Sundance Film Festival announces jury members
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With the start of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival just two days away, the Sundance Institute on Tuesday announced the members of five juries that are to be handing out prizes at the awards ceremony on Jan. 29.
The awards ceremony is to be hosted by actor/director Tim Blake Nelson, a Sundance Institute alum, both as a fellow and an advisor.
Heading the U.S. documentary jury are documentarian Jeffrey Blitz; ‘The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening; documentarian Laura Poitras; the chief executive of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, Jess Search and documentary editor Sloane Klevin.
The U.S. dramatic jury is made up of actress America Ferrera, Hollywood Reporter film critic Todd McCarthy, cinematographer Tim Orr, ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ director Kimberly Peirce and Oscar-nominated writer/director Jason Reitman of ‘Juno’ and ‘Up in the Air.’
World documentary jury members are Jose Padilha, a Brazilian writer-producer-director; the head of documentaries and co-productions for Danish DR TV, Mette Hoffman Meyer and documentarian Lucy Walker.
Heading the world dramatic jury are Danish director Susanne Bier, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho and chief curator of the Museum of Modern Art film department, Rajendra Roy.
Alfred P. Sloan Award jury members are English director Jon Amiel (‘The Singing Detective’); senior executive producer of the PBS series ‘Nova,’ Paula Apsel; Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll; Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fisher and actor-director-writer Clark Gregg.
The Sloan Award is given to a feature that focuses on science or technology or has a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a main character. The winner receives $20,000 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Those selected for the short-film jury are writer-director Barry Jenkins, film and culture writer Kim Morgan and vice president of HBO Documentary Films, Sara Bernstein
For more information on the juries, go to http://www.sundance.org/festival
-- Susan King
