Yesterday, the Sundance Film Festival announced its 2021 winners with narrative film CODA (dir. Siân Heder) the first in its history to win the Grand Jury Prize, Directing Award, and the Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic category. The World Cinema Dramatic category also featured a multi-award winner, Hive (dir. Blerta Basholli), which grabbed the Grand Jury Prize, the Directing Award, and the Audience Award. In terms of documentary, the big winners were Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (dir. Questlove) and Flee (dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen). Below find all the documentary winners from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
The Sundance 2021 Documentary Winners
- U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- Audience Award: U.S. Documentary: Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- Directing Award: U.S. Documentary: Users (dir. Natalia Almada)
- Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award: U.S. Documentary: Kristina Motwani and Rebecca Adorno, Homeroom
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: Cusp (dir. Parker Hill, Isabel Bethencourt)
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation: All Light, Everywhere (dir. Theo Anthony)
- World Cinema Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): Flee (dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
- Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary: Writing with Fire (dir. Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh)
- Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary: Sabaya (dir. Hogir Hirori)
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Vérité Filmmaking: President (dir. Camilla Nielsson)
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change: Writing with Fire (dir. Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh)
- Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Documentary Features: Philly D.A. (dir. Nicole Salazar)
- Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Editing Nonfiction: Juli Vizza
