Sundance winners announced

Wed 01 Feb 2012, 10:00am
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The 2012 Sundance Film Festival has wrapped. The closing weekend awards ceremony saw some spectacular wins in the U.S. Documentary Competition and World Cinema Documentary Competition. Here is a full list of documentary winners, including audience awards.

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit:Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul (Sweden/UK)

Winner of the World Cinema Cinematography Award for Documentary Filmmaking:Putin’s Kiss, cinematography by Lars Skree (Denmark)

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award:Indie Game: The Movie, edited by Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky. (Canada)

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award:5 Broken Cameras, directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi (Palestine/Israel/France)

Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary: The Law in These Parts (Shilton Ha Chok), directed by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (Israel)

Winner of the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Grace Under Pressure:
 Love Free or Die, directed by Macky Alston

Winner of the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance:
 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, directed by Alison Klayman

Winner of the Excellence in Cinematography Award for U.S. Documentary Filmmaking: Chasing Ice, Jeff Orlowski

U.S. Documentary Editing Award:
 Detropia, edited by Enat Sidi

Winner of the U.S. Directing Award for Documentary Film: 
Lauren Greenfield, director of The Queen of Versailles

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary:
 The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki

Audience Awards:Winner of the World Cinema Audience Award for Documentary Film:
 Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul (Sweden)

Winner of the U.S. Documentary Competition Audience Award:
 The Invisible War, directed by Kirby Dick.

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