2017 Sundance Film Festival

2017 Sundance Film Festival
	Festival poster
Location	Park City, Salt Lake City, and Sundance Resort in Utah
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 19 to January 29, 2017
Language	English
Website	sundance.org/festival
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Last updated July 05, 2025

The 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29, 2017.^[1]^[2] The first lineup of competition films was announced November 30, 2016.^[3]

Awards

The following awards were presented:^[4]

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair
Audience Award: Dramatic – Crown Heights by Matt Ruskin
Directing Award: Dramatic – Eliza Hittman for Beach Rats
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer for Ingrid Goes West
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Chanté Adams for Roxanne Roxanne
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director – Maggie Betts for Novitiate
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Daniel Landin for The Yellow Birds
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Dina by Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini
Directing Award: Documentary – Peter Nicks for The Force
U.S. Documentary Orwell Award - Icarus by Bryan Fogel
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista for Unrest
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling – Yance Ford for Strong Island
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking – Amanda Lipitz for Step
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Francis Lee for God's Own Country
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Kirsten Tan for Pop Aye
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Visions – Geng Jun for Free and Easy
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Manuel Dacosse for Axolotl Overkill
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Pascale Lamche for Winnie
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling – Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva for Machines
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Ramona S. Diaz for Motherland
Audience Award: Documentary – Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – I Dream in Another Language by Ernesto Contreras
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella
Best of NEXT Audience Award – Gook by Justin Chon
Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Marjorie Prime by Michael Almereyda

Films

Spotlight

Midnight

78/52 by Alexandre O. Philippe
Bad Day for the Cut by Chris Baugh
Bitch by Marianna Palka
Bushwick by Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott
Killing Ground by Damien Power
Kuso by Steve
The Little Hours by Jeff Baena
XX by Annie Clark, Karyn Kusama, Roxanne Benjamin & Jordana Vuckovic

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

World Cinema Documentary Competition

New Frontier

18 Black Girls / Boys Ages 1-18 Who Have Arrived at the Singularity and Are Thus Spiritual Machines: $X in an Edition of $97 Quadrillion by Terence Nance
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? by Travis Wilkerson
World Without End (No Reported Incidents) by Jem Cohen
NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism by Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, Ashley Baccus-Clark, Ece Tankal and Nitzan Bartov

Other

Shots Fired ^[6]

Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 11, 2017.^[7]

U.S. Documentary Jury

U.S. Dramatic Jury

World Documentary Jury

World Dramatic Jury

Alfred P. Sloan Jury

Short Film Jury

References

↑ "Sundance Film Festival". www.sundance.org. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
↑ Debruge, Peter (December 5, 2016). "Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2017 Premieres, Midnight, Spotlight Sections". Variety.
↑ "Sundance 2017 Announces Competition and NEXT Lineups, Including Returning Favorites and Major Contenders". Indiewire. November 30, 2016. Retrieved November 30, 2016.
↑ Debruge, Peter. "Sundance: Winners Announced (Awards Ceremony in Progress)". Variety. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
↑ John DeFore (January 25, 2017). "'Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
↑ N'Duka, Amanda (January 10, 2017). "Fox Series 'Shots Fired' Set To Premiere At Sundance". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
↑ "Announcing the Jury Members of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival". Sundance Institute. January 11, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2017.

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[1] "Sundance Film Festival". www.sundance.org. Archived from the original on February 18, 2018. Retrieved December 1, 2016.

[2] Debruge, Peter (December 5, 2016). "Sundance Film Festival Unveils 2017 Premieres, Midnight, Spotlight Sections". Variety.

[3] "Sundance 2017 Announces Competition and NEXT Lineups, Including Returning Favorites and Major Contenders". Indiewire. November 30, 2016. Retrieved November 30, 2016.

[Variety-awards-4] Debruge, Peter. "Sundance: Winners Announced (Awards Ceremony in Progress)". Variety. Retrieved January 28, 2017.

[5] John DeFore (January 25, 2017). "'Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press': Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 31, 2017.

[6] N'Duka, Amanda (January 10, 2017). "Fox Series 'Shots Fired' Set To Premiere At Sundance". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 10, 2017.

[7] "Announcing the Jury Members of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival". Sundance Institute. January 11, 2017. Retrieved January 12, 2017.

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