2012 Sundance Film Festival

2012 Sundance Film Festival
Festival poster
Location	Park City
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 19–29, 2012
Language	English
Website	sundance.org/festival
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The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah.^[1]

64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions.^[2]

Non-competition features

Midnight

Black Rock
Excision
Grabbers
The Pact
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
V/H/S

Award winners

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - The House I Live In
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary - The Law in These Parts
World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - Violeta Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary - The Invisible War
Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic - The Surrogate (retitled The Sessions)
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - Searching for Sugar Man
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Valley of Saints
Best of NEXT Audience Award - Sleepwalk with Me
U.S. Directing Award: Documentary - The Queen of Versailles
U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic - Middle of Nowhere
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - 5 Broken Cameras
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Teddy Bear
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Safety Not Guaranteed
World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Young & Wild
U.S. Documentary Editing Award - Detropia
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Indie Game: The Movie
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary - Chasing Ice
Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic - Beasts of the Southern Wild
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - Putin's Kiss
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - My Brother the Devil
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change - Love Free or Die
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance - Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing - Smashed and Nobody Walks
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting - The Surrogate (retitled The Sessions)
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision - Can
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit - Searching for Sugar Man
Jury Prize: Short Filmmaking - Fishing Without Nets
Jury Prize: Short Film, U.S. Fiction - The Black Balloon
Jury Prize: Short Film, International Fiction - The Return
Jury Prize: Short Film, Non-Fiction - The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
Jury Prize: Animated Short Film - A Morning Stroll
Short Film Audience Award - The Debutante Hunters^[3]

Premieres

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) web documentary Bear 71 premiered January 20 in an installation at the festival's New Frontier multimedia program.^[4] The NFB documentary Payback, based on Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, and the documentary A Place at the Table, also premiered at the festival.^[5]

References

^ "Festival Info". Sundance Institute. Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
^ "2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program". Sundance Institute. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
^ "2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards". sundance.org. January 28, 2012. Archived from the original on April 28, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
^ Monk, Katherine. "Sundance: Interactive film, Bear 71, blurs lines between wild and wired". canada.com. Postmedia News. Archived from the original on 26 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
^ Fulton, Ben (27 January 2012). "Sundance: A documentary about debt offers a big 'Payback'". Salt Lake Tribune. Archived from the original on 2012-01-24. Retrieved 1 March 2012.