20 Sundance-Supported Films and Series Land Nominations for the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards

Best Editing

Dìdi (弟弟), Arielle Zakowski — Supported by the Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship, Sundance Institute | The Asian American Foundation Fellowship, and the Institute’s Directors and Screenwriters Labs and premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award: U.S. Dramatic and the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award: Ensemble.

Producers Award presented by Bulleit Frontier Whiskey

Sarah Winshall, I Saw the TV Glow — 2024 Sundance Film Festival

John Cassavetes Award

Ghostlight — 2024 Sundance Film Festival

Girls Will Be Girls — Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic award and Preeti Panigrahi won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting. 

Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series

Megan Stott in Penelope — 2024 Sundance Film Festival

Best Documentary

Gaucho Gaucho — Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Sound.

Hummingbirds — Supported by Sundance Institute’s 2020 Documentary Film Grant and the 2021 Women In Film/Sundance Institute Financing Intensive.

No Other Land — Supported by Sundance Institute’s 2021 Documentary Fund and the 2023 Documentary Edit and Story Lab.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat — Premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation. 

Truer Than Fiction Award

Sugarcane, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie — Supported by the 2022 Sundance Documentary Film Grant and 2022 Catalyst Forum and premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary. 

FRIDA, Carla Gutiérrez — 2024 Sundance Film Festival 

A Photographic Memory, Rachel Elizabeth Seed — Supported by the 2019 Sundance Documentary Film Grant and the Documentary Edit and Story Lab.