The 2005 Sundance Film Festival was held in Utah from January 20 to 30, 2005.[1]
| Opening film | Happy Endings |
|---|---|
| Location | Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah |
| Hosted by | Sundance Institute |
| Festival date | January 20–30, 2005 |
It was held in Park City, with screenings in Salt Lake City; Ogden; and the Sundance Resort.[2] It was the 21st iteration of the Sundance Film Festival.[3]
Awards
edit- Special Jury Prize for Editing – Murderball
- Audience Award Documentary – Murderball
- Audience Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow
- Directing Award Documentary – Jeff Feuerzeig for The Devil and Daniel Johnston
- Directing Award Dramatic – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
- Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary – The Education of Shelby Knox
- Excellence in Cinematography Award Dramatic – Hustle & Flow
- Grand Jury Prize Documentary – Why We Fight
- Grand Jury Prize Dramatic – Forty Shades of Blue
- Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – One Weekend a Month
- Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Small Town Secrets
- Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Victoria Para Chino
- Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Tama Tu
- Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Ryan
- Honorable Mention in Short Filmmaking – Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story
- Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking – Family Portrait
- Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking – Wasp
- Special Jury Prize Documentary – After Innocence
- Special Jury Prize for Acting – Amy Adams in Junebug
- Special Jury Prize for Acting – Lou Pucci in Thumbsucker
- Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Miranda July writer, director, and actor in Me and You and Everyone We Know
- Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision Dramatic – Rian Johnson director of Brick
- Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale
- World Cinema Jury Prize Documentary – Shape of the Moon
- World Cinema Jury Prize Dramatic – The Hero
- World Cinema Audience Award Dramatic – Brothers
- World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – The Liberace of Baghdad
- World Cinema Special Jury Prize Documentary – Wall
- World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – The Forest for the Trees
- World Cinema Special Jury Prize Dramatic – Live-In Maid
- 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Grizzly Man
Juries
editThe 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.
- US Documentary competition: Stacy Peralta, Jehane Noujaim, Steve James, Jean-Philippe Boucicaut, Gail Dolgin
- US Dramatic competition: Chris Eyre, Vera Farmiga, John C. Reilly, B. Ruby Rich, Christine Vachon
- World Documentary competition: Penny Woolcock, Jean Perret, Miriam Cutler
- World Dramatic competition: Antonia Bird, Mike Goodridge, Fernando León de Aranoa
- Shorts Competition: Sam Green, Ernest Hardy
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Peggy LeMone, Shane Carruth, John Underkoffler, Lawrence Krauss, Miguel Arteta
Films
editIndependent Film Competition: Documentary
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| After Innocence | Jessica Sanders | United States | |
| The Aristocrats | Paul Provenza | ||
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston | Jeff Feuerzeig | ||
| The Education of Shelby Knox | Marion Lipschutz, Rose Rosenblatt | ||
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney | ||
| The Fall of Fujimori | Ellen Perry | ||
| Frozen Angels | Eric Black, Frauke Sandig | ||
| Mardi Gras: Made in China | David Redmon | ||
| Murderball | Henry-Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro | ||
| New York Doll | Greg Whiteley | ||
| Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story | Dan Klores, Ron Berger | ||
| Romántico | Mark Becker | ||
| Shakespeare Behind Bars | Hank Rogerson | ||
| Trudell | Heather Rae | ||
| Twist of Faith | Kirby Dick | ||
| Why We Fight | Eugene Jarecki | ||
Independent Film Competition: Dramatic
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Between | David Ocañas | United States | |
| Brick | Rian Johnson | ||
| The Dying Gaul | Craig Lucas | ||
| Ellie Parker | Scott Coffey | ||
| Forty Shades of Blue | Ira Sachs | ||
| How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer | Georgina Garcia Riedel | ||
| Hustle & Flow | Craig Brewer | ||
| Junebug | Phil Morrison | ||
| Loggerheads | Tim Kirkman | ||
| Lonesome Jim | Steve Buscemi | ||
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July | ||
| Police Beat | Robinson Devor | ||
| Pretty Persuasion | Marcos Siega | ||
| The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | ||
| Thumbsucker | Mike Mills | ||
| Who Killed Cock Robin? | Travis Wilkerson | ||
World Cinema Competition: Documentary
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | Melancholian 3 huonetta | Pirjo Honkasalo | Finland |
| Dhakiyarr vs. the King | Tom Murray, Allan Collins | Australia | |
| Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | United States | |
| I Am Cuba, The Siberian Mammoth | Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano | Vicente Ferraz | Brazil |
| El Inmortal | Mercedes Moncada | Nicaragua, Spain, Mexico | |
| The Liberace of Baghdad | Sean McAllister | United Kingdom | |
| Odessa, Odessa | Michale Boganim | Israel, France | |
| Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire | Peter Raymont | Canada | |
| Shape of the Moon | Stand van de maan | Leonard Retel Helmrich | Netherlands |
| Unknown White Male | Rupert Murray | United Kingdom | |
| Wall | Mur | Simone Bitton | France, Israel |
| Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Modelworks | Yan Ting Yuen | Netherlands | |
World Cinema Competition: Dramatic
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brothers | Brødre | Susanne Bier | Denmark |
| Crónicas | Sebastián Cordero | Ecuador, Mexico | |
| The Forest for the Trees | Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen) | Maren Ade | Germany |
| Green Chair | Noksaek uija | Park Chul-soo | South Korea |
| The Hero | O Herói | Zézé Gamboa | Angola, Portugal, France |
| Kekexili: Mountain Patrol | 可可西里 | Lu Chuan | China |
| Lila Says | Lila dit ça | Ziad Doueiri | France, Italy, United Kingdom |
| Live-In Maid | Cama adentro | Jorge Gaggero | Spain, Argentina |
| Monsterthursday | Monstertorsdag | Arild Østin Ommundsen | Norway |
| On a Clear Day | Gaby Dellal | United Kingdom | |
| Palermo Hollywood | Eduardo Pinto | Argentina | |
| Stranger | Ono | Małgorzata Szumowska | Poland |
| This Charming Girl | Yeoja, Jeong-hye | Lee Yoon-ki | South Korea |
| Tony Takitani | トニー滝谷 | Jun Ichikawa | Japan |
| Unconscious | Inconscientes | Joaquín Oristrell | Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany |
| Wolf Creek | Greg McLean | Australia | |
Premieres
editSpecial Screenings
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballets Russes | Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller | United States | |
| The Garden | Frederick Wiseman | United States | |
| March of the Penguins | La Marche de l'empereur | Luc Jacquet | France |
| Protocols of Zion | Marc Levin | United States | |
| Reel Paradise | Steve James | United States | |
| Rock School | Don Argott | United States | |
American Spectrum
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 212 | Anthony Ng | United States | |
| 5th World | Blackhorse Lowe | ||
| Duane Hopwood | Matt Mulhern | ||
| High School Record | Ben Wolfinsohn | ||
| Love, Ludlow | Adrienne Weiss | ||
| Mitchellville | John D. Harkrider | ||
| The Motel | Michael Kang | ||
| The Puffy Chair | Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass | ||
| Rize | David LaChapelle | ||
| The Salon | Mark Brown | ||
| Saving Face | Alice Wu | ||
| Steal Me | Melissa Painter | ||
| Swimmers | Doug Sadler | ||
| The Talent Given Us | Andrew Wagner | ||
| This Revolution | Stephen Marshall | ||
Park City at Midnight
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Songs | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom | |
| Dirty Love | John Mallory Asher | United States | |
| Hard Candy | David Slade | United States | |
| Matando Cabos | Alejandro Lozano | Mexico | |
| Old Boy | Oldŭboi | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| Strangers with Candy | Paul Dinello | United States | |
| Three... Extremes | Sāngēng 2 | Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea |
| What Is It? | Crispin Glover | United States | |
Frontier
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Film Actions V | Luke Savisky | United States | |
| The Joy of Life | Jenni Olson | United States | |
| Room | Kyle Henry | United States | |
| Sugar | Patrick Jolley, Reynold Reynolds | United States | |
| Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 | William Greaves | United States | |
| Tropic of Cancer | Eugenio Polgovsky | Mexico | |
Online
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beyond the Fire: Teen Experiences of War | Sesh Kannan | United States | |
| Forest Grove | Maya Churi | United States | |
| How-to-Bow | Nora Krug | United States | |
| Julia 1926 | Johannes Weymann | Germany | |
| Stand by Your Guns | Jillian McDonald | United States | |
Sundance Collection
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple | United States | |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | ||
Short films
editUS Dramatic
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Act | Susan Kraker, Pi Ware | United States | |
| America's Biggest Dick | Bryan Boyce | ||
| American Fame, Pt. 2: Forgetting Jonathan Brandis | Cam Archer | ||
| Among Thieves | Oscar Daniels | ||
| Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? | Miguel Arteta | ||
| Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer! | Jamie Donahue | ||
| Broadcast 23 | Tom Putnam | ||
| Choked | Brad Barnes | ||
| Cry for Help | Nicholas McCarthy | ||
| Eating | Rebecca Cutter | ||
| Estes Avenue | Paul Cotter | ||
| Everything's Gone Green | Aaron Ruell | ||
| Exactly | Lisa Leone | ||
| Flotsam/Jetsam | David Zellner | ||
| Goodnight Irene | Sterlin Harjo | ||
| Husk | Brett A. Simmons | ||
| In the Morning | Danielle Lurie | ||
| In Time | Maurice A. Dwyer, Adetoro Makinde | ||
| The Last Full Measure | Alexandra Kerry | ||
| Late Bloomer | Craig William Macneill | ||
| Let the Good Times Roll | Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn | ||
| Love and Laundry | Barbara Alvarez | ||
| Mary | Aaron Ruell | ||
| Motion Studies #3: Gravity | Jake Mahaffy | ||
| Oh My God | John Bryant | ||
| One Weekend a Month | Eric Escobar | ||
| Planet of the Arabs | Jacqueline Salloum | ||
| Pura Lengua (All Tongue) | Aurora Guerrero | ||
| The Raftman's Razor | Keith Bearden | ||
| Raw | Tonia Lynn Barber | ||
| The Sailor's Girl | Brett Simon | ||
| Spelling Bee | Phil Dornfeld | ||
| Staring at the Sun | Toby Wilkins | ||
| Swim Test | Alex Chung | ||
| A Thousand Roads | Chris Eyre | ||
| Un dia en la vida | Marco Orsini | ||
| West Bank Story | Ari Sandel | ||
| The Youth in Us | Joshua Leonard | ||
US Documentary
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story | Terrence Fisher and Daniel Howard | United States | |
| Dimmer | Talmage Cooley | ||
| The Fair | Jason Rayles | ||
| Family Portrait | Patricia Riggen | ||
| The Last Days of Jonathan Perlo | Joe Warson | ||
| Recycle | Vasco Nunes, Ondi Timoner | ||
| Saving Jackie | Selena A. Burks | ||
| Seal Hunting with Dad | Natchiliagniaqtuguk Aapagalu | Andrew Okpeaha MacLean | |
| Small Town Secrets | Katherine Leggett | ||
US Animated
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Shane Acker | United States | |
| A Buck's Worth | Tatia Rosenthal | ||
| The Meaning of Life | Don Hertzfeldt | ||
| Motel | Thor Freudenthal | ||
International Dramatic
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Being Bad | Laurence Coriat | United Kingdom, France | |
| Berocca | Martin Taylor | United Kingdom | |
| Elephant Palm Tree | Kara Miller | United Kingdom | |
| Elke's Visit | Morgan Dews | Spain | |
| Email to Mom | Email a mamá | Gerardo Ruiz Miñán | Peru |
| From Cherry English | Jeff Barnaby | Canada | |
| Fuel | Nash Edgerton | Australia | |
| Green Bush | Warwick Thornton | Australia | |
| Home Game | Hjemmekamp | Martin Lund | Norway |
| Kid | Chamaco | Tim Parsa | Mexico |
| Matálo! | Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire | France | |
| Mother's Day | Kare Kare Zvako | Tsitsi Dangarembga | Zimbabwe |
| Pizza Shop | Mark Mainguy | Canada | |
| Plains Empty | Beck Cole | Australia | |
| Stronger | Debra Felstead | Canada | |
| Tama Tū | Taika Waititi | New Zealand | |
| Tongue Bully | Annie Bradley | Canada | |
| Victoria para chino | Cary Fukunaga | United States, Mexico | |
| Waiting for the Man | Rob Stefaniuk | Canada | |
| Wasp | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | |
| With Diva | Con Diva | Sebastian Mantilla | Spain |
| With What Shall I Wash It? | Con qué la lavaré? | María Trénor | Spain |
International Documentary
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children of Leningradsky | Dzieci z Leningradzkiego | Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski | Poland |
| Meet Michael Oppenheim | Roni Abulafia | Israel | |
| Porter | Solo un cargador | Juan Alejandro Ramírez | Peru |
International Animated
edit| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Birthday | Syntymäpäivä | Kari Juusonen | Finland |
| Fallen Art | Sztuka spadania | Tomasz Bagiński | Poland |
| It's Like That | Southern Ladies Animation Group | Australia | |
| MOO(N) | Leigh Hodgkinson | United Kingdom | |
| Ryan | Chris Landreth | Canada | |
| Through My Thick Glasses | Gjennom mine tykke briller | Pjotr Sapegin | Norway, Canada |
References
edit- ^ Ian Mohr, "Sundance reveals pix on its shorts list". Variety, December 6, 2004.
- ^ Jason Guerrasio, "SUNDANCE PREMIERES, SPECTRUM, MIDNIGHT & FRONTIER". Filmmaker Magazine, December 1, 2004.
- ^ Todd Brown, "Sundance Announces 2005 Lineup". Screen Anarchy, November 30, 2004.