Welcome to the live blog for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. The Shorts Awards were also given out in a separate ceremony earlier this week, and the winners were:
Short Film Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting:
Burger, written and directed by Magnus Mork.
Short Film Special Jury Award for Non Fiction:
Love. Love. Love., directed by Sandhya Daisy Sundaram.
Short Film Special Jury Award for Unique Vision:
Rat Pack Rat, written and directed by Todd Rohal.
Short Film Jury Award: Animation:
Yearbook, written and directed by Bernardo Britto.
Short Film Jury Award: Non Fiction:
I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked, directed by Yuval Hamieri and Michal Vaknin.
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction:
The Cut, written and directed by Geneviève Dulude-Decelles.
Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction:
Gregory Go Boom, written and directed by Janicza Bravo.
Short Film Grand Jury Prize:
Of God and Dogs, directed by the Abounaddara Collective.
Groth introduces Zach Papale from YouTube, who announces the winner of this year’s Audience Award, chosen from among 15 of the 2014 shorts that screened on YouTube throughout the Festival. Papale says that, “since Day One of the Festival, those 15 short films have collectively received more than 1.7 million views.”
Winner of the 2014 Shorts Audience Award, presented by YouTube:
Chapel Perilous directed by Matthew Lessner.
“This is kinda scary. Really scary actually. I’m not going to think about it,” says Lessner, who comes up with two of his cast members. “This is my third time back, and this was my best experience thus far.” He thanks YouTube and its audience. “It’s awesome to have people from all over the world see this.”
For more information please visit www.sundance.org
Credit goes to : Eric Hynes, Jeremy Kinser, and Nate von Zumwalt