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2003 Sundance Film Festival

The unseasonably warm weather this year attracted record attendance to the Festival that introduced audiences to feature films including THE COOLER, IN AMERICA, LAUREL CANYON, PIECES OF APRIL, RAISING VICTOR VARGAS, THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS, and THIRTEEN. The power of the non-fiction form was illustrated with documentaries ranging from THE MURDER OF EMMITT TILL to THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND to TO LIVE IS BETTER THAN TO DIE, a depiction of AIDS in China which has never been shown in that country.

Awards

Alfred P. Sloan Prize
Dopamine
Audience Award Documentary
My Flesh and Blood
Audience Award Dramatic
The Station Agent
Directing Award Dramatic
thirteen
Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary
Stevie
Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic
Quattro Noza
Freedom of Expression Award
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Grand Jury Prize Documentary
Capturing the Friedmans
Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
American Splendor
Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking
Earthquake
Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking
The Freak
Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking
From the 104th Floor
Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking
Asylum
Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking
Fits & Starts
Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking
Ocularist
Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking
Pan with Us
Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking
The Planets
Jury Prize Short Filmmaking
Terminal Bar
Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking
One
Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation
Broken Saints
Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking
S-11 Redux: Channel Surfing the Apocalypse
Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation
LOR
Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking
Icarus of Pittsburgh
Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation
Bumble Beeing
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
The Station Agent
World Cinema Audience Award
Whale Rider

Credits

Avon Kirkland
Documentary Competition Juror
Doug Pray
Documentary Competition Juror
Lesli Klainberg
Documentary Competition Juror
Susan Frömke
Documentary Competition Juror
Nanette Burstein
Documentary Competition Juror
Emanuel Levy
Dramatic Competition Juror
Tilda Swinton
Dramatic Competition Juror
Forest Whitaker
Dramatic Competition Juror
Steve Buscemi
Dramatic Competition Juror
David O. Russell
Dramatic Competition Juror
Thérèse DePrez
Short Film Competition Juror
Scott Foundas
Short Film Competition Juror
Darren Aronofsky
Alfred P. Sloan Prize Juror
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Alfred P. Sloan Prize Juror
Alan Lightman
Alfred P. Sloan Prize Juror
Jill Sprecher
Alfred P. Sloan Prize Juror
Doron Weber
Alfred P. Sloan Prize Juror
John Cooper
Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival
Geoffrey Gilmore
Director, Sundance Film Festival
 

Panels

A Digital Hierarchy for Motion Picture Productionpresented by Sony Electronics, Inc.Actors: On Performance in Digital
Around the World in 10 DaysArtists' Rights and Wrongs
Artists' Rights and WrongsCase Study: Pieces of April
Come Meet PBSConversations at the Lodge
Conversations at the LodgeCreative Producing in Indie America
Crossing the LineCrossing the Line
Dark Ages: Raking Muck in the New MillenniumDecent Exposure: Maximizing Your P.R.
Digital Cinema Applications of Windows Media 9 Series presented by Microsoft, Inc.Directors on Directing
Docs that RockEmergent Narratives and Computer Games
Expanding the FrameLife, Love, and Quantum Mechanics: Science and Storytelling
Looking In: The Outsider as WitnessNext Steps: Digital Production
Next Steps: PostproductionNo Place Like Home: America the Dysfunctional
Novel ApproachesOne Frame at a Time
Opening Moves: Docs on the Big ScreenShorting the Market
Spotlight on Dogme: Art, Orthodoxy, and LegacySuccessful Collaboration: The art of storytelling, technology and the nonlinear experience
The Double-Edged Sword: Gay/Lesbian Film Goes MainstreamThe Heroine with a Thousand Faces
The Movie Doesn’t End When the Movie is Over: Arts Writing TodayWhat is Digital Cinema?: Navigating a Landscape of Fundamental Change
What Is Digital Cinema?: Navigating a Landscape of Fundamental ChangeWhose Story Is It?

Projects

28 Days Later 72 Virgins
A Certain Kind of Death A Decade Under the Influence
A Foreign Affair A Is for Apple
A Ninja Pays Half My Rent A Red Bear
above & beneath Admirational
AKA All The Real Girls
American Splendor An Injury to One
Angela Asylum
At the First Breath of Wind At the Quinte Hotel
Atomic Love Autobank
Balseros Bend It Like Beckham
Beneath Clouds Benjamim
Blue and Orange Bollywood Queen
Bookies Born Rich
Branson: Musicland USA brittle-bones.com
Broken Saints Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Buffalo Common Buffalo Soldiers
Bukowski: Born into This Bumble Beeing
Bundle in Good Standing Bus 174
Camp Capturing the Friedmans
Circle of Stories City of Ghosts
Civil Brand Climbing Miss Sophie
Comandante Come Nightfall
Confidence Cradlesong
Cremaster 3 Cry Funny Happy
D. E. B. S. deadend.com
Delight Detective Fiction
Devil Talk Die Mommie Die
Dog Don't forget to remember
Dopamine dot the i
Downpour Resurfacing Dreamscapes
DysFunKtional Family Earthquake
Face to Face Fake Clouds
Family Tree Fear X
Field Studies #3 firepussy
Fits & Starts five deep breaths
Ford Transit Frescoes
From the 104th Floor Garage Days
Gertrudis Blues Girls Will Be Girls
going to the ocean Good Fences
Good Night Valentino Gravel
here was the anthem Historia del Desierto (Desert Story)
Historias Minimas I Love You
Icarus of Pittsburgh In America
In Order Not to Be Here Iran, Veiled Appearances
Irreversible Is Jacqueline L. telling the truth?
Is the Crown at War with Us? It's All About Love
Jer-Z Knights Jon's Day
Kiss and Tell Kunstbar
Laid Off (series) Laurel Canyon
Legend of Suriyothai Levity
Life Show Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness
Little Failures Live from Shiva's Dance Floor
Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity LOR
Love & Diane Lucy & Ricky
Madame Sata Manhood
Mark Set Burn Masked and Anonymous
Met State Milk and Honey
Mocassin Flats Mondays in the Sun
Most Music for Weddings and Funerals
MutaFukaz, Operation Black Head My Flesh and Blood
Neo-Noir New Scenes from America
Night Light Nightstalker
Normal Northfork
O beautiful Ocularist
Off the Map Olivia's Puzzle
One Open Hearts
Openminds Operation SIREN
Owning Mahowny Pa
Pan with Us Panic Attack
Parking Party Monster
People I Know Perk
photomontage.com Pieces of April
Pikutiskwaau (Mother Earth) Pipe Dreams
Prey for Rock & Roll Process/Progress
Quattro Noza Quest to Ref
Raising Victor Vargas Rangimarie
Rebel Request
Rhythm of the Saints Robert Capa in Love and War
Rockets Redglare! Rolling Kansas
Rosso Fango S-11 Redux: Channel Surfing the Apocalypse
Sailing the Master Home Seoleuna
Set Set Spike Shades of Maybe
Shit Skin Skelehellavision
Soldier's Girl Song for a Raggy Boy
Spun State of Denial
Stevie Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
Strindberg and Helium Struggle
Superbad Swallow
Terminal Bar The Baroness and the Pig
The Beat The Big Abandoned Refrigerator Adventure
The Blues The Boys of 2nd Street Park
The Clinic The Cooler
The Cutman The Day I Will Never Forget
The Death of Klinghoffer The Education of Gore Vidal
The ErlKing The Event
The Freak The Hebrew Hammer
The King and Dick The Kite
The Long and Short of It The Maldonado Miracle
The Missing Gun The Mudge Boy
The Murder of Emmett Till The Nazi
The Passion of María Elena The Perpetual Life of Jim Albers
The Pill The Planets
The Purified The Same River Twice
The Sea The Secret Lives of Dentists
The Shape of Things The Singing Detective
The Station Agent The Stork
The Support Group The Technical Writer
The Thirteen Steps The Tortoise and the Hare
The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia The United States of Leland
The Velvet Tigress The Weather Underground
the_future_of_human_containment thirteen
this is JOHN Tim Tom
To Live Is Better Than to Die Tom Dowd & the Language of Music
Tooba Toy
Tromba D'oro (Golden Trumpet) Tupac: Resurrection
Twin Towers UltraLove Ninja
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives Vanessa
Wattstax Wendidali
Whale Rider What Alice Found
What I Want My Words to Do to You Whatever We Do
Whispers White America
White of Winter Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
Wilfred Withdrawl
Woman of Water Zagati
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