2015 Sundance Film Festival

2015 Sundance Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening film	What Happened, Miss Simone?
Closing film	Grandma
Location	Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 22 to February 1, 2015
Language	English
Website	sundance.org/festival
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The 2015 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 22 to February 1, 2015.^[1] What Happened, Miss Simone?, a biographical documentary film about American singer Nina Simone, opened the festival.^[2] Comedy-drama film Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz, served as the closing night film.^[3]

Awards

The awards ceremony was held on January 30, 2015, at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah.^[4] The ceremony was hosted by comedian Tig Notaro.^[5]^[6]

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Wolfpack
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Russian Woodpecker
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Slow West
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Meru
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance
Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Umrika
Audience Award: Best of NEXT – James White
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Cartel Land
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Witch
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Dreamcatcher
Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – The Summer of Sangaile
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Stanford Prison Experiment
Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary – How to Change the World
Editing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Dope
Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary – Cartel Land
Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Partisan
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Jack Reynor for Glassland and Regina Casé and Camila Márdila for The Second Mother
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact – Pervert Park
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Unparalleled Access – The Chinese Mayor
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact – 3½ Minutes
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking – Western
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision – Advantageous
Special Jury Award for Breakout First Feature – (T)ERROR
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Stanford Prison Experiment

Additional awards were presented at separate ceremonies.^[7]^[8] The Shorts Awards were presented January 28, 2015 at the ceremony in Park City, Utah.^[9]^[10]

Short Film Grand Jury Prize – World of Tomorrow
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – SMILF
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Oh Lucy!
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul
Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Storm hits jacket
Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Back Alley
Short Film Special Jury Award for Visual Poetry – Object
Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards – Haifaa al-Mansour for Be Safe I Love You, K'naan for The Poet, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for Luxembourg, Oskar Sulowski for Rosebuds.
Sundance Institute/NHK Filmmaker Award – Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre for Mustang.
2015 Red Crown Producer's Award – Stephanie Langhoff for The Bronze.

Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, which also took part in the Science in Film Forum Panel, were announced on December 18, 2014.^[11]^[12] Presenters of awards are followed by asterisks:^[13]^[14]

U.S. Documentary Jury

U.S. Dramatic Jury

World Documentary Jury

Elena Fortes Acosta*
Mark Cousins*
Ingrid Kopp*

World Dramatic Jury

Alfred P. Sloan Jury

Short Film Jury

Others who presented awards included Adam Scott, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Corrigan, Patrick Fugit and Trevor Groth.^[13]

Films

For a full list of films appeared at the festival, see List of films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Festival theaters

The number of seats available at the festival theaters, where films were shown is listed below:^[15]

Park City

Eccles Theatre – 1,270 seats
Egyptian Theatre – 282 seats
Holiday Village Cinema 4 – 162 seats
Library Center Theatre – 486 seats
The MARC Theatre – 550 seats
Prospector Square Theatre – 324 seats
Redstone Cinema 1 – 188 seats
Redstone Cinema 2 – 175 seats
Redstone Cinema 7 – 176 seats
Temple Theatre – 840 seats
Yarrow Hotel Theatre – 295 seats

Salt Lake City

Broadway Cinema 3 – 243 seats
Broadway Cinema 6 – 245 seats
Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center – 495 seats
SLC Library – 300 seats
Tower Theatre – 349 seats
The Grand Theatre – 1,100 seats

Sundance Resort

Sundance Resort Screening Room – 164 seats

Ogden

Peery's Egyptian Theatre – 840 seats

Acquisitions

Acquisitions at the festival included the following:^[16]

A24
- The End of the Tour
- The Witch
- Mississippi Grind
Alchemy
- Strangerland
- Zipper
Bleecker Street
- I'll See You In My Dreams
Broad Green
- A Walk in the Woods
Discover Channel
- Racing Extinction
Film Arcade
- Unexpected
Focus
- Cop Car
Fortissimo
- Songs My Brothers Taught Me
Fox Searchlight
- Mistress America
- Me, Earl And The Dying Girl
- Brooklyn
Gravitas Ventures
- Being Evel
HBO
- 3 1/2 Minutes
IFC Films
- The D Train
- Sleeping with Other People
IFC Midnight
- Reversal
- The Hallow
Kino Lorber
- The Forbidden Room
Lionsgate
- Don Verdean
- Knock Knock
Magnolia
- Results
- Tangerine
- Best of Enemies
- The Wolfpack
Netflix
- Hot Girls Wanted
Open Road
- Dope
Orchard
- The Overnight
- Digging for Fire
- Finders Keepers
- Cartel Land
Oscilloscope
- The Second Mother
Relativity Sports
- In Football We Trust
Samuel Goldwyn Films
- Fresh Dressed
- Lila & Eve
Screen Media Films
- Ten Thousand Saints
Showtime
- Dreamcatcher
Sony Pictures Classics
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl
- Grandma
- Dark Horse
Sundance Selects
- City of Gold
Tribeca Film
- Misery Loves Comedy
Relativity
- The Bronze

References

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