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2008 Sundance Film Festival

The 2008 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 17, 2008 to January 27 in Park City, Utah. It was the 24th iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.[1] The opening night film was In Bruges and the closing night film was CSNY/Déjà Vu.

Opening film

In Bruges

CSNY/Déjà Vu

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

Sundance Institute

122

January 17–27, 2008

English

sundance.org/festival

Films[edit]

Out of 2,021 U.S. and 1,603 international feature-length films submitted for consideration, 121 were selected to be shown at the festival.[2]


For a list of films that were shown at the festival, see List of films at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary -

Trouble the Water

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic -

Frozen River

Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary -

Man On Wire

Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic -

The King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)

Audience Award: Documentary -

Fields of Fuel

Audience Award: Dramatic -

The Wackness

World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary -

Man on Wire

World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic -

Captain Abu Raed

Directing Award: Documentary -

American Teen

Directing Award: Dramatic -

Ballast

World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary -

Durakovo: The Village of Fools (Durakovo: Le Village Des Fous)

World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic -

Mermaid (Rusalka)

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award -

Sleep Dealer

World Cinema Screenwriting Award -

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (J'ai Toujours Rêvé d'Être un Gangster)

Documentary Editing Award -

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

World Cinema Documentary Editing Award -

The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary -

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic -

Ballast

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary -

Recycle

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic -

The King of Ping Pong (Ping Pongkingen)

World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Dramatic -

Blue Eyelids (Párpados Azules)

Special Jury Prize: Documentary -

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo

Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, The Spirit of Independence -

Anywhere, USA

Special Jury Prize: Dramatic, Work by an Ensemble Cast -

Choke

Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking -

My Olympic Summer

Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking -

Sikumi (On the Ice)

International Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - Soft

Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking -

Aquarium

Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking -

August 15th

Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking -

La Corona (The Crown)

Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking -

Oiran Lyrics

Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking -

Spider

Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking -

Suspension

Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking -

W.

2008 - Sleep Dealer[3]

Alfred P. Sloan Prize

Mary Harron, Diego Luna, Sandra Oh and Quentin Tarantino

Marcia Gay Harden

Kimball Junction

Ogden

Park City

Salt Lake City

Sundance Resort

Festival webpage

(PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-06-25. (7.61 MiB)

"Official Film Guide"

2008 Sundance Film Festival Tips

Films sold at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival