El más importante festival del cine independiente en Estados Unidos ha concluido su edición de 2024, luego de 10 días en que se presentaron más de 150 largometrajes, seleccionados de las más de 15,000 propuestas que se recibieron.
En anteriores entregas del Sundance, se han dado a conocer filmes como: Whiplash, Fruitvale Station, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Coda y Vidas pasadas.
El jurado de Sundance 2024 estuvo formado por 16 cineastas y artistas de todas las secciones. Como jurados de la Competencia Dramática de EE. UU. estuvieron la directora de Winter’s Bone, Debra Granik; el guionista de Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine, y la productora de Master of None, Lena Waithe.
El productor de Navalny, Shane Boris, la directora de The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Nicole Newnham, y el director de The Sentence, Rudy Valdez, formaronn parte del jurado de la Competencia de Documentales de Estados Unidos. La directora de The Babadook, Jennifer Kent, y la directora de Mississippi Masala, Mira Nair, y el director de fotografía de Frankie, Rui Poças, forman parte del jurado del Concurso Mundial de Cine Dramático.
Lo que queda es la lista de los ganadores, una de las primeras que hay que tener en cuenta.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was awarded to In The Summers.
The Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to Alessandra Lacorazza for In The Summers.
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain.
The U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble was presented to Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and Chang Li Hua for Dìdi
The U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance was presented to Nico Parker for Suncoast.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was awarded to Porcelain War.
The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane.
The U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change was awarded to Union.
The Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary was presented to Carla Gutiérrez for FRIDA.
The U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Sound was awarded to Gaucho Gaucho.
The Festival Favorite Award was awarded to Daughters.
The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic, Presented by Acura was awarded to Dìdi
The Audience Award: U.S. Documentary, Presented by Acura was awarded to Daughters.
The Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic, Presented by United Airlines was awarded to Girls Will Be Girls.
The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary, Presented by United Airlines was awarded to Ibelin.
The Audience Award: NEXT, Presented by Adobe was awarded to Kneecap.
The NEXT Innovator Award was awarded to Little Death.
The NEXT Special Jury Award was awarded to Desire Lines.
The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was awarded to Sujo.
The Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic was presented to Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi for In the Land of Brothers.
The World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting was presented to Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls.
The World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Original Music was presented to Peter Raeburn for Handling the Undead.
The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was awarded to A New Kind of Wilderness.
The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to Benjamin Ree for Ibelin.
The World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation was presented to Johan Grimonprez for Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.
The World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Craft was awarded to Nocturnes.
The Short Film Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Alex Lora Cercos for The Masterpiece.
The Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction was presented to Kate Jean Hollowell for Say Hi After You Die.
The Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction was presented to An Chu for The Stag.
The Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction was presented to Jack Dunphy for Bob’s Funeral.
The Short Film Jury Award: Animation was presented to Phoebe Jane Hart for Bug Diner.
A Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing was presented to Masha Ko for The Looming.
A Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing was presented to Makoto Nagahisa for Pisko the Crab Child is in Love.
The Sundance Institute | NHK Award was presented to Saim Sadiq for We Are Never Going to Die.
The Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction was presented to Pamela Martin.
The Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction was presented to Kristina Motwani.
The Sundance Institute | Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Fiction was presented to Brad Becker-Parton for Stress Positions.
The Sundance Institute | Amazon MGM Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction was presented to Toni Kamau for The Battle for Laikipia.
The 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, presented to an outstanding feature film about science or technology, was awarded to Love Me.
