It’s all over. I’ve spent 8 days in Park City, Utah covering the Sundance Film Festival for the readers of ShockYa.com. I have seen about 27 movies in that time and there will be more movie reviews coming out. Surprisingly, just seeing 27 movies isn’t enough, there were a lot of movies I didn’t get to see like “The Raid,” “Wuthering Heights” or “The Imposter.” These were just some of the movies that were on my list but were unable to be seen by me due to my hectic scheduling, freezing cold weather (there were two blizzards) and the need for sleep (I averaged about 5 hours a night). But in the end, the festival is finally over and the jury awards were given out to some really great movies. I’ll see you next year Park City!!

Here is the complete list of Jury Awards and Prizes:

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Eugene Jarecki, “The House I Live In”
Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Ben Zeitlin, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, “The Law in These Parts”
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Andres Wood, “Violeta Went to Heaven”

Audience Award: Documentary – Kirby Dick, “The Invisible War”
Audience Award: Dramatic – Ben Lewin, “The Surrogate”

World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Malik Bendjelloul, “Searching for Sugar Man”
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Musa Syeed, “Valley of Saints”

Best of NEXT Audience Award – Mike Birbigila, “Sleepwalk With Me”

Directing Award: Documentary – Lauren Greenfield, “The Queen of Versailles”
Directing Award: Dramatic – Ava Duvernay, “Middle of Nowhere”

World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, “5 Broken Cameras”
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Mads Matthiesen, “Teddy Bear”

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Derek Connolly, “Safety Not Guaranteed”
World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award – Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutierrez, Pedro Pierano, “Young and Wild”

Documentary Editing Award – Enat Sidi, “Detropia”
World Cinema Documentary Editing Award – Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky, “Indie Game: The Movie”

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary – Jeff Orlowski, “Chasing Ice”
Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic – Ben Richardson, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary – Lars Skree, “Putin’s Kiss”
World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic – David Raedeker, “My Brother The Devil”

World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision – Rasit Celikezer, “Can”
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize – Malik Bendjelloul, “Searching for Sugar Man”

Documentary Special Jury Prize – Macky Alston, “Love Free or Die”
Documentary Special Jury Prize – Alison Klayman, “AI WeiWei: Never Sorry”

Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Film Producing – Andrea Sperling and Jonathan Schwartz, “Smashed” & “Nobody Walks”
Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting – Cast of “The Surrogate”

Shorts Audience Award – “The Debutante Hunters”

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Chris Ford and Jake Schreier, “Robot & Frank,” Musa Syeed, “Valley of Saints”

Sundance Institute/NHK Award – Jens Assur, “Close Far Away”

by @Rudie_Obias

Sundance Film Festival

By Rudie Obias

Lives in Brooklyn, New York. He's a freelance writer interested in cinema, pop culture, sex lifestyle, science fiction, and web culture. His work can be found at Mental Floss, Movie Pilot, UPROXX, ScreenRant, Battleship Pretension and of course Shockya.com.

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