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2018 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. There was some degree of tension with this particular year's event, as Robert Redford addressed concerns about alleged assault accusations against Harvey Weinstein, and the event's organizers took measures to improve the safety of guests.

Awards
The following awards were presented: • 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 ==
Films
U.S. Dramatic Competition U.S. Documentary Competition Premieres Beirut by Brad AndersonThe Catcher Was a Spy by Ben LewinColette by Wash Westmoreland • Come Sunday by Joshua MarstonDamsel by David Zellner • ''Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot'' by Gus Van SantA Futile and Stupid Gesture by David WainThe Happy Prince by Rupert EverettHearts Beat Loud by Brett HaleyJuliet, Naked by Jesse PeretzA Kid Like Jake by Silas HowardLeave No Trace by Debra GranikThe Long Dumb Road by Hannah FidellOphelia by Claire McCarthyPrivate Life by Tamara JenkinsPuzzle by Marc TurtletaubTully by Jason ReitmanWhat They Had by Elizabeth Chomko Documentary Premieres Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock by Cody LucichBad Reputation by Kevin KerslakeBeliever by Don ArgottChef Flynn by Cameron YatesThe Game Changers by Louie PsihoyosGeneration Wealth by Lauren GreenfieldHalf the Picture by Amy AdrionJane Fonda in Five Acts by Susan LacyKing in the Wilderness by Peter KunhardtQuiet Heroes by Jenny MackenzieRBG by Betsy West and Julie CohenRobin Williams: Come Inside My Mind by Marina ZenovichStudio 54 by Matt Tyrnauer • ''Won't You Be My Neighbor?'' by Morgan Neville Midnight Arizona by Jonathan Watson • Assassination Nation by Sam LevinsonHereditary by Ari AsterLords of Chaos by Jonas ÅkerlundA Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter (Hungary) Special Events The King by Eugene JareckiPass Over by Spike LeeThe Trade by Matthew HeinemanWild Wild Country by Chapman Way and Maclain Way ==Juries==
Juries
Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018. ;U.S. Documentary Jury • Barbara ChaiSimon ChinnChaz EbertEzra EdelmanMatt Holzman ;U.S. Dramatic Jury • Rachel MorrisonJada Pinkett SmithOctavia SpencerMichael StuhlbargJoe Swanberg ;World Documentary Jury • Hanaa IssaRuben ÖstlundMichael J. Werner ;World Dramatic Jury • Joslyn BarnesBilly LutherPaulina Suárez ;Alfred P. Sloan Jury • Robert BenezraHeather BerlinKerry BishéNancy Buirski ;NEXT Jury • RuPaul Charles ;Short Film Jury • Cherien DabisShirley MansonChris Ware ==See also==
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