Following up on last month’s announcements of the 26 competition films in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival as well as the out-of-competition films and special premieres, the Sundance Institute announced the 22 members of the six juries responsible for awarding the prizes at the closing awards ceremony Jan. 28.
Chosen for the U.S. Documentary Jury were Inside Deep Throat co-director Fenton Bailey, American Splendor director Shari Berman; Heather Croall, director for Sheffield Doc/Fest, Charles Ferguson, director of Inside Job and editor Kim Roberts.
Joining the U.S. Dramatic Jury were Fast Five director Justin Lin, actor Anthony Mackie, musician and composer Cliff Martinez, Your Sister’s Sister director Lynn Shelton and cinematographer Amy Vincent.
Editor Nick Fraser, Walker Art Center curator Clara Kim and veteran director Jean-Marie Teno made up the World Documentary Jury.
Actress Julia Ormond, Richard Pena, Program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Director of the New York Film Festival and writer/director Alexei Popograbsky.
Screenwriter Scott Burns, producer and journalist Tracy Dey and anthropologist Helen Fisher were selected for the Alfred P. Sloan jury and writer/director Mike Judge, filmmaker Dee Rees and TIFF Bell Lightbox programmer Shane Smith joined the Short Film Jury.
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival runs January 19 through 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah.
The opening day films are Hello I Must Be Going from Todd Louiso and The Queen of Versailles from Lauren Greenfield.