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Sundance Film Festival


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A well-received screening and positive press review within the Premiere, World Cinema and Shorts Programs of Sundance can greatly benefit a film’s positioning for the US. Sundance is industry recognised as one of the major film international film festivals. In 2024 it will celebrate its 40th edition and the program will include 90+ feature films and 60+ shorts. Sundance has a long history of showcasing the works of emerging and established Australian directors.

 

Sections

  • US Dramatic Competition
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  • Short Film Competition
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Awards

2023 - Won - Shayda - World Cinema Dramatic Competition - Audience Award

2015 - Won - Face of Ukraine, The: Casting Oksana Baiul - Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction

2015 - Won - Partisan - World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography

2014 - Won - 52 Tuesdays - Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic

2011 - Won - Deeper Than Yesterday - Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking

2010 - Won - Animal Kingdom - World Cinema Jury Prize

2009 - Won - Jerrycan - Honourable Mention in Short Filmmaking

2008 - Won - Spider - Honourable Mention in Short Film Making - Nash Edgerton

2004 - Won - Harvie Krumpet - Special Mention By the Jury

1987 - Won - Chile: Hasta Cuando? - Excellence in Cinematography Award Documentary (Out of Competition) - David Knaus & Peter Schnall

1987 - Won - Chile: Hasta Cuando? - Special Jury Prize Documentary (Out of Competition)

Screenings

2026 - Sentient

2026 - Silenced

2026 - Leviticus

2026 - Saccharine

2026 - Fing!

2026 - Candy Bar

2026 - Worm, The

2025 - Jimpa

2025 - Together

2025 - Never Get Busted!

2025 - Stranger, Brother

2024 - Every Little Thing

2024 - Moogai, The

2024 - Babadook, The

2023 - Talk to Me

2023 - Blueback

2023 - Shayda

2023 - Run Rabbit Run

2022 - You Won't Be Alone

2022 - Gondwana

2022 - Shark

2021 - Playing With Sharks

2021 - Prison X - Chapter 1: The Devil and the Sun

2021 - GNT

2020 - Relic

2020 - Backpedal

2020 - Machine for Viewing, A

2019 - Judy & Punch

2019 - Animals

2019 - I Am Mother

2019 - Top End Wedding

2019 - Little Monsters

2019 - Nightingale, The

2018 - Mr Inbetween series 1

2018 - Summation of Force

2018 - Awavena

2018 - Sweet Country

2017 - Berlin Syndrome

2017 - RED DOG: True Blue

2017 - Killing Ground

2017 - Casting JonBenet

2017 - Orbital Vanitas

2017 - Slapper

2016 - Collisions

2015 - Followers

2015 - Face of Ukraine, The: Casting Oksana Baiul

2015 - Assent

2015 - Sam Klemke’s Time Machine

2015 - Partisan

2015 - Strangerland

2014 - 52 Tuesdays

2014 - 52 Tuesdays

2014 - Babadook, The

2013 - Coral Rekindling Venus

2013 - Top of the Lake series 1

2013 - Adoration

2012 - Bear

2012 - Wish You Were Here

2011 - Deeper Than Yesterday

2011 - Mad Bastards

2011 - Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

2010 - Animal Kingdom

2010 - Bran Nue Dae

2010 - Cane Toads: The Conquest

2010 - Glottal Opera

2010 - My Rabbit Hoppy

2010 - Young Love

2009 - Jerrycan

2009 - Lessons from the Night

2009 - Miracle Fish

2009 - Netherland Dwarf

2009 - Mary & Max

2008 - Spider

2008 - Advantage

2008 - Crossbow

2008 - Dugong

2008 - I Love Sarah Jane

2007 - Noise

2007 - Clubland

2007 - William

2006 - Jewboy

2006 - Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, The

2006 - Proposition, The

2006 - Unfolding Florence - The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst

2006 - Clara

2005 - It's Like That!

2005 - Dhakiyarr vs the King

2005 - Wolf Creek

2005 - Fuel

2005 - Green Bush

2005 - Plains Empty

2004 - Turn Around

2004 - Flat

2004 - Harvie Krumpet

2004 - Teratoma

2004 - Sounds Like Techno

2003 - Beneath Clouds

2003 - Wilfred

2003 - Pa

2003 - Shit Skin

2003 - Garage Days

2002 - Indefinable Moods

2002 - One Night the Moon

2002 - Taste

2002 - Inja

2002 - Pitch, The

2002 - Australian Rules

2002 - Tree

2002 - Curve

2001 - Chopper

2001 - Dish, The

2001 - Big House, The

2001 - In Search of Mike

2000 - Deadline

2000 - Slim Pickings

2000 - Soft Fruit

2000 - Original Schtick

2000 - Burnout

2000 - Chasing Buddha

1999 - Two Girls And A Baby

1999 - Praise

1999 - Two Hands

1998 - Well, The

1998 - Titsiana Booberini

1998 - What's the Deal

1998 - Castle, The

1998 - Boy

1998 - Oops

1997 - Fistful of Flies

1997 - Shooting the Breeze

1997 - Love and Other Catastrophes

1997 - Love Serenade

1997 - Children of the Revolution

1997 - Down Rusty Down

1997 - Blackrock

1996 - Swinger

1996 - Angel Baby

1996 - Shine

1995 - Gap, The

1995 - Muriel's Wedding

1994 - Nostradamus Kid, The

1994 - Just Desserts

1994 - Excursion To The Bridge Of Friendship

1994 - Sirens

1993 - Amelia Rose Towers

1993 - Black Harvest

1993 - Last Days Of Chez Nous, The

1993 - Hercules Returns

1992 - Holidays on the River Yarra

1992 - Proof

1992 - Resonance

1990 - Sweetie

1990 - Soul Mate

1988 - Cannibal Tours

1987 - Fringe Dwellers, The

1987 - Chile: Hasta Cuando?

1986 - Allies

1986 - Bliss

1986 - Couldn't Be Fairer

1986 - For Love or Money: A History of Women and Work in Australia

1986 - Singles

1986 - Street to Die, A

1986 - Traps

1986 - Unfinished Business

1986 - Wrong Side of the Road

1986 - Wrong World

1986 - Kemira: Diary Of A Strike

1986 - Emoh Ruo

1986 - Fast Talking

1986 - Fran

1986 - Going Down

1986 - Decade of Women, A

1986 - Half Life

1986 - Lion In The Doorway

1986 - Drover's Wife, The

1986 - Camera Natura

1986 - On the Loose

1986 - Rocking The Foundations

1986 - Serious Undertakings

1986 - Man You Know, The

1986 - Stations

1985 - Between Wars

1985 - Moving Out

1985 - Silver City

1985 - Night the Prowler, The

1985 - Strikebound

1985 - Monkey Grip

1985 - Squizzy Taylor

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End:
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