Sundance Institute Announces Jury Members for 2015 Sundance Film Festival

Posted By : Mukesh Dube    At 19-12-2014 00:45:53

Park City, UT — Sundance Institute has announced the members of the six juries awarding prizes at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, January 22 to February 1 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The Festival is the centerpiece of the year-round public programs for the Institute, which also hosts 24 residency labs and grants more than $2.5 million to independent artists each year.

Comedian Tig Notaro will host the Festival’s feature film awards ceremony on January 31 in Park City, which will be live streamed at sundance.org/live. Included on Business Insider’s list of “50 Women Who Are Changing the World” and Rolling Stone’s list of “50 Funniest People Now,” Notaro was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014 for her sophomore release LIVE. Still a favorite on Conan and This American Life, and host of her weekly podcast, Professor Blastoff, Notaro executive produced the documentary, Tig, about her life, which will have its world premiere in the Festival’s Documentary Premieres section.

Short Film Awards will be announced at a separate ceremony on January 27 at Park City’s Jupiter Bowl.