Sundance 2024 Winners Announced

According to the Legend of Life Media, the Sundance Film Festival, which is an event dedicated to independent cinema and therefore has many fans around the world, has announced its winners

The festival’s Grand Jury Prize in the American Fiction Cinema Competition went to In the Summers, directed by Alessandra Lacorazá Samudio

In the American Documentary section, The Porcelain War was honored with the main prize for this section for its portrayal of artists who have become soldiers in Ukraine

The top awards in the World Documentary Cinema section went to A New Kind of Desert. Sujo also won the Fiction Film Section.

The full list of Sundance winners is as follows

World Documentary Competition

Special Jury Prize: Nights Director and Producer: Anirban Dutta, Director: Anupama Srinivasan

Special Jury Prize for Cinematic Innovation: Johan Grimmonpers, Director of the Score for A Coup

Directing Prize: Benjamin Ray for directing Aibelline

Grand Jury Prize: A New Kind of Desert

World Feature Competition

Special Jury Prize for Original Score: Peter Rayburn for Caring for the Dead

Special Jury Prize for Acting: Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls

Directing Prize: In the Land of the Brothers Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi

Grand Jury Prize: Soju

Americas Documentary Competition

Special Jury Prize for Sound: Gaucho Gaucho

Special Jury Prize for the Art of Change: Unity

Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: Frida, Carla Gutierrez

Director Award: Sugarcane, Julian Breve Noisette and Emily Cassey

Grand Jury Prize: The War of the Porcelaine

American Feature Film Competition

Special Jury Prize for Performance: Nico Parker for Sunshine Coast

Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble: Isaac Wong, Joanne Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Lihua for Didi

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Jesse Eisenberg for A True Pain

Director Award: Alessandra Lacorazza for In the Summers

Grand Jury Prize: In the Summers

Next Awards

Next Special Jury Prize: Lines of Desire

Next Innovator Award: Little Death

Audience Awards

Next Audience Awards: Kneecap

World Documentary Audience Award: Aibelline

World Feature Audience Award: Girls Will Be Girls

Audience Award Documentary America: Girls

Audience Award for Feature Film America: Didi