2007 Sundance Film Festival

2007 Sundance Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film Chicago 10[1]
Closing film Life Support[2]
Location Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by Sundance Institute
Number of films 122
Festival date January 18–28, 2007
Website http://festival.sundance.org/2007/

The 2007 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 18 until January 28, 2007 in Park City, Utah with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ogden, Utah. It was the 23-rd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.[3] The opening night film was Chicago 10;[1] the closing night film was Life Support.[2]

3,287 feature films were submitted, of which 1,852 were U.S films (compared to 1,764 in 2006) and 1,435 were international films (vs. 1,384 in 2006). From these, 122 feature films were selected and include 82 world premieres, 24 North American premieres, and 10 U.S. premieres from 25 countries. The festival had films from almost 60 first or second-time feature filmmakers.[4][5]

Films

For a full list of films appearing at the festival, see List of films at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

Award winners

Juries

The juries at the Sundance Film Festival are responsible for determining the Jury Prize winners in each category and to award Special Jury Prizes as they see fit.

Jury, Independent Film Competition: Documentary

Jury, Independent Film Competition: Dramatic

Dawn Hudson, Elvis Mitchell, Catherine Hardwicke, Pamela Martin, Sarah Polley, George C. Wolfe

Jury, World Cinema Competition: Documentary

Jury, World Cinema Competition: Dramatic

Jury, Shorts Competition

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Jury

Festival Theaters

References

  1. 1 2 "World premiere of Brett Morgen's documentary Chicago 10 to open 2007 Sundance Film Festival" (PDF). 2006-11-16. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
  2. 1 2 "2007 Sundance Film Festival announces films in the Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier, Park City at Midnight and From the Sundance Follection Sections" (PDF). 2006-11-06. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
  3. 1 2 "Sundance Film Festival 2007 Film Guide" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
  4. "Sundance Film Festival Announces '07 Lineup". ComingSoon.net. November 29, 2006. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
  5. "2007 Sundance Film Festival Announces Independent Film and World Cinema Competitions" (PDF). Sundance.org. November 29, 2006. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 January 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-05.
  6. "2007 Sundance Film Festival award winners". The Salt Lake Tribune. 2007-01-28. Retrieved 2007-01-28.

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