Sundance Film Festival

Sundance is one of the world's most significant and important festivals for independent films. 

The festival is universally recognised as a leading showcase for emerging directors, and a key  launch-pad for indie film from the U.S and the world.

Festival Sections

• Sundance has competitive sections for dramatic and documentary feature and short films for the U.S. and World Cinema films.
• The non-competitive showcase sections include NEXT, Indie Episodic, Premieres, New Frontier, Spotlight, and Midnight.

• "NEXT" is intended for low-budget and no-budget narrative films, and Indie Episodic is for stories told in multiple episodes.

New Zealand at Sundance:

• 2023 Bad Behaviour – World Cinema Dramatic Competition
• 2021 Coming Home in the Dark – Midnight
• 2019 Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen – Premieres
• 2016 Tickled  – World Cinema Documentary Competition
• 2016 Hunt for the Wilderpeople – Premieres
• 2015 Slow West  – World Cinema Dramatic Competition (Winner Grand Jury Prize)
• 2015 Turbo Kid – Midnight
• 2014 What We Do in the Shadows – Midnight
• 2013 Shopping – World Cinema Dramatic Competition
• 2012 The Orator (O Le Tulafale) – Spotlight
• 2010 Boy – World Cinema Dramatic Competition
• 2007 Eagle vs Shark – World Cinema Dramatic Competition
• 2006 No. 2 – World Cinema Dramatic Competition (Winner World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award)

Short films include:

• 2022 Breathe – Midnight
• 2022 Two Cars, One Night – From the Collection Short Films, Sundance Institute 40th Anniversary Programme
• 2022 Kitchen Sink – From the Collection Short Films, Sundance Institute 40th Anniversary Programme
• 2022 Do No Harm – From the Collection Short Films, Sundance Institute 40th Anniversary Programme
• 2017 Do No Harm - Midnight
• 2011 Ebony Society – Indigenous Shorts Showcase
• 2011 Redemption – Indigenous Shorts Showcase
• 2010 Six Dollar Fifty Man  – International Dramatic Shorts Competition (Winner Jury Prize for International Short Filmmaking)
• 2010 Vostok Station  – New Frontier
• 2004 Water – International Short Film Competition
• 2004 Two Cars, One Night  – Indigenous Programme
• 2004 Tiga e le iloa (Hidden Pain)  – Indigenous Programme