2007 Sundance Film Festival

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]

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
No. of films	122
Festival date	January 18–28, 2007
Language	English
Website	festival.sundance.org/2007

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]

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

• Alan Berliner, Lewis Erskine, Lauren Greenfield, Julia Reichert, Carlos Sandoval

Jury, Independent Film Competition: Dramatic

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

Jury, World Cinema Competition: Documentary

• Raoul Peck, Juan Carlos Rulfo, Elizabeth Weatherford

Jury, World Cinema Competition: Dramatic

• Carlos Bolado, Lynne Ramsay, U-Wei Bin Haji Saari

Jury, Shorts Competition

• Jared Hess, Daniela Michel, Mark Elijah Rosenberg

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Jury

• John Underkoffler, Darren Aronofsky, Ann Druyan, Howard Suber, Dr. Brian Greene

Films

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

Premieres

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
An American Crime		Tommy O'Haver	United States
Away From Her		Sarah Polley	Canada
Black Snake Moan		Craig Brewer	United States
Summer Rain	El Camino de los ingleses	Antonio Banderas	Spain
Chapter 27		Jarrett Schaefer	United States
Chicago 10		Brett Morgen	United States
Clubland		Cherie Nowlan	Australia
The Good Night		Jake Paltrow	United States
King of California		Mike Cahill	United States
Life Support		Nelson George	United States
Longford		Tom Hooper	United Kingdom
The Nines		John August	United States
Resurrecting the Champ		Rod Lurie	United States
The Savages		Tamara Jenkins	United States
Son of Rambow		Garth Jennings	United Kingdom
Trade		Marco Kreuzpaintner	United States
Year of the Dog		Mike White	United States

Independent Film Competition: Documentary

The 16 films below were chosen from 856 submissions by U.S. filmmakers and each film is a world premiere.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Banished		Marco Williams	United States
Chasing Ghosts		Lincoln Ruchti	United States
Crazy Love		Dan Klores	United States
Everything's Cool		Daniel B. Gold, Judith Helfand	United States
For the Bible Tells Me So		Daniel Karslake	United States
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib		Rory Kennedy	United States
Girl 27		David Stenn	United States
Hear and Now		Irene Taylor Brodsky	United States
Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)		Jason Kohn	United States
My Kid Could Paint That		Amir Bar-Lev	United States
Nanking		Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman	United States
No End in Sight		Charles Ferguson	United States
Protagonist		Jessica Yu	United States
War/Dance		Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine	United States
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki		Steven Okazaki	United States
Zoo		Robinson Devor	United States

Independent Film Competition: Dramatic

The 16 films below were chosen from 996 submissions and each film is a world premiere.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Adrift in Manhattan		Alfredo de Villa	United States
Broken English		Zoe Cassavetes	United States
Four Sheets to the Wind		Sterlin Harjo	United States
The Good Life		Steve Berra	United States
Grace Is Gone		James C. Strouse	United States
Hounddog		Deborah Kampmeier	United States
Joshua		George Ratliff	United States
Never Forever		Gina Kim	United States
On the Road with Judas		J. J. Lask	United States
Padre Nuestro		Christopher Zalla	United States
The Pool		Chris Smith	United States
Rocket Science		Jeffrey Blitz	United States
Snow Angels		David Gordon Green	United States
Starting Out in the Evening		Andrew Wagner	United States
Teeth		Mitchell Lichtenstein	United States
Weapons		Adam Bhala Lough	United States

World Cinema Competition: Documentary

The 16 films below were chosen from 506 submissions.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Accident	Accidente	Cao Guimarães, Pablo Lobato	Brazil
Bajo Juárez: The City Devouring Its Daughters	Bajo Juárez: La ciudad devorando a sus hijas	José Antonio Cordero, Alejandra Sánchez	Mexico
Cocalero	Cocalero	Alejandro Landes	Bolivia/Argentina
Comrades in Dreams		Uli Gaulke	Germany
Crossing the Line		Daniel Gordon	United Kingdom
Three Comrades	Drie kameraden	Masha Novikova	Netherlands
Hot House		Shimon Dotan	Israel
In the Shadow of the Moon		David Sington	United Kingdom
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten		Julien Temple	Ireland/United Kingdom
Manufactured Landscapes		Jennifer Baichwal	Canada
The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun		Pernille Rose Grønkjær	Denmark
On a Tightrope		Petr Lom	Norway/Canada
A Very British Gangster		Donal Mac Intyre	United Kingdom
VHS—Kahloucha		Nejib Belkadhi	Tunisia
Enemies of Happiness	Vores lykkes fjender	Anja Al Erhayem, Eva Mulvad	Denmark
Welcome Europa		Bruno Ulmer	France

World Cinema Competition: Dramatic

The 16 films below were chosen from 506 submissions.

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Sweet Mud	Adama Meshuga'at	Dror Shaul	Israel
Driving with My Wife's Lover	Ane-eui Aein-eul Mannada	Kim Tai-sik	South Korea
The Night Buffalo	El Búfalo de la Noche	Jorge Hernandez Aldana	Mexico
Eagle vs Shark		Taika Waititi	New Zealand
Ezra		Newton I. Aduaka	France/Nigeria/Austria
Blame it on Fidel	La Faute à Fidel	Julie Gavras	France
Ghosts		Nick Broomfield	United Kingdom
The Legacy	L' Héritage	Géla Babluani, Temur Babluani	France
How She Move		Ian Iqbal Rashid	Canada
How Is Your Fish Today?	Jin tian de yu zen me yang?	Xiaolu Guo	United Kingdom
Khadak		Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth	Germany/Belgium
Noise		Matthew Saville	Australia
Drained	O Cheiro do Ralo	Heitor Dhalia	Brazil
Once		John Carney	Ireland
The Island	Ostrov	Pavel Lounguine	Russian Federation
Buried Dreams	Rêves de poussière	Laurent Salgues	Burkina Faso/Canada/France

Frontier

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
1st Light		Paul Chan	United States
Academy		R. Luke DuBois	United States
Cluster		Lincoln Schatz	United States
Copenhagen Cycles		Eric Dyer	United States
Klip//Effect		Klip Collective	United States
The Last Dining Table		Roh Gyeong-tae	South Korea
Lynn Hershman Leeson In Second Life		Lynn Hershman Leeson	United States
Meet Me In Wichita		Martha Colburn	United States
Mobiopera		Shu Lea Cheang	United States
Offscreen		Christoffer Boe	Denmark
Phantom Love		Nina Menkes	United States
Pierre Huyghe Artist Spotlight		Pierre Huyghe	France
Play		R. Luke DuBois	United States
Slipstream		Anthony Hopkins	United States
Soapbox Agitation #1: Proving Ground		Travis Wilkerson	United States
Strange Culture		Lynn Hershman Leeson	United States
You Are Here		James Graham	United States
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait		Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno	United States

Awards

• Grand Jury Prize: Documentary - Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
• Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic - Padre Nuestro
• Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - Adama Meshuga'at (Sweet Mud)
• Grand Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Vores lykkes fjender (Enemies of Happiness)
• Audience Award: Documentary - Hear and Now
• Audience Award: Dramatic - Grace Is Gone
• World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary - In the Shadow of the Moon
• World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic - Once
• Documentary Directing Award - Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for War/Dance
• Dramatic Directing Award - Jeffrey Blitz for Rocket Science
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Documentary - Heloisa Passos for Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
• Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic - Benoit Debie for Joshua
• Documentary Film Editing - Hibah Sherif Frisina, Charlton McMillan, and Michael Schweitzer for Nanking
• Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Dramatic - James C. Strouse for Grace Is Gone
• Special Jury Prize: Dramatic Performance - Jess Weixler in Teeth and Tamara Podemski in Four Sheets to the Wind
• Special Jury Prize: Dramatic - Chris Smith, director of The Pool
• Special Jury Prize: Documentary - No End in Sight
• Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Dramatic - L' Héritage (The Legacy)
• Special Jury Prize: World Cinema Documentary - Hot House
• Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Everything Will Be OK
• Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking - The Tube With a Hat
• Honorable Mentions in Short Filmmaking - Death to the Tinman, The Fighting Cholitas, Men Understand Each Other Better (Mardha Hamdigar Ra Behtar Mifahmand), Motodrom, Spitfire 944, t.o.m.
• Special Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking - Freeheld
• 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Prize - Dark Matter

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Festival Theaters

• Park City
  • Eccles Theatre - 1,270 seats
  • Egyptian Theatre - 266 seats
  • Holiday Village Cinemas II - 156 seats
  • Holiday Village Cinemas III - 156 seats
  • Holiday Village Cinemas IIV - 164 seats
  • Library Center Theatre - 448 seats
  • Prospector Square Theatre - 352 seats
  • Racquet Club Theatre - 602 seats
  • Yarrow Hotel Theatre - Press and industry screenings
• Kimball Junction
  • Redstone Cinemas - 185 seats
• Salt Lake City
  • Broadway Centre Cinemas IV - 211 seats
  • Broadway Centre Cinemas V - 238 seats
  • Broadway Centre Cinemas VI - 274 seats
  • Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center - 477 seats
  • Tower Theatre - 342 seats
• Sundance Resort
  • Sundance Institute Screening Room - 164 seats
• Ogden
  • Peery's Egyptian Theatre - 800 seats^[3]