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2016 Sundance Film Festival

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 21 to January 31, 2016. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 2, 2015.[1] The opening night film was Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. The closing night film was Louis Black and Karen Bernstein's Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny.

Location

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

Sundance Institute

January 21 to January 31, 2016

English

sundance.org/festival

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – by Nate Parker

The Birth of a Nation

Directing Award: Dramatic – and Daniel Kwan for Swiss Army Man

Daniel Scheinert

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – for Morris From America

Chad Hartigan

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award – for As You Are

Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – for Spa Night

Joe Seo

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance – for The Intervention and Craig Robinson for Morris from America

Melanie Lynskey

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – by Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman

Weiner

Directing Award: Documentary – for Life, Animated

Roger Ross Williams

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – and Thom Stylinski for NUTS!

Penny Lane

Special Jury Prize for Social Impact: Documentary – by Dawn Porter

Trapped

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing – for Kate Plays Christine

Robert Greene

Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking: Documentary – by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe

The Bad Kids

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – by Elite Zexer

Sand Storm

World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – for Belgica

Felix van Groeningen

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – and Manolo Cruz for Between Land and Sea

Vicky Hernandez

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – and Inés Bortagaray for Mi Amiga del Parque

Ana Katz

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision & Design – by Agnieszka Smoczyńska

The Lure

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami

Sonita

World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – for All These Sleepless Nights

Michal Marczak

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Debut Feature – and Mathew Orzel for When Two Worlds Collide

Heidi Brandenburg

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – for The Land of the Enlightened

Pieter-Jan De Pue

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – and John Maringouin for We Are X

Mako Kamitsuna

Audience Award: Dramatic – by Nate Parker

The Birth of a Nation (2016 film)

Audience Award: Documentary – by Brian Oakes

Jim: The James Foley Story

World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – by Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo

Between Sea and Land

World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami

Sonita

Best of NEXT Audience Award – by Kerem Sanga

First Girl I Loved

Short Film Grand Jury Prize – by Jim Cummings

Thunder Road

Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction – The Procedure by

Calvin Lee Reeder

Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – by Maïmouna Doucouré

Maman(s)

Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – by Sol Friedman

Bacon and God's Wrath

Short Film Jury Award: Animation – by Nina Gantz

Edmond

Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance – for Her Friend Adam

Grace Glowicki

Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction – for Peacock

Ondřej Hudeček

Alfred P. Sloan Prize – by Ciro Guerra

Embrace of the Serpent

The following awards were presented:[2][3][4]

by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte

As You Are

by Antonio Campos

Christine

by Meera Menon

Equity

by Andrew Neel

Goat

by Jeff Baena

Joshy

by So Yong Kim

Lovesong

by Chad Hartigan

Morris from America

by Chris Kelly

Other People

by Richard Tanne

Southside With You

by Andrew Ahn

Spa Night

by The Daniels

Swiss Army Man

by Sian Heder

Tallulah

by Nate Parker

The Birth of a Nation

by Jason Lew

The Free World

by Clea DuVall

The Intervention

by Elizabeth Wood

White Girl

Acquisitions[edit]

Ahead of the festival opening distributor Netflix obtained worldwide streaming rights to Tallulah[6] and Iranian horror film Under the Shadow.[7] Oscilloscope Laboratories also obtained U.S. distribution rights to The Fits before its Sundance debut.[8] Amazon also acquired the rights to Manchester by the Sea and Love & Friendship, later releasing both films in association with Roadside Attractions.[9][10]