Sundance Film Festival

Sundance 2012

January 19-29, 2012  •  Park City, Utah

2012
Edition
Beasts of the Southern Wild Grand Jury: Dramatic
The Imposter Grand Jury: Documentary
Grand Jury Prize — U.S. Dramatic
Grand Jury
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Directed by Benh Zeitlin

Benh Zeitlin's mythic and rapturous debut about Hushpuppy, a six-year-old girl living in a Louisiana bayou community beyond the levees, who faces a rising tide and her ailing father.

Grand Jury Prize — U.S. Documentary
Grand Jury
The Imposter
Directed by Bart Layton

Bart Layton's stranger-than-fiction documentary about a French con man who impersonated a missing Texas boy and was accepted by his family, raising disturbing questions about what they knew.