Sundance Film Festival Juries Set; Marielle Heller, Garrett Bradley, Joey Soloway, Andrew Haigh, Dawn Porter & More
07.01.2022 - 20:31
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Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood), Garrett Bradley (Time), Joey Soloway (Transparent), Andrew Haigh (Lean on Pete) and Dawn Porter (The Me You Can’t See) have been named as jurors for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, taking place virtually from January 20-30.
Heller, who brought her first feature The Diary of a Teenage Girl to the festival in 2015, will preside over the U.S. Dramatic Competition with C’mon C’mon producer and former Annapurna Pictures exec Chelsea Barnard, and A Separation actor Payman Maadi.
Bradley, whose Sundance-premiering doc Time earned an Oscar nomination in 2021, will oversee the U.S. Documentary Competition with Peter Nicks, the director behind 2021 Sundance title Homeroom, and director-cinematographer Joan Churchill.
Soloway, the Transparent and I Love Dick creator who brought their first feature, Afternoon Delight, to Sundance in 2013, will serve as this year’s sole juror of the NEXT section, with Reservation Dogs director Blackhorse Lowe among the jurors for the Short Film Competition. Haigh was selected to take part in the World Cinema Dramatic jury, with Porter participating in the area of World Cinema Documentary.
Jurors of the Alfred P. Sloan prize —including actor, writer and producer Tenoch Huerta (Son of Monarchs, Sin Nombre)—have already chosen to award the Feature Film Prize to Kogonada’s After Yang. Winners of other awards will be announced January 28.
The in-person, Park City component of this year’s festival was canceled on Wednesday for the second year in a row, due to safety concerns amid the Covid surge. The fest will now take place virtually via this online platform, with in-person screenings still to take place at seven satellite venues across the country during