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While Birth of a Nation (trailer here) was the talk of Sundance 2016, this year it was a little trickier to guess where the audience and jury awards might land, but tonight we got the answers. All the Sundance 2017 feature film winners, both documentary and narrative, are below:
Last Men in Aleppo Directors Feras Fayyad and Steen Johannessen accept the Grand Jury World Cinema prize. Image Credit: Graham Sheldon
Grand Jury Winners:
Award Winners:
The Audience Award: U.S. Documentary Chasing Coral / U.S.A. (Director: Jeff Orlowski) (watch “Meet the Artist” with the director here)
The Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic Crown Heights / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Matt Ruskin) (watch “Meet the Artist” with the director here)
The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower / U.S.A. (Director: Joe Piscatella) (watch “Sundance 2017: Pillow Talk with Joshua: Teenager vs Superpower” by Adobe here)
The Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic Sueño en otro idioma (I Dream in Another Language) / Mexico, Netherlands (Director: Ernesto Contreras, Screenwriter: Carlos Contreras) (watch an exclusive clip with English subtitles here)
The Audience Award: NEXT Gook / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Justin Chon) (watch the director’s Kickstarter video for the film here)
Dir. Justin Chon accepts award for “Gook”. Image Credit: Graham Sheldon
The Directing Award: U.S. Documentary The Force / U.S.A. (Director: Peter Nicks) (watch the director talk about humanizing police officers here)
The Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic Beach Rats / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Eliza Hittman) (watch “Meet the Artist” with the director here)
The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary WINNIE / France (Director: Pascale Lamche) (watch the trailer here)
The Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic God’s Own Country / United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Francis Lee) (watch the film’s star Josh O’Connor in a “selfie interview”)
The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic Ingrid Goes West / U.S.A. (Director: Matt Spicer, Screenwriters: Matt Spicer, David Branson Smith) (watch interview with the entire cast by The Hollywood Reporter here)
A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking STEP / U.S.A. (Director: Amanda Lipitz)
A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling Strong Island / U.S.A., Denmark (Director: Yance Ford) (watch “Meet the Artist” with the director here)
A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing Editors Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista for Unrest / U.S.A. (Director: Jennifer Brea) (watch an interview with the director here)
A U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award: The Orwell Award ICARUS / U.S.A. (Director: Bryan Fogel)
A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography Director of Photography Daniel Landin for The Yellow Birds / U.S.A. (Director: Alexandre Moors, Screenwriters: David Lowery, R.F.I. Porto)
A World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Excellence in Cinematography Cinematographer Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva for Machines / India, Germany, Finland (Director: Rahul Jain) (watch the official trailer here)
A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance Chanté Adams, in Roxanne Roxanne / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Michael Larnell)
A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director Novitiate/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Maggie Betts) (watch lead actresses interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter here)
A World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Commanding Vision Motherland / U.S.A., Philippines (Director: Ramona Diaz) (watch the trailer here)
Dir. Ramona Diaz accepts award for Motherland. Image Credit: Graham Sheldon
A World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography Cinematographer Manu Dacosse for Axolotl Overkill / Germany (Director and screenwriter: Helene Hegemann) (watch the trailer here)
A World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World / Canada (Directors: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana) (watch the trailer here)
Catherine Bainbridge, director of Rumble, accepting award. Image Credit: Rin Ehlers Sheldon
A World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Vision Free and Easy / Hong Kong (Director: Jun Geng, Screenwriters: Jun Geng, Yuhua Feng, Bing Liu) (watch meet the artist with the director here)
A World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting Pop Aye / Singapore, Thailand (Director and screenwriter: Kirsten Tan) (watch the trailer here)
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Emmy winner, Graham Sheldon, resides in Southern California, where he works as a producer and director of photography. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America and ICG Local 600.