Il Sundance Film Festival 2023 si conclude con il trionfo di A Thousand and One, storia di una madre single che fugge con il figlio affidato ai servizi sociali nella New York degli anni ’90. Il film d’esordio della regista giamaicana-americana A.V. Rockwell si porta a casa il grand premio della giuria nei progetti di finzione prodotti in America.
Sundance Film Festival 2023, tutti i vincitori:
Gran Premio della Giuria
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – A Thousand and One (regista A.V. Rockwell)
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (registi Joe Brewster e Michèle Stephenson)
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – “Scrapper” (regista Charlotte Regan)
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Eternal Memory (regista Maite Alberdi)
Premi del Pubblico
- Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Beyond Utopia (regista Madeleine Gavin)
- Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – The Persian Version (regista Maryam Keshavarz)
- Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Shayda (regista Noora Niasari)
- Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – 20 Days in Mariupol (regista Mstyslav Chernov)
- Audience Award: NEXT – Kokomo City (regista D. Smith)
Festival Favorite Award
- Radical (regista Christopher Zalla)
Premi della Giuria alla Regia, sceneggiatura e montaggio
- Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – Luke Lorentzen, A Still Small Voice
- Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Sing J. Lee, The Accidental Getaway Driver
- Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – Anna Hints, Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
- Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Marija Kavtaradze, Slow
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – Maryam Keshavarz, The Persian Version
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Daniela I. Quiroz, Going Varsity in Mariachi
Cortometraggi
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize – When You Left Me on That Boulevard (regista Kayla Abuda Galang)
- Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Rest Stop (regista Crystal Kayiza)
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Kidnapping of the Bride (regista Sophia Mocorrea)
- Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Will You Look at Me (regista Shuli Huang)
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation – The Flying Sailor (regista Wendy Tilby e Amanda Forbis)
Premi speciali della giuria
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Fantastic Machine (regista Axel Danielson e Maximilien Van Aertryck)
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Verite Filmmaking – Against the Tide (regista Sarvnik Kaur)
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision – Animalia (regista Sofia Alaoui)
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Lílis Soares, Mami Wata
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Performance – Rosa Marchant, When It Melts
- Short Film Special Jury Award, International: Directing – AliEN0089 (regista Valeria Hofmann)
- Short Film Special Jury Award, U.S: Directing – The Vacation (regista Jarreau Carrillo)
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Clarity of Vision – The Stroll (registi Kristen Lovell & Zackary Drucker)
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression – Bad Press (registi Rebecca Landsberry-Baker & Joe Peeler)
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble – Cast di Theater Camp
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Team Creativo di Magazine Dreams
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Lio Mehiel, Mutt
NEXT Innovator Award presentato da Adobe
- Kokomo City (regista D. Smith)
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