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Shadows Festival 2012 Sundance Film Festival
19-29 JANUARY 2012

Run by the Sundance Institute
in Park City, Utah

Sundance site

2 0 1 2   A W A R D S ...

Grand Jury Prize:
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Audience Award: THE SURROGATE
Directing: Ava DuVernay
(MIDDLE OF NOWHERE)
Screenwriting: Derek Connolly (SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED)
Acting: ensemble (THE SURROGATE)
Cinematography:
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Independent Producing:
SMASHED and NOBODY WALKS
Best of Next: SLEEPWALK WITH ME


World Cinema Prize:
VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN
World Cinema Audience Award: VALLEY OF SAINTS
World Cinema Dir:
Mads Matthiesen (TEDDY BEAR)
World Cinema Scr: Rivas, Peirano, Sepulveda, Gutierrez (YOUNG & WILD)
World Cinema Cine:
MY BROTHER THE DEVIL
Artistic Vision: CAN
Doc Grand Prize:
THE HOUSE I LIVE IN
Doc Audience Award:
THE INVISIBLE WAR
Doc Dir: Lauren Greenfield
(THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES)
Doc Cine: CHASING ICE
Doc Ed: DETROPIA
Agent of Change: LOVE FREE OR DIE
Spirit of Defiance:
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY

Doc World Cinema Prize:
THE LAW IN THESE PARTS
Doc World Cinema Audience Award: SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN
Doc World Cinema Dir:
Burnat & Davidi (5 BROKEN CAMERAS)
Doc World Cinema Cine:
PUTIN’S KISS
Doc World Cinema Ed:
INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE
Artistic Spirit:
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN
F I L M S   I N C L U D E
1/2 REVOLUTION (Shargawi/El Hakim, Egy)
2 DAYS IN NEW YORK (Delpy, Fr)
28 HOTEL ROOMS (Ross, US)
5 BROKEN CAMERAS (Burnat/Davidi, Pal)
ABOUT FACE (Greenfield-Sanders, US)
ABOUT THE PINK SKY (Kobayashi, Jpn)
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (Klayman, US)
THE AMBASSADOR (Brugger, Den)
THE ARTIST IS PRESENT (Akers, US)
THE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICA (Argott/Joyce, US)
ARBITRAGE (Jarecki, US)
BACHELORETTE (Headland, US)
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Zeitlin, US)
BESTIAIRE (Cote, Can)
BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS! (Gertten, Swe)
BLACK ROCK (Aselton, US BONES BRIGADE (Peralta, US)
CALIFORNIA SOLO (Lewy, US)
CAN (Celikezer, Tur)
CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER (Krieger, US)
CHASING ICE (Orlowski, US)
CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT (Chang, Chn)
THE COMEDY (Alverson, US)
COMPLIANCE (Zobel, US)
CORPO CELESTE (Rohrwacher, It)
THE D WORD (Redford, US)
DECLARATION OF WAR (Donzelli, Fr)
DETROPIA (Ewing/Grady, US)
are rising. ELENA (Zvyagintsev, Rus)
THE END OF LOVE (Webber, US)
ESCAPE FIRE (Heineman/Froemke, US)
ETHEL (Kennedy, US)
EXCISION (Bates, US)
FATHER'S CHAIR (Moura, Br)
A FIERCE GREEN Fire (Kitchell, US)
FILLY BROWN (Delara/Olmos, US)
FINDING NORTH (Jacobson/Silverbush, US)
THE FIRST TIME (Kasdan, US)
FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL... (Travis, US)
FOR ELLEN (Kim, US)
FOUR SUNS (Slama, Cz)
GOATS (Neil, US)
GRABBERS (Wright, Ire)
GYPSY DAVY (Jones, Isr)
HELLO I MUST BE GOING (Louiso, US)
THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (Jarecki, US)
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (France, US)
I AM NOT A HIPSTER (Cretton, US)
THE IMPOSTER (Layton, UK)
INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE (Pajot/Swirsky, Can)
THE INVISIBLE WAR (Dick, US)
JOHN DIES AT THE END (Coscarelli, US)
KEEP THE LIGHTS ON (Sachs, US)
KID-THING (Zellner, US)
L (Makridis, Gr)
THE LAST ELVIS (Bo, Arg)
THE LAW IN THESE PARTS (Alexandrowicz, Isr)
LAY THE FAVORITE (Frears, US)
LIBERAL ARTS (Radnor, US)
LOVE FREE OR DIE (Alston, US)
LUV (Candis, US)
MADRID, 1987 (Trueba, Sp)
ME @ THE ZOO (Moukarbel/Veatch, US)
MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (DuVernay, US)
MONSIEUR LAZHAR (Falardeau, Can)
MOSQUITA Y MARI (Guerrero, US)
MY BEST DAY (Greenwell, US)
MY BROTHER THE DEVIL (El Hosaini, UK)
NOBODY WALKS (Russo-Young, US)
THE ORATOR (Tamasese, NZ)
OSLO, AUGUST 31ST (Trier, Nor)
THE OTHER DREAM TEAM (Markevicius, Lth)
AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY (Nance, US)
THE PACT (McCarthy, US)
PAYBACK (Baichwal, Can)
THE PERCEPTION OF MOVING TARGETS (Currie, US)
PREDISPOSED (Dorling/Nyswaner, US)
PRICE CHECK (Walker, US)
PURSUIT OF LONELINESS (Thrush, US)
PUTIN'S KISS (Pedersen, Den)
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (Greenfield, US)
THE RAID (Evans, Ina)
RED HOOK SUMMER (Lee, US)
RED LIGHTS (Cortes, US)
ROBOT AND FRANK (Schreier, US)
ROOM 237 (Ascher, US)
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED (Trevorrow, US)
SAVE THE DATE (Mohan, US)
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (Bendjelloul, Swe)
SHADOW DANCER (Marsh, UK)
SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS (Southern/Lovelace, UK)
SIMON KILLER (Campos, US)
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME (Pollard, US)
SLEEPWALK WITH ME (Birbiglia, US)
SMASHED (Ponsoldt, US)
SOMETHING FROM NOTHING (Ice-T, UK)
THE SURROGATE (Lewin, US)
TEDDY BEAR (Matthiesen, Den)
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID (Preston, US)
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE (Sorrentino, Ire)
TIM AND ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE (Heidecker/Wareheim, US)
UNDER AFRICAN SKIES (Berlinger, US)
V/H/S (Wingard/Bruckner/et al, US)
VALLEY OF SAINTS (Syeed, Ind)
VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN (Wood, Chl)
WE'RE NOT BROKE (Hayes/Bruce, US)
WEST OF MEMPHIS (Berg, US)
WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (Labaki, Leb)
WHITEONWHITE:ALGORITHMICNOIR (Sussman, US)
WISH YOU WERE HERE (Darcy-Smith, Aus)
THE WORDS (Klugman/Sternthal, US)
WRONG (Dupieux, Fr)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Arnold, UK)
YOUNG & WILD (Rivas, Chl)
YOUR SISTER'S SISTER (Shelton, US)

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