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.[1]
| Location | Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah |
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| Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
| Festival date | January 18 to January 28, 2018 |
| Language | English |
| Website | sundance |
Contents
AwardsEdit
The following awards were presented:[2][3]
- 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, 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 Moller
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: And Breathe Normally, directed by Isold Uggadottir
- 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
FilmsEdit
U.S. Dramatic CompetitionEdit
- American Animals by Bart Layton
- Blaze by Ethan Hawke
- Blindspotting by Carlos López Estrada
- Burden by Andrew Heckler
- Eighth Grade by Bo Burnham
- I Think We're Alone Now by Reed Morano
- The Kindergarten Teacher by Sara Colangelo
- Lizzie by Craig William Macneill
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Desiree Akhavan
- Monster by Anthony Mandler
- Monsters and Men by Reinaldo Marcus Green
- Nancy by Christina Choe
- Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley
- The Tale by Jennifer Fox
- Tyrel by Sebastián Silva
- Wildlife by Paul Dano
U.S. Documentary CompetitionEdit
- Bisbee 17 by Robert Greene[4]
- Crime + Punishment by Stephen Maing
- Dark Money by Kimberly Reed
- The Devil We Know by Stephanie Soechtig
- Hal by Amy Scott
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening by RaMell Ross
- Inventing Tomorrow by Laura Nix
- Kailash by Derek Doneen
- Kusama - Infinity by Heather Lenz
- The Last Race by Michael Dweck
- Minding the Gap by Bing Liu
- On Her Shoulders by Alexandria Bombach
- The Price of Everything by Nathaniel Kahn
- Seeing Allred by Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman
- The Sentence by Rudy Valdez
- Three Identical Strangers by Tim Wardle
PremieresEdit
- Beirut by Brad Anderson
- The Catcher Was a Spy by Ben Lewin
- Colette by Wash Westmoreland
- Come Sunday by Joshua Marston
- Damsel by David Zellner
- Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by Gus Van Sant
- A Futile and Stupid Gesture by David Wain
- The Happy Prince by Rupert Everett
- Hearts Beat Loud by Brett Haley
- Juliet, Naked by Jesse Peretz
- A Kid Like Jake by Silas Howard
- Leave No Trace by Debra Granik
- The Long Dumb Road by Hannah Fidell
- Tully by Jason Reitman
- Ophelia by Claire McCarthy
- Private Life by Tamara Jenkins
- Puzzle by Marc Turtletaub
- What They Had by Elizabeth Chomko
Documentary PremieresEdit
- Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock by Cody Lucich
- Bad Reputation by Kevin Kerslake
- Believer by Don Argott
- Chef Flynn by Cameron Yates
- Generation Wealth by Lauren Greenfield
- Half the Picture by Amy Adrion
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts by Susan Lacy
- King in the Wilderness by Peter Kunhardt
- Quiet Heroes by Jenny Mackenzie
- RBG by Betsy West and Julie Cohen
- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind by Marina Zenovich
- Studio 54 by Matt Tyrnauer
- The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? by Morgan Neville
Midnight PremieresEdit
- Arizona by Jonathan Watson
- Assassination Nation by Sam Levinson
- Hereditary by Ari Aster[5][6]
- Lords of Chaos by Jonas Åkerlund[7]
- Mandy by Panos Cosmatos
- Never Goin' Back by Augustine Frizzell
- Piercing by Nicolas Pesce
- Revenge by Coralie Fargeat
- Summer of 84 by Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann Whissell
World Cinema Dramatic CompetitionEdit
- And Breathe Normally by Ísold Uggadóttir (Iceland-Sweden-Belgium)
- Butterflies by Tolga Karaçelik (Turkey)
- Dead Pigs by Cathy Yan (China)
- The Guilty by Gustav Möller (Denmark)
- Holiday by Isabella Eklöf (Denmark-Netherlands-Sweden)
- Loveling by Gustavo Pizzi (Brazil-Uruguay)
- Pity by Babis Makridis (Greece-Poland)
- The Queen of Fear by Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia (Argentina-Denmark)
- Rust by Aly Muritiba (Brazil)
- Time Share (Tiempo Compartido) by Sebastián Hofmann (Mexico-Netherlands)
- Un Traductor by Rodrigo Barriuso and Sebastián Barriuso (Canada-Cuba)
- Yardie by Idris Elba (U.K.)
World Cinema Documentary CompetitionEdit
- Anote's Ark by Matthieu Rytz (Canada)
- A Polar Year by Samuel Collardey (France)
- A Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter (Hungary)
- Genesis 2.0 by Christian Frei and Maxim Arbugaev (Switzerland)
- Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. by Stephen Loveridge (Sri Lanka/United Kingdom/United States)
- Of Fathers and Sons by Talal Derki (Germany/Syria/Lebanon/Qatar)
- Our New President by Maxim Pozdorovkin (Russia/United States)
- Shirkers by Sandi Tan (United States)
- The Cleaners by Moritz Riesewieck and Hans Block (Germany/Brazil)
- The Oslo Diaries by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan (Israel/Canada)
- This Is Home by Alexandra Shiva (Jordan/United States)
- Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist by Lorna Tucker (United Kingdom)[8]
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Debruge, Peter (2017-11-29). "Sundance Film Festival Unveils Full 2018 Features Lineup". Variety. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
- ^ "2018 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS ANNOUNCED". Sundance Institute. January 27, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ Debruge, Peter (January 27, 2018). "Sundance Winners: 'The Miseducation of Cameron Post,' 'Kailash' Take Top Honors". Variety. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ Chang, Justin (September 25, 2018). "Review: Robert Greene's 'Bisbee '17' hauntingly explores the memory of a small-town tragedy". Los Angeles Times.
For all its teasing intellectual layers, “Bisbee ’17” is fairly unambiguous about where it stands. Its most persuasive arguments frame the conflict as a case of human rights being devoured by an unholy maw of rapacious capitalism and undisguised xenophobia. ... Greene frames his subjects with sly formal detachment, often keeping them at a visual distance and letting the camera run for several moments before or after someone has spoken. ... If that makes “Bisbee ’17” sound like a curious, hyper-alliterative fusion of Bertolt Brecht and Busby Berkeley, its experimentation never feels forced or alienating. On the contrary, one of the pleasurable discoveries of this continually surprising movie is that artifice can be the most direct route to the truth.
- ^ "HEREDITARY to Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival". Nightmarish Conjurings. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
- ^ "'Handmaid's Tale' Actress Ann Dowd Has 5 Films at Sundance". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (2017-12-19). "Sundance 2018: Todd Haynes Retrospective, 'Isle Of Dogs' VR & More Round Out Lineup; 'Hearts Beat Loud' Is Closing-Night Film". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
- ^ "'18 Sundace Film Festival - World Documentary Films". sundace.org. Retrieved January 21, 2018.