The 2025 Sundance Movie Pageant is nearly right here, and within the lead-up to the annual occasion, we now know who shall be answerable for selecting the varied jury prizes on the pageant. The 2025 Sundance jury members spans 16 filmmakers, with the vaunted U.S. Dramatic Competitors jury being particularly star-studded. “King Richard” director Reinaldo Marcus Inexperienced and “Succession” alum Arian Moayed serve on that jury with “Previous Lives” director Celine Track; her characteristic debut premiered on the 2023 Sundance Movie Pageant earlier than receiving Oscar nominations for Finest Image and Finest Unique Screenplay.
The 2025 pageant will start Thursday, January 23, with premieres in Park Metropolis each day via the top of Tuesday, January 28. Extra showings will happen in Park Metropolis and Salt Lake Metropolis all through the Pageant till Sunday, February 2. The jury members will choose the winners to be introduced throughout the Awards Ceremony, held at The Ray Theatre on Friday, January 31.
“We’re thrilled to announce the unimaginable and completed group that comprise the 2025 Sundance Movie Pageant’s jury,” Eugene Hernandez, the Director of the Sundance Movie Pageant and Public Programming, mentioned in an official assertion. “The jury performs a pivotal position in serving to us acknowledge and amplify a brand new technology of storytellers, which is a vital a part of our work in impartial cinema.”
Kim Yutani, the Pageant’s Director of Programming, added in her personal assertion, “The jury will embark on an thrilling journey to acknowledge the storytelling and creative achievements which might be part of this 12 months’s program. We’re actually appreciative of their dedication and are trying ahead to having them be part of us on the Pageant.”
The U.S. Documentary Competitors jury has “American Manufacturing unit” and “9to5: The Story of a Motion” helmer Steven Bognar, Larger Floor government and producer Vinnie Malhotra, and Firelight Media president Marcia Smith, who just lately obtained a Lifetime Achievement Award from DOC NYC.
Cannes Critics’ Week creative director Ava Cahen, “Rafiki” helmer Wanuri Kahiu, and Oscar-, BAFTA-, and Golden Globe–successful filmmaker Daniel Kaluuya serve on the World Cinema Dramatic Competitors jury.
The World Cinema Documentary Competitors jury has “One to One: John and Yoko” director Kevin Macdonald, Mexican Movie Institute basic director Daniela Alatorre, and Participant Media former advertising and marketing government vp Laura Kim.
Elijah Wooden, an actor and co-founder of indie style manufacturing firm SpectreVision, will determine the NEXT part winner. And the Quick Movie Program Competitors has “Seeds” director Kaniehtiio Horn, Vidiots Basis’s government director Maggie Mackay, and “The Kitchen” director Kibwe Tavares.
Choose jury members are additionally collaborating within the Past Movie panels on the pageant.
Along with the 16 jurors, a separate 5 jury members will current the Alfred P. Sloan Function Movie Prize, as awarded to Cristina Costantini’s “SALLY.” This jury consisted of “Tesla” director Michael Almereyda (who gained the Alfred P. Sloan Function Movie Prize in 2020), “Mabel” director Nicholas Ma, “Love Me” administrators Sam and Andy Zuchero, AI entrepreneur Monica Lopez, and UC Santa Cruz astronomy professor and astrophysicist Nia Imara.
Pageant-goers attending in particular person will take part in deciding on the 2025 Viewers Awards, which can be found to movies within the U.S. Competitors, World Competitors, and NEXT classes. Attendees may also have the chance to vote for the Pageant Favourite, chosen from all in-person eligible characteristic movie screenings. The Viewers Awards may also be introduced on the Awards Ceremony on Friday, January 31. The Pageant Favourite movie shall be introduced on the conclusion of the pageant on Sunday, February 2.