FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: December 19, 2012 Casey De La Rosa 310.360.1981
[email protected] Sundance Institute Announces Jury Members for 2013 Sundance Film Festival Park City, UT — Sundance Institute announced today 19 members of five juries awarding prizes at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, January 17-27 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. Short Film Awards will be announced at a ceremony on January 22 at Park City’s Jupiter Bowl, with feature film awards announced at a separate ceremony on January 26. Members of the Alfred P. Sloan Jury will be announced in January. U.S. DOCUMENTARY JURY Liz Garbus Academy Award® nominated, Emmy® winning director Liz Garbus’ latest film, Love, Marilyn (Studiocanal), internationally opened as a Gala Premiere at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival and was acquired by HBO for a 2013 debut. In 2011, Liz’s Bobby Fischer Against The World premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, earned an Emmy® nomination for Best Non-Fiction Special and won the prestigious UK Grierson Award for Best Cinema Documentary. Liz’s first documentary film, The Farm: Angola, USA, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, was awarded ten other festival and critics’ awards, and was nominated for an Oscar in 1998. Liz is also Executive Producer of the Academy Award® nominated film Street Fight, and Producer of the Academy Award® nominated short, Killing in the Name. Other credits include The Execution of Wanda Jean (Sundance, HBO); The Nazi Officer’s Wife, narrated by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond (A&E); Girlhood (Wellspring/TLC); Yo Soy Boricua!, Pa Que Tu Lo Sepas, directed by Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez (IFC); Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Emmy® winner for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special in 2007; and Shouting Fire: Stores from the Edge of Free Speech (Sundance, HBO).