And the Sundance Awards go to…
The 2022 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards were announced after nine days featuring 84 films and 59 short films, the juries have deliberated and the audience has voted.
The 26 jury-awarded and six audience-awarded prizes recognize achievement in global independent storytelling. Bold, intimate, and culture shifting stories prevailed across categories, with Grand Jury Prizes awarded to Nanny (U.S. Dramatic), The Exiles (U.S. Documentary), Utama (World Cinema Dramatic), and All That Breathes (World Cinema Documentary). Audience Awards were presented to Navalny (U.S. Documentary), Cha Cha Real Smooth (U.S. Dramatic), Girl Picture (World Cinema Dramatic), The Territory (World Cinema Documentary), Framing Agnes (NEXT), with Navalny winning the Festival Favorite Award.
Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente said, “The awards represent the determination of visionary individuals, whose dynamic work will continue to change the culture and create discourse throughout the year.”
Vincente added: “This year’s entire program has proven that no matter the context, independent storytelling remains a pivotal tool in expanding critical dialogues, and these stories will and must be shared.”
According to Sundance Film Festival Director Tabitha Jackson, “the 2022 Sundance Film Festival once again met our audience wherever they happened to be. Whether you watched from home or one of our seven satellite screens, this year’s Festival expressed a powerful convergence; we were present, together, as a community connected through the work. And it is work that has already changed those who experienced it.”
Festival’s Director of Programming Kim Yutani said, “We are so grateful for this year’s jurors who brought their expertise and passion to their decision-making process. We congratulate the award winners and we’re so thankful to each and every film in the program that made the 2022 Sundance Film Festival such a huge success.”
The awards announcement marks a key point of the 2022 Festival, where 84 feature-length and 59 short films — selected from 14,849 submissions — were showcased online via the Festival’s online platform; a selection of the program will play at 7 Satellite Screen locations across the United States, starting tonight.
Here’s the full list of Sundance Film Festival 2022 winners
FESTIVAL FAVORITE AWARD
Navalny
Director: Daniel Roher
U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Audience Award
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Director-Writer: Cooper Raiff
Grand Jury Award
Nanny
Director-Writer: Nikyatu Jusu
Directing
Jamie Dack
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
K.D. Dávila
Emergency
Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast
John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton, Olivia Washington, London Covington and Michael K Williams
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Special Jury Award: Uncompromising Artistic Vision
Bradley Rust Gray
blood
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Audience Award
Navalny
Director: Daniel Roher
Grand Jury Prize
The Exiles (U.S.)
Directors: Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
Directing
Reid Davenport
I Didn’t See You There
Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award
Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput
Fire Of Love
Special Jury Award: Impact for Change
Aftershock
Directors: Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee
Special Jury Award: Creative Vision
Descendant
Director: Margaret Brown
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Audience Award
The Territory (Brazil/Denmark/U.S.)
Grand Jury Prize
All That Breathes (India/UK)
Director: Shaunak Sen
Directing
Simon Lereng Wilmont
A House Made Of Splinters (Denmark)
Special Jury Award: Documentary Craft
The Territory (Brazil/Denmark/U.S.)
Director: Alex Pritz
Special Jury Award: Excellence In Verité Filmmaking
Midwives (Myanmar)
Director: Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION
Audience Award
Girl Picture (Finland)
Director: Alli Haapasalo
Grand Jury Prize
Utama (Bolvia/Uruguay/France)
Director-Writer: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Directing
Maryna Er Gorbach
Klondike (Ukraine/Turkey)
Special Jury Award: Innovative Spirit
Leonor Will Never Die (Philippines)
Director-Writer: Martika Ramirez Escobar
Special Jury Award: Acting
Teresa Sánchez
Dos Estaciones (Mexico)
NEXT
Audience Award
Framing Agnes (Canada/U.S.)
Director: Chase Joynt
SHORT FILMS AWARDS
Grand Jury Prize
The Headhunter’s Daughter (Philippines)
Director-Writer: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan
Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
If I Go Will They Miss Me (U.S.)
Director-writer: Walter Thompson-Hernández
Jury Award: International Fiction
Warsha (France/Lebanon)
Director-writer: Dania Bdeir
Jury Award: Nonfiction
Displaced (Kosovo)
Director-writer: Samir Karahoda
Jury Award: Animation
Night Bus (Taiwan)
Director-writer: Joe Hsieh
Special Jury Award: Ensemble Cast
Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Camila Rocha, Clarissa Ribeiro and Lorre Motta
A wild patience has taken me here (Brazil)
Director-writer: Érica Sarmet
Special Jury Award: Screenwriting
Sara Driver
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver (U.S.)
Directors: Lewie Kloster, Noah Kloster; Writer: Sara Driver
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
After Yang
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction
Su Kim, Free Chol Soo Lee (U.S. Documentary Competition)
Sundance Institute | Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction
Amanda Marshall, God’s Country (Premieres)
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction
Toby Shimin
Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction
Dody Dorn
Sundance Institute | NHK Award
Hasan Hadi, The President’s Cake
