2003 Sundance Film Festival

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2003 Sundance Film Festival
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Location Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by Sundance Institute
Festival dateJanuary 16–26, 2003
Website festival.sundance.org/2003
2002 Sundance Film Festival

The 2003 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16 to January 26, 2003. American Splendor , a biopic of comic-book author Harvey Pekar, won the grand-jury prize. [1] [2] Steve Zahn and Maggie Gyllenhaal presented the awards in a ceremony televised live on the Sundance Channel. [2]

Contents

Unseasonably warm weather attracted record numbers of attendees, among them musician Bob Dylan. [3] [4]

Non-competition features

Park City at Midnight

Awards

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References

  1. 1 2 "Comic-book movie triumphs at Sundance". The Guardian . January 26, 2003. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Susman, Gary (January 27, 2003). "Here are the Sundance winners". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  3. "Bob Dylan Through The Years" Sundance 2003", Rolling Stone , January 22, 2003
  4. Sundance Institute, History of Sundance