Films about, and by, women take top honors at politics-heavy Sundance awards

Melanie Lynskey and Elijah Wood appear in Macon Blair's "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore," which won the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic category at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

Jan. 28, 2017 10:09 PM PT

Reporting from PARK CITY, Utah — A Sundance Film Festival that was colored, gripped and sometimes overshadowed by the early days of the Donald Trump administration saw a slew of feminist films win big at the gathering’s awards. Multiple female filmmakers nabbed top prizes, while a tale of a woman reasserting control over her life scored the festival’s highest honor.

Macon Blair’s “I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore,” in which Melanie Lynskey plays an ordinary woman who becomes empowered as a detective-avenger after she is robbed, won the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic category. To its fans, the genre-tinged film, which Netflix will release next month, serves as a tonic to the perceived anti-female policies of the Trump administration.

And Eliza Hittman’s gay-oriented coming-of-age story “Beach Rats”‎ won the directing award for the U.S. dramatic section — ensuring that a gathering that began with a march down this city’s Main ‎Street championing feminist values closed out with the same motif.

“There’s nothing more taboo in this country than a woman with ambition,” Hittman said in her acceptance speech. “I’m going to work my way through a system that’s completely discriminatory toward women. Hollywood, I’m coming for you,” she finished to loud cheers.

Hittman joined “Step’s” Amanda Lipitz, “Winnie’s” Pascale Lamche and “Novitiate’s” Maggie Betts as female filmmakers receiving top honors Saturday night, among others.

Meanwhile, ‎a pair of issue-oriented movies took the top two audience prizes in U.S. sections.‎ Matt Ruskin’s tale of wrongful imprisonment, “Crown Heights,” about a real-life Trinidadian immigrant who fought for 20 years to exonerate his friend, took the audience award in the U.S. dramatic section, while “Chasing ‎Coral,” Jeff Orlowski’s environmentally oriented story about a disappearing natural resource, won for documentary.

“Can we have a shout-out to science?” Orlowski said, accepting the prize, adding, “Climate change and science shouldn’t be political.”

Meanwhile in U.S. documentary, “Dina,” Dan Sickles’ and Antonio Santini’s unconventional love story, won the grand jury prize.‎ Joe Piscatella‎’s “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower,” about a teenage dissident in Hong Kong‎, won the audience award in world documentary.

Sundance awards can bestow a kind of pixie dust on films; three years ago, “Whiplash” won both U.S. jury and audience awards and went on to break out in the awards season that followed.

B‎ut currency in Utah doesn’t always translate outside the festival bubble. Last year’s double winner “The Birth of a Nation” and 2015’s twofer title-holder “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” both sputtered, for different reasons, when released commercially. This marked the first time in five years that jury and audience prizes did not go to the same ‎film in the U.S. dramatic category.

President Trump’s executive order banning many visitors fro‎m some Muslim-heavy countries also came up repeatedly at the ceremony Saturday night, held at an event space about five miles away from the festival’s hub.

These girls show nothing is impossible when you surround yourself with a group of powerful women.

— Amanda Lipitz, director of “Step”

At the podium, Sundance Institute chief Keri Putnam saluted the “artists and subjects from Muslim-majority countries who joined us at this year’s festival.”

She continued, to a standing ovation, “Closing our borders to these and other international artists will stop the flow of ideas and inspiration that are so vital to the global community. We stand with you and we stand with all people risking their lives for our values or seeking refuge from persecution.”

Winners also invoked the issue.‎ The world documentary grand jury prize went to Firas Fayyad and Steen Johannessen’s Syria-themed “Last Men in Aleppo”; the former made a plea to people in the U.S. to help fight for the rights of Syrians, noting a need for “freedom and justice.”

‎Later, the grand jury prize for world cinema dramatic went to the Egypt-set “The Nile Hilton Incident,” a detective story set against the backdrop of the Arab ‎Spring from director Tarik Saleh — who told a story about a security agent at Los Angeles International Airport who allowed him to board the plane to Sundance despite the director forgetting his passport at a hotel.

“It wasn’t the majority that voted for [Trump],” Saleh said. “I just want to say that.”

Meanwhile, accepting a cinematographer prize for his documentary about a textile factory in India, “Machines” director Rahul Jain noted, “The smell at the detention center at the airport. It’s not fun. You feel like a rat. You feel like you smell for something you didn’t do. Now many people are going to have to smell the smell of fear,” he added.

Throughout much of the night, statements about the Muslim ban shared the spotlight with feminist issues.

“Step,” Lipitz’s documentary examination of the senior class at an all-girls charter school in an African American section of Baltimore, won a special‎ jury prize for inspirational filmmaking.

“Being a young woman today isn’t easy,” Lipitz said. “These girls show nothing is impossible when you surround yourself with a group of powerful women. So let’s keep doing that.‎”

Earlier, accepting the world documentary prize for director, “Winnie” helmer Lamche noted that “for those who know, history is not made by great men.” A story of unheralded women of a different sort is told in the period convent drama “Novitiate,” for which Betts won a special prize for breakthrough director in U.S. dramatic.

‎And the comedic performer Jessica Williams, who hosted the ceremony, paired Trump and feminism when she quipped, “The audience award — when you think about the election‎, that’s sort of the award that Hillary Clinton won‎.”

“Gook,” Justin Chon’s story set against the backdrop of the 1992 L.A. riots, won the Next audience prize; he accepted by embracing concrete action on diversity. “To me a lot of times it’s been just talk,” he said. “The most effective way I can make a difference is to create‎.”

As many directors offered political statements, festival director John Cooper suggested a lesson for beyond the fest.

‎”Let’s take this into the future as we head off the mountain,” he said. “Our strength is in our number and our power is in our ideas.”

But the most stirring speech of the night came from‎ Yance Ford, director of the criminal justice documentary “Strong Island,” which won a special jury prize for storytelling in U.S. documentary.

Ford, whose movie examines the killing of his brother and the injustice that followed, cited Elie Wiesel’s line that “neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim,” then said:

“That moment is now. When we leave this place we must interfere, disrupt, document and prevent our nation from folding in upon itself,” he told the film community, both inside the room and outside of it. “Summon your courage. Gather your cameras.”

Here is the complete list of winners:

U.S. Dramatic Competition

Grand Jury Prize: “I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore.”

Audience Award: “Crown Heights”

Directing: Eliza Hittman, “Beach Rats”

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: Matt Spicer and David Branson Smith, “Ingrid Goes West”

Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Performance: Chanté Adams, “Roxanne Roxanne”

Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Director: Maggie Betts, “Novitiate”

Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Daniel Landin, “Yellow Birds”

U.S. Documentary Competition

Grand Jury Prize: “Dina”

Directing: Peter Nicks, “The Force”

Orwell Award: “Icarus”

Audience Award: “Chasing Coral”

Special Jury Award for Editing: Kim Roberts and Emiliano Battista, “Unrest”

Special Jury Award for Storytelling: Yance Ford, “Strong Island”

Special Jury Award for Inspirational Filmmaking: Amanda Lipitz, “Step”

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Grand Jury Prize: “The Nile Hilton Incident”

Audience Award: “I Dream in Another Language”

Directing Award: Francis Lee, “God’s Own Country”

Screenwriting: Kirsten Tan, “Pop Aye”

Special Jury Award for Cinematic Visions: Jun Geng, “Free and Easy”

Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Manu Dacosse, “Axolotl Overkill”

World Cinema Documentary Competition

Grand Jury Prize: “Last Men in Aleppo”

Audience Award: “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower”

Directing Award: Pascale Lamche, “Winnie”

Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling: Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana, “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World”

Special Jury Award for Editing: Ramona S. Diaz, “Motherland”

Special Jury Award for Cinematography: Rodrigo Trejo Villanueva, “Machines”

Other Awards

Next Audience Award: “Gook”

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: “Marjorie Prime”

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Actress Mari Malek of the film “The Nile Hilton Incident.”

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Actress Jasna Fritzi Bauer of the film “Axolotl Overkil.”

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Actress Maya Stange, director Damien Power and actor Aaron Glenna from the film “Killing Ground.”

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Actress Tavi Gevinson with the film “Person to Person.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Dolores Huerta from the documentary “Dolores.”

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Actor Jorma Taccone from the film “L.A. Times.”

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Actor Aaron Glenane from the film “Killing Ground.”

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Actress Kate Micucci with the film “The Little Hours.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Dree Hemingway with the film “L.A. Times.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Directors Andrew Smith and Alex Smith with the film “Walking Out.”

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Actress Molly Shannon from the film “The Little Hours.”

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Actor Jason Ritter with the film “Bitch.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Lauren Weedman, actor Jon Gabrus, actress Kate Micucci, director Jeff Baena, actress Alison Brie, actor Dave Franco, Adam Pally and actress Molly Shannon with the film “The Little Hours.”

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Actor Dave Franco with the film “The Little Hours.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Actress/director Michelle Morgan and actors Jorma Taccone and Dree Hemingway from the film “L.A. Times.”

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Director Marina Zenovich of the film “Water and Power.”

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Actress Abbi Jacobson with the film “Person to Person.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Actress Florence Pugh and director William Oldroyd from the film “Lady MacBeth.”

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Producer Ryland Aldrich, from the film “L.A. Times.”

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Actress Maya Stange with the film “Killing Ground.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Front: Actors Kingston Foster and Jason Maybaum; back: actors Rio Mangini Jason Ritter and Brighton Sharbino from the film “Bitch.”

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Actress Kingston Foster, director Marianna Palka, actress Brighton Sharbino, actor Rio Mangini, actor Jason Ritter, actor Jason Maybaum, actress Jaime King and actor Zac Clark with the film “Bitch.”

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Director Marianna Palka with the film “Bitch.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Actress Brighton Sharbino mingles with the rest of the cast of the film “Bitch.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Director Amanda Lipitz, center, and step team members, from left, Tayla Solomon, Cori Granger and Blessin Giraldo from the documentary “Step.”

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Directors Jon Shenk and Bonni Cohen with the film “Follow Up to An Inconvenient Truth.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Producer Carlos Santana with the film “Dolores.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Team members, from left, Tayla Solomon, Cori Granger and Blessin Giraldo from the documentary “Step.”

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Director Kristen Stewart and actor Josh Kaye with the film “Come Swim.” (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Actress Zoe Kazan with the film “The Big Sick.”

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Joshua Wong and director Joe Piscatella with the documentary “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower.”

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From left, producer Barry Mendel, actress Holly Hunter, director Michael Showalter, actress Zoe Karan, writer Emily V. Gordon, writer Kumail Nanjiani, and producer Judd Apatow with the film “The Big Sick.”

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Husband and wife co-writers Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon from “The Big Sick.”

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Consulting Producer Benjamin Bratt of the film “Dolores.”

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Director Kristen Stewart of the film “Come Swim.”

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Actress Holly Hunter with the film “The Big Sick.”

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Actor Logan Miller, actress Cynthy Wu, director Ry-Russo Young and actresses Zoey Deutch, Elena Kampouris, Medalion Rahimi and Jennifer Beals, from the film “Before I Fall.”

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Actress Zoey Deutch, from the film “Before I Fall.”

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Actress Medalion Rahimi, from the film “Before I Fall.”

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Actress Elena Kampouris, from the film “Before I Fall.”

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Actress Jennifer Beals, from the film “Before I Fall.”

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Actress Cynthy Wu, from the film “Before I Fall.”

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Actor Logan Miller, from “Before I Fall.”

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Actor Miles Fischer, from the television show “Playdates.”

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Composer Dan Romer, from the films “The Little Hours” and “Chasing Coral.”

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Director Jamie Greenberg, who’s at Sundance with the film “Future ’38.”

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Directors Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau, with the documentary “Trophy.”

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Peter Nicks director of the documentary film “The Force.”

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Composer Dan Romer, attending Sundance with the films “The Little Hours” and “Chasing Coral.”

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Actors Paul Scheer and Carla Gallo, from the television show “Playdates.”

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Actors Paul Scheer, left, Carla Gallo and Miles Fisher, from the television show “Playdates.”

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Gael Garcia Bernal speaks during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Awards at Basin Recreation Field House in Park City, Utah, on Saturday.

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Bryan Fogel, right, with cast and crew members, accepts the Orwell Award for his film “Icarus.”

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Director Michael Larnell, right, and Sean Kirkland accept the US Dramatic, Breakthrough Performance award on behalf of Chante Adams for the film “Roxanne Roxanne.”

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Peter Dinklage presents the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

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Larry Wilmore speaks during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Awards ceremony.

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Actors Kevin Bacon, left, and Kathryn Hahn at the premiere of “I Love Dick” at the MARC Theatre.

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Actor Peter Dinklage, left, and filmmaker Mark Palansky of “Rememory” attend The IMDb Studio featuring the Filmmaker Discovery Lounge.

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Analeigh Tipton and Jason Schwartzman attend the Creators League Studio.

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Actor Mark Hamill attends the “Brigsby Bear” premiere at Eccles Center Theatre.

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Actors Anne Heche, Thomas Sadoski and AnnJewel Lee Dixon of “The Last Word” attend The IMDb Studio featuring the Filmmaker Discovery Lounge.

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Actors Zoey Deutch and Nicholas Hoult, director Danny Strong of “Rebel in the Rye” and Kevin Smith, top, attend the IMDb Studio featuring the Filmmaker Discovery Lounge.

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Actors Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, Lois Smith and Geena Davis attend the “Marjorie Prime” premiere at Eccles Center Theatre.

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Brigsby Bear attends the “Brigsby Bear” premiere at Eccles Center Theatre.

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Actor Lakeith Stanfield, left, and the film subject he plays, Colin Warner, attend the “Crown Heights” premiere at Library Center Theater.

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Actor Nicholas Hoult at the premiere of “Rebel In The Rye.”

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Comedian Patton Oswalt speaks onstage at the Shorts Program Awards and party at Jupiter Bowl.

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Times reporter Amy Kaufman and Logan Lerman speak at the Cinema Cafe at Filmmaker Lodge.

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Actress Ann’Jewel Lee attends the “The Last Word” premiere at Eccles Center Theatre.

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Executive producer Harvey Weinstein and executive producer and rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter attend the “Time: The Kalief Browder Story” Sundance world premiere at The Marc Theatre.

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Actress Sanaa Lathan attends the “Shots Fired” premiere.

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Marti Noxon attends the Feature Fillm Competition dinner.

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Director Mark Palansky, actor Martin Donovan, actress Katheryn Kirkpatrick, Matt Ellis, actress Julia Ormond and actor Peter Dinklage attend the “Rememory” premiere.

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Actors Logan Lerman, Blake Jenner, Elle Fanning, Michelle Monaghan and Margaret Qualley attend the “Sidney Hall” party at the Acura Studio at Sundance Film Festival 2017.

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Cast and crew speak onstage during the “Shots Fired” premiere.

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Actress Chloe Sevigny at the premiere of the film “Beatriz at Dinner” at the Eccles Theatre.

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Chef Cat Cora prepares entrees during a luncheon hosted by Glamour editor Cindi Leive and photographer Amanda de Cadenet.

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Actresses Alfre Woodard and Elle Fanning attend the Lunch Celebrating Films Powered by Women.

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Jon Hamm, left, and Tim Robbins of the “Indiewire in Conversation” panel.

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Shirley MacLaine, left, Salma Hayek, Cindi Leive, and Dee Rees at the Lunch Celebrating Films Powered by Women event.

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Reginald Hudlin, left, Stephanie Allain, Gerard McMurray, Mel Jones and Jason Michael Berman at the premiere of director McMurray’s “Burning Sands.”

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Malia Obama strolls on Main Street at the Sundance Film Festival at Park City, Utah.

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Producer Noshre Chkhaidze, left, director Simon Grob, actress Ia Shugliashvili and producer Jonas Katzenstein attend the “My Happy Family” premiere at Egyptian Theatre.

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Viewers take in Al Gore’s film “Melting Ice” on Condition One’s virtual-reality system at the Sundance VR release party.

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IMDb founder and Chief Executive Col Needham enjoys his 50th birthday party.

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Actress Connie Britton attends the “Beatriz at Dinner” premiere at Eccles Theatre.

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Marti Noxon, left, writer and director of “To the Bone,” poses with cast members Lily Collins, center, and Carrie Preston at the Jan. 22 premiere of the film in Park City Utah, during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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Cartoonist Daniel Clowes, the screenwriter of “Wilson,” poses at the Jan. 22 premiere of the film in Park City, Utah, during the Sundance Film Festival.

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Chanté Adams, Roxanne Shanté and actress Nia Long pose at the Jan. 22 premiere of the film “Roxanne Roxanne” in Park City, Utah, during the Sundance Film Festival.

(Arthur Mola / Invision / Associated Press)

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From left, Jeff Skoll, Al Gore, Heather Rae and David Suzuki speak on stage Jan. 22 at the New Climate Lunch Roundtable during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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David Suzuki speaks on stage Jan. 22 at the New Climate Lunch Roundtable during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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“Strong Island” executive producer Danny Glover relaxes Jan. 22 at the Indiewire Photo Studio at Chase Sapphire on Main during Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

(Jack Dempsey / Invision / Associated Press)

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Actress Brittany Snow of “Bushwick” attends the Acura Studio on Jan. 22 during Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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DJ Cool V and Biz Markie attend the Acura Studio Jan. 22 during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Luca Guadagnino, Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg and Walter Fasano attend the Jan. 22 “Call Me By Your Name” premiere at Eccles Center Theatre during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Roxanne Shante performs onstage at the Jan. 22 “Roxanne, Roxanne” party in the Acura Festival Village during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Biz Markie performs onstage at the Jan. 22 “Roxanne, Roxanne” party in the Acura Festival Village during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Michaela Watkins, Jill Soloway, Jessica Williams and Stacey Wilson Hunt speak onstage Jan. 22 at an event hosted by the Bentonville Film Festival during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Roxanne Shante and Chante Adams attend the Jan. 22 “Roxanne, Roxanne” party during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Jon Daly, Brett Gelman, Nia Long, Judy Greer, Janicza Bravo and Shiri Appleby attend the Jan. 22 “Lemon” premiere at Library Center Theater during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Jack Black attends the Jan. 22 premiere of “The Polka King” at the Eccles Center Theatre during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Willie Garson, Jason Schwartzman, Jack Black, Jacki Weaver and Jenny Slate pose at the Jan. 22 premiere of “The Polka King” during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Tim Robbins, center, shakes hands with Mary J. Blige, left, while introducing Blige to his son, Jack Robbins, at Sundance at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival.

(Jud Burkett / Invision for The Music Lodge)

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Actresses Elizabeth Olsen, left, and Aubrey Plaza from “Ingrid Goes West” during the “Indiewire in Conversation” panel at Chase Sapphire on Main.

(Jack Dempsey / Invision for Chase Sapphire)

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Executive producer John Legend poses at WGN America’s “Underground” Sundance red carpet screening.

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Actors Aldis Hodge, left, and Jurnee Smollett-Bell at WGN America’s “Underground” Sundance red carpet screening during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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People march down Main Street during the March on Main event during the Sundance Film Festival.

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Brett Haley, left, director of “The Hero,” poses with cast members Nick Offerman, Sam Elliott and Katharine Ross at the premiere of the film at the Library Center Theatre.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

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Laura Prepon, left, a cast member in “The Hero,” with her fiancé, actor Ben Foster, at the premiere of the film at the Library Center Theatre.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

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Director Anthony Hemingway, left, producer John Legend, actors Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Aldis Hodge, and writer Misha Green speak at WGN America’s “Underground” panel at the Blackhouse Foundation.

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Jason Mitchell, left, Dee Rees, Rob Morgan, Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige and Garrett Hedlund attend the “Mudbound” premiere at Eccles Center Theatre.

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Actors Lily Mojekwu, left, Griffin Dunne, Kathryn Hahn and Kevin Bacon of “I Love Dick” attend The IMDb Studio featuring the Filmmaker Discovery Lounge.

(Rich Polk / Getty Images for IMDb)

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Harvey Weinstein attends the “Wind River” party at the Acura Studio at Sundance Film Festival.

(Neilson Barnard / Getty Images for Acura)

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Actress Brittany Snow attends the “Bushwick” premiere.

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A policeman with a bomb sniffing dog checks out a snow pile next to a Banksy artwork along Old Main Street on the first day of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Omar Wasow, left, an assistant professor at Princeton in the department of politics, and director Jennifer Brea attend An Artist at the Table benefit during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival at DeJoria Center in Kamas, Utah.

(Nicholas Hunt / Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival)

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Former Vice President and cast member Al Gore speaks as he arrives for the premiere of “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Kristen Stewart, left, David Shapiro, Josh Kaye and Sydney Lopez attend the world premiere of director Kristen Stewart’s “Come Swim” at Prospector Square Theatre.

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Kristen Stewart attends the world premiere of “Come Swim.”

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Actresses Molly Shannon, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci, and Aubrey Plaza attend “The Little Hours” premiere at Library Center Theater.

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Jon Gabrus, Dave Franco, Nick Offerman, Trevor Groth, Aubrey Plaza, Jeff Baena, Molly Shannon, Alison Brie, Jemima Kirke, Kate Micucci, Adam Pally and Lauren Weedman, from left, attend “The Little Hours” premiere.

(Michael Loccisano / Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival)

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Former Vice President and cast member Al Gore, left, and Director of the Sundance Film Festival John Cooper arrive for the premiere of “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.”

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Actors Nick Offerman, left, Molly Shannon, and Dave Franco attend “The Little Hours” premiere.

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Executive director of the Sundance Institute Keri Putnman, left, founder and president of the Sundance Film Festival Robert Redford and director of the Sundance Film Festival John Cooper talk to the media to open the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Robert Redford, founder of the Sundance Institute, addresses the audience at the opening night premiere of the film “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” at the Eccles Theater.

(Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)

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People are bundled up as temperatures dropped below 20 degrees along Main Street in Park City, Utah, as the start of the Sundance Film Festival approached.

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A trolley rolls up Main Street in Park City, Utah, as the Sundance Film Festival approached.

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The Egyptian Theatre on Main Street, one of the major venues for the Sundance Film Festival, is lit up a few nights before the festival’s opening in Park City, Utah.

(Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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