Best Narrative Film
28 Hotel Rooms
Young & Wild
Keep the Lights On 

Best Documentary
West of Memphis
Indie Game 
Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry 

Best Director
Marialy Rivas, Young & Wild
Ian Sachs, Keep the Lights On 
So Yong Kim, For Ellen

Best Lead Actor
Thure Lindhardt, Keep the Lights On
Kim Kold, Teddy Bear
John Hawkes, The Surrogate
Mark Duplass, Safety Not Guaranteed 

Best Lead Actress
Marin Ireland, 28 Hotel Rooms 
Alicia Rodriguez, Young and Wild
Felicity Price, Wish You Were Here 

Best Supporting Actor
Mark Webber, Save the Date
Felipe Pinto, Young & Wild
Marek Sacha, Four Suns 

Best Supporting Actress
Shaylena Manigo, For Ellen
Lizzie Kaplan, Bachelorette 
Amy Schumer, Price Check 

Best Cinematography
David Raedeker, My Brother the Devil 
Doug Emmet, 28 Hotel Rooms 
Keiichi Kobayashi, About the Pink Sky 

Best Score
Jonathan Snipes, Room 237
Johann Johannson, For Ellen

Best Editing - Dramatic
Andrea Chignoli & Sebastian Sepulveda, Young & Wild
Joseph Krings, 28 Hotel Rooms 

Best Editing - Documentary
Lisanne Pajot & James Swirskey, Indie Game
Hannele Halm, China Heavyweight 

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Best Grossout of the Festival
The Demonbitch in V/H/S
The Octopussy from Grabbers 

Most Endings in One Film
Red Lights

Most See Through Sentimental Garbage
Robot & Frank

Freakiest Film that Knows Its Freaky
Room 237

Queen of Sundance
Parker Posey

Best Tweeter of Sundance
Mike Birbiglia, @birbigs

Most Slamming Body - Male
Felipe Pinto, Young & Wild
Thure Lindhardt - Keep the Lights On
Mark Webber - Save the Date

Most Slamming Body - Female
Helen Hunt, The Surrogate

Best Dream Sequences
Sleepwalk With Me

Honorable Mention
Michael Rainey Jr - Holding his own opposite Common
Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Great performance but you should have had more material 
Paul Dano - Greatest lip sync of a whitesnake song *EVER* 

28 Hotel Rooms
Keep the Lights On
Young and Wild
West of Memphis
About a Pink Sky
China Heavyweight
For Ellen
Gypsy Davy
Teddy Bear
Sleepwalk With Me
Bachelorette
Wish You Were Here
Hello I Must Be Going
Indie Movie
Four Suns
Price Check
The Queen of Versailles
Father’s Chair
Safety Not Guaranteed
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Smashed
The Surrogate
Save the Date
Shorts IV
LUV
Room 237
Love Free or Die
Shorts I
Shorts II 
V/H/S 
My Brother the Devil 
The House I Live In 
The First Time
Abacus
Robot and Frank 
Grabbers
Red Lights

The Arm
Quirky and quick, hinting to an underlying significance

Henley
The punch is a bit predictable but the kid is funny

Ok Breathe Auralee
Could have done without the heavy handed “lyrical” transitions that were way too literal

97 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card
Walks the line between oh-my-side-hurt funny and cheesily sentimental but still just a really cool movie.

Girl
Its closest relative is pervy uncle In the Company of Men. Not for me but I’m sure Neil Labute is jacking off I. A theatre somewhere to this one.

The Return
Would have packed a heavier punch for me with a tighter more controlled edit

The Black Balloon
Beautiful and poetic with a great score. These guys really see things in a different way!

About the Pink Sky
dir by Keiichi Kobayashi

This film takes place entirely inside the memory of the lead character, Izumi. In the memory Izumi is in high school and finds a wallet with $300,000 yen belonging to a wealthy college boy…the drama and self discovery spring from her initial decision not to return the wallet and ultimately what happens when her friends discover she has it. 

There were several things I loved about this film—the sound design for one, the cinematography, and the easy humor and repartee between the three lead girls. The cast, especially Izumi (played by Ai Ikedea), really captured that disinterested quality so many teens have that is simply masking for a secret hunger for self discovery. There was one casting choice in particular that I questioned, and some subject matter that I felt was sloppily handled, but all in all a solid offering from an exciting and gentle new voice in  Japenese cinema!

West of Memphis
Dir by Amy Berg

I think the most startling thing about Amy Bergs talent as a documentarian is her passionate and fearless search for the truth. This conviction takes her into some pretty murky terrain and that is no more the truth than with this film. West of Memphis hung heavy in the air long after the credits rolled, bringing up strong emotions in most audience members at this mornings screening. It’s humbling to know there are people out there who will stop at nothing to expose the truth, and gives me hope that there will one day be justice for the three little boys who were so gruesomely discarded.

The Arm
Quirky and quick, hinting to an underlying significance

Henley
The punch is a bit predictable but the kid is funny

Ok Breathe Auralee
Could have done without the heavy handed “lyrical” transitions that were way too literal

97 Skybox Alonzo Mourning Rookie Card
Walks the line between oh-my-side-hurt funny and cheesily sentimental but still just a really cool movie.

Girl
Its closest relative is pervy uncle In the Company of Men. Not for me but I’m sure Neil Labute is jacking off In a theatre somewhere to this one.

The Return
Would have packed a heavier punch for me with a tighter more controlled edit

The Black Balloon
Beautiful and poetic with a great score. These guys really see things in a different way!

Wish You Were Here
Dir by Kieran Darcy

A taut, suspenseful story that follows the aftermath and deceit among three people when the fourth in their group mysteriously disappears after a booze and drug filled vacation night in Cambodia. Felicity Price and Joel Edgarton play a couple expecting their third child. The strength of the film lies in the way the couples relationship unravels when secrets begin to expose themselves, and in that way this psychological thriller borrows heavily from the relationship drama genre. It’s a testament to Kieran Darcy’s directing (he was in Animal Kingdom!) that it never gets sappy or indulgent.

Hello I Must Be Going
Dir by Todd Louiso

The wonderful thing about this film and what makes it truly special is the way the comedy is so embedded in the neurosis of the lead character, played with such an honest nakedness by Melanie Lynskey. I”m not kidding when I say nearly every line is a laugh line but it never feels put on or false, and that’s a credit owed entirely to her performance. It’s a dangerous line to walk, but she’s successful. Blythe Danner gives a knockout performance as the mother of a woman who has not lived up to her expectations. Todd Louiso directs the film so sensitively and you can totally see bits of his persona in the lead character. A plus!

The Queen of Versailles
Dir. by Lauren Greenfield

A surprisingly warm tale that takes two anti heroes and shows you their deepest flaw: being human. David and Jackie Siegel are on top of the world, nearly finished building their dream home, the 90,000 square foot Versailles. That is until the market collapses and, like everyone must do, they are forced to distinguish their needs from their wants as everything begins to disappear. At the heart of this story is the collapsing American dream, different in scale for the Siegels, but still as painful and sobering an eye opener as it would be for any American family.