The awards of the 42nd Sundance Film Festival were handed out January 30th. Docmakers were competing in World Documentary Competition and U.S. Documentary Competition, as well as for a number of Audience Awards.
WORLD DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION AWARDS
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize -Documentary: Winner: To Hold a Mountain / Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia (Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić, Producers: Quentin Laurent, Rok Biček)
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact: Birds of War / U.K., Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon (Directors, Screenwriters, and Producers: Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak, Producer: Sonja Henrici)
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance: Everybody To Kenmure Street / U.K. (Director and Producer: Felipe Bustos Sierra, Producer: Ciara Barry
- Directing Award – World Cinema Documentary: Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes for One In A Million / U.K. (Producers: Raney Aronson-Rath, Will Anderson, James Bluemel, Andrew Palmer)
U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Documentary: Nuisance Bear / U.S.A., Canada (Directors: Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman, Producers: Michael Code, Will N. Miller, Teddy Leifer)
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence: Who Killed Alex Odeh? / U.S.A. (Directors: Jason Osder, William Lafi Youmans, Producer: Dawne Langford, William Lafi Youmans, Jason Osder, Daniel J. Chalfen)
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: Matt Hixon for Barbara Forever / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Brydie O’Connor, Producer: Elijah Stevens)
- Directing Award – U.S. Documentary: J.M. Harper for Soul Patrol / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: J.M. Harper, Producers: Sam Bisbee, Danielle Massie, Nasir Jones, Peter Bittenbender)
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change: The Lake / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Abby Ellis, Producer: Fletcher Keyes
AUDIENCE AWARDS
- Audience Award – World Cinema Documentary: One In A Million / U.K. (Directors: Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes, Producers: Raney Aronson-Rath, Will Anderson, James Bluemel, Andrew Palmer)
- Audience Award – U.S. Documentary: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez / U.S.A. (Director, Screenwriter, and Producer: David Alvarado, Producers: Lauren DeFilippo, Everett Katigbak, Amanda Pollak)
- Audience Award – NEXT: Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] / U.S.A., Denmark (Directors and Producers: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Producers: Steve Holmgren, Grace Remington, Jacque Clark, Franny Alfano)
OTHER DOC AWARDS
- Short Film Jury Award – Nonfiction: The Boys and the Bees / U.S.A. (Director and Producer: Arielle C. Knight, Producer: Sean Weiner)
- Sundance Institute Producers Award for Nonfiction, presented by Amazon MGM Studios: Dawne Langford for Who Killed Alex Odeh? / U.S.A. (Directors: Jason Osder, William Lafi Youmans, Producers: Dawne Langford, William Lafi Youmans, Jason Osder, Daniel J. Chalfen)
