2011 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES JURY MEMBERS Sundance Alum Tim Blake Nelson to Host 2011 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony on January 29 Susanne Bier, Jeffrey Blitz, America Ferrera, Matt Groening, Clark Gregg, Bong Joon-Ho, Jose Padilha, Kim Peirce, Jason Reitman, and Lucy Walker Among This Year’s Jurors
SING YOUR SONG (US Documentary) directed by Susanne Rostock: Harry Belafonte and JFK U.S. DOCUMENTARY JURY Jeffrey Blitz Jeffrey's film career started in 2002 with the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning documentary Spellbound. His fiction feature debut, Rocket Science, became his first to play the festival (Sundance, 2007; Dramatic Directing Award). He has also directed the documentary Lucky (Sundance, 2010) and multiple episodes of NBC's "The Office." In 2009, he won the Emmy for comedy directing. Matt Groening Matt Groening created the longest-running comedy in television history…The Simpsons. As a cartoonist, Groening began his “Life in Hell” weekly comic strip series in the 1980’s which continues to this day in newspapers nationwide. Laura Poitras Laura Poitras is working on a trilogy of films about America post 9/11. The first film, My Country, My Country , was nominated for an Academy Award, Independent Spirit Award, and Emmy Award. The second film, The Oath, received the Cinematography award at Sundance, the Grand Jury Award at Edinburgh, Special Jury prizes at Hot Docs and Full Frame, the True Vision Award at True/False, and the Gotham Award for Best Documentary. She has attended the Sundance Institute Documentary Edit Lab as both a fellow and creative advisor. Jess Search Jess Search is the Chief Executive of the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation which has given funding and support to over 60 British documentaries including Sundance films Afghan Star, The End of the Line, The Yes Men Fix the World, How Is Your Fish Today and Black Gold. Jess moderates The Good Pitch, a partnership with the Sundance Institute which connects filmmakers with NGOs, foundations and brands. Sloane Klevin Editor Sloane Klevin won an Emmy for her work on the feature documentary Taxi to the Dark Side. The film also won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Her latest project is Freakonomics, for which she edited segments for Alex Gibney, Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady.
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Matt Groening (US Documentary Juror) by Gage Skidmore Park City, UT— Sundance Institute today announced members of five juries awarding prizes at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival which runs January 20-30, 2011. The juries are comprised of 23 individuals spanning the global arts community. Juror photos and extended biographies, in addition to the complete Festival lineup and schedule, are available at www.sundance.org/festival. All awards will be announced the evening of January 29 at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony. The Short Film Awards will also be named earlier at a ceremony on Tuesday, January 25 at Park City’s Jupiter Bowl. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival Awards will be hosted by Tim Blake Nelson at the Basin Recreation Field House in Park City, Utah. Nelson has appeared in more than thirty films including The Incredible Hulk, Meet the Fockers, Syriana, The Good Girl, Minority Report, The Thin Red Line, and O Brother Where Art Thou? Nelson has a long history with Sundance Institute as both a Fellow and an Advisor at the Feature Film Program’s Directors and Screenwriting Labs. He made his directorial debut at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival with Eye of God, and has attended the Festival multiple times as a director, actor and panelist.