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2007 Sundance Film Festival

The 2007 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 18 until January 28, 2007, in Park City, Utah with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ogden, Utah. It was the 23-rd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.[3] The opening night film was Chicago 10;[1] the closing night film was Life Support.[2]

Opening film

Chicago 10[1]

Life Support[2]

Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah

Sundance Institute

122

January 18–28, 2007

English

festival.sundance.org/2007

3,287 feature films were submitted, of which 1,852 were U.S films (compared to 1,764 in 2006) and 1,435 were international films (vs. 1,384 in 2006). From these, 122 feature films were selected and include 82 world premieres, 24 North American premieres, and 10 U.S. premieres from 25 countries. The festival had films from almost 60 first or second-time feature filmmakers.[4][5]

Lewis Erskine, Lauren Greenfield, Julia Reichert, Carlos Sandoval

Alan Berliner

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary -

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic -

Padre Nuestro

Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - Adama Meshuga'at (Sweet Mud)

Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Vores lykkes fjender ()

Enemies of Happiness

Audience Award: Documentary -

Hear and Now

Audience Award: Dramatic -

Grace Is Gone

World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary -

In the Shadow of the Moon

World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic -

Once

Documentary Directing Award - Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for

War/Dance

Dramatic Directing Award - for Rocket Science

Jeffrey Blitz

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Heloisa Passos for

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Benoit Debie for Joshua

Documentary Film Editing - Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillan, and Michael Schweitzer for

Nanking

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic - for Grace Is Gone

James C. Strouse

Special Jury Prize: Dramatic Performance - Jess Weixler in and Tamara Podemski in Four Sheets to the Wind

Teeth

Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Chris Smith, director of

The Pool

Special Jury Prize: Documentary -

No End in Sight

Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - L' Héritage (The Legacy)

Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Hot House

Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking -

Everything Will Be OK

Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - The Tube With a Hat

Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - Death to the Tinman, , Men Understand Each Other Better (Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand), Motodrom, Spitfire 944, t.o.m.

The Fighting Cholitas

Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking -

Freeheld

2007 - Dark Matter

Alfred P. Sloan Prize

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Park City

Kimball Junction

Salt Lake City

Sundance Resort

Ogden

IMDB

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