Si è conclusa l’edizione 2014 del Sundance Film Festival, la prestigiosa manifestazione dedicata al panorama del cinema indipendente. Dieci giorni di anteprime e grandi protagonisti con la categoria dei film drammatici che quest’anno ha visto appuntamenti importanti. A trionfare è stato Whiplash, che ha vinto il premio della giuria e del pubblico: la pellicola, diretta da Damien Chazelle e interpretata da Miles Teller e JK Simmons, racconta la storia di un giovane batterista jazz (Miles Teller) e del rapporto conflittuale, di ammirazione e odio, verso il suo professore.

Qui sotto la lista di tutti i premiati:

U.S. Films

• Winner of the U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle
• Winner of the Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic: Fishing Without Nets, directed by Cutter Hodierne
• Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Rich Hill, directed by Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo
• Winner of the Editing Award: U.S. Documentary: Watchers of the Sky, edited by Jenny Golden and Karen Sim
• Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic: The Skeleton Twins, screenplay by Craig Johnson and Mark Heyman
• Winner of the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary: The Case Against 8, directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White
• Winner for U. S. Documentary Special Jury award for Intuitive Filmmaking: The Overnighters, directed by Jesse Moss
• Winner of the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Use of Animation: Watchers in the Sky, directed by Edet Belzberg
• Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Musical Score Musical Score: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, composed by The Octopus Project
• Winner of the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent: Dear White People, directed by Justin Simien
• Winner of the Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary: E-TEAM, Ross Kauffman, Director of Photography; Rachel Beth Anderson, Ross Kauffman, Cinematographers
• Winner of the Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic: Low Down, cinematography by Christopher Blauvelt

Audience Awards

• Winner of the Audience Award: Imperial Dreams, directed by Malik Vitthal         
• Winner of the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary: The Green Prince, directed Nadav Schirman
• Winner of the Audience Award for World Cinema Dramatic: Difret, directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
• Winner of Audience Award: U.S. Documentary: Alive Inside, directed by Michael Rossato-Bennett
• Winner of the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic: Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle

World Cinema Dramatic Films

• Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance:God Help the Girl, directed by Stuart Murdoch, and starring Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger, and Cora Bissett.
• Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Cinematography Award: Lilting, cinematography by Ula Pontikos  
• Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award: Blind, written and directed by Eskil Vogt
• Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: 52 Tuesdays, directed by Sophie Hyde     
• Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: To Kill a Man, directed by Alejandro Fernandez Almendras

World Cinema Documentary Films

• Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award forCinematic Bravery: We Come As Friends, directed Hubert Sauper
• Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Cinematography Award: Happiness, cinematography by Thomas Balmes and Nina Bernfeld. Directed by Thomas Balmes
• Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award: 20,000 Days on Earth, edited by Jonathan Amos
• Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: 20,000 Days on Earth, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
• Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: Return to Homs, directed by Talal Derki

Sundance Institute/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards

• From Vietnam and the UK, Hong Khaou for Monsoon.
• From Denmark, Tobias Lindholm for A War.
• From Australia, Ashlee Page for Archive.
• From India, Neeraj Ghaywan for Fly Away Solo.

Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize:I Origins, written and directed by Mike Cahill