2018 Sundance Film Festival

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2018 Sundance Film Festival
Location Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by Sundance Institute
Festival dateJanuary 18 to January 28, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Website sundance.org/festival

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 18 to January 28, 2018. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 29, 2017. [1]

Contents

Awards

The following awards were presented: [2] [3]

Films

U.S. Dramatic Competition

FilmDirector
American Animals Bart Layton
Blaze Ethan Hawke
Blindspotting Carlos López Estrada
Burden Andrew Heckler
Eighth Grade Bo Burnham
I Think We're Alone Now Reed Morano
The Kindergarten Teacher Sara Colangelo
Lizzie Craig William Macneill
The Miseducation of Cameron Post Desiree Akhavan
Monster Anthony Mandler
Monsters and Men Reinaldo Marcus Green
Nancy Christina Choe
Sorry to Bother You Boots Riley
The Tale Jennifer Fox
Tyrel Sebastián Silva
Wildlife Paul Dano

U.S. Documentary Competition

FilmDirector
Bisbee 17 Robert Greene [4]
Crime + Punishment Stephen Maing
Dark Money Kimberly Reed
The Devil We Know Stephanie Soechtig
Hal Amy Scott
Hale County This Morning, This Evening RaMell Ross
Inventing Tomorrow Laura Nix
Kailash Derek Doneen
Kusama: Infinity Heather Lenz
The Last Race Michael Dweck
Minding the Gap Bing Liu
On Her Shoulders Alexandria Bombach
The Price of Everything Nathaniel Kahn
Seeing Allred Sophie Sartain and Roberta Grossman
The Sentence Rudy Valdez
Three Identical Strangers Tim Wardle

Premieres

Documentary Premieres

Midnight

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Juries

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 16, 2018. [7]

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