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Sundance Film Festival to name 2026 award winners
- Festival juries announced winners Friday in Park City, Utah, awarding Beth de Araújo's Josephine the U.S. dramatic grand jury and audience prizes, while Nuisance Bear won the U.S. documentary grand jury prize.
- U.S. Dramatic jurors praised Josephine for its depth and delicate execution, while Beth de Araújo framed it as exploring hyper-vigilance after sexual assault and Nuisance Bear confronting climate change and Indigenous tensions.
- On set, actors described playful bonding moments while Mason Reeves, newcomer actor in Josephine, was discovered by Beth de Araújo at a San Francisco farmer's market.
- Industry interest is rising with many festival films drawing distributor attention and all feature award-winning films online nationwide through Feb. 1, potentially accelerating deals.
- The 2026 festival will be the final Sundance in Park City before moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2027, and the ceremony was politically charged with winners addressing immigration and ICE deployments.
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Sundance announces 2026 film festival award winners
A splash of Utah-based poetic serendipity rolled into the final award ceremony during the last Sundance Film Festival in Park City when Abby Ellis’ “The Lake” received the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change. The film itself is about Utah and follows the efforts of two scientists and a politician to save the Great Salt Lake. Producer Fletcher Keyes, who was born and raised in Park City, thanked the film’s team and remembere…
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