Interesting and/or Quality Documentaries
2019 Sundance Film Festival:
- 1-19: Premieres
- 20-25: Spotlight
- 26-41: U.S. Dramatic Competition
- 42-53: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
- 54-62: Next
- 63-71: Midnight
- 72-76: New Frontier
- 77-79: Sundance Kids
- 80-95: U.S. Documentary Competition
- 96-107: World Cinema Documentary Competition
- 108-120: Documentary Premieres
- 121-127: Short Films.
Awards:
- Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: ***01*** - *The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind*.
- U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: ***26*** - *Clemency*.
- U.S. Dramatic Audience Award: ***27*** - *Brittany Runs a Marathon*.
- U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: ***28*** - *The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot)*.
- U.S. Dramatic Screenwriting Award: ***29*** - *Share (Pippa Bianco)*.
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance : ***29*** - *Share (Rhianne Barreto)*.
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft: ***30*** - *Honey Boy (Alma Har’el)*.
- U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Collaboration: ***28*** - *The Last Black Man in San Francisco*.
- World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize: ***42*** - *The Souvenir*.
- World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award: ***43*** - *Queen of Hearts*.
- World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award: ***44*** - *The Sharks (Lucía Garibaldi)*.
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award: ***45*** - *Monos (Alejandro Landes)*.
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting: ***46*** - *Dolce Fine Giornata (Krystyna Janda)*.
- World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality: ***47*** - *We Are Little Zombies (Makoto Nagahisa)*.
- Next Audience Award: ***54*** - *The Infiltrators*.
- Next Innovator Award: ***54*** - *The Infiltrators*.
- U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize: ***80*** - *One Child Nation*.
- U.S. Documentary Audience Award: ***81*** - *Knock Down the House*.
- U.S. Documentary Directing Award: ***82*** - *American Factory (Steven Bognar and Julia Riechert)*.
- U.S. Documentary Jury Award for Cinematography: ***83*** - *Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen)*.
- U.S. Documentary Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: ***84*** - *Jawline (Liza Mandelup)*.
- U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency: ***85*** - *Always in Season (Jacqueline Olive)*.
- World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize: ***96*** - *Honeyland*.
- World Cinema Documentary Audience Award: ***97*** - *Sea of Shadows*.
- World Cinema Documentary Directing Award: ***98*** - *Cold Case Hammarskjöld (Mads Brügger)*.
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography : ***96*** - *Honeyland (Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma)*.
- World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change: ***96*** - *Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov)*.
- Short Film Grand Jury Prize: ***121*** - *Aziza*.
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing: ***122*** - *Fast Horse (Alexandra Lazarowich)*.
- Short Film Special Jury Prize for Directing: ***123*** - *The Minors (Robert Machoian)*.
- Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction: ***124*** - *Green*.
- Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: ***125*** - *Dunya's Day*.
- Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction: ***126*** - *Ghosts of Sugar Land*.
- Short Film Jury Award: Animation: ***127*** - *Reneepoptosis*.
My Favorite Movie Posters
<p>Just a list of some pretty cool movie posters on the LB database. I haven't seen most of these movies. Arranged (messily) by aesthetic.</p><p>For an interesting aesthetic view as opposed to regular rainbow sorting, I recommend sorting the list by "When Added"</p>
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