The awards for the World Cinema and US Documentary Competitions were handed out during the in-person ceremony that closed the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The winners are:
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
- Grand Jury Prize: The Eternal Memory (Chile). Director: Maite Alberdi
- Directing Award: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Estonia/France/Iceland). Director: Anna Hints
- Special Jury Award, Verite Filmmaking: Against the Tide (India). Director: Sarvnik Kaur
- Special Jury Award, Creative Vision: Fantastic Machine (Sweden/Denmark) Director: Axel Danielson
- Audience Award: 20 Days in Mariupol (Ukraine). Director: Mstylav Chernov
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
- Grand Jury Prize: Going to Mars, The Nikki Giovanni Project. Directors: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
- Audience Award: Beyond Utopia. Director: Madeleine Gavin
- Directing Award: Luke Lorentzen for A Still Small Voice
- Special Jury Award for Clarity of Vision: The Stroll. Directors: Kristen Lovell, Zackary Drucker
- Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression: Bad Press. Directors: Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: Daniela I. Quiroz for Going Varsity in Mariachi
SHORTS
- Short Film Jury Award, Non-Fiction: Will You Look at Me by Shuli Huang
As an indication of Park City’s influence over the US and international doc world, four of the five contenders for the 2023 Documentary Feature Oscar were major winners at Sundance 2022. Those titles are A House Made of Splinters, which won the World Cinema Documentary Competition Directing Award; All That Breathes, which picked up the World Cinema Documentary Competition Documentary Prize; Navalny (Documentary Competition Audience Award, Festival Favourite Award) and Fire of Love (Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award).
As previously announced, MTV Documentary Films acquired world rights for Maite Alberdi’s World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner The Eternal Memory.
