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2015 Sundance Film Festival

2015 Sundance Film Festival
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Festival poster
Opening film What Happened, Miss Simone?
Closing film Grandma
Location Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah
Hosted by Sundance Institute
Festival date January 22 to February 1, 2015
Language English
Website sundance.org/festival

The 2015 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 22 to February 1, 2015.What Happened, Miss Simone?, a biographical documentary film about American singer Nina Simone, opened the festival. Comedy-drama film Grandma, directed by Paul Weitz, served as the closing night film.

The awards ceremony was held on January 30, 2015 at the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse in Park City, Utah. The ceremony was hosted by comedian Tig Notaro.

Additional awards were presented at separate ceremonies. The Shorts Awards were presented January 28, 2015 at the ceremony in Park City, Utah.

Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury, which also took part in the Science in Film Forum Panel, were announced on December 18, 2014. Presenters of awards are followed by asterisks:

Others who presented awards included Adam Scott, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Corrigan, Patrick Fugit and Trevor Groth.

For a full list of films appeared at the festival, see List of films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

The number of seats available at the festival theaters, where films were shown is listed below:

Park City

Salt Lake City

Sundance Resort

Ogden

Acquisitions at the festival included the following:


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