The list of winners of the 2023 Sundance festival has been announced and, as happened in 2021, a film starring the Mexican actor Eugenio Derbezhas obtained an important award.
When CODA: Signs of the heart, directed by Sian Heder, was presented two years ago at the festival, and won four awards: Best Director, for Heder; Audience – US Drama, for Heder; Grand Jury Prize and the Jury Prize for Ensemble.
This year, Derbez triumphs again, now with Radicala film directed by Christopher Zalla that has just won the award for Favorite Movie at the festival, which is the highest award that the audience can give (via).
The film is about a teacher who uses alternative methods to teach and gain the attention of his students in a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption and violence.
Below is the full list of Sundance 2023 winners:
Grand Jury Prize, US Drama: «A Thousand and One«
Directing Award: US Drama: Sing J. Lee, «The Accidental Getaway Driver»
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Drama: «The Persian Version«, Maryam Keshavarz
US Drama Special Jury Prize: Performance: Lío Mehiel, «mutt«
US Drama Special Jury Award: Creative Vision: «Magazine Dreams«
US Drama Special Jury Prize: Ensemble: «Theater Camp«
Grand Jury Prize, US Documentary: «Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project«
Directing Award: US Documentary: Luke Lorentzen, «A Still Small Voice«
Jonathan Oppenheim Award for Editing: US Documentary: Daniela Quiroz, «Going Varsity in Mariachi«
US Documentary Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision: «The Stroll«
US Documentary Special Jury Award: Freedom of Expression: «bad press«
Sundance 2023 Winners
Award for Favorite Film of the Festival: «Radical«
Audience Award: US Drama: «The Persian Version«
Audience Award: US Documentary: «Beyond Utopia«
Audience Award: World Cinema Drama: «shayda«
Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary: «20 Days In Mariupol«
Audience Award: NEXT: «Kokomo City«
NEXT Innovator Award: «Kokomo City«
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Drama: «Scrapper«
Directing Award: World Cinema Drama: Marija Kavtaradze, «Slow«
World Cinema Drama Special Jury Award for Best Performance: Rose Marchant, «When It Melts«
Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography: Lilis Soares, «mommy wata«
Sundance 2023 Winners
World Dramatic Film Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: «animalia”, Sofia Alaoui
World Cinema Jury Grand Prize: Documentary: «The Eternal Memory«
Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary: Anna Hints, «Smoke Sauna Sisterhood«
Special Jury Award: World Cinema Documentary for Realization Verite: «Against The Tide«
World Film Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision: «Fantastic Machine«
Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Producers Award for Nonfiction: Jess Devaney, “It’s Only Life After All” Y “milisuthando«
Sundance Institute/Amazon Studios Award for Fiction Producers:Kara Durrett, «The Starling Girl«
Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Nonfiction: Mary Manhardt
Sundance Institute/Adobe Mentorship Award for Fiction: Troy Takaki
Sundance Institute/NHK Award: Olive Nwosu, «lady«
Sundance Institute/Stars Collective Imagination Awards: Tamara Shogaolu for «40 Acres«; Navid Khonsari, Vassiliki Khonsari and Andrés Pérez-Duarte for «Block Party Winery«; Vanessa Keith for “Year 2180«
Alfred P. Sloan Award for Feature Film: «The Pod GenerationSophie Barthes
Sundance 2023 Winners
Special Jury Award for Short Film: Direction, International: Valeria Hoffmann, «AliEN0089«
Special Jury Award for Short Films: Direction, US: Jarreau Carrillo, «The Vacation«
Short Film Jury Award: Animation: «The Flying Sailor«
Short Film Jury Award: Non-Fiction: «Will You Look at Me?»
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction: «The Kidnapping of the Bride«
Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction: «rest stop«
Grand Prize of the Short Film Jury: «When You Left Me on That Boulevard«
Jose Roberto Landaverde Movie buff and music lover. I am fascinated by writing, listening, reading and commenting on everything related to the seventh art. I’m a fan of Rocky and Back to the Future and obviously one day I’ll climb the “Philly Steps” and drive a DeLorean. Faithful believer that cinema is the best teleportation machine, and also that on the big screen we can all see ourselves represented. I constantly, like Scott Pilgrim, ask myself: “Does bread make you fat?”