Location | Park City |
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Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
Festival date | January 15–25, 2004 |
Website | http://history.sundance.org/events/39 |
The 2004 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 15, 2004 to January 25, 2004. [1] It was the 20th edition of the Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute. [2]
Film Name - English | Film Name - Non-English | Directed By | Written By | Category | Awards |
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Azumi | Ryuhei Kitamura | Mataichiro Yamamoto, Isao Kiriyama | Park City at Midnight | ||
Born into Brothels | Audience Award: Documentary | ||||
Brother to Brother | Rodney Evans | Rodney Evans | Special Jury Prize: Dramatic | ||
The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Premieres | ||
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America | Kevin Willmott | Kevin Willmott | American Spectrum | ||
The Clearing | Pieter Jan Brugge | Justin Haythe | |||
Dear Frankie | Shona Auerbach | Premieres | |||
D.E.B.S. | Angela Robinson | Angela Robinson | Premieres | ||
DiG! | Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | ||||
Dogville | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier | |||
Down to the Bone | Debra Granik | Debra Granik, Richard Lieske | Dramatic Competition | Directing Award: Dramatic, Special Jury Prize for Acting (Vera Farmiga) | |
Easy | Jane Weinstock | Dramatic Competition | |||
Evergreen | Enid Zentelis | Dramatic Competition | |||
The Five Obstructions | Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth | Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth | Special Screenings | ||
Garden State | Zach Braff | Zach Braff | Dramatic Competition | ||
Grand Theft Parsons | David Caffrey | Jeremy Drysdale | Park City at Midnight | ||
High Tension | Haute tension | Alexandre Aja | Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur | Park City at Midnight | |
Home | Omelga Mthiyane | ||||
Home of Phobia | Freshman Orientation | Ryan Shiraki | Ryan Shiraki | Park City at Midnight | |
Iron Jawed Angels | Katja von Garnier | ||||
Kounandi | Apolline Traore | ||||
The Machinist | Brad Anderson | Scott Kosar | Premieres | ||
Maria Full of Grace | María, llena eres de gracia | Joshua Marston | Joshua Marston | Dramatic Competition | Audience Award: Dramatic |
Marie and Bruce | Tom Cairns | Wallace Shawn, Tom Cairns | Premieres | ||
Mean Creek | Jacob Aaron Estes | Jacob Aaron Estes | American Spectrum | ||
The Meaning of the Buffalo | Karin Slater | ||||
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | |||||
The Motorcycle Diaries | Walter Salles | José Rivera | |||
Napoleon Dynamite | Jared Hess | Jared and Jerusha Hess | Dramatic Competition | ||
November | Greg Harrison | Greg Harrison | Dramatic Competition | ||
Open Water | Chris Kentis | Chris Kentis | American Spectrum | ||
Overnight | Tony Montana | Tony Montana, Mark Brian Smith | Park City at Midnight | ||
The Park | Andrew Lau | Park City at Midnight | |||
Primer | Shane Carruth | Shane Carruth | Dramatic Competition | Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, Alfred P. Sloan Prize | |
The Principles of Lust | Penny Woolcock | ||||
The Raspberry Reich | Bruce LaBruce | Bruce LaBruce | Park City at Midnight | ||
Redemption | Vondie Curtis-Hall | ||||
The Return | Vozvrashcheniye | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Vladimir Moiseyenko, Aleksandr Novototsky | World Cinema | |
This Revolution | |||||
Riding Giants | Stacy Peralta | ||||
Saved! | Brian Dannelly | Brian Dannelly, Michael Urban | Premieres | ||
Saw | James Wan | Leigh Whannell | Park City at Midnight | ||
Seducing Doctor Lewis | Jean-François Pouliot | Ken Scott | Audience Award | ||
Silent Waters | Sabiha Sumar | ||||
Speak | Jessica Sharzer | ||||
Super Size Me | Morgan Spurlock | Morgan Spurlock | Documentary Competition | ||
Until the Violence Stops | Abby Epstein | ||||
We Don't Live Here Anymore | John Curran | Larry Gross | Dramatic Competition | Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award | |
The Woodsman | Nicole Kassell | Nicole Kassell, Steven Fechter | Dramatic Competition |
The award show took place on January 24 and was presented by actors Zooey Deschanel and Jake Gyllenhaal. [3]
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