2016 Sundance Film Festival
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 21 to January 31, 2016. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 2, 2015. The opening night film was Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. The closing night film was Louis Black and Karen Bernstein's Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny.
== Awards ==
The following awards were presented:Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker
Directing Award: Dramatic – Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan for Swiss Army Man
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award – Chad Hartigan for Morris From America
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award – Miles Joris-Peyrafitte for As You Are
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance – Joe Seo for Spa Night
U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Individual Performance – Melanie Lynskey for The Intervention and Craig Robinson for Morris from America
Grand Jury Prize: Documentary –  Weiner by Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman
Directing Award: Documentary – Roger Ross Williams for Life, Animated
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Penny Lane and Thom Stylinski for NUTS!
Special Jury Prize for Social Impact: Documentary – Trapped by Dawn Porter
U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Writing – Robert Greene for Kate Plays Christine
Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking: Documentary – The Bad Kids by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic – Sand Storm by Elite Zexer
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic – Felix van Groeningen for Belgica
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting – Vicky Hernandez and Manolo Cruz for Between Land and Sea
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting – Ana Katz and Inés Bortagaray for Mi Amiga del Parque
World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision & Design – The Lure by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary – Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary – Michal Marczak for All These Sleepless Nights
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Debut Feature – Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel for When Two Worlds Collide
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography – Pieter-Jan De Pue for The Land of the Enlightened
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Editing – Mako Kamitsuna and John Maringouin for We Are X
Audience Award: Dramatic – The Birth of a Nation (2016 film) by Nate Parker
Audience Award: Documentary – Jim: The James Foley Story by Brian Oakes
World Cinema Audience Award: Dramatic – Between Sea and Land by Manolo Cruz and Carlos del Castillo
World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary – Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
Best of NEXT Audience Award – First Girl I Loved by Kerem Sanga
Short Film Grand Jury Prize – Thunder Road by Jim Cummings
Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction – The Procedure by Calvin Lee Reeder
Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction – Maman(s) by Maïmouna Doucouré
Short Film Jury Award: Non-fiction – Bacon and God's Wrath by Sol Friedman
Short Film Jury Award: Animation – Edmond by Nina Gantz
Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance – Grace Glowicki for Her Friend Adam
Short Film Special Jury Award for Best Direction – Ondřej Hudeček for Peacock
Alfred P. Sloan Prize – Embrace of the Serpent by Ciro Guerra
== Films ==
=== U.S. Dramatic Competition ===
As You Are by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Christine by Antonio Campos
Equity by Meera Menon
Goat by Andrew Neel
Joshy by Jeff Baena
Lovesong by So Yong Kim
Morris from America by Chad Hartigan
Other People by Chris Kelly
Southside With You by Richard Tanne
Spa Night by Andrew Ahn
Swiss Army Man by The Daniels
Tallulah by Sian Heder
The Birth of a Nation by Nate Parker
The Free World by Jason Lew
The Intervention by Clea DuVall
White Girl by Elizabeth Wood
=== U.S. Documentary Competition ===
Audrie & Daisy by Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Author: The JT LeRoy Story by Jeff Feuerzeig
The Bad Kids by Keith Fulton & Lou Pepe
Gleason by Clay Tweel
Holy Hell by Will Allen
How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change) by Josh Fox
Jim: The James Foley Story by Brian Oakes
Kate Plays Christine by Robert Greene
Kiki by Sara Jordenö
Life, Animated by Roger Ross Williams
Newtown by Kim A. Snyder
NUTS! by Penny Lane
Suited by Jason Benjamin
Trapped by Dawn Porter
Uncle Howard by Aaron Brookner
Weiner by Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg
=== Premieres ===
Agnus Dei by Anne Fontaine
Ali and Nino by Asif Kapadia
Captain Fantastic by Matt Ross
Certain Women by Kelly Reichardt
Complete Unknown by Joshua Marston
Frank & Lola by Matthew Ross
Hunt for the Wilderpeople by Taika Waititi
Indignation by James Schamus
Jacqueline Argentine by Bernardo Britto
Little Men by Ira Sachs
Love and Friendship by Whit Stillman
Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth Lonergan
Mr. Pig by Diego Luna
Sing Street by John Carney
Sophie and the Rising Sun by Maggie Greenwald
The Fundamentals of Caring by Rob Burnett
The Hollars by John Krasinski
Wiener-Dog by Todd Solondz
=== Midnight ===
31 by Rob Zombie
Antibirth by Danny Perez
The Blackout Experiments by Rich Fox
Carnage Park by Mickey Keating
The Greasy Strangler by Jim Hosking
Outlaws and Angels by JT Mollner
Trash Fire by Richard Bates, Jr.
Under the Shadow by Babak Anvari
Yoga Hosers by Kevin Smith
=== World Cinema Dramatic Competition ===
Belgica by Felix van Groeningen
Between Sea and Land by Manolo Cruz & Carlos del Castillo
Brahman Naman by Qaushiq Mukherjee
A Good Wife by Mirjana Karanović
Halal Love (and Sex) by Assad Fouladkar
The Lure by Agnieszka Smoczynska
Male Joy, Female Love by Yao Huang
Mammal by Rebecca Daly
My Friend from the Park by Ana Katz
Much Ado About Nothing by Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Sand Storm by Elite Zexer
Wild by Nicolette Krebitz
=== World Cinema Documentary Competition ===
All These Sleepless Nights by Michal Marczak
A Flag Without a Country by Bahman Ghobadi
Hooligan Sparrow by Nanfu Wang
The Land of the Enlightened by Pieter-Jan De Pue
The Lovers and the Despot by Robert Cannan & Ross Adam
Plaza de la Soledad by Maya Goded
The Settlers by Shimon Dotan
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang by Kevin Macdonald
Sonita by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
We Are X by Stephen Kijak
When Two Worlds Collide by Heidi Brandenburg & Mathew Orzel
== Juries ==
Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, which also took part in the Science in Film Forum Panel, were announced on January 12, 2016.
== Acquisitions ==
Ahead of the festival opening distributor Netflix obtained worldwide streaming rights to Tallulah and Iranian horror film Under the Shadow. Oscilloscope Laboratories also obtained U.S. distribution rights to The Fits before its Sundance debut. Amazon also acquired the rights to Manchester by the Sea and Love & Friendship, later releasing both films in association with Roadside Attractions.

== External links ==
 Media related to 2016 Sundance Film Festival at Wikimedia Commons