
2026 Sundance Film Festival Announces Award Winners
Top L–R: The Friend’s House is Here, Josephine, The Lake, Bedford Park, Who Killed Alex Odeh? Second Row L–R: Take Me Home, American Pachuco: The Legend of

Top L–R: The Friend’s House is Here, Josephine, The Lake, Bedford Park, Who Killed Alex Odeh? Second Row L–R: Take Me Home, American Pachuco: The Legend of

Top L–R: The Liars, Jazz Infernal, Living with a Visionary Second Row L–R: Paper Trail, The Baddest Speechwriter of All, Crisis Actor Third Row: The Boys and the Bees The Baddest Speechwriter

L–R: Jonathan Cuchacovich, Sonia Kennebeck, Alan Fischer, Daeil Kim, Andrew Stanton, Colby Day, Tetiana Anderson 2026 Sundance Film Festival Awards Juried Sloan Feature Film Prize

Masami Kawai Selected as the 2026 Merata Mita Fellow; Isabella Madrigal and Tsanavi Spoonhunter Named 2026 Graton Fellows During Native Forum Celebration in Park City

Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones appear in Train Dreams by Clint Bentley, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute

Brittany Shyne attends the 2025 Sundance Film Festival premiere of “Seeds” at The Ray Theatre on January 25, 2025, in Park City, UT. (Photo by

By Jordan Crucchiola It’s a desire you hear so often among those in filmmaking circles. I just want to make cool stuff with my

Eleven Projects to Be Developed at Annual January Screenwriters Lab; Nine Projects to Be Supported at Screenwriters Intensive in March PARK CITY, UTAH, January 16,

LOS ANGELES, CA, January 15, 2026 — The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced the appointment of David Linde as Chief Executive Officer. Linde will assume

Top Row L–R: Ana Katz, Natalia Almada, Bao Nguyen, Tatiana Maslany, A.V. Rockwell, Dr. Heather BerlinSecond Row L–R: Sophie Barthes, Azazel Jacobs, Janicza Bravo, Martin

By Bailey Pennick One of the most exciting things about the Sundance Film Festival is having a front-row seat for the bright future of independent

Top L–R: William David Caballero, Nicole Holofcener, Salman Rushdie, Billie Jean King, Antoine FuquaSecond Row L–R: James Wan, Ava DuVernay, John Turturro, Olivia Wilde, Richard