The Sundance Film Festival 2012 took place from Thursday, January 19 to Sunday, January 29 in Park City, Utah.
The 28th edition of the festival presented about 118 independent films from 30 countries, including 45 first-timers (24 in competition) and 91 world premieres. Featured in four different competition categories were 58 individual films.
2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARDS
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The House I Live In
Directing Award: Dramatic – Middle of Nowhere
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – The Queen of Versailles
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Safety Not Guaranteed
Excellence in Editing Award: U.S Documentary – Detropia
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S Dramatic – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary – Chasing Ice
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – Ensemble Cast: The Surrogate
Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – Film Producing: Smashed
Special Jury Prizes: U.S. Documentary – Love Free or Die; Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Surrogate
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – The Invisible War
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Valley of Saints
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Searching for Sugar Man
Best of Next Audience Award: Sleepwalk with Me
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Violeta Went to Heaven
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Teddy Bear
World Cinema Screenwriting Award: Dramatic – Young & Wild
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – My Brother the Devil
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic – Can
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – The Law in These Parts
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – 5 Broken Cameras
World Cinema Excellence in Editing Award: Documentary – Indie Game: The Movie
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Putin’s Kiss
World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary – Searching for Sugar Man
Alfred P. Sloan Awards – Robot and Frank; Valley of Saints
The Sundance Film Festival
A program of the non-profit Sundance Institute, the Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies, and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, The Cove, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Precious, Trouble the Water, and Napoleon Dynamite, and through its New Frontier initiative, has showcased the cinematic works of media artists including Isaac Julien, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Matthew Barney. The 2012 Sundance Film Festival sponsors include: Presenting Sponsors – Entertainment Weekly, HP, Acura, Sundance Channel and Chase SapphireSM ; Leadership Sponsors – Adobe Systems Incorporated, BingTM, Canon, DIRECTV, Focus Forward, a partnership between GE and CINELAN, Southwest Airlines, Sprint and Yahoo!; Sustaining Sponsors – Bertolli® Frozen Meal Soups, FilterForGood®, a partnership between Brita® and Nalgene ®, Grey Goose® Vodka, Hilton HHonors and Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, L'Oréal Paris, Stella Artois®, Timberland, Time Warner Inc. and YouTubeTM. Sundance Institute recognizes critical support from the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development, and the State of Utah as Festival Host State. The support of these organizations will defray costs associated with the 10-day Festival and the nonprofit Sundance Institute's year-round programs for independent film and theatre artists.
Sundance Institute
Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to inform, inspire, and unite diverse populations around the globe. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth,Spring Awakening, I Am My Own Wife, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America.
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