2023 Sundance Film Festival POC Honorees

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Written By Blake Carminucci

A.V. Rockwell, Nora Niasari, Elijah Bynum, Sarvnik Kaur, and Lílis Soares - Unique Nicole / Stringer / JC Olivera / Momodu Mansaray / Monica Schipper

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival Awards nominees have been announced alongside the reveal of the Jury and Audience winners. The festival was held from January 19, 2023 – January 29, 2023, across Park City, Salt Lake City, and the Sundance Resort. Maryam Keshavarz (The Persian Version) and D. Smith (Kokomo City) were the biggest winners taking home two awards each.

FESTIVAL FAVORITE AWARD

  • Radical, Director: Christopher Zalla

U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION

  • Grand Jury Prize: A Thousand And One, Director: A.V. Rockwell

  • Audience Award: The Persian Version, Director: Maryam Keshavarz

  • Directing Award: Sing J. Lee, The Accidental Getaway Driver

  • Jury Award: Creative Vision: Magazine Dreams, Director: Elijah Bynum

  • Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Maryam Keshavarz, The Persian Version

U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

  • Grand Jury Prize: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, Directors: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson

  • Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision: The Stroll, Directors: Kristen Lovell, Zackary Drucker

  • Special Jury Award: Freedom of Expression: Bad Press, Directors: Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler

  • Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: Daniela I. Quiroz, Going Varsity in Mariachi

WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

  • Special Jury Award: Verite Filmmaking: Against the Tide (India), Director: Sarvnik Kaur

WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION

Audience Award

  • Shayda (Australia), Director: Noora Niasari

  • Lílis Soares, Mami Wata (Nigeria)

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  • Audience Award: Kokomo City, Director: D. Smith

  • Innovator Award: Kokomo City, Director: D. Smith

SHORT FILMS AWARDS

  • Grand Jury Prize: When You Left Me On That Boulevard (U.S.A.), Director: Kayla Abuda Galang

  • Jury Award: US Fiction: Rest Stop, Director: Crystal Kayiza

  • Jury Award: Directing, US: Jarreau Carrillo, The Vacation

  • Jury Award: Nonfiction: Will You Look At Me (China), Director: Shuli Huang

Other WINNERS

  • Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: The Pod Generation, Director: Sophie Barthes

  • Sundance Institute | Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Fiction: Troy Takaki

  • Sundance/NHK Award: Olive Nwosu, Lady

Sundance Institute | Stars Collective Imagination Awards 

  • Tamara Shogaolu, 40 Acres

  • Navid Khonsari, Vassiliki Khonsari, and Andres Perez-Duarte, Block Party Bodega

  • Vanessa Keith, Year 2180

Gayle Stevens Volunteer Award: Carlos Sanchez

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