2017 Sundance Film Festival
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| Location | Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance Resort in Utah |
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| Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
| Festival date | January 19 to January 29, 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Website | sundance |
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29, 2017.[1][2] The first lineup of competition films was announced November 30, 2016.[3]
Awards
[edit]The following awards were presented:[4]
- Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair
- Audience Award: Dramatic – Crown Heights by Matt Ruskin
- Directing Award: Dramatic – Eliza Hittman for Beach Rats
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer for Ingrid Goes West
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Chanté Adams for Roxanne Roxanne
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director – Maggie Betts for Novitiate
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Daniel Landin for The Yellow Birds
- Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Dina by Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini
- Directing Award: Documentary – Peter Nicks for The Force
- U.S. Documentary Orwell Award - Icarus by Bryan Fogel
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista for Unrest
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling – Yance Ford for Strong Island
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking – Amanda Lipitz for Step
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh
- World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Francis Lee for God's Own Country
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Kirsten Tan for Pop Aye
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Visions – Geng Jun for Free and Easy
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Manuel Dacosse for Axolotl Overkill
- World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad
- World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Pascale Lamche for Winnie
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling – Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva for Machines
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Ramona S. Diaz for Motherland
- Audience Award: Documentary – Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski
- World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – I Dream in Another Language by Ernesto Contreras
- World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella
- Best of NEXT Audience Award – Gook by Justin Chon
- Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Marjorie Prime by Michael Almereyda
Films
[edit]U.S. Dramatic Competition
[edit]- Band Aid by Zoe Lister-Jones
- Beach Rats by Eliza Hittman
- Brigsby Bear by Dave McCary
- Burning Sands by Gerard McMurray
- Crown Heights by Matt Ruskin
- Golden Exits by Alex Ross Perry
- The Hero by Brett Haley
- I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair
- Ingrid Goes West by Matt Spicer
- Landline by Gillian Robespierre
- Novitiate by Maggie Betts
- Patti Cake$ by Geremy Jasper
- Roxanne Roxanne by Michael Larnell
- To the Bone by Marti Noxon
- Walking Out by Alex & Andrew Smith
- The Yellow Birds by Alexandre Moors
U.S. Documentary Competition
[edit]- Casting JonBenet by Kitty Green
- Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski
- City of Ghosts by Matthew Heineman
- Dina by Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini
- Dolores by Peter Bratt
- The Force by Pete Nicks
- ICARUS by Bryan Fogel
- The New Radical by Adam Bhala Lough
- Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (originally titled NOBODY SPEAK: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and Trials of a Free Press but the title was changed after publication of the Sundance catalogue and before the world premiere of the film[5]) by Brian Knappenberger
- Quest by Jonathan Olshefski
- STEP by Amanda Lipitz
- Strong Island by Yance Ford
- Trophy by Shaul Schwarz & Christina Clusiau
- Unrest by Jennifer Brea
- Water & Power: A California Heist by Marina Zenovich
- Whose Streets? by Sabaah Folayan & Damon Davis
Premieres
[edit]- Beatriz at Dinner by Miguel Arteta
- Before I Fall by Ry Russo-Young
- The Big Sick by Michael Showalter
- Call Me by Your Name by Luca Guadagnino
- The Discovery by Charlie McDowell
- Fun Mom Dinner by Alethea Jones
- Get Out by Jordan Peele
- The Incredible Jessica James by Jim Strouse
- The Last Word by Mark Pellington
- Manifesto by Julian Rosefeldt
- Marjorie Prime by Michael Almereyda
- Mudbound by Dee Rees
- Newness by Drake Doremus
- The Polka King by Maya Forbes
- Rebel in the Rye by Danny Strong
- Rememory by Mark Palansky
- The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (originally titled "Sidney Hall"; changed before theatrical release) by Shawn Christensen
- Where Is Kyra? by Andrew Dosunmu
- Wilson by Craig Johnson
- Wind River by Taylor Sheridan
Next
[edit]- Columbus by Kogonada
- Dayveon by Amman Abbasi
- A Ghost Story by David Lowery
- Gook by Justin Chon
- Lemon by Janicza Bravo
- Menashe by Joshua Z Weinstein
- Person to Person by Dustin Guy Defa
- Thoroughbreds by Cory Finley
Spotlight
[edit]- Colossal by Nacho Vigalondo
- Frantz by François Ozon
- Lady Macbeth by William Oldroyd
- Raw by Julia Ducournau
Midnight
[edit]- 78/52 by Alexandre O. Philippe
- Bad Day for the Cut by Chris Baugh
- Bitch by Marianna Palka
- Bushwick by Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott
- Killing Ground by Damien Power
- Kuso by Steve
- The Little Hours by Jeff Baena
- XX by Annie Clark, Karyn Kusama, Roxanne Benjamin & Jordana Vuckovic
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
[edit]- Axolotl Overkill by Helene Hegemann
- Berlin Syndrome by Cate Shortland
- Carpinteros by José María Cabral
- Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! by Felipe Bragança
- Family Life by Alicia Scherson & Cristián Jiménez
- Free and Easy by Geng Jun
- My Happy Family by Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross
- God's Own Country by Francis Lee
- The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh
- Pop Aye by Kirsten Tan
- I Dream in Another Language by Ernesto Contreras
- The Wound by John Trengove
World Cinema Documentary Competition
[edit]- The Good Postman by Tonislav Hristov
- In Loco Parentis by Neasa Ní Chianáin & David Rane
- It's Not Yet Dark by Frankie Fenton
- Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella
- Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad
- Machines by Rahul Jain
- Motherland by Ramona Diaz
- Plastic China by Jiu-liang Wang
- RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World by Catherine Bainbridge
- Tokyo Idols by Kyoko Miyake
- WINNIE by Pascale Lamche
- The Workers Cup by Adam Sobel
New Frontier
[edit]- 18 Black Girls / Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $X in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion by Terence Nance
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? by Travis Wilkerson
- World Without End (No Reported Incidents) by Jem Cohen
- NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism by Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Ashley Baccus-Clark, Ece Tankal and Nitzan Bartov
Juries
[edit]Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 11, 2017.[6]
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References
[edit]- ^ "Sundance Film Festival". www.sundance.org. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
- ^ Debruge, Peter (December 5, 2016). "Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2017 Premieres, Midnight, Spotlight Sections". Variety.
- ^ "Sundance 2017 Announces Competition and NEXT Lineups, Including Returning Favorites and Major Contenders". Indiewire. November 30, 2016. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
- ^ Debruge, Peter. "Sundance: Winners Announced (Awards Ceremony in Progress)". Variety. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ John DeFore (January 25, 2017). "'Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
- ^ "Announcing the Jury Members of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival". Sundance Institute. January 11, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2017.
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