Shadows @ Sundance
2008 Sundance Film Festival17-27 JANUARY 2008
Run by the Sundance Institute
in Park City, Utah
2008 awards...Grand Jury Prize: FROZEN RIVER
Audience Award: THE WACKNESS
Acting: the ensemble (CHOKE)
Directing: Lance Hammer (BALLAST)
Screenwriting: Alex Rivera & David Riker (SLEEP DEALER)
Cinematography: Lol Crawley (BALLAST)
Spirit of Independence: Chusy Haney-Jardine (ANYWHERE, USA)
World Cinema Prize: KING OF PING PONG
World Cinema Audience Award: CAPTAIN ABU RAED
World Cinema Dir: Anna Melikyan (MERMAID)
World Cinema Scr: Samuel Benchetrit (I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER)
World Cinema Cine: Askild Vik Edvardsen (KING OF PING PONG)
Doc Grand Prize: TROUBLE THE WATER
Doc Audience Award: FIELDS OF FUEL
Doc Dir: Nanette Burstein (AMERICAN TEEN)
Doc Cine: Phillip Hunt/Steven Sebring (PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE)
Doc Ed: Joe Bini (ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED)
Doc World Cinema Prize: MAN ON WIRE
Doc World Cinema Audience Award: MAN ON WIRE
Doc World Cinema Dir: Nino Kirtadze (DURAKOVO: VILLAGE OF FOOLS)
Doc World Cinema Cine: al Massad (RECYCLE)
Doc World Cinema Ed: Irena Dol (THE ART STAR AND THE SUDANESE TWINS)
ADVENTURES OF POWER (Gold, US)
ALONE IN FOUR WALLS (Westmeier, Ger)
AMERICAN SON (Abramson, US)
AN AMERICAN SOLDIER (Belzberg, US)
AMERICAN TEEN (Burstein, US)
ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL (Gervasi, US)
ANYWHERE, USA (Haney-Jardine, US)
ART STAR AND THE SUDANESE TWINS (Brettkelly, NZ)
ASSASSINATION OF A HIGH SCHOOL PRESIDENT (Simon, US)
AUGUST (Chick, US)
BAGHEAD (Duplass/Duplass, US)
BALLAST (Hammer, US)
BE KIND REWIND (Gondry, US)BE LIKE OTHERS (Eshaghian, Can)
BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER (Bell, US)
BIRDS OF AMERICA (Lucas, US)
BLACK LIST (Greenfield-Sanders, US)
BLIND DATE (Tucci, US)
BLUE EYELIDS (Contreras, Mex)
BOTTLE SHOCK (Miller, US)
BROKEN (Ellis, UK)
CAPTAIN ABU RAED (Matalqa, Jor)
CASTING A GLANCE (Benning, US)
CHOKE (Gregg, US)
CHRONIC TOWN (Hines, US)
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES (Waitt, UK)
CSNY DÉJÀ VU (Shakey, US)
DEAL (Schachter, Can)
DEATH IN LOVE (Yakin, US)
DEREK (Julien, UK)DIARY OF THE DEAD (Romero, US)
DIMINISHED CAPACITY (Kinney, US)
DINNER WITH THE PRESIDENT (Sumar/Sathananthan, Pak)
DONKEY PUNCH (Blackburn, UK)
DOWNLOADING NANCY (Renck, US)
DRUMMER (Bi, Chn)
DURAKOVO: VILLAGE OF FOOLS (Kirtadze, Fr)
EAT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY (Quay, Hai)
THE ESCAPIST (Wyatt, Ire)
FEAR(S) OF THE DARK (Blutch et al, Fr)
FIELDS OF FUEL (Tickell, US)
FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER (Salina, US)
FROZEN RIVER (Hunt, US)
FUNNY GAMES (Haneke, Fr)GOLIATH (Zellner/Zellner, US)
GONZO (Gibney, US)
GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK & SEXY (Dortch, US)
GOOD DICK (Palka, US)
GREAT BUCK HOWARD (McGinly, US)
GREATEST SILENCE (Jackson, US)
GUITAR (Redford, US)
HALF-LIFE (Phang, US)
HAMLET 2 (Fleming, US)
HELL RIDE (Bishop, US)
HENRY POOLE IS HERE (Pellington, US)
I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER (Benchetrit, Fr)
I.O.US (Creadon, US)
IN BRUGES (McDonagh, UK)IN PRISON MY WHOLE LIFE (Evans, UK)
INCENDIARY (Maguire, UK)
KICKING IT (Koch, US)
KING OF PING PONG (Jonsson, Swe)
LAST WORD (Haley, US)
LINGUISTS (Kramer/Miller/Newberger, US)
LOVE COMES LATELY (Schütte, Ger)
MADE IN AMERICA (Peralta, US)
MAN ON WIRE (Marsh, UK)
MINCORA (de Montreuil, Sp)
MEGANE (Ogigami, Jap)
MERMAID (Melikyan, Rus)
MERRY GENTLEMAN (Keaton, US)
MOMMA'S MAN (Jacobs, US)
MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH (Thurber, US)
NERAKHOON: THE BETRAYAL (Kuras, US)
NORTH STARR (Stanton, US)
ORDER OF MYTHS (Brown, US)
OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE (LaBruce, Ger)PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE (Sebring, US)
PERRO COME PERRO (Moreno, Col)
PHOEBE IN WONDERLAND (Barnz, US)
PRETTY BIRD (Schneider, US)
PUUJEE (Yamada, Jap)
QUID PRO QUO (Brooks, US)
RAISIN IN THE SUN (Leon, US)
RECYCLE (Massad, Jor)
RED (Diesen/McKee, US)
REVERSION (Trachinger, US)
RIPRENDIMI (Negri, It)
ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED (Zenovich, US)
SAVAGE GRACE (Kalin, US)SECRECY (Galison/Moss, US)
SEVEN INTELLECTUALS IN BAMBOO FOREST, PART 4 (Yang, Chn)
SEVEN INTELLECTUALS IN BAMBOO FOREST, PART 5 (Yang, Chn)
SLEEP DEALER (Rivera,Mex)
SLEEPWALKING (Maher, US)
SLINGSHOT HIP HOP (Salloum, US)
STRANDED (Arijon, Fr)
STRANGERS (Tadmor/Nattiv, Isr)
SUGAR (Boden/Fleck, US)
SUNSHINE CLEANING (Jeffs, US)
TIME CRIMES (Vigalondo, Sp)
TOWELHEAD (Ball, US)
TRACES OF THE TRADE (Browne, US)
TRANSSIBERIAN (Anderson, Sp)
TRIAGE (Reed, Can)
TROUBLE THE WATER (Lessin/Deal, US)
U2 3D (Owens/Pellington, US)
UNDER THE BOMBS (Aractingi, Leb)UP THE YANGTZE (Yung, Can)
THE VISITOR (McCarthy, US)
WACKNESS (Levine, US)
WAVE (Gansel, Ger)
WHAT JUST HAPPENED? (Levinson, US)
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN? (Spurlock, Fr)
WIND AND THE WATER (Bollow, Pan)
WOMEN OF BRUKMAN (Isitan, Can)
YASUKUNI (Li, Jap)
YEAR OF GETTING TO KNOW US (Sisam, US)
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF (Prasad, US)
YOUNG@HEART (Walker, UK)
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