It's over! The jury's unofficial awards for 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival

Ah, Sundance Film Festival - a cloud nine mindset for film makers and filmmakers. This is an event where innovative filmmaking techniques and elevated elevations will make your stunned. Where the "Sundance Sickness" is the inexplicably strong desire to attend all the gatherings at one at the same time and the inevitable viral infection which will afflict your body due to handshakes and chatting with friends in noisy rooms and hardly sleeping.

And without further delay this is the curation team's unofficialaward winners...

 Grand Jury Prize

"A Folded Ocean" by Ben Brewer

U.S Fiction

"Troy" by Mike Donahue

International Fiction

"Simo" from Aziz Zoromba

 Non-Fiction

"Will You Take a Look at me" composed by Shuli Huang

 Animation

"Christopher At Sea" by Tom CJ Brown

 Extra Jury Prize - Acting

Lena Papaligoura in "AirHostess-737," directed by Thanasis Neofotistos

 The Special Jury Prize - Directing

Ben Brewer for "A Folded Ocean"

We'll see you on the festival trail in the coming months, and look forward to saluting a fresh batch of shorts at Sundance 2024!