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| Event Name: | Sundance Film Festival (1991-)
Sundance United States Film Festival (1990)
United States Film Festival (1985-1989) |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Criteria: | - The festival's 'Independent Feature Film Competition' is divided into a dramatic and a documentary section.
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| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Comments: | - In 1978, the Utah/US Film Festival, an annual cinematic exhibition, was created in Salt Lake City. During its early years, the festival focused primarily on the presentation of retrospective films and filmmaker seminars. However, from its inception, the festival featured a national competition aimed at drawing attention to emerging American films made outside the Hollywood system - "independent" cinema.
- In 1981, the United States Film Festival moved to Park City, Utah, and grew to include documentaries and short films, along with its slate of dramatic features.
- In 1985, responding to the need for support from an organization that could provide year-round programming, administrative staffing, financial backing, and a network of contacts, the festival became part of the Sundance Institute and added international films to its program. Officially renamed in 1991, the Sundance Film Festival has become recognized internationally as a showcase for the best in new American independent film (from the festival's web site, 2000).
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| Official website(s): | http://www.sundance.org/festival/
http://www.sundancefilm.com/ |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | -1999 |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Criteria: | - The award is given for excellence in directing dramatic and documentary features.
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| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 1997- |
| Official Name: | Excellence in Cinematography Award |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 1986- |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 2006- |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | international |
| Given: | 2008- |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 1991- |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | international |
| Given: | 2008- |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Criteria: | - The award is decided on by the documentary jury and given to a documentary film that informs and educates the public on issues of social or political concern.
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| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 1993-2004 |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 1996-2002 |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Criteria: | - The Audience Award is given to each, a documentary and a dramatic film, in the competition or the American Spectrum festival section, as voted by festival audiences.
- The World Cinema Audience Award is given to a film in the World Cinema category as voted by festival audiences.
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| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational (international) |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational (international) |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational (international) |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational (international) |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 2004- |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 2001- |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Format/Amount: | USD 20,000 |
| Criteria: | - The Prize is designed to increase the visibility of outstanding independent films on science and technology and to showcase the work of emerging filmmakers tackling compelling topics in science. The endowment will be split equally between the writer and the director.
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| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 2003- |
| Official Name: | Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Format/Amount: | USD 10,000 and creative, financial and distribution support from
Sundance as well as NHK commitment to purchase TV rights for
Japan for the project upon completion. |
| Criteria: | - The award was created to honor and support emerging filmmakers with their next screenplays - one each from the United States, Europe, Latin America and Japan - who possess the originality, talent and vision to be celebrated as we look to the future of international cinema.
- The winners are determined based on past projects and the strengths of the project's script.
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| Initiator: | Sundance Institute
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | international |
| Given: | 1996, 1998- |
| Official website(s): | http://www.nhk.or.jp/sun_asia/sundance/e/1996e.html |
| Official Name: | Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award - Honorable Mention |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Initiator: | Sundance Institute
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) |
| Time Specification: | irregular |
| Geographic Specification: | international |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Criteria: | - The winning film was chosen from five final films through audience balloting, both online and on Delta flights that took place between Dec. 1, 2006 and Jan. 12, 2007. (as of 2007)
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| Initiator: | Delta Airlines
Gen Art |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | national |
| Comments: | - Delta, the official airline of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, partnered with Gen Art to host the contest, which offered filmmakers a unique opportunity to showcase their short films both on delta.com and on Delta flights, and to win cash, travel and a trip to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, all courtesy of Delta.
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| Media type(s): | Film |
| Time Specification: | one off |
| Geographic Specification: | international |
| Given: | 1996 |
| Official Name: | Ray-Ban Visionary Award |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Criteria: | - The award honors the work and dedication of an individual who possesses extraordinary passion, creativity and leadership, and whose work contains vision, imagination and originality.
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| Initiator: | Ray-Ban
The Creative Coalition
Hollywood Life (2004)
Movieline Magazine (2003) |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | international |
| Given: | 2003- |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Criteria: | - The award is handed out to celebrate the achievements of prominent executives with a reputation for producing and releasing quality indie features.
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| Initiator: | The Hollywood Reporter |
| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 2007- |
| Official Name: | Sundance Institute Tribute to Independent Vision Award (2003-)
Piper Heidsieck Tribute to Independent Vision (1992-2001) |
| Media type(s): | Film |
| Criteria: | - The award is handed out to honor a film artist who has made a significant and unique contribution to independent film.
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| Time Specification: | regular |
| Geographic Specification: | multinational |
| Given: | 1992- |
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