Sundance winners announced
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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Kylie Boltin
Kylie Boltin is a filmmaker and writer. Kylie is the writer/director of the award winning observational documentary series 'Wedding Sari Showdown', fi...
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