[UPDATED 1/31/18]
Another year, another Sundance with SAGindie: Movies, Parties, Actors Only Brunches and Filmmaker Luncheons. One change for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival included a new Indie Episodic section and a brand-new screening venue (The Ray Theater, with its Sundance history wall mural pictured above).
This year’s fest may have resulted in fewer huge-money purchases and bidding wars, but that doesn’t mean the SAGindie staff didn’t see some memorable movies. See our staff highlights, plus all of this year’s award-winners, below!
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Darrien’s Favorites:
My three favorites:
Burden
Monsters and Men
Night Comes On
Eliza’s Favorites:
The three standouts:
Dead Pigs
Monsters and Men
Never Goin’ Back
Colin’s Favorites:
My three favorite films at Sundance ’18 are three of the earlier films I saw upon arriving, and they stuck with me throughout the week:
We the Animals
Three Identical Strangers
Crime + Punishment
Shefali’s Favorites:
Favorites:
Tyrel
Search
Dead Pigs
Madeline’s Madeline
Runners-up:
Private Life
Clara’s Ghost
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
Never Goin’ Back
Ones I still want to see:
Blindspotting
Monsters and Men
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
I Think We’re Alone Now
The Tale
Burden
2018 Sundance Film Festival Winners:
Grand Jury Awards – Dramatic
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Directing Award – U.S. Dramatic: Sara Colangelo, The Kindergarten Teacher
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – U.S. Dramatic: Christina Choe, Nancy
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: Reinaldo Marcus Green, Monsters and Men
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: I Think We’re Alone Now
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: Benjamin Dickey, Blaze
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic: Butterflies
- Directing Award – World Cinema Dramatic: Ísold Uggadóttir, And Breathe Normally
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann, Time Share (Tiempo Compartido)
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: Dead Pigs
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Search
- NEXT Innovator Prize: Night Comes On and We the Animals (TIE)
Grand Jury Awards – Documentary
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize – Documentary: Kailash
- Directing Award – U.S. Documentary: Alexandria Bombach, On Her Shoulders
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Crime + Punishment
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Three Identical Strangers
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: Minding the Gap
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize – Documentary: Of Fathers and Sons
- Directing Award – World Cinema Documentary: Sandi Tan, Shirkers
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A.
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov, Our New President
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Maxim Arbugaev and Peter Indergand, Genesis 2.0
Grand Jury Awards – Shorts
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Matria
- Short Film Jury Award – U.S. Fiction: Hair Wolf
- Short Film Jury Award – International Fiction: Would You Look at Her
- Short Film Jury Award – Non-Fiction: The Trader (Sovdagari)
- Short Film Jury Award – Animation: Glucose
- Short Film Special Jury Award: Emergency
- Short Film Special Jury Award: Fauve
- Short Film Special Jury Award: For Nonna Anna
Audience Awards
- Festival Favorite Award: Science Fair
- Audience Award – U.S. Dramatic: Burden
- Audience Award – U.S. Documentary: The Sentence
- Audience Award – NEXT: Search
- Audience Award – World Cinema Dramatic: The Guilty
- Audience Award – World Cinema Documentary: This Is Home
Congrats to this year’s award-winners!
WHAT WERE YOUR FAVORITE MOMENTS AND MOVIES FROM SUNDANCE ’18?
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