Josephine takes top prize at final Park City Sundance

As festival-goers pack up their snow boots and parkas for the trip back to La La Land, the Sundance Film Festival announced its jury prizes, giving its highest honor to the family drama Josephine by writer-director Beth de Araújo, which won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Drama. Headlined by Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, and child actor Mason Reeves, Josephine follows an eight-year-old girl who witnesses a crime and begins acting out to regain control of her feelings. Additionally, Josephine won the Sundance’s coveted Audience Award. The polar bear documentary Nuisance Bear, which explores the ongoing tensions between Indigenous people and Western capitalism against a steadily warming planet, won the U.S. Jury Prize in Documentary. Shame And Money won the Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition, and To Hold A Mountain won in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Other winners at this year’s festival include Josef Kubota Wladyka, who took home the directing award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition for Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!, and J.M. Harper for the U.S. Documentary Competition for Soul Patrol, an account of the Vietnam War’s first Black special-ops unit told by the soldiers who lived it. In the World Cinema Directing Competition, Andrius Blaževičius won for the drama How To Divorce During The War; One In A Million director Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes won in the documentary competition.

Finally, Special Jury honors went to Bedford Park for the U.S. Dramatic Jury Prize, The Friend’s House Is Here for Ensemble Cast, and Who Killed Alex Odeh for the Special Jury Award for Journalistic Excellence.

Check out the rest of the winners below:

U.S. Dramatic Competition: Josephine

U.S. Documentary Competition: Nuisance Bear

World Cinema Dramatic Competition: Shame And Money

World Cinema Documentary Competition: To Hold A Mountain

Next Innovator Award: The Incomer