2018 Sundance Film Festival

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29, 2017.^[1]

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2018 Sundance Film Festival
Location	Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 18 to January 28, 2018
Language	English
Website	sundance.org/festival
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Awards

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

U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award: The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan
U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: Burden, directed by Andrew Heckler
U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: The Kindergarten Teacher, directed by Sara Colangelo
U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Nancy, written by Christina Choe
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature: Monsters and Men, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: I Think We're Alone Now, directed by Reed Morano
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting: Benjamin Dickey, Blaze
U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize Award: Kailash (later released as The Price of Free), directed by Derek Doneen
U.S. Documentary Audience Award: The Sentence, directed by Rudy Valdez
U.S. Documentary Directing Award, On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact: Crime + Punishment, directed by Stephen Maing
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: Hale County This Morning, This Evening, directed by RaMell Ross
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking: Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Three Identical Strangers, directed by Tim Wardle
World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: Butterflies, directed by Tolga Karacelik
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: The Guilty, directed by Gustav Möller
World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: And Breathe Normally, directed by Ísold Uggadóttir
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: Valeria Bertuccelli, The Queen of Fear
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting: Time Share (Tiempo Compartido), written by Julio Chavezmontes and Sebastián Hofmann
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting: Dead Pigs, directed by Cathy Yan
World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Of Fathers and Sons, directed by Talal Derki
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: This is Home, directed by Alexandra Shiva
World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: Shirkers, directed by Sandi Tan
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A., presented to director Stephen Loveridge and M.I.A.
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Genesis 2.0, Peter Indergand and Maxim Arbugaev
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing: Our New President, Maxim Pozdorovkin and Matvey Kulakov
NEXT Audience Award: Searching, directed by Aneesh Chaganty
NEXT Innovator Award: (tie) Night Comes On, directed by Jordana Spiro; We the Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar
Short Film Grand Jury Prize: Matria, directed by Alvaro Gago
Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction: Hair Wolf, directed by Mariama Diallo
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: Would You Look at Her, directed by Goran Stolevski
Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: The Trader (Sovdagari), directed by Tamta Gabrichidze
Short Film Jury Award: Animation: Glucose, directed by Jeron Braxton
Special Jury Awards: Emergency, directed by Carey Williams; Fauve, directed by Jérémy Comte; and For Nonna Anna, directed by Luis De Filippis
Sundance Institute Open Borders Fellowship Presented by Netflix: Of Fathers and Sons (Syria), directed by Talal Derki; Untitled film (India), directed by Chaitanya Tamhane; and Night on Fire, directed by Tatiana Huezo
Sundance Institute / NHK Award: His House, directed by Remi Weekes
Sundance Institute Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Searching, Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian
Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award: Sev Ohanian

Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

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Film	Director
American Animals	Bart Layton
Blaze	Ethan Hawke
Blindspotting	Carlos López Estrada
Burden	Andrew Heckler
Eighth Grade	Bo Burnham
I Think We're Alone Now	Reed Morano
The Kindergarten Teacher	Sara Colangelo
Lizzie	Craig William Macneill
The Miseducation of Cameron Post	Desiree Akhavan
Monster	Anthony Mandler
Monsters and Men	Reinaldo Marcus Green
Nancy	Christina Choe
Sorry to Bother You	Boots Riley
The Tale	Jennifer Fox
Tyrel	Sebastián Silva
Wildlife	Paul Dano

U.S. Documentary Competition

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Film	Director
Bisbee 17	Robert Greene^[4]
Crime + Punishment	Stephen Maing
Dark Money	Kimberly Reed
The Devil We Know	Stephanie Soechtig
Hal	Amy Scott
Hale County This Morning, This Evening	RaMell Ross
Inventing Tomorrow	Laura Nix
Kailash	Derek Doneen
Kusama: Infinity	Heather Lenz
The Last Race	Michael Dweck
Minding the Gap	Bing Liu
On Her Shoulders	Alexandria Bombach
The Price of Everything	Nathaniel Kahn
Seeing Allred	Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman
The Sentence	Rudy Valdez
Three Identical Strangers	Tim Wardle

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

And Breathe Normally by Ísold Uggadóttir (Iceland-Sweden-Belgium)
Butterflies by Tolga Karaçelik (Turkey)
Dead Pigs by Cathy Yan (China)
The Guilty by Gustav Möller (Denmark)
Holiday by Isabella Eklöf (Denmark-Netherlands-Sweden)
Loveling by Gustavo Pizzi (Brazil-Uruguay)
Pity by Babis Makridis (Greece-Poland)
The Queen of Fear by Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia (Argentina-Denmark)
Rust by Aly Muritiba (Brazil)
Time Share (Tiempo Compartido) by Sebastián Hofmann (Mexico-Netherlands)
Un Traductor by Rodrigo Barriuso and Sebastián Barriuso (Canada-Cuba)
Yardie by Idris Elba (U.K.)