The people's choice
documentary prize went to Agnes Varda and JR's Faces Places.
Their Best
Documentary prize went to The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye by Marie Losier.
Not exact matches
In Critics» Week, a program devoted to the discovery of new talent, the top
prize, the Nespresso Grand Prix,
went to «Makala,» Emmanuel Gras»
documentary about a young Congolese man trying to make a living by producing charcoal.
The U.S.
documentary directing
prize went to Peter Nicks for his vérité portrait of Oakland police chief Sean Whent, «The Force.»
A
documentary about the high - stakes mind games that
go into gathering human intelligence, The Green Prince is a taut piece of work that features just two talking heads: a
prized Palestinian informant and his ever - cautious Israeli handler.
Searching For Sugar Man won the
Documentary prize, but the Outstanding Debut... award
went to The Imposter's Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis.
The Best Ensemble Cast
prize went to «American Hustle»; the EDA for Best
Documentary went to Sarah Polley's «Stories We Tell»; and Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's «The Hunt» was embraced for Best Non-English-Language Film.
Aside from trying to get the public WiFi to work, my second biggest hobby at Sundance this year was babbling to fellow fest -
goers about «Shirkers,» a World Cinema
Documentary entry that rightfully won a special Directing
prize this past Saturday.
Of the
documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before
going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US
documentary grand jury
prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.
First runner - up was awarded to the Tragically Hip
documentary Long Time Running from Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier, with second runner - up
prize going to Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!
The Look of Silence (2016 Academy Award Nominee for Best
Documentary) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI award, and
went on to receive another 70
prizes, including an Independent Spirit Award, the IDA Award for Best
Documentary Feature, a Gotham Award, and three Cinema Eye Honors.