2012 Sundance Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Park City
Hosted by	Sundance Institute
Festival date	January 19–29, 2012
Language	English
Website	sundance.org/festival
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The2012 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 until January 29, 2012 in Park City,Utah.^[1]

64 short films were selected for the festival from 7,675 submissions, including 27 international shorts from 3,592 submissions.^[2]

• Black Rock
• Excision
• Grabbers
• John Dies at the End
• The Pact
• Shut Up and Play the Hits
• Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
• V/H/S

• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary -The House I Live In
• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic -Beasts of the Southern Wild
• World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary -The Law in These Parts
• World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic -Violeta Went to Heaven(Violeta se Fue a Los Cielos)
• Audience Award: U.S. Documentary -The Invisible War
• Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic -The Surrogate (retitledThe Sessions)
• World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary -Searching for Sugar Man
• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic -Valley of Saints
• Best of NEXT Audience Award -Sleepwalk with Me
• U.S. Directing Award: Documentary -The Queen of Versailles
• U.S. Directing Award: Dramatic -Middle of Nowhere
• World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary -5 Broken Cameras
• World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic -Teddy Bear
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award -Safety Not Guaranteed
• World Cinema Screenwriting Award -Young & Wild
• U.S. Documentary Editing Award -Detropia
• World Cinema Documentary Editing Award -Indie Game: The Movie
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary -Chasing Ice
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic -Beasts of the Southern Wild
• World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary -Putin's Kiss
• World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic -My Brother the Devil
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for an Agent of Change -Love Free or Die
• U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance -Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing -Smashed andNobody Walks
• U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting -The Surrogate (retitledThe Sessions)
• World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Artistic Vision -Can
• World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Prize for its Celebration of the Artistic Spirit -Searching for Sugar Man
• Jury Prize: Short Filmmaking -Fishing Without Nets
• Jury Prize: Short Film, U.S. Fiction -The Black Balloon
• Jury Prize: Short Film, International Fiction -The Return
• Jury Prize: Short Film, Non-Fiction -The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
• Jury Prize: Animated Short Film -A Morning Stroll
• Short Film Audience Award -The Debutante Hunters^[3]

TheNational Film Board of Canada (NFB)web documentaryBear 71 premiered January 20 in aninstallation at the festival's New Frontier multimedia program.^[4] The NFB documentaryPayback, based onMargaret Atwood'sPayback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, and the documentaryA Place at the Table, also premiered at the festival.^[5]

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