2024 Sundance Film Festival Announces Award Winners
Grand Jury Prizes Go To In The Summers (U.S. Dramatic Competition), Porcelain War (U.S. Documentary Competition), A New Kind of Wilderness (World Cinema Documentary Competition), and Sujo (World Cinema Dramatic Competition); NEXT Innovator Award Presented by Adobe Goes to Little Death
Daughters Wins Festival Favorite Award
Dìdi (弟弟) (U.S. Dramatic Competition) and Daughters (U.S. Documentary Competition) Win Audience Awards Presented by Acura
Girls Will Be Girls (World Cinema Dramatic Competition) and Ibelin (World Cinema Documentary Competition) Win Audience Awards Presented by United Airlines
Kneecap Wins NEXT Audience Award Presented by Adobe
[PARK CITY, UT — January 26, 2024] Today the jury and audience award-winning films for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival were announced during a ceremony at The Ray Theatre in Park City. The Awards Ceremony occured two days before the conclusion of the Festival, taking place January 18–28, 2024, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with a selection of titles available online nationwide from January 25–28, 2024. This year marks the 40th edition of the Festival, bringing together audiences in Utah and beyond to celebrate Sundance’s rich history of supporting engaging new stories and groundbreaking independent artists. Live updates were shared on the Sundance Film Festival’s official social media accounts throughout the duration of the awards ceremony.
The award-winning films will screen in person and via the online Festival platform on Saturday, January 27, and Sunday, January 28. Tickets for all award-winning films are currently available at festival.sundance.org.
he jury and audience-awarded prizes include Grand Jury Prizes awarded to In The Summers (U.S. Dramatic Competition), Porcelain War (U.S. Documentary Competition), Sujo (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), and A New Kind of Wilderness (World Cinema Documentary Competition). The NEXT Innovator Award presented by Adobe was awarded to Little Death.
Daughters received the Festival Favorite Award, which audiences select across all new feature films presented at the Festival. Audience Awards for films in competition were presented by Acura to Dìdi (弟弟) (U.S. Dramatic Competition) and Daughters (U.S. Documentary Competition), and presented by United Airlines to Girls Will Be Girls (World Cinema Dramatic Competition) and Ibelin(World Cinema Documentary Competition). Kneecap won the audience award for NEXT presented by Adobe.
“This year was especially meaningful to all of us for being the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival,” said Joana Vicente, Sundance Institute CEO. “We congratulate all of our artists in the program this year for their contributions to an incredible slate and Festival experience. Something we were pleasantly surprised by was how much room there was to look ahead during a time of reflection on our rich history as a launchpad for countless stories and artists that have shaped the culture over four decades. We celebrated that rich legacy while enjoying eleven days of meeting the visionaries of tomorrow. It was a joy to hear from audiences that were encountering stories that entertained, moved and challenged them.”
“The past week has been a whirlwind in the best possible way, and it’s incredibly rewarding to be here at the Awards Ceremony celebrating our storytellers as we launch into the final weekend of the Festival.” said Eugene Hernandez, Director, Sundance Film Festival and Public Programming. “This is a great moment to appreciate what we’re thankful for: jurors who were committed to engaging with these works and who brought their own projects to the Festival at some point during our history, artists who were generous with their stories and their time, audiences eager to join the conversation, our home state hosting us, and our incredible staff and volunteers that make this event possible.”
“Our Awards Ceremony is a great time to celebrate this endeavor we’re all passionate about: we’re united by these stories and by admiration for the bold and dedicated filmmakers bringing them to our community” added Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming. “These awards are an opportunity to highlight resonant works across the slate that will continue to find their audiences beyond Utah and beyond our online platform-to be entrusted with their first impressions is an honor for all of us at Sundance.”
The awards announcement takes place near the conclusion of the 2024 Festival, where 91 feature length and episodic works and 53 short films — selected from 17,435 submissions — have been presented in Park City, Salt Lake City, and online, while over 60% of the feature films, plus Shorts and Indie Episodics, are available via the Festival’s online platform through Sunday, January 28.
This year’s jurors were: DebraGranik, Adrian Tomine, and Lena Waithe for U.S. Dramatic Competition; Shane Boris, NicoleNewnham, and RudyValdez for U.S. Documentary Competition; Anita Gou, MiraNair, and RuiPoças for World Cinema Dramatic Competition; Mandy Chang, MonicaHellström, and ShaunakSen for World Cinema Documentary Competition; ChristinaOh, Danny Pudi, and Charlotte Regan for Short Film Program Competition; and Zal Batmanglij for the NEXT competition section.
Feature film award winners in previous years include: A Thousand and One, Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, Scrapper, The Eternal Memory, Nanny, The Exiles, CODA, Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Flee, Hive, Minari, Boys State, Epicentro, Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness, Clemency, One Child Nation, Honeyland, The Souvenir, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Weiner, Whiplash, Fruitvale Station, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twenty Feet from Stardom, Searching for Sugarman, The Square, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Cartel Land, The Wolf Pack, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Dope, Dear White People, The Cove, and Man on Wire.
Click here for the complete list of winners.
Originally published at http://behindtherabbitproductions.wordpress.com on January 26, 2024.
