2012 Sundance Film Festival

2012 film festival edition 2012 Sundance Film Festival SFF12poster.jpg Festival poster Park City Sundance Institute January 19–29, 2012 English sundance.org/festival 2011 Sundance Film Festival 2013 Sundance Film Festival The 2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City, Utah.Festival Info http://www.sundance.org/festival/info/ Sundance Institute 15 December 2011 11 December 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111211030751/http://www.sundance.org/festival/info/ dead 64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions.2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Short Film Program http://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/2012-festival-program-announcement-shorts/ Sundance Institute 15 December 2011 13 September 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140913021741/http://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/2012-festival-program-announcement-shorts/ dead Non-competition features Midnight Black Rock Excision Grabbers John Dies at the End The Pact Shut Up and Play the Hits Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie V/H/S Awards 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 Went to Heaven (Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos) 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 - Smashed and Nobody Walks 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 Hunters2012 Sundance Film Festival Announces Awards https://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/2012-sundance-film-festival-awards/ sundance.org January 28, 2012 January 29, 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120428202931/http://www.sundance.org/press-center/release/2012-sundance-film-festival-awards/ April 28, 2012 Juries Jury members were announced on January 10, 2012.Ford Rebecca Parker Posey to Host 2012 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/parker-posey-host-sundance-280191/ 30 June 2025 The Hollywood Reporter January 10, 2012 10 September 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250910210153/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/parker-posey-host-sundance-280191/ live Presenters of awards are followed by asterisks:January 28, 2012 Look Here for Live Awards Updates http://www.sundance.org/festival/blog-entry/2012-awards dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120131183218/http://www.sundance.org/festival/blog-entry/2012-awards 31 January 2012 1 July 2025 sundance.orgJanuary 24, 2012 Sundance 2012 Shorts Awards Honor Pirates, Robots, and More http://www.sundance.org/festival/blog-entry/sundance-2012-shorts-awards-honors-pirates-robots-and-more/ dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120128010420/http://www.sundance.org/festival/blog-entry/sundance-2012-shorts-awards-honors-pirates-robots-and-more/ January 28, 2012 1 July 2025 sundance.org U.S. Documentary Jury Fenton Bailey* Shari Berman Heather Croall* Charles Ferguson* Kim Roberts* U.S. Dramatic Jury Justin Lin* Anthony Mackie* Cliff Martinez* Lynn Shelton* Amy Vincent* World Documentary Jury Nick Fraser* Clara Kim* Jean-Marie Teno* World Dramatic Jury Julia Ormond* Richard Peña* Alexei Popogrebski* Alfred P. Sloan Jury Scott Burns Tracy Day Helen Fisher* Short Film Jury Mike Judge* Dee Rees* Shane Smith* Others who presented awards included Mike Birbiglia and Eric Wareheim. Premieres 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.Monk Katherine Sundance: Interactive film, Bear 71, blurs lines between wild and wired http://www.canada.com/travel/Sundance+Interactive+film+Bear+blurs+lines+between+wild+wired/6044593/story.html 25 January 2012 canada.com Postmedia News dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120126042527/http://www.canada.com/travel/Sundance%2BInteractive%2Bfilm%2BBear%2Bblurs%2Blines%2Bbetween%2Bwild%2Bwired/6044593/story.html 26 January 2012 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.Fulton Ben Sundance: A documentary about debt offers a big ‘Payback’ http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sundance/53318829-177/atwood-debt-film-payback.html.csp 1 March 2012 Salt Lake Tribune 27 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120124135229/http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sundance/53318829-177/atwood-debt-film-payback.html.csp 2012-01-24 dead References External links 2012 Sundance Film Festival http://www.sundance.org/festival IMDb Profile 2012 Category:2012 film festivals Category:2012 in Utah Category:2012 in American cinema Category:2012 festivals in the United States Category:January 2012 in the United States