SUNDANCE: The 2015 festival approached the end on Saturday (January 31) as Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me And Earl And The Dying Girl capped a sensational 10 days by scooping both the US grand jury prize and audience awards.
Scroll down for full list of winners
Earlier in the week Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush partnered on the acquisition of world rights.
Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack won the US grand jury documentary award days after Magnolia Pictures moved for world rights.
In the World Cinema categories, John Maclean’s UK-New Zealand entry Slow West prevailed in the dramatic strand while there was joy for UK documentary winner The Russian Woodpecker by Chad Gracia.
Meru by Jimmy Chin and E Chai Vasarhelyi triumphed in the US dramatic audience award. Robert Eggers was a highlight of the directing honours with the US dramatic prize for The Witch while Kim Longinotto won World Cinema documentary for Dreamcatcher
The festival runs from January 22-February 1 and screened 123 feature-length and 60 short films selected from 12,166 submissions
New this year, jurors were asked to give an increased number of special jury prizes recognising excellence in the craft of filmmaking as they deemed appropriate. The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award is still given to a US Dramatic film for excellence in screenwriting. Audience awards are also bestowed upon films in each section.
A full list of prize-winners appears below:
US Grand Jury Prize
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl (US), Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
The US Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
The Wolfpack (US), Crystal Moselle
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic
Slow West (UK-New Zealand), John Maclean
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
The Russian Woodpecker (UK), Chad Gracia
The Audience Award: US Documentary
Meru (US), Jimmy Chin, E Chai Vasarhelyi
The Audience Award: US Dramatic
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl (US), Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary
Dark Horse (UK), Louise Osmond
The Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Umrika (India)
The Audience Award: NEXT
James White (US), Josh Mond
The Directing Award: US Dramatic
Robert Eggers for The Witch (US-Canada)
The Directing Award: US Documentary
Matthew Heineman for Cartel Land (US-Mexico)
The Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic
Alanté Kavaïté for The Summer Of Sangaile (Lithuania-France-The Netherlands)
The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary
Kim Longinotto for Dreamcatcher (UK)
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic
Tim Talbott for The Stanford Prison Experiment (US)
US Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact
Marc Silver for 3½ Minutes (US)
A US Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking
Bill Ross and Turner Ross for Western (US-Mexico)
A US Documentary Special Jury Award for Break Out First Feature
Lyric R Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe for (T)ERROR (US)
A US Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Matthew Heineman for Cartel Land (US-Mexico)
US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography
Brandon Trost for The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (US)
US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Editing
Dope (US)
US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision
Advantageous (US)
Director: Jennifer Phang
Screenwriters: Jacqueline Kim, Jennifer Phang
A World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Unparalleled Access
The Chinese Mayor (China), Hao Zhou
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact
Pervert Park (Sweden-Denmark), Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing
Jim Scott for How To Change The World (UK-Canada), Jerry Rothwell
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography
Germain McMicking for Partisan (Australia)
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting
Jack Reynor, Glassland (Ireland)
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting
Regina Casé and Camila Márdila, The Second Mother (Brazil).
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