2017 Sundance Film Festival

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]

2017 Sundance Film Festival
LocationPark City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance Resort in Utah
Hosted bySundance Institute
Festival dateJanuary 19 to January 29, 2017
LanguageEnglish
Websitesundance.org/festival

Awards

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

U.S. Dramatic Competition

U.S. Documentary Competition
  • 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

Next

Spotlight

Midnight

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

World Cinema Documentary Competition
  • 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
  • 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

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 11, 2017.[6]

References
  1. "Sundance Film Festival". www.sundance.org. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  2. Debruge, Peter (December 5, 2016). "Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2017 Premieres, Midnight, Spotlight Sections". Variety.
  3. "Sundance 2017 Announces Competition and NEXT Lineups, Including Returning Favorites and Major Contenders". Indiewire. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
  4. Debruge, Peter. "Sundance: Winners Announced (Awards Ceremony in Progress)". Variety. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  5. John DeFore (January 25, 2017). "'Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  6. "Announcing the Jury Members of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival". Sundance Institute. January 11, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2017.

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