Sundance Film Festival 2017

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The Mary G. Steiner Egyptian Theater in Park City

The 33rd Sundance Film Festival took place January 19-29, 2017 in Park City , Utah . A total of 113 films from 31 different countries were presented there, including 95 films that celebrated their world premieres at the festival. The films that premiered there included auteur films such as A Ghost Story by David Lowery and the biopic Roxanne Roxanne by Michael Larnell , but also a number of directorial debuts such as the crime film Strange in the World by Macon Blair , Ingrid Goes West by Matt Spicer and Columbus of the director Kogonada . Even Cory Finley made his directorial debut thoroughbreds ago, a teen thriller in which they were one of the last film released in which the deceased in June 2016 actor Anton Yelchin had taken a role. Films such as The Adventures of Brigsby Bear by Dave McCary and the anti-war drama The Yellow Birds by Alexandre Moors celebrated their world premieres as part of the US Dramatic Competition . The Berlin Syndrome thriller by Cate Shortland , filmed in Berlin, was presented at the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, and Helene Hegemann's debut feature film Axolotl Overkill , who also wrote the screenplay for the film, was shown. Also the science fiction films The Discovery and Rememory , in which Yelchin can also be seen in a leading role, but also animated films like Asteroids! and African productions such as Hairat were presented to an audience for the first time during the festival. The opening film was a sequel to the documentary An Inconvenient Truth .

The film music events were new in 2017. In addition, various episodes of television series and mini-series were shown for the first time or exclusively, such as a documentary series by Jay-Z entitled Time: The Kalief Browder Story and some original series and documentary series from Netflix , such as the pilot episode of Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On . The Amazon Studios presented the first three episodes of I Love Dick before and Fox two episodes of the miniseries Shots Fired .

As Best Film went Dina of Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini produce Competition from the US Documentary. In the US Dramatic Competition, Fremd in der Welt was named Best Film by Macon Blair . As part of the award ceremony for Short Films, the German short film Kaputt (festival title Broken - The Women's Prison at Hoheneck ) by Alexander Lahl and Volker Schlecht received the Short Film Jury Award: Animation . The seven-minute animated film tells about the Hoheneck women's prison .

Competition films and program of the official sections

At the Sundance Film Festival, prizes are awarded in various sections and categories. Documentaries and feature films enter the competition separately, as do US and foreign productions. This creates the four main competitions US Dramatic Competition, US Documentary Competition, World Cinema Dramatic Competition and the World Cinema Documentary Competition. In addition, there are a few other categories out of competition.

US Dramatic Competition

Honored with the Audience Award: the American film drama Crown Heigts
Ingrid Goes West received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

In the US Dramatic Competition, 16 American independent films were presented, which celebrated their world premieres as part of the competition.

US Documentary Competition

In the US Documentary Competition, 16 US documentaries were presented, which celebrated their world premieres as part of the competition.

The documentary film Dina was awarded the US Grand Jury Prize
The winner of the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking was Step

Several of the films shown in the Documentary Competition were shortlisted from which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selected the nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards in the Best Documentary category , such as Chasing Coral , City of Ghosts , Icarus , Strong Island and Unrest .

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

In the World Dramatic section, films from different countries are shown that compete in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. The films shown are intended to introduce the work of new filmmakers.

World Cinema Documentary Competition

In the World Documentaries section, international documentaries are presented that compete in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

The documentary film Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize

More premieres

Feature films

Mike White , John Lithgow , Chloë Savigny , Connie Britton , Amy Landecker and Jay Duplass at the premiere of the film Beatriz at Dinner
Parts of the staff and cast of The Discovery film at the premiere

In addition to the films shown in the US and World Competitions, several more will celebrate their world premieres at the Sundance Film Festival.

Documentaries (selection)

A number of other documentaries will premier outside of the competition .

NEXT (selection)

In the NEXT section, films are shown with an innovative, future-oriented approach that appear suitable to have a lasting influence on American films.

The film Gook of Justin Chon won the Audience Award in the section NEXT

Midnight

In the Midnight section, horror films and comedies as well as films that defy genre classification are shown in the context of world and international premieres , including the short film Snatchers by Stephen Cedars and Benji Kleiman , but also the television series Pineapple based on an idea by Arkasha Stevenson .

Spotlight (selection)

A selection of films that have premiered at other film festivals and are shown in the Spotlight section.

Short Films (selection)

As part of the Short Films, international short films are shown at the Sundance Film Festival. The award ceremony for short films took place early.

Another program

Climate Change Lab

In the newly established climate section of the festival, only films and film projects that deal with the environment and how to deal with it sustainably are presented. The main question here is whether a cooperation between environmentalists and filmmakers can help to create a public on the topic of climate change, the role of which has so far been discussed marginally in films and so far mainly in the world of documentary and independent films. The Sundance Institute had noticed that, with a few notable exceptions, there was surprisingly little work on climate change. The projects and films presented as part of the Climate Change Lab include a sequel to An Inconvenient Truth , the opening film of the Sundance Film Festival 2017, the following others:

Panel: Music & Film - The Creative Process

The BMI Foundation is organizing a round table with film composers and directors as part of the Sundance Film Festival. The panel takes place under the heading Music & Film - The Creative Process . The event is scheduled for January 24, 2017 and is scheduled to take place at the Festival's Base Camp in Park City. The event will be moderated by Doreen Ringer-Ross . Panelists include director of the Sundance Institute film music program, Peter Golub , his advisor George S. Clinton , film composers such as Greg Tripi , Tyler Strickland , H. Scott Salinas and Matthew Atticus Berger, and directors such as Mark Palansky , Michael Barnett , Matthew Heineman , Kief Davidson and Pedro Kos , with whom the film composers had previously worked.

TV Shows

As part of the Sundance Film Festival 2017, in addition to films, TV series and mini- series were increasingly presented, some of which celebrated their world premieres there, were integrated into the individual sections and whose performances were accompanied by Q & As.

Award-winning films

Pete Nicks won the Directing Award for the US documentary The Force
Eliza Hittman won the Directing Award with Beach Rats
Yance Ford received the Special Jury Award for Storytelling for Strong Island
Macon Blair won the US Grand Jury Prize for his film drama Foreign in the World . The film was also honored with the Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producers Award

The award ceremony took place on January 28, 2017 at the Recreation Field House in Park City. The winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize was announced on January 25, 2017. In addition to the prizes in the four main competitions, a number of other jury and audience prizes will also be awarded.

Further prices

Additional prizes were awarded at separate events. Short films were awarded on January 25, 2017.

More about the featured films

Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino and Get Out by Jordan Peele were nominated as best filmsat the Golden Globe Awards 2018 at the end of the year. The latter, like Mudbound by Dee Rees and The Big Sick by Michael Showalter, was also nominated for Best Acting Ensemble in a Film at the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2018 . As part of the British Independent Film Awards 2017 , Get Out was recognized as best international independent film and God's Own Country as best British independent film.

Jury members

US Documentary Jury

  • Diego Buñuel
  • Julie Goldman
  • Robert Greene
  • Susan Lacy
  • Larry Wilmore

World Cinema Documentary Jury

  • Carl Spence
  • Marina Stavenhagen
  • Lynette Wallworth

US Dramatic Jury

World Cinema Dramatic Jury

Alfred P. Sloan Prize Jury

  • Heather Berlin
  • Tracy Drain
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
  • Nicole Perlman
  • Jennifer Phang

Short film jury

Web links

Commons : Sundance Film Festival 2017  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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