Director Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post took the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Saturday, January 27th, 2018. In the film, Chloë Grace Moretz stars as a gay teen who is forced into a conversion therapy center in the early 1990’s.
As reported by Deadline, Moretz accepted the award for The Miseducation of Cameron Post and dedicated the award to those who the film would help the most, saying that it was for “LGBTQ survivors of sexual conversation therapy.” Moretz also added that she and the team behind the film “want…this movie to shine a light that it is only illegal in nine states out of the fifty states of this county to practice sexual conversation therapy.”
Jason Mantzoukas (The Disaster Artist, The League) hosted the ceremony, which took place over ten days and saw total of sixty-six films competing for prizes. Rachel Morrison (Mudbound), Michael Stulhbarg (Call Me By Your Name), and Jada Pinkett Smith (Girls Trip) served as some of the twenty-four jurors who picked the winners.
The full list of the winners can be read below:
U.S. DRAMATIC
Grand Jury Prize
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
U.S.A.
Director: Desiree Akhavan
Screenwriters: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele
Producers: Cecilia Frugiuele, Jonathan Montepare, Michael B. Clark, Alex Turtletaub
Directing
Sara Colangelo
The Kindergarten Teacher
U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Sara Colangelo
Producers: Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Talia Kleinhendler
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Christina Choe
Nancy
U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Christina Choe
Producers: Amy Lo, Michelle Cameron, Andrea Riseborough
Special Jury Award – Outstanding First Feature
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Monsters and Men
U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Reinaldo Marcus Green
Producers: Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Josh Penn, Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev, Luca Borghese
Special Jury Award – Excellence in Filmmaking
Reed Morano
I Think We’re Alone Now
U.S.A.
Director: Reed Morano
Screenwriter: Mike Makowsky
Producers: Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fernando Loureiro, Roberto Vasconcellos, Peter Dinklage, Mike Makowsky
Special Jury Award – Acting
Benjamin Dickey
Blaze
U.S.A.
Director: Ethan Hawke
Screenwriters: Ethan Hawke, Sybil Rosen
Producers: Jake Seal, John Sloss, Ryan Hawke, Ethan Hawke
U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury Prize
Kailash
U.S.A.
Director: Derek Doneen
Producers: Davis Guggenheim, Sarah Anthony
Directing
Alexandria Bombach
On Her Shoulders
U.S.A.
Director: Alexandria Bombach
Producers: Marie Therese Guirgis, Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams, Bryn Mooser, Adam Bardach
Special Jury Award – Social Impact Filmmaking
Crime + Punishment
U.S.A.
Director: Stephen Maing
Special Jury Award – Creative Vision
Hale County This Morning This Evening
U.S.A.
Director: RaMell Ross
Screenwriter: Maya Krinsky
Producers: Joslyn Barnes, RaMell Ross, Su Kim
Special Jury Award – Breakthrough Filmmaking
Minding the Gap
U.S.A.
Director: Bing Liu
Producer: Diane Quon
Special Jury Award – Storytelling
Three Identical Strangers
U.S.A.
Director: Tim Wardle
Producer: Becky Read
AUDIENCE AWARDS
U.S. Documentary
The Sentence
U.S.A.
Director: Rudy Valdez
Producers: Sam Bisbee, Jackie Kelman Bisbee
U.S. Dramatic
Burden
U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Andrew Heckler
Producers: Robbie Brenner, Jincheng, Bill Kenwright
World Cinema Dramatic
The Guilty
Denmark
Director: Gustav Möller
Screenwriters: Gustav Möller, Emil Nygaard Albertsen
Producer: Lina Flint
World Cinema Documentary
This is Home
U.S.A., Jordan
Director: Alexandra Shiva
Producer: Lindsey Megrue
WORLD CINEMA COMPETITION
DRAMATIC
Grand Jury Prize
Butterflies
Turkey
Director and screenwriter: Tolga Karaçelik
Producers: Tolga Karaçelik, Diloy Gülün, Metin Anter
Directing
And Breathe Normally
Iceland, Sweden, Belgium
Director and screenwriter: Isold Uggadtti
Producers: Skli Malmquist, Diana Elbaum, Annika Hellstrom, Liljask Snorradttir, Inga Lind Karlsdóttir
Special Jury Prize – Acting
Valeria Bertuccelli
The Queen of Fear
Argentina, Denmark
Directors: Valeria Bertuccelli, Fabiana Tiscornia
Screenwriter: Valeria Bertuccelli
Producers: Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matias Roveda, Juan Vera, Juan Pablo Galli, Christian Faillace
Special Jury Prize – Screenwriting
Time Share (Tiempo Compartido)
Mexico, Netherlands
Director: Sebastián Hofmann
Screenwriters: Julio Chavezmontes, Sebastián Hofmann
Producer: Julio Chavezmontes
Special Jury Prize – Ensemble Acting
Dead Pigs
China
Director and screenwriter: Cathy Yan
Producers: Clarissa Zhang, Jane Zheng, Zhangke Jia, Mick Aniceto, Amy Aniceto
DOCUMENTARY
Grand Jury Prize
Of Fathers and Sons
Germany, Syria, Lebanon
Director: Talal Derki
Producers: Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert, Hans Robert Eisenhauer
Directing
Shirkers
U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Sandi Tan
Producers: Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya Rudolph
Special Jury Award
MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A.
Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, U.S.A.
Director: Stephen Loveridge
Producers: Lori Cheatle, Andrew Goldman, Paul Mezey
Special Jury Award – Cinematography
Genesis 2.0
Switzerland
Cinematographers: Peter Indergand, Maxim Arbugaev
Directors: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev
Producer: Christian Frei
Special Jury Award – Editing
Our New President
Russia, U.S.A.
Editors: Maxim Pozdorovkin, Matvey Kulakov
Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin
Producers: Maxim Pozdorovkin, Joe Bender
NEXT Innovator Award
(tie)
Night Comes On
U.S.A.
Director: Jordana Spiro
Screenwriters: Jordana Spiro, Angelica Nwandu
Producers: Jonathan Montepare, Alvaro R. Valente, Danielle Renfrew Behrens
We The Animals
U.S.A.
Director: Jeremiah Zagar
Screenwriters: Daniel Kitrosser, Jeremiah Zagar
Producers: Jeremy Yaches, Christina D. King, Andrew Goldman, Paul Mezey
NEXT Audience Award
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U.S.A.
Director: Aneesh Chaganty
Screenwriters: Aneesh Chaganty, Sev Ohanian
Producers: Timur Bekmambetov, Sev Ohanian, Adam Sidman, Natalie Qasabian
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED WINNERS
Amazon Studios Producers Awards
Documentary Feature
Dark Money
Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness
Narrative Feature
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Sev Ohanian
NHK Award
His House
UK
Director: Remi Weekes
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize
Search
USA
Director: Aneesh Chaganty; Screenwriter: Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian
SHORT FILMS
Grand Jury Prize
Matria
Spain
Director and screenwriter: Álvaro Gago
Jury Award: U.S. Fiction
Hair Wolf
U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Mariama Diallo
Jury Award: International Fiction
Would You Look at Her
Macedonia
Director and screenwriter: Goran Stolevski
Jury Award: Non-fiction
The Trader (Sovdagari)
Georgia
Director: Tamta Gabrichidze
Jury Award: Animation
Glucose
U.S.A.
Director and screenwriter: Jeron Braxton
Special Jury Award
Emergency
U.S.A.
Director: Carey Williams; Screenwriter: K.D. Dávila
Special Jury Award
Fauve
Canada
Director and screenwriter: Jérémy Comte
Special Jury Award
For Nonna Anna
Canada
Director and screenwriter: Luis De Filippis
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