Sundance Film Festival

Sundance 2009

January 15-25, 2009  •  Park City, Utah

2009
Edition
Precious Grand Jury: Dramatic
We Live in Public Grand Jury: Documentary
Grand Jury Prize — U.S. Dramatic
Grand Jury
Precious
Directed by Lee Daniels

Lee Daniels's devastating yet redemptive adaptation of the novel Push, about an illiterate, abused Harlem teenager who finds hope through an alternative school program.

Grand Jury Prize — U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury
We Live in Public
Directed by Ondi Timoner

Ondi Timoner's Sundance-winning look at internet pioneer Josh Harris, who built a surveillance compound where 100 people lived under constant cameras - predicting social media culture.