Sundance Award Winners

Join us in congratulating all of the Film Fatales members who took home awards at the Sundance Film Festival including:

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic
Josephine directed by Beth de Araújo
After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic and Producers Award for Fiction
Take Me Home directed by Liz Sargent
Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive.

U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Cast
The Friend’s House Is Here directed by Hossein Keshavarz and Maryam Ataei
In Tehran’s underground art scene, two young women build a blissful world of freedom and sisterhood. But when their creative circle is exposed, they must fight to save each other.

U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary
Nuisance Bear directed by Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman
A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape.

U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change
The Lake directed by Abby Ellis
An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race the clock to save their home from unprecedented catastrophe. Urgency emanates from this sober record that local Utah filmmaker Abby Ellis logs in human history — a chapter of monumental ecological and social consequence unfolding in our shared home.

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact
Birds of War directed by Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak
The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.