2020 Sundance Film Festival

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2020 Sundance Film Festival
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Festival poster
Location Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by Sundance Institute
Festival dateJanuary 23 to February 2, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Website sundance.org/festival

The 2020 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 23 to February 2, 2020. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 4, 2019. [1] [2] The opening night film was Miss Americana directed by Lana Wilson and produced by Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers, and Christine O'Malley.

Contents

Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

U.S. Documentary Competition

Premieres

Documentary Premieres

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

World Cinema Documentary Competition

NEXT

Midnight

Spotlight

Kids

Awards

The following awards were given out: [3]

Grand Jury Prizes

Audience Awards

Directing

Special Jury Prizes

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References

  1. "2020 Sundance Film Festival: 118 Feature Films Announced". www.sundance.org. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  2. Patten, Dominic (December 4, 2019). "Sundance 2020: Premieres Shine With Taylor Swift Docu, Viggo Mortensen's Directing Debut, New Dee Rees, The Go-Gos & Olivia Colman". Deadline. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  3. Hipes, Patrick (February 1, 2020). "Sundance Film Festival Awards: 'Minari' Scores Double Top Honors – The Complete Winners List". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved February 2, 2020.

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