2017 Sundance Film Festival


The 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29, 2017. The first lineup of competition films was announced November 30, 2016.

Awards

The following awards were presented:
  • Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore by Macon Blair
  • Audience Award: Dramatic – Crown Heights by Matt Ruskin
  • Directing Award: Dramatic – Eliza Hittman for Beach Rats
  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer for Ingrid Goes West
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Chanté Adams for Roxanne Roxanne
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director – Maggie Betts for Novitiate
  • U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Daniel Landin for The Yellow Birds
  • Grand Jury Prize: Documentary – Dina by Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini
  • Directing Award: Documentary – Peter Nicks for The Force
  • U.S. Documentary Orwell Award - Icarus by Bryan Fogel
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista for Unrest
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling – Yance Ford for Strong Island
  • U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking – Amanda Lipitz for Step
  • World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – The Nile Hilton Incident by Tarik Saleh
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Francis Lee for God's Own Country
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Kirsten Tan for Pop Aye
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematic Visions – Geng Jun for Free and Easy
  • World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Manuel Dacosse for Axolotl Overkill
  • World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Last Men in Aleppo by Feras Fayyad
  • World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Pascale Lamche for Winnie
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling – Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana for Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva for Machines
  • World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Ramona S. Diaz for Motherland
  • Audience Award: Documentary – Chasing Coral by Jeff Orlowski
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – I Dream in Another Language by Ernesto Contreras
  • World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower by Joe Piscatella
  • Best of NEXT Audience Award – Gook by Justin Chon
  • Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Marjorie Prime by Michael Almereyda

    Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 11, 2017.
;U.S. Documentary Jury
;U.S. Dramatic Jury
;World Documentary Jury
;World Dramatic Jury
;Alfred P. Sloan Jury
;Short Film Jury