Park City, UT - Sundance Institute will convene 24 experts in film, art, culture and science to award feature-length work shown at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival with 28 prizes, announced at a ceremony January 28 that will be livestreamed at sundance.org, and on YouTube and Facebook. Short Film Awards will be announced at a separate ceremony on January 24 and will also be live streamed. The Festival takes place January 19-29 in Park City, Salt Lake City and Sundance, Utah.
Hosting that Awards ceremony: actress, comedian, correspondent and podcast host Jessica Williams. Star of the Jim Strouse film The Incredible Jessica James, playing in the Festival's Premieres section, she also acts as on-air correspondent with The Daily Show and co-hosts a podcast with friend and fellow comedian Phoebe Robinson titled 2 Dope Queens.
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and story elements, are voted on by each of six section juries. Additionally, as in years past, Festival audiences have a role in deciding the 2017 Audience Awards, which will recognize five films in the U.S. Competition, World Competition and NEXT categories.
U.S. Documentary Jury
Diego Bu uel
Diego Bu uel is a French filmmaker born in 1975 and the host and director of the National Geographic Channel series, Don't Tell My Mother. He is also the host of a television news show in France called Les Nouveaux Explorateurs, broadcast on Canal Plus. In 2014 he was appointed director of documentaries and factual entertainment at Canal Plus.
Julie Goldman
Julie Goldman is an Emmy Award-winning producer and executive producer of documentary feature films. Julie produced Life, Animated and executive produced Weiner, which premiered and won awards at the Sundance Film Festival. She also executive produced 2015 Festival premieres 3 Minutes, Ten Bullets; and Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal; as well as 1971 and the Oscar shortlisted films Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry; The Kill Team; and Art and Craft. Julie produced Gideon's Army; Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden; God Loves Uganda; The Great Invisible; and Buck, which was Oscar shortlisted and one of 2011's top five grossing documentaries. Julie consulted on the Academy Award-winning The Cove and produced the Oscar shortlisted Sergio. In 2016 Julie was awarded the Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producer's Award and the Cinereach producer award.
Robert Greene
Robert Greene is a filmmaker and writer. His films include the 2016 Sundance Film Festival award-winning Kate Plays Christine, the Gotham Awards-nominated Actress (2014), Fake It So Real (2011), and the Gotham Awards-nominated Kati With An I (2010). Robert has edited over a dozen features, including Golden Exits (2017), Queen of Earth (2015), and Listen Up Philip (2014) by Alex Ross Perry; the award-winning Approaching the Elephant (2014) by Amanda Wilder; and the Independent Spirit Awards-nominated Christmas, Again (2014) by Charles Poekel. Robert writes about documentary for Sight & Sound and serves as the filmmaker-in-chief at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri. His first book, Present Tense: Notes On American Nonfiction Cinema, 1998-2013 is coming in 2017.
Susan Lacy
During her 30 years as series creator and executive producer of American Masters on PBS, Susan Lacy produced over 215 documentaries about our nations cultural giants. Under her watch, the series garnered an unprecedented 71 Emmy nominations and 28 wins (including 10 for Outstanding Nonfiction Series), 12 Peabody Awards, and three Grammys. She directed and produced multiple award-winning films for the series too, portraits of David Geffen, Judy Garland, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Bernstein, Rod Serling, and Lena Horne. In 2013, Susan began a new chapter in her documentary career, forming her own company, Pentimento Productions. Shes now focused solely on directing and producing-her first films are already underway, all part of her company's exclusive multi-picture deal with HBO.
Larry Wilmore
Emmy Award-winner Larry Wilmore has been a television producer, actor, comedian, and writer for more than 25 years. He is perhaps best known for his role as host of Comedy Central's critically acclaimed The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Offscreen, he serves as co-creator and consulting producer on Insecure and also helped launch ABC's Black-ish as an executive producer. His additional television work includes Larry Wilmore's Race, Religion & Sex, memorable appearances on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and writing for In Living Color, The PJs (which he co-created), The Office, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He also served as creator, writer, and executive producer of The Bernie Mac Show, which earned him a 2002 Emmy Award and a 2001 Peabody Award.
U.S. Dramatic Jury
Gael Garc a Bernal
Gael Garc a Bernal recently gained critical acclaim-and a Golden Globe Award for best actor in a comedy series-for his role in Mozart in the Jungle. The series also won a Golden Globe Award for best comedy series, and the show returned for its third season in December 2016. Having worked as an actor since his childhood in Mexico, Bernal made his feature film debut in Alejandro G. I rritus Academy Award-nominated Amores Perros. His next roles were in the Academy Award nominees Y Tu Mam Tambi n and El Crimen del Padre Amaro. Bernal was last seen in the 2016 films Desierto and Neruda, and he will be starring in the upcoming film Z, directed by Jon s Cuar n.
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage's breakout role came in 2003, when he redefined the concept of a leading man in the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award-winner The Station Agent. Since then, Peter has been a constant force in the acting world, best known for his role as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, for which he has won two Em
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