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2012 Sundance Film Festival

The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah.[1]

Location

Park City

Sundance Institute

January 19–29, 2012

English

sundance.org/festival

64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions.[2]

Black Rock

Excision

Grabbers

The Pact

Shut Up and Play the Hits

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

V/H/S

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary -

The House I Live In

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic -

Beasts of the Southern Wild

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary -

The Law in These Parts

World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic - (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)

Violeta Went to Heaven

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary -

The Invisible War

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic - The Surrogate (retitled )

The Sessions

World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary -

Searching for Sugar Man

World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic -

Valley of Saints

Best of NEXT Audience Award -

Sleepwalk with Me

U.S. Directing Award: Documentary -

The Queen of Versailles

U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic -

Middle of Nowhere

World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary -

5 Broken Cameras

World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic -

Teddy Bear

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award -

Safety Not Guaranteed

World Cinema Screenwriting Award -

Young & Wild

U.S. Documentary Editing Award -

Detropia

World Cinema Documentary Editing Award -

Indie Game: The Movie

Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary -

Chasing Ice

Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic -

Beasts of the Southern Wild

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary -

Putin's Kiss

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic -

My Brother the Devil

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change - Love Free or Die

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance -

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing - and Nobody Walks

Smashed

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting - The Surrogate (retitled )

The Sessions

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision - Can

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit -

Searching for Sugar Man

Jury Prize: Short Filmmaking -

Fishing Without Nets

Jury Prize: Short Film, U.S. Fiction -

The Black Balloon

Jury Prize: Short Film, International Fiction - The Return

Jury Prize: Short Film, Non-Fiction -

The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom

Jury Prize: Animated Short Film -

A Morning Stroll

Short Film Audience Award - The Debutante Hunters

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Premieres[edit]

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) web documentary Bear 71 premiered January 20 in an installation at the festival's New Frontier multimedia program.[4] The NFB documentary Payback, based on Margaret Atwood's Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, and the documentary A Place at the Table, also premiered at the festival.[5]

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