Sundance Film Festival 2014

The 30th Sundance Film Festival was held January 16 through January 26, 2014 in Park City , Utah . The film screenings were shown in movie theaters in Salt Lake City , Ogden and Sundance , both in the US state of Utah.

For the first time, 12,218 films were submitted, 72 more than in 2013. 121 of the 4057 films submitted were selected. Of the feature films, 2014 were from the United States and 2043 were international. 66 of the 8161 short films submitted were selected. At this year's festival, 54 filmmakers from 37 countries made their debut for the first time.

Award-winning films

The awards ceremony took place in Park City on January 26, 2014 and was hosted by Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally .

Award for the film Homs - A Dream Shattered

Award for The Case Against 8

Award for the film E-TEAM

• US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Rich Hill
• US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Whiplash
• World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Homs - A Destroyed Dream (The Return to Homs)
• World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - To Kill a Man
• Audience Award: US Documentary - Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
• Audience Award: US Dramatic - Whiplash
• Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary - The Green Prince
• Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic - The Girl Hirut (Difret)
• Audience Award: Best of NEXT - Imperial Dreams
• Directing Award: US Documentary - The Case Against 8
• Directing Award: US Dramatic - Fishing Without Nets
• Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary - 20,000 Days on Earth
• Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic - 52 Tuesdays
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic - The Skeleton Twins
• Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic - Blind
• Editing Award: US Documentary - Watchers of the Sky
• Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary - 20,000 Days on Earth
• Cinematography Award: US Documentary - E-TEAM
• Cinematography Award: US Dramatic - Joe Albany - My father, the jazz legend (Low Down)
• Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary - Happiness
• Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic - Lilting
• US Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement for Use of Animation - Watchers of the Sky
• US Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement for Intuitive Filmmaking - The Overnighter
• US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Musical Score - The Octopus Project for Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
• US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent - Justin Simien for Dear White People
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award - God Help the Girl
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Bravery - We Come as Friends
• Short Film Audience Award - Chapel Perilous
• Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - I Origins

Additional prizes were awarded at separate events. The short film category awards were presented on January 21, 2014 in Park City.

• Short Film Grand Jury Prize - Of God and Dogs
• Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction - Gregory Go Boom
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction - The Cut
• Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction - I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation - Yearbook
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Unique Vision - Rat Pack Rat
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting - Burger
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Non-fiction - Love. Love. Love.
• Sundance Institute / Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards - Hong Khaou for Monsoon , Tobias Lindholm for A War , Ashlee Page for Archive and Neeraj Ghaywan for Fly Away Solo .
• Sundance Institute / NHK Filmmaker Award - Mark Elijah Rosenberg for Ad Inexplorata
• Hilton Worldwide LightStay Sustainability Award - Ben Kalina for Shored Up (and $ 25,000 in prize money)
• 2014 Red Crown Producer's Award - Elisabeth Holm for Obvious Child (and $ 10,000 in prize money)

Jury members

US Documentary Jury Tracy Chapman Charlotte Cook Kahane Cooperman Morgan Neville Jonathan Oppenheim World Documentary Jury Andrea Nix Fine Sally Riley Caspar Sonnen

US Dramatic Jury Leonard Maltin Peter Saraf Lone Scherfig Bryan Singer Dana Stevens World Dramatic Jury Carlo Chatrian Sebastian Lelio Nansun Shi

Alfred P. Sloan Prize Jury Kevin hand Flora Lichtman Max Mayer Jon Spaihts Jill Tarter Short film jury Vernon Chatman Joshua Leonard Ania Trzebiatowska

Web links

• Official website of the Sundance Film Festival ( English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tatiana Siegel: Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2014 Short Film Lineup. In: hollywoodreporter.com. The Hollywood Reporter , October 12, 2013, accessed January 28, 2014 . 
2. ↑ LAMBERT & STAMP Documentary Screens at 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Beg. Today. In: broadwayworld.com. January 16, 2014, accessed January 28, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Barbara Chai: 2014 Sundance Film Festival Announces In-Competition Films. In: blogs.wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal , December 4, 2013, accessed January 28, 2014 . 
4. ^ Opening and Closing Weekends. (No longer available online.) In: sundance.org. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013 ; accessed on January 28, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Sundance Festival Award Winners. In: sundance.org. January 26, 2013, accessed January 28, 2014 . 
6. ^ Musical drama "Whiplash" wins at the Sundance Film Festival. In: welt.de. Die Welt , January 27, 2014, accessed on January 28, 2014 . 
7. ↑ 2014 Sundance Film Festival Announces Feature Film Awards. In: sundance.org. January 26, 2014, accessed January 26, 2014 . 
8. ^ Sundance Institute Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award 2014 Recipients Announced. (No longer available online.) In: sundance.org. January 21, 2014, archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on January 28, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Awarded to I Origins at 2014 Sundance Film Festival. (No longer available online.) In: sundance.org. January 21, 2014, archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; accessed on January 28, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Eric Eidelstein: Sundance Institute Announces 2014 Short Film Award Winners. In: indiewire.com. January 22, 2014, accessed January 28, 2014 . 
11. ^ Dominic Patten: Sundance: Short Film Winners Announced. In: deadline.com. January 21, 2014, accessed January 28, 2014 . 
12. ↑ 2014 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Awards. (No longer available online.) In: sundance.org. January 22, 2014, archived from the original on January 25, 2014 ; accessed on January 28, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ^ Max O'Connell: Rooftop Films Founder Mark Rosenberg Wins 2014 Sundance Institute / NHK Award. In: indewire.com. January 24, 2014, accessed January 28, 2014 . 
14. ↑ Kathryn Smith Pyle: 'Shored Up' and the Hilton Worldwide LightStay Sustainability Fund & Award. In: pndblog.typepad.com. Foundation Center, January 22, 2014, accessed January 28, 2014 . 
15. ↑ Adam Chitwood: WHIPLASH Takes Grand Jury and Audience Prizes for US Dramatic Category. In: collider.com. January 26, 2014, accessed January 28, 2014 .