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
  • Credits
  • Panels
  • Projects

Dopamine

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize

My Flesh and Blood

Audience Award: Documentary

The Station Agent

Audience Award: Dramatic

Whale Rider

Audience Award: World Cinema

My Flesh and Blood

Directing Award: Documentary

thirteen

Directing Award: Dramatic

Stevie

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary

Quattro Noza

Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic

What I Want My Words to Do to You

Freedom of Expression Award

Capturing the Friedmans

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary

American Splendor

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic

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

Honorable Mention Short Filmmaking

Terminal Bar

Jury Prize Short Filmmaking

One

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking

Broken Saints

Online Film Festival Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation

S-11 Redux: Channel Surfing the Apocalypse

Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking

LOR

Online Film Festival Second Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation

Icarus of Pittsburgh

Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking

Bumble Beeing

Online Film Festival Third Place Audience Award Short Filmmaking Animation

A Certain Kind of Death

Special Jury Prize Documentary

The Murder of Emmett Till

Special Jury Prize Documentary

The Station Agent

Special Jury Prize for Acting

All The Real Girls

Special Jury Prize for Acting

Pieces of April

Special Jury Prize for Acting

All The Real Girls

Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth

What Alice Found

Special Jury Prize for Emotional Truth

Die Mommie Die

Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance

The Station Agent

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
 

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

Shari Frilot

Programmer, Sundance Film Festival

Geoffrey Gilmore

Director, Sundance Film Festival

Trevor Groth

Senior Programmer, Sundance Film Festival

Caroline Libresco

Programmer, Sundance Film Festival

Mike Plante

Associate Programmer, Short Film, Sundance Film Festival

Bird Runningwater

Native American Initiatives Programmer, Sundance Film Festival

Steve Zahn

Awards Ceremony MC

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Awards Ceremony MC
 

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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