WINNERS OF THE 2019 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

"Clemency" from writer/director Chinonye Chukwu received the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film festival. This drama focuses on a female prison warden (Alfre Woodard) who begins to face a personal crisis regarding the death penalty. The feature film debut by Joe Talbot, "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" took the Director Prize and a Special Jury Prize for Creator Collaboration. The film centers on a lonely, young skateboarder (Jimmie Fails) who can't shake the idea of his family losing their Victorian house years ago that his grandfather had built. When the current owners seemed to have moved, he attempts to recreate a home his family once had. And The U.S. Documentary Prize was awarded to Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang for their feature, "One Child Nation" which deals with China’s controversial one-child-per-family policy.

Here is a partial list of winners from the 2019 Sundance Film Festival:

U.S. Dramatic Jury Winners:

Grand Jury Prize: "Clemency"
Directing Award: Joe Talbot, "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Pippa Bianco, "Share"
Special Jury Award (Vision and Craft): Alma Har’el, "Honey Boy"
Special Jury Award (Creator Collaboration): Joe Talbot, "The Last Black Man in San Francisco"
Special Jury Award (Acting): Rhianne Barreto, "Share"

U.S. Documentary Jury Winners:

Grand Jury Prize: "One Child Nation"
Directing Award: Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, "American Factory"
Special Jury Award (Emerging Filmmaker): Liza Mandelup, "Jawline"
Special Jury Award (Moral Urgency): "Always in Season"
Special Jury Award (Editing): Todd Douglas Miller, "Apollo 11"
Special Jury Award (Cinematography): Luke Lorentzen, "Midnight Family"

Audience Awards:

U.S. Dramatic: "Brittany Runs a Marathon"
U.S. Documentary: "Knock Down the House"
World Cinema Dramatic: "Queen of Hearts"



World Cinema Documentary: "Sea of Shadows"
NEXT Audience Award: "The Infiltrators"

World Cinema Awards:

Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: "The Souvenir"
Directing Award: Lucia Garibaldi, "The Sharks"
Dramatic (Special Jury Award): "Monos"
Special Jury Award for Originality: Makoto Nagahisa, "We Are Little Zombies"



Special Jury Prize (Acting): Krystyna Janda, "Dolce Fine Giornata"
Documentary Grand Jury Prize: "Honeyland"
Documentary Directing Award: Mads Brugger, "Cold Case Hammarskjold"
Documentary Special Jury Award (No Borders): "Midnight Traveler"



Documentary Special Jury Prize (Impact for Change): "Honeyland"
Documentary Special Jury Award (Cinematography): Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma, "Honeyland"