Edition of film festival
The 2023 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to 29, 2023. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 7, 2022.[1][2][3][4]
Awards
The following awards were given out:[5]
Grand Jury Prizes
Audience Awards
- Festival Favorite – Radical (Christopher Zalla)
- U.S. Dramatic Competition – The Persian Version (Maryam Keshavarz)
- U.S. Documentary Competition – Beyond Utopia (Madeleine Gavin)
- World Cinema Dramatic Competition – Shayda (Noora Niasari)
- World Cinema Documentary Competition – 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov)
- NEXT – Kokomo City
Directing, Screenwriting and Editing
- U.S. Dramatic Competition – Sing J. Lee for The Accidental Getaway Driver
- U.S. Documentary Competition – Luke Lorentzen for A Still Small Voice
- World Cinema Dramatic Competition – Marija Kavtaradze for Slow
- World Cinema Documentary Competition – Anna Hints for Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Maryam Keshavarz for The Persian Version
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Daniela I. Quiroz for Going Varsity in Mariachi
- NEXT Innovator Prize – Kokomo City
Special Jury Prizes
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – The cast of Theater Camp
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – The creative team of Magazine Dreams
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision – The Stroll (Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucke)
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Freedom of Expression – Bad Press
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Cinematography – Lílis Soares for Mami Wata
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Best Performance – Rosa Marchant for When it Melts
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Sofia Alaoui for Animalia
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Fantastic Machine
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Verité – Against the Tide
Short Film Awards
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize – When You Left Me on That Boulevard
- Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – Rest Stop
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – The Kidnapping of the Bride
- Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Will You Look at Me
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation – The Flying Sailor
- Short Film Special Jury Award, International: Directing – AliEN0089 by Valeria Hoffman
- Short Film Special Jury Award, U.S.: Directing – The Vacation by Jarreau Carrillo
Special Prizes
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Pod Generation
- Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction – Jess Devaney for It’s Only Life After All
- Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction – Kara Durrett for The Starling Girl
- Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction – Mary Manhardt
- Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction – Troy Takaki
- Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Olive Nwosu for Lady
