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[email protected] 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 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.