2002 Sundance Film Festival

The 2002 Sundance Film Festival came early this year to make room for another international event being held in Park City, the 2002 Olympic games. In addition to sharing the same locale, the 2002 Film Festival demanded near Olympian stamina to cover the 113 feature films, the panels at the House of Docs and Digital Center, the daily concerts at the Music Cafe, not to mention the virtual festival streaming online. Along with the whirlwind of new films was a gesture of solemnity with a special event of 9/11 films. The films that won this cinema Olympics displayed the changing world of independent film as two DV features won major awards (TADPOLE and PERSONAL VELOCITY), as did a drama made for cable television (REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES), and films like SECRETARY succeeded in breaking new ground with truly original stories. In the end, jury member John Waters put the ten days in perspective with his quip, "I thought I had seen everything, but I will leave here astonished."

  • Awards
  • Credits
  • Panels
  • Projects

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AMANDLA! a revolution in four part harmony

Audience Award: Documentary

Real Women Have Curves

Audience Award: Dramatic

Bloody Sunday

Audience Award: World Cinema

The Last Kiss

Audience Award: World Cinema

Sister Helen

Directing Award: Documentary

Tadpole

Directing Award: Dramatic

Personal Velocity

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic

Blue Vinyl

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary

AMANDLA! a revolution in four part harmony

Freedom of Expression Award

Daughter from Danang

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

Personal Velocity

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

Bus 44

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking

Drowning Lessons

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking

Morning Breath

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking

No Dumb Questions

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking

The Parlor

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking

Stuck

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking

The Trespasser

Jury Prize Latin American Cinema

Gasline

Jury Prize Short Filmmaking

Guerrilla News Network: Crack The CIA

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking

Senorita Extraviada

Special Jury Prize Documentary

How to Draw a Bunny

Special Jury Prize Documentary

Real Women Have Curves

Special Jury Prize for Acting

Manito

Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Cast

Secretary

Special Jury Prize for Originality

Love Liza

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

Jeffrey Friedman

Documentary Competition Juror

Stanley Nelson

Documentary Competition Juror

Alanis Obomsawin

Documentary Competition Juror

Frances Reid

Documentary Competition Juror

Brad Anderson

Dramatic Competition Juror

Patricia Arquette

Dramatic Competition Juror

Matthew Libatique

Dramatic Competition Juror

Anne Thompson

Dramatic Competition Juror

John Waters

Dramatic Competition Juror

Nuria Bronfman

Latin American Cinema Juror

Alfonso Cuarón

Latin American Cinema Juror

Andrucha Waddington

Latin American Cinema Juror

Alan Oxman

Short Film Competition Juror

Jeffrey Sharp

Short Film Competition Juror

Jenni Olson

Short Film Competition Juror

John Cooper

Associate Director of Programming, Sundance Film Festival

Shari Frilot

Programmer, Sundance Film Festival

Geoffrey Gilmore

Director, Documentary Film Program

Geoffrey Gilmore

Director, Sundance Film Festival

Nicole Guillemet

Director, Sundance Film Festival

Trevor Groth

Programmer, Sundance Film Festival

Caroline Libresco

Associate Programmer, Sundance Film Festival

Stockard Channing

Awards Ceremony MC
 

16F9

2+2

A Stoner's Life

A Big Issue

A Place on Earth

About a Girl

Afro Deutsch

Alive (Vivante)

All Water Has a Perfect Memory

AMANDLA! a revolution in four part harmony

American Exile

American Standoff

Anna is being stalked

At This Time

Australian Rules

Bark

Beautiful

Beneath the Borqa in Afghanistan

Better Luck Tomorrow

Bintou

Birju

Birthday Girl

Bloody Sunday

Blue Car

Blue Haven

Blue Vinyl

BOOBIE Girl

Britney Baby - One More Time

Buddy and Grace

Burn

Bus 44

By Hook or by Crook

Caminantes

Casablanca

Castaway: A Woody Allen Film

Cherish

Christmas at Wapos Bay

Chrysalis

Close to Home

Coastlines

Contact the People

Crush

Curve

Daddy & Papa

Daughter from Danang

Decasia

Derrida

Design

Devil's Playground

Dirty River Dancing

Dog Days

Down to the Bone

Dream Work

Drowning Lessons

Empire

Ernest & Bertram

Face

Family Fundamentals

Family Values

Farewell Hong Kong

Fifty Percent Grey

From the Ashes - 10 Artists

FUBAR

Gasline

Gerry

Go! Heat Man!

Golden Gate (Palace II)

Guerrilla News Network: Crack The CIA

Guerrilla News Network: The War Conspiracy

Guerrilla News Network: When The Smoke Clearz

Hiphopbattle.com: Hiphop for Life

Hollywood Hong Kong

Honey for Oshun

Horses on Mars

Hotere

How to Draw a Bunny

Human Nature

Hysterical Blindness

I Am Ali

I Lost 20lbs. in Two Months, Ask Me How

I Shout Love

Indefinable Moods

Inja (dog)

Inside

Intacto

Karmen Geï

Killing Time

L'Afrance

LA Story

Lan Yu

Laundry

Lobotomy, Lobotomy

Loco Fever

Lola

Love in the Time of Money

Love Liza

Love the Hard Way

Love Thy Brother

Lubov and Other Nightmares

Lucky Break

Lunch

Lunch

Manito

May

Meeting

Miranda

Miss 501 (A Portrait of Luck)

Miss America

Morning Breath

Naming Prairie

Narc

Native American in Manhattan

No Dumb Questions

Noon Blue Apples

One Hour Photo

One Night the Moon

Only the Strong Survive

On_Line

Our America

Paradox Lake

Passage

Passengers

Personal Velocity

Populi

Privilege

Pumpkin

Quienes Son? (Who Are They?)

Quitting

Rain

Rain

Ralph Ellison: An American Journey

Rancho California (por favor)

Real Women Have Curves

Red Buffalo Skydive

Retrace

roam

Run Ronnie Run!

Running on Indian Time

Secretary

Senorita Extraviada

Sex and Lucia

Shadows

Siren

Sister Helen

Site

Ski Bums

Skins

Slo-Mo

Smokers Only

Soft for Digging

Soft Shell Man

Spare Me

Still Life

Stolen Summer

Storytelling

Streeters

Stuck

Sundance 20

Sweet Dreams

Taboo

Tadpole

TALLgirl

Taste

Tears of the Black Tiger

Teknolust

Terry Tate, Office Linebacker

Texas

That's My Face

The Brother from Another Planet

The Business of Fancydancing

The Charnel House

The Cockettes

The Dancer Upstairs

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

The Donut King

The Execution of Wanda Jean

The Good Girl

The Green Hour

The Hill

The Inner Tour

The Jimmy Show

The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Killing of Candice Klein

The Laramie Project

The Last Kiss

The Man from Elysian Fields

The Migration of Clouds

The Parlor

The People Dance

The Pitch

The Quest for Length

The Slaughter Rule

The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal

The Tale of the Floating World

The Trespasser

Thirteen Conversations about One Thing

Three Sisters on Moon Lake

Time Out

Time Out

Touch

Touched by a Burger

Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray

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Tree

Trip to Tehuacan

Two Towns of Jasper

Under the Skin of the City

Voice of the Prophet

Walk

We Are Family

Where Eskimos Live

White Mask

WHOA

Wisegirls

World Traveler

WTC: The First 24 Hours

XX / XY

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Yada Yada

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