The 2022 installment of the Sundance Film Festival has wrapped, and awards have been introduced Friday, with the highest jury prizes have been awarded to director Nikyatu Jusu’s characteristic debut Nanny for U.S. Dramatic, with Christine Choy’s The Exiles successful for U.S. Documentary.
Juries and digital viewers members had the chance to vote for his or her favorites in a slew of classes out of 84 characteristic movies and 59 quick movies — chosen from 14,849 submissions. Fifty-three p.c of this 12 months’s jury-successful options have been directed by a number of ladies, and 42 p.c have been directed by a number of individual of shade. Jusu is the second Black girl to win the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic, the previous being Chinonye Chukwu for Clemency in 2019.
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Starring Anna Diop, Nanny follows Aisha, an undocumented nanny working for a privileged couple in New York City. While coping with the great sorrow stemming from the separation from her son in Senegal, a violent supernatural presence invades her actuality, threatening her realization of the American Dream. Thirty-three years within the making, The Exiles tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square bloodbath to finish the reflective documentary Choy initially started in 1989.
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“Today’s awards represent the determination of visionary individuals, whose dynamic work will continue to change the culture and create discourse throughout the year,” stated Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente.
Clinching the World Cinema Documentary title was Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes and the World Cinema Dramatic honor was awarded to Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Utama. All That Breathes poises itself inside Delhi’s apocalyptic air and escalating violence, the place two brothers dedicate their lives to guard the fowl often called the Black Kite, endangered and one in every of many victims to the instances. Another extension of environmental drama is available in Utama, the place an aged Quechua couple dwelling within the Bolivian highlands has the routine machinations of their lives threatened by an extended-lasting drought.
Festival standouts successful the Audience Awards included the U.S. documentary Navalny — additionally successful the Festival Favorite Award — and Cha Cha Real Smooth in U.S. Dramatic. Centering on just lately dubbed terrorist and imprisoned opposition chief Alexei Navalny, the namesake documentary follows the Russian anti-authoritarian activist from his assassination try restoration to his resolution to face the worst again in his house nation.
Cha Cha Real Smooth, the one competition winner to amass U.S. distribution by AppleTV+, is a coming-of-age dramedy created by director-author Cooper Raiff and producer-actor Dakota Johnson. It follows a school graduate navigating a brand new relationship with a single mom and the opposite nuances of submit-grad life.
This 12 months’s jurors included Chelsea Barnard, Marielle Heller, and Payman Maadi for U.S. Dramatic Competition; Garrett Bradley, Joan Churchill, and Peter Nicks for U.S. Documentary Competition; Andrew Haigh, Mohamed Hefzy, and La Frances Hui for World Cinema Dramatic Competition; and Emilie Bujès, Patrick Gaspard, and Dawn Porter for World Cinema Documentary Competition. Joey Soloway was the juror for the NEXT competitors part. Penelope Bartlett, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Blackhorse Lowe juried the Short Film Program Competition.
Read under for a full checklist of the winners:
GRAND JURY PRIZES
U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Nanny / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Nikyatu Jusu) U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – The Exiles / U.S.A. (Directors: Ben Klein and Violet Columbus) World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Utama / Bolivia/Uruguay/France (Director and Screenwriter: Alejandro Loayza Grisi) World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – All That Breathes / India, U.Okay. (Director and Producer: Shaunak Sen)
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Audience Award: U.S. Documentary – Navalny / U.S.A. (Director: Daniel Roher) Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Cha Cha Real Smooth / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Cooper Raiff) Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic – Girl Picture / Finland (Director: Alli Haapasalo) Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary – The Territory / Brazil/Denmark/United States (Director: Alex Pritz) Audience Award: NEXT – Framing Agnes / Canada, U.S.A. (Director: Chase Joynt)
FESTIVAL FAVORITE AWARD
Navalny / U.S.A. (Director: Daniel Roher)
JURY AWARDS FOR DIRECTING, SCREENWRITING & EDITING
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary – I Didn’t See You There / U.S.A. (Director: Reid Davenport) Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic – Palm Trees and Power Lines / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Jamie Dack) Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary – A House Made Of Splinters / Denmark (Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont) Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic – KLONDIKE / Ukraine/Turkey (Director and Screenwriter: Maryna Er Gorbach) Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic – Emergency / U.S.A. (Director: Carey Williams, Screenwriter: KD Davila) Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary – Fire Of Love / U.S.A. (Director: Sara Dosa)
SPECIAL JURY AWARDS
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision – blood / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Bradley Rust Gray) U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, London Covington, and Michael Okay. Williams for 892 / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Abi Damaris Corbin, Screenwriter: Kwame Kwei-Armah) U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Impact for Change – Aftershock / U.S.A. (Directors and Producers: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee) U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: Creative Vision – Descendant / U.S.A. (Director: Margaret Brown) World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft – The Territory / Brazil/Denmark/United States (Director: Alex Pritz) World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Excellence In Verité Filmmaking – Midwives / Myanmar (Director: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing) World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit – Leonor Will Never Die / Philippines (Director and Screenwriter: Martika Ramirez Escobar) World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: Acting – Teresa Sánchez for Dos Estaciones / Mexico (Director and Screenwriter: Juan Pablo González, Screenwriters: Ana Isabel Fernández, Ilana Coleman)
NEXT INNOVATOR AWARD PRESENTED BY ADOBE
Chase Joynt for Framing Agnes / Canada, U.S.A. (Director: Chase Joynt)
SHORT FILM AWARDS PRESENTED BY XRM Media
Short Film Grand Jury Prize – The Headhunter’s Daughter / Philippines (Director and Screenwriter: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan) Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME / U.S.A. (Director and Screenwriter: Walter Thompson-Hernández) Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Warsha / France/Lebanon (Director and Screenwriter: Dania Bdeir) Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction – Displaced / Kosovo (Director and Screenwriter: Samir Karahoda) Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Night Bus / Taiwan (Director and Screenwriter: Joe Hsieh) Short Film Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast – Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Camila Rocha, Clarissa Ribeiro, and Lorre Motta for A wild persistence has taken me right here / Brazil (Director and Screenwriter: Érica Sarmet) Short Film Special Jury Award: Screenwriting – Sara Driver for Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver / United States (Directors: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster, Screenwriter: Sara Driver)
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