“In volatile times like these, democracy and storytelling aren’t separate, they’re inextricably linked.”Both the audience award and the jury award for the Next section — “marked by pure, bold works that are distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling” — went to the Spanish language love story “I Carry You With Me,” the first fiction feature made by “This story is about love, it’s about love without borders, it’s about seeing people for who they are instead of some monolithic group,” she said of the U.S.-Mexico co-production, accepting her second award in English and Spanish. The Sundance movie festival will take place from 23rd January to 2nd February 2020. Beer tasting from 4 - 9 pm, music and dancing until 10 pm. Ane Dahl Torp appears in “Charter” by Amanda Kernell, an official selection of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. “We should be co-producing, co-living, talking to each other,” she said.
Twelve (48%) of the winning films were directed by at least one woman, ten (40%) were directed by one or more people of color, and two (8%) were directed by a filmmaker identifying as LGTBQ+.All four of the jury directing prizes went to female filmmakers: Garrett Bradley’s “Time” in U.S. Lee Isaac Chung’s breakout film “Minari” inspired such strong audience devotion at the 2020 edition of the Sundance Film Festival that when it won the top U.S.
Dramatic competition were women, which is slightly below last year when nine of the 16 films had a woman directing. Several titles in the section were among the festival’s most high-profile and widely discussed films, including “Minari,” the black-and-white comedy “The 40-Year-Old-Version,” Focus Features’ abortion drama “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” unconventional bio-pic “Shirley,” Huge applause met first-time filmmaker Blank as she was awarded the U.S. However, that number changed slightly as more films were subsequently announced to the full lineup.Directors of color in the U.S. The Jury Prize for the 2020 SundanceTV Shorts Competition will be judged on a number of criteria, including creativity, entertainment value, original storytelling and production values.
The 2020 edition of the Sundance Film Festival came to a close on Saturday night, culminating with its annual awards ceremony, held at Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah. The film inked a documentary record-breaking $12 million distribution deal with Apple and A24 midway through the festival. Sundance Film Festival programmers will consider films from the Cannes 2020 Official Selection for its competition categories in January 2021. (Jury: American Museum of Natural History assistant curator Dr. Ruth Angus, actress Emily Mortimer, filmmaker and visual artist Jessica Oreck, scientist Ainissa Ramirez and filmmaker Michael Tyburski)(Jury: actress Sian Clifford, Strand Releasing co-president and co-founder Marcus Hu and artist Cindy Sherman)Get our revamped Envelope newsletter, sent twice a week, for exclusive awards season coverage, behind-the-scenes insights and columnist Glenn Whipp’s commentary. Documentary competition, Kirsten Johnson, director of Netflix’s “Dick Johnson is Dead,” said, “It’s just been so moving tonight to see who has come up on this stage that didn’t use to come up on this stage.”Johnson also noted that she is married to incoming festival director Jackson, “this woman who I am willing to share with you all.”Directors Emerald Fennell, Julie Taymor, Josephine Decker and Radha Blank all brought new work to the Sundance Film Festival.The prizes in the world cinema categories went to films from a wide variety of countries, including the United Kingdom, Kenya, France, Romania, Norway, Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Mexico and Lesotho.In the world cinema documentary competition, the grand jury prize went to Hubert Sauper’s Cuba-set “Epicentro” from Austria, France and the United States, while the audience award went to the U.K.'s “The Reason I Jump,” directed by Jerry Rothwell.Fernanda Valadez’s “Identifying Features” from Mexico and Spain, which was acquired by Kino Lorber, won the world cinema dramatic audience award and also claimed a screenplay prize from the jury. Radha Blank wrote, directed and stars in “The 40-Year-Old Version.” • Episodic Program Application Period: February 12, 2020 – March 11, 2020 ($40 application fee) • Date of Episodic Lab: October 8 – October 13, 2020, Sundance Mountain Resort, Utah. She is a 2020 Sundance Institute Episodic Makers Lab fellow. And that’s what I believe Sundance is about.”(Jury: director Rodrigo Garcia, actor Ethan Hawke, filmmaker Dee Rees, actress Isabella Rossellini and director Wash Westmoreland)(Jury: director Kimberly Reed, SFFILM director of programming Rachel Rosen, CNN Films senior vice president Courtney Sexton, director E. Chai Vasarhelyi and ITVS vice president of content Noland Walker)From “Zola” lead Taylour Paige to “Minari” scene-stealer Alan Kim, all the fresh faces who made big impressions at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.