were announced on January 29, 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival Awards ceremony by host Tim Blake Nelson near Park City.
Award winners
- Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - How to Die in Oregon
- Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Like Crazy
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Hell and Back Again
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Sykt lykkelig
- Audience Award: US Documentary - Buck
- Audience Award: US Dramatic - Circumstance
- World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Senna
- World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Kinyarwanda
- Best of NEXT Audience Award - to.get.her
- US Directing Award: Documentary - Jon Foy for Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
- US Directing Award: Dramatic - Sean Durkin for Martha Marcy May Marlene
- World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - James Marsh for Project Nim
- World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Paddy Considine for Tyrannosaur
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Sam Levinson for Another Happy Day
- World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award - Erez Kav-El for Restoration
- US Documentary Editing Award - Matthew Hamachek and Marshall Curry for If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
- World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Goran Hugo Olsson and Hanna Lejonqvist for The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975
- Excellence in Cinematography Award: US Documentary - Eric Strauss, Ryan Hill and Peter Hutchens for The Redemption of General Butt Naked
- Excellence in Cinematography Award: US Dramatic - Bradford Young for Pariah
- World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Danfung Dennis for Hell and Back Again
- World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Diego F. Jimenez for All Your Dead Ones
- US Documentary Special Jury Prize - BEING ELMO: A Puppeteer's Journey
- US Dramatic Special Jury Prize - Another Earth
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize - Position Among the Stars
- US Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance - Felicity Jones for Like Crazy
- World Dramatic Special Jury Prizes for Breakout Performances - Paddy Considine and Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur
- Jury Prize in US Short Filmmaking - Brick Novax Pt 1 and 2
- International Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Deeper Than Yesterday
- Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking - Choke , Diarchy , The External World , The Legend of Beaver Dam , Out of Reach and Protoparticles
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - Another Earth
- Sundance Institute / Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards - Bogdan Mustata from Romania for Wolf , Ernesto Contrera from Mexico for I Dream In Another Language , Seng Tat Liew from Malaysia for In What City Does It Live? and Talya Lavie from Israel for Zero Motivation .
- Sundance Institute / NHK Award - Cherien Dabis, director of May in the Summer
Web links
- Official festival website (English)
- Sundance Film Festival 2011 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kara Warner: Channing Tatum and Tracy Morgan Square Off On "Son Of No One" Set . In: MTV.com . January 20, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ^ Opening and Closing Weekends . In: sundance.org . 2011. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ↑ a b Glen Warchol: Your Sundance days are numbered . In: The Salt Lake Tribune , January 21, 2011. Archived from the original on January 27, 2011 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ↑ a b Amy McGee: 2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Jury Members . In: sundance.org , Sundance Institute, January 17, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ↑ a b Diana Lodderhose: Sundance fest unveils juries . In: Variety , January 18, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ↑ a b Bob Tourtellotte: Sundance's unheralded short film and grant winners . In: Reuters blogs , January 26, 2011. Archived from the original on February 1, 2011 Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ↑ Andrew Stewart: 'Earth' awarded Sundance's Sloan prize . In: Variety , January 28, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ↑ Jay A. Fernandez, Daniel Miller: SUNDANCE: 2011 Festival Award Winners . In: Hollywood Reporter blog Risky Business , January 29, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
- ↑ Julieta Esteban, Kelly Frey: 2011 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards . In: sundance.org . January 29, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2011.
