2009 Sundance Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 15–25, 2009
Language	English
Website	sundance.org/festival
2010 Sundance Film Festival 2008 Sundance Film Festival

The 2009 Sundance Film Festival was held during January 15, 2009 until January 25 in Park City, Utah.^[1] It was the 25th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.^[2]

Award winners

• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - We Live in Public
• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - The Maid (La Nana)
• Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Rough Aunties
• Audience Award: Documentary - The Cove
• Audience Award: Dramatic - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Afghan Star
• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - An Education
• Documentary Directing Award - Natalia Almada for El General
• Dramatic Directing Award - Cary Joji Fukunaga for Sin Nombre
• World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Oliver Hirschbiegel for Five Minutes of Heaven
• World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Havana Marking for Afghan Star
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Bob Richman for The September Issue
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Adriano Goldman for Sin Nombre
• World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - John De Borman for An Education
• World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - John Maringouin for Big River Man
• Documentary Film Editing - Karen Schmeer for Sergio
• World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas Papapetros for Burma VJ
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic - Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi for Paper Heart
• World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Guy Hibbert for Five Minutes of Heaven
• Special Jury Prize for Originality, World Cinema Drama - Louise-Michel
• Special Jury Prize, World Cinema Documentary - Tibet in Song
• Special Jury Prize for Acting, World Cinema - Catalina Saavedra for The Maid (La Nana)
• Special Jury Prize, U.S. Documentary - Good Hair
• Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence - Humpday
• Special Jury Prize for Acting - Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Jury Prize, U.S. Short Filmmaking - Short Term 12
• Jury Prize, International Short Filmmaking - Lies
• 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Adam^[3]

Jurors

Dramatic Jury

• Virginia Madsen – (Actress: Sideways, Number 23, The Rainmaker, David Lynch's Dune)
• Scott McGehee – (Producer/Director/Writer: Uncertainty, The Deep End, Suture)
• Maud Nadler – (Producer/HBO Films: Relative Values)
• Mike White – (Writer/Director/Producer: Year Of The Dog)
• Boaz Yakin – (Director/Writer/Producer: Fresh, Remember The Titans, Hostel)

Documentary Jury

• Patrick Creadon – (Writer/Director/Director of Photography: Wordplay, Writer/Director/Director of Photography: I.O.U.S.A.)
• Carl Deal – (Director/Producer: Trouble The Water)
• Andrea Meditch – (Executive Producer/Producer: Man on Wire, In The Shadow Of The Moon)
• Sam Pollard – (Editor: When The Levees Broke, Jungle Fever, Mo' Better Blues)
• Marina Zenovich – (Director/Producer/Writer: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired)

World Dramatic Jury

• Colin Brown (New York) – (Editor: Screen International)
• Christine Jeffs (New Zealand) – (Director/Writer: Rain, Stroke; Director: Sunshine Cleaning)
• Vibeke Windelov (Denmark) – (Producer: Dogville, Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark)

World Documentary Jury

• Gillian Armstrong (Australia) – (Director: Death Defying Acts, Oscar & Lucinda, Little Women)
• Thom Powers (New York) – (Documentary Programmer, Toronto International Film Festival)
• Hubert Sauper (France) – (Director/Producer: Darwin's Nightmare)

Shorts Jury

• Gerardo Naranjo – (Director/Writer/Producer: "I’m Gonna Explode" (Spanish: Voy a explotar), Malachance, Perro Negro)
• Lou Taylor Pucci – (Actor: Thumbsucker)
• Sharon Swart – (Reporter: Variety)

Alfred P. Sloan Jury (Award presented to the writer and director of an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character)

• Fran Bagenal – (Professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado)
• Rodney Brooks – (Panasonic Professor of Robotics, MIT Computer Science & AI Lab)
• Ray Gesteland – (Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah)
• Jeffrey Nachmanoff – (Writer: The Day After Tomorrow; Writer/Director: Traitor)
• Alex Rivera – (Director/Writer/Editor: Sleep Dealer)