Sundance Announces Award Winners for 2022 (Updating Live)
thewrap.comsaid upon introducing the awards ceremony. “This year’s festival expressed a powerful convergence; we were present, together, as a community connected through the work.
And it is work that has already changed those who experienced it,” festival director Tabitha Jackson added. This year’s jurors were: Chelsea Barnard, Marielle Heller, and Payman Maadi for U.S.
Dramatic Competition; Garrett Bradley, Joan Churchill, and Peter Nicks for U.S. Documentary Competition; Andrew Haigh, Mohamed Hefzy, and La Frances Hui for World Cinema Dramatic Competition;and Emilie Bujès, Patrick Gaspard, and Dawn Porter for World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Joey Soloway was the juror for the NEXT competition section. Penelope Bartlett, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Blackhorse Lowe juried the Short Film Program Competition.This year’s festival has seen some healthy sales for a variety of titles, including Apple’s reported $15 million acquisition of Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth” and other 7-figure deals for the documentary “Fire of Love,” Riley Stearns’ “Dual” and the Rebecca Hall thriller “Resurrection,” the Bill Nighy drama “Living” and the Emma Thompson comedy “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.” Below is the full list of award winners, which we’ll update live as they come in. U.S.
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