2018 Sundance Film Festival

2018 Sundance Film Festival
LocationPark City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted bySundance Institute
Festival dateJanuary 18 to January 28, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Websitesundance.org/festival
2019 Sundance Film Festival
2017 Sundance Film Festival

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29, 2017.[1]

Awards

The following awards were presented:[2][3]

  • U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan
  • U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Burden, directed by Andrew Heckler
  • U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Kindergarten Teacher, directed by Sara Colangelo
  • U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nancy, written by Christina Choe
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: Monsters and Men, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: I Think We're Alone Now, directed by Reed Morano
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: Benjamin Dickey, Blaze
  • U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: Kailash (later released as The Price of Free), directed by Derek Doneen
  • U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence, directed by Rudy Valdez
  • U.S. Documentary Directing Award, On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Crime + Punishment, directed by Stephen Maing
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Hale County This Morning, This Evening, directed by RaMell Ross
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle
  • World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Butterflies, directed by Tolga Karacelik
  • World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: The Guilty, directed by Gustav Möller
  • World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: And Breathe Normally, directed by Ísold Uggadóttir
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Time Share (Tiempo Compartido), written by Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: Dead Pigs, directed by Cathy Yan
  • World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki
  • World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: This is Home, directed by Alexandra Shiva
  • World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Shirkers, directed by Sandi Tan
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., presented to director Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A.
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Genesis 2.0, Peter Indergand and Maxim Arbugaev
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Our New President, Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov
  • NEXT Audience Award: Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty
  • NEXT Innovator Award: (tie) Night Comes On, directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar
  • Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Matria, directed by Alvaro Gago
  • Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Hair Wolf, directed by Mariama Diallo
  • Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Would You Look at Her, directed by Goran Stolevski
  • Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: The Trader (Sovdagari), directed by Tamta Gabrichidze
  • Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Glucose, directed by Jeron Braxton
  • Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; Fauve, directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by Luis De Filippis
  • Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Of Fathers and Sons (Syria), directed by Talal Derki; Untitled film (India), directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; and Night on Fire, directed by Tatiana Huezo
  • Sundance Institute / NHK Award: His House, directed by Remi Weekes
  • Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Searching, Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian
  • Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award: Sev Ohanian

Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Film Director
American Animals Bart Layton
Blaze Ethan Hawke
Blindspotting Carlos López Estrada
Burden Andrew Heckler
Eighth Grade Bo Burnham
I Think We're Alone Now Reed Morano
The Kindergarten Teacher Sara Colangelo
Lizzie Craig William Macneill
The Miseducation of Cameron Post Desiree Akhavan
Monster Anthony Mandler
Monsters and Men Reinaldo Marcus Green
Nancy Christina Choe
Sorry to Bother You Boots Riley
The Tale Jennifer Fox
Tyrel Sebastián Silva
Wildlife Paul Dano

U.S. Documentary Competition

Film Director
Bisbee 17 Robert Greene[4]
Crime + Punishment Stephen Maing
Dark Money Kimberly Reed
The Devil We Know Stephanie Soechtig
Hal Amy Scott
Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross
Inventing Tomorrow Laura Nix
Kailash Derek Doneen
Kusama: Infinity Heather Lenz
The Last Race Michael Dweck
Minding the Gap Bing Liu
On Her Shoulders Alexandria Bombach
The Price of Everything Nathaniel Kahn
Seeing Allred Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman
The Sentence Rudy Valdez
Three Identical Strangers Tim Wardle

Premieres

Documentary Premieres

Midnight Premieres

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018.[7]

U.S. Documentary Jury
U.S. Dramatic Jury


World Documentary Jury
World Dramatic Jury
Alfred P. Sloan Jury
NEXT Jury
Short Film Jury

References

  1. ^ Debruge, Peter (2017-11-29). "Sundance Film Festival Unveils Full 2018 Features Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  2. ^ "2018 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED". Sundance Institute. January 27, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  3. ^ Debruge, Peter (January 27, 2018). "Sundance Winners: 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post,' 'Kailash' Take Top Honors". Variety. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  4. ^ Chang, Justin (September 25, 2018). "Review: Robert Greene's 'Bisbee '17' hauntingly explores the memory of a small-town tragedy". Los Angeles Times.
  5. ^ a b D'Alessandro, Anthony (2017-12-19). "Sundance 2018: Todd Haynes Retrospective, 'Isle Of Dogs' VR & More Round Out Lineup; 'Hearts Beat Loud' Is Closing-Night Film". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  6. ^ "'18 Sundace Film Festival - World Documentary Films". sundace.org. Archived from the original on January 23, 2015. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  7. ^ "Sundance Film Festival: Juries, Awards Night Host Announced". Sundance Institute. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2019.

External links

  • Media related to 2018 Sundance Film Festival at Wikimedia Commons