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2015 Sundance Film Festival

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 22 to February 1, 2015.[1] What Happened, Miss Simone?, a biographical documentary film about American singer Nina Simone, opened the festival.[2] Comedy-drama film Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz, served as the closing night film.[3]

Opening film

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Grandma

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

Sundance Institute

January 22 to February 1, 2015

English

sundance.org/festival

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary –

The Wolfpack

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic –

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary –

The Russian Woodpecker

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic –

Slow West

Audience Award: U.S. Documentary –

Meru

Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic – Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary –

Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance

Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic –

Umrika

Audience Award: Best of NEXT –

James White

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary –

Cartel Land

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic –

The Witch

Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary –

Dreamcatcher

Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic –

The Summer of Sangaile

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic –

The Stanford Prison Experiment

Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary –

How to Change the World

Editing Award: U.S. Dramatic –

Dope

Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary – Cartel Land

Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic –

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic –

Partisan

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – for Glassland and Regina Casé and Camila Márdila for The Second Mother

Jack Reynor

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact –

Pervert Park

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Unparalleled Access –

The Chinese Mayor

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact – 3½ Minutes

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking – Western

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Collaborative Vision – Advantageous

Special Jury Award for Breakout First Feature –

(T)ERROR

– The Stanford Prison Experiment

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

The awards ceremony was held on January 30, 2015, at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah.[4] The ceremony was hosted by comedian Tig Notaro.[5][6]


Additional awards were presented at separate ceremonies.[7][8] The Shorts Awards were presented January 28, 2015 at the ceremony in Park City, Utah.[9][10]

Films[edit]

For a full list of films appeared at the festival, see List of films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

Eccles Theatre – 1,270 seats

– 282 seats

Egyptian Theatre

Holiday Village Cinema 4 – 162 seats

Library Center Theatre – 486 seats

The MARC Theatre – 550 seats

Prospector Square Theatre – 324 seats

Redstone Cinema 1 – 188 seats

Redstone Cinema 2 – 175 seats

Redstone Cinema 7 – 176 seats

Temple Theatre – 840 seats

Yarrow Hotel Theatre – 295 seats

The number of seats available at the festival theaters, where films were shown is listed below:[15]


Park City


Salt Lake City


Sundance Resort


Ogden

A24

The End of the Tour

Alchemy

Strangerland

Bleecker Street

I'll See You In My Dreams

A Walk in the Woods

Discover Channel

Racing Extinction

Focus

Fox Searchlight

Mistress America

Gravitas Ventures

HBO

IFC Films

The D Train

Kino Lorber

Lionsgate

Don Verdean

Magnolia

Netflix

Open Road

The Second Mother

Relativity Sports

Samuel Goldwyn Films

Screen Media Films

Ten Thousand Saints

Showtime

Sony Pictures Classics

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Relativity

The Bronze

Acquisitions at the festival included the following:[16]

Official website

Media related to 2015 Sundance Film Festival at Wikimedia Commons