2015 Sundance Film Festival

2015 Sundance Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	What Happened, Miss Simone?
Closing film	Grandma
Location	Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 22 to February 1, 2015
Language	English
Website	sundance.org/festival
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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]

Awards

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]}

• 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 – Jack Reynor for Glassland and Regina Casé and Camila Márdila for The Second Mother
• 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
• Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – The Stanford Prison Experiment

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]}

• Short Film Grand Jury Prize – World of Tomorrow
• Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction – SMILF
• Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Oh Lucy!
• Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul
• Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Storm hits jacket
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Acting – Back Alley
• Short Film Special Jury Award for Visual Poetry – Object
• Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards – Haifaa al-Mansour for Be Safe I Love You, K'naan for The Poet, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy for Luxembourg, Oskar Sulowski for Rosebuds.
• Sundance Institute/NHK Filmmaker Award – Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre for Mustang.
• 2015 Red Crown Producer's Award – Stephanie Langhoff for The Bronze .

Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, which also took part in the Science in Film Forum Panel, were announced on December 18, 2014. ^{[11] [12]} Presenters of awards are followed by asterisks: ^{[13] [14]}

U.S. Documentary Jury Eugene Hernandez* Kirsten Johnson* Michele Norris* Gordon Quinn* Roger Ross Williams* U.S. Dramatic Jury Lance Acord* Sarah Flack* Cary Fukunaga* Winona Ryder* Edgar Wright*

World Documentary Jury Elena Fortes Acosta* Mark Cousins* Ingrid Kopp* World Dramatic Jury Mia Hansen-Løve* Col Needham* Taika Waititi*

Alfred P. Sloan Jury Paula S. Apsell Janna Levin Brit Marling Jonathan Nolan Adam Steltzner Short Film Jury K. K. Barrett Alia Shawkat Autumn de Wilde

Others who presented awards included Adam Scott, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Corrigan, Patrick Fugit and Trevor Groth. ^[13]

Films

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

Festival theaters

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

Park City

• Eccles Theatre – 1,270 seats
• Egyptian Theatre – 282 seats
• 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

Salt Lake City

• Broadway Cinema 3 – 243 seats
• Broadway Cinema 6 – 245 seats
• Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center – 495 seats
• SLC Library – 300 seats
• Tower Theatre – 349 seats
• The Grand Theatre – 1,100 seats

Sundance Resort

• Sundance Resort Screening Room – 164 seats

Ogden

• Peery's Egyptian Theatre – 840 seats

Acquisitions

Acquisitions at the festival included the following: ^[16]

• A24
  • The End of the Tour
  • The Witch
  • Mississippi Grind
• Alchemy
  • Strangerland
  • Zipper
• Bleecker Street
  • I'll See You In My Dreams
• Broad Green
  • A Walk in the Woods
• Discover Channel
  • Racing Extinction
• Film Arcade
  • Unexpected
• Focus
  • Cop Car
• Fortissimo
  • Songs My Brothers Taught Me
• Fox Searchlight
  • Mistress America
  • Me, Earl And The Dying Girl
  • Brooklyn
• Gravitas Ventures
  • Being Evel
• HBO
  • 3 1/2 Minutes
• IFC Films
  • The D Train
  • Sleeping with Other People
• IFC Midnight
  • Reversal
  • The Hallow
• Kino Lorber
  • The Forbidden Room
• Lionsgate
  • Don Verdean
  • Knock Knock
• Magnolia
  • Results
  • Tangerine
  • Best of Enemies
  • The Wolfpack
• Netflix
  • Hot Girls Wanted
• Open Road
  • Dope
• Orchard
  • The Overnight
  • Digging for Fire
  • Finders Keepers
  • Cartel Land
• Oscilloscope
  • The Second Mother
• Relativity Sports
  • In Football We Trust
• Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • Fresh Dressed
  • Lila & Eve
• Screen Media Films
  • Ten Thousand Saints
• Showtime
  • Dreamcatcher
• Sony Pictures Classics
  • The Diary of a Teenage Girl
  • Grandma
  • Dark Horse
• Sundance Selects
  • City of Gold
• Tribeca Film
  • Misery Loves Comedy
• Relativity
  • The Bronze

References

1. "2015 Sundance Film Festival". Sundance. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
2. Baig, Nishat (January 27, 2015). ""What Happened, Miss Simone?" Opens The 2015 Sundance Film Festival". The Northstar Group. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
3. "Sundance Fest's closing-night film, 'Grandma,' a heartfelt comic showcase for Lily Tomlin" . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
4. Umstead, Ben (January 31, 2015). "Sundance 2015 Award Winners". Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
5. "Comedian Tig Notaro Is Star of Sundance Doc, Host of Awards" . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
6. "Here Are Your 2015 Sundance Film Festival Winners" . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
7. "Sundance Institute and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
8. "2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FEATURE FILM AWARDS" . Retrieved January 26, 2014.
9. "'World Of Tomorrow' Wins Sundance Short Film Grand Jury Prize" . Retrieved January 26, 2014.
10. "2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM AWARDS". Archived from the original on February 18, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
11. "Sundance Announces 2015 Jurors: Cary Fukunaga, Winona Ryder, Edgar Wright and More" . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
12. "SUNDANCE INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES JURY MEMBERS FOR 2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL; TIG NOTARO TO HOST CLOSING NIGHT AWARDS CEREMONY" . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
13. "2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL LIVE AWARDS UPDATES" . Retrieved February 2, 2015.
14. "2015 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS". Archived from the original on February 2, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2015.
15. "Film Festival Timetables" (PDF). sundance.org. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2015. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
16. "Movies Sold at Sundance 2015: A Complete & Updated Guide" . Retrieved February 16, 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Media related to 2015 Sundance Film Festival at Wikimedia Commons