Sundance Film Festival 2016
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The 32nd Sundance Film Festival was held in Park City , Utah , January 21 through January 31, 2016 . A total of 17 feature films and 19 documentaries premiered as part of the festival, including the films Weiner by Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg , The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker , Morris from America by Chad Hartigan and Between Sea and Land by Carlos del Castillo . The film Manchester by the Sea , which also premiered at the film festival, received many praise, but received no award. Several films that premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival were shown a month later at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival , including the documentaries Uncle Howard by Aaron Brookner and Kiki by Sara Jordenö , but also the film Goat by Andrew Neel and that Director's debut Indignation of producer James Schamus . The film Captain Fantastic , which also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2016 , and Matt Ross won the Un Certain Regard Director's Award there.
Award-winning films
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The award ceremony took place on January 30, 2016 at the Recreation Field House in Park City.
- US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Weiner (Directors: Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg )
- US Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - The Birth of a Nation (Director: Nate Parker )
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Sonita (Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami )
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Between Sea and Land (Directors: Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo )
- Audience Award: US Documentary - Jim: The James Foley Story (Director: Brian Oakes )
- Audience Award: US Dramatic - The Birth of a Nation
- Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary - Sonita
- Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic - Between Sea and Land
- Audience Award: Best of NEXT - First Girl I Loved
- Directing Award: US Documentary - Roger Ross Williams for Life, Animated
- Directing Award: US Dramatic - Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan for Swiss Army Man
- Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary - Michal Marczak for All These Sleepless Nights
- Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic - Felix Van Groeningen for Café Belgica (Belgica)
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic - Chad Hartigan for Morris from America (Morris from America)
- Special Jury Award for Individual Performance - Markees Christmas in Morris from America
- Special Jury Award for Individual Performance - Melanie Lynskey in The Intervention
- Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance - Joe Seo in Spa Night
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize - The Shaman and the Snake (El abrazo de la serpiente) (Directed and written by Ciro Guerra )
- Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producers Award - Morris from America (Morris from America)
- 2nd Annual Horizon Award - Macarena Gaona , Juliette Gosselin , Shanice Malakai Johnson and Florence Pelletier
Additional prizes were awarded at separate events. Short films received an award on January 27, 2016.
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize - Thunder Road
- Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction - The Procedure
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction - Maman (s)
- Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction - Bacon & God's Wrath
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation - Edmond
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting - Grace Glowicki in Her Friend Adam
- Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction - Peacock
Jury members
US Documentary Jury
World Documentary Jury
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US Dramatic Jury
World Dramatic Jury
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Alfred P. Sloan Prize Jury Short film jury
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sundance Film Festival: These are the movies everyone will be talking about In: Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2016.
- ^ A b Justin Chang : Sundance Premieres Include Films From James Schamus, Spike Lee In: Variety, December 7, 2015.
- ↑ Matthew Jacobs: 19 Documentaries Premiering At The Sundance Film Festival That We'll Be Talking About In 2016 In: Huffington Post, January 21, 2016.
- ↑ Ramin Setoodeh: 'The Birth of a Nation' Premieres at Sundance With Big standing ovation and Oscar Buzz In: Variety, January 25, 2016th
- ↑ Justin Chang: Sundance Film Review: 'Manchester by the Sea' In: Variety, January 23, 2016.
- ↑ Press releases Panorama 66th Berlinale ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. In: berlinale.de, January 14, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Rosser: Cannes: 'The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki' wins Un Certain Regard prize In: screendaily.com, May 21, 2016.