Sundance Institute Announces Jury Members for 0 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Institute Announces Jury Members for 2013 Sundance Film Festival Posted Dec 19, 2012

Park City, UT Sundance Institute announced today 19 members of five juries awarding prizes at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Short Film Awards will be announced at a ceremony on January 22 at Park City's Jupiter Bowl, with feature film awards announced at a separate ceremony on January 26.

Members of the Alfred P. Sloan Jury will be announced in January.

U.S. DOCUMENTARY JURY

Liz Garbus

Academy Award nominated, Emmy winning director Liz Garbus' latest film, Love, Marilyn (Studiocanal),internationally opened as a Gala Premiere at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival and was acquired by HBO for a 2013 debut. In 2011, Liz's Bobby Fischer Against The World premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, earned an Emmy nomination for Best Non-Fiction Special and won the prestigious UK Grierson Award for Best Cinema Documentary. Liz's first documentary film, The Farm: Angola, USA, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, was awarded ten other festival and critics' awards, and was nominated for an Oscar in 1998. Liz is also Executive Producer of the Academy Award nominated film Street Fight, and Producer of the Academy Award nominated short, Killing in the Name. Other credits include The Execution of Wanda Jean(Sundance, HBO); The Nazi Officer's Wife, narrated by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond (A&E); Girlhood (Wellspring/TLC); Yo Soy Boricua!, Pa Que Tu Lo Sepas, directed by Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez (IFC); Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Emmy winner for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special in 2007; and Shouting Fire: Stores from the Edge of Free Speech (Sundance, HBO). Liz graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University and is a Fellow of the Open Societys Center on Crime, Communities, and Culture.

Davis Guggenheim

Davis Guggenheim is a critically acclaimed, Academy Awardwinning director and producer whose work includes Waiting for Superman, It Might Get Loud,the 2009 documentary featuring Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White, and An Inconvenient Truth, featuring former Vice President Al Gore, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2007. In 2008, Davis produced and directed President Barack Obamas biographical film A Mother's Promise, and most recently, The Road We've Travelled, a short film for Obamas 2012 campaign. Davis has also directed many television series including Deadwood, NYPD Blue and 24.

Gary Hustwit

Gary Hustwit isan independent filmmaker based in New York and London. He worked with punklabel SST Records in the late-1980s, ran the independent bookpublishing houseIncommunicado Press during the 1990s, and was Vice President of the media websiteSalon.comin2000. Hustwit has produced ninedocumentaries, beginning with I Am Trying ToBreak Your Heart, the 2002 film about the band Wilco. In 2007 he made hisdirectorial debut with Helvetica, adocumentary about graphic design and typography. The film marked the start of a design film trilogy, withObjectified, about product design, following in 2009.Urbanized, about thedesign of cities, premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.Hustwit is a longtime advocate of self-distribution, direct audienceengagement, and truly independent filmmaking.

Brett Morgen

Brett Morgen is a director and writer. His credits include Crossfire Hurricane (2012), 30 for 30: June 17, 1994 (2010), Chicago 10 (2007), Nimrod Nation (2007), The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002), and On the Ropes (1999). He is the recipient of several awards and honors including an Academy Awardnomination, the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary, the IDA Award for Best Feature, and two Peabody Awards. He is currently working on the first authorized documentary about Kurt Cobain and in pre-production on When the Street Lights Go On, which will mark his feature dramatic debut.

Diane Weyermann

Diane Weyermann is Participant Media's Executive Vice President, Documentary Films, where she oversees such current projects as A Place At the Table and State 194, and earlier releases such as An Inconvenient Truth, Food, Inc., and Waiting for Superman. In 1996, she launched the Soros Documentary Fund, which later became the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund. Prior to working at Participant Media, Diane was the Director of the Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program and Fund, where she was responsible for the Fund, two annual documentary film labs and worked closely with the Sundance Film Festival programming team on world documentaries.

U.S. DRAMATIC JURY

Ed Burns

Ed Burns is an award-winning writer, director and actor. His debut film, The Brothers McMullen, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury prize. The film, made on a budget of $25,000, went on to win Best First Feature at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. Since then he has helped to expand upon the new model of digital distribution by making his film Purple Violet the first feature to premiere exclusively on iTunes and successfully releasing his subsequent films, Nice Guy Johnny and Newlyweds,via Video on Demand. He recently premiered his 11th feature film as a writer, director and star, The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. In addition to his work as a director, Burns as starred in such films as Saving Private Ryan and 27 Dresses. He was born in Woodside, Queens, and currently lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Wesley Morris

Wesley Morris writes about movies, culture, and style in sports for Grantland. He won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism for his film and culture writing for the Boston Globe.

Rodrigo Prieto

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