The 2024 Sundance Film Festival revealed its jury on Wednesday which is set to consist of “Winter’s Bone” director Debra Granik, Adrian Tomine and Emmy acclaimed manufacturer Lena Waithe to deal with the U.S. Dramatic Competition.
Shane Boris, “Crip Camp” co-director Nicole Newnham and documentarian Rudy Valdez will supervise the U.S. Documentary Competition. Directing the World Cinema Dramatic Competition jury is “The Babadook” director Jennifer Kent, Mira Nair (director behind “Mississippi Masala”) and Rui Poças.
Mandy Chang, Monica Hellström, and Shaunak Sen will be managing the World Cinema Documentary Competition. Christina Oh, Danny Pudi, and “Scrapper” director Charlotte Regan will direct the Short Film Program Competition; and Zal Batmanglij, most just recently behind FX’s “A Murder at the End of the World,” will manage the NEXT competitors area.
“The Sundance Film Festival is understood for finding and platforming visionary emerging artists. We can refrain from doing this without our jury, who so attentively assist us acknowledge and enhance the next generation of independent writers,” stated Eugene Hernandez, Festival Director stated in a declaration. “We are enjoyed reveal the skilled, accomplished artists who comprise this year’s jury.”
“For our 40th Festival, the jury members this year are all artists who have actually had movies at previous Festivals. They understand what it is to present brand-new work to the Sundance neighborhood and we are so delighted to be able to invite them back to Sundance to take in the movies our programs group has actually curated. We can’t wait to see what resonates with them,” stated Kim Yutani, Director of Programming.
There is likewise the jury for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, which is pondered ahead of the Festival and has actually currently granted its reward to Sam and Andy Zuchero’s “Love Me.” That jury consists of movie and science specialists and provides the award to an exceptional function concentrated on science or innovation as a style, or that illustrates a researcher, engineer or mathematician as a significant character. The jury consists of Dr. Mandë Holford, Dr. Nia Imara, Matt Johnson, Theresa Park, and Courtney Stephens.
This year’s Sundance Film Festival happens in Park City, Utah January 18-28. In a previous interview with TheWrap, Hernandez stated this year’s line-up was chosen from a record variety of 17,435 submissions from 153 nations or areas, consisting of 4,410 feature films.