2009 Sundance Film Festival - Jurors

Jurors

Dramatic Jury

• Virginia Madsen – (Actress: Sideways, Number 23, The Rainmaker, David Lynch's Dune)
• Scott McGehee – (Producer/Director/Writer: Uncertainty, The Deep End, Suture)
• Maud Nadler – (Producer/HBO Films: Relative Values)
• Mike White – (Writer/Director/Producer: Year Of The Dog)
• Boaz Yakin – (Director/Writer/Producer: Fresh, Remember The Titans, Hostel)

Documentary Jury

• Patrick Creadon – (Writer/Director/Director of Photography: Wordplay, Writer/Director/Director of Photography: I.O.U.S.A.)
• Carl Deal – (Director/Producer: Trouble The Water)
• Andrea Meditch – (Executive Producer/Producer: Man on Wire, In The Shadow Of The Moon)
• Sam Pollard – (Editor: When The Levees Broke, Jungle Fever, Mo' Better Blues)
• Marina Zenovich – (Director/Producer/Writer: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired)

World Dramatic Jury

• Colin Brown (New York) – (Editor: Screen International)
• Christine Jeffs (New Zealand) – (Director/Writer: Rain, Stroke; Director: Sunshine Cleaning)
• Vibeke Windelov (Denmark) – (Producer: Dogville, Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark)

World Documentary Jury

• Gillian Armstrong (Australia) – (Director: Death Defying Acts, Oscar & Lucinda, Little Women)
• Thom Powers (New York) – (Documentary Programmer, Toronto International Film Festival)
• Hubert Sauper (France) – (Director/Producer: Darwin's Nightmare)

Shorts Jury

• Gerardo Naranjo – (Director/Writer/Producer: Voy a explotar, Malachance, Perro Negro)
• Lou Taylor Pucci – (Actor: Thumbsucker)
• Sharon Swart – (Reporter: Variety)

Alfred P. Sloan Jury (Award presented to the writer and director of an outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character)

• Fran Bagenal – (Professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado)
• Rodney Brooks – (Panasonic Professor of Robotics, MIT Computer Science & AI Lab)
• Ray Gesteland – (Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah)
• Jeffrey Nachmanoff – (Writer: The Day After Tomorrow; Writer/Director: Traitor)
• Alex Rivera – (Director/Writer/Editor: Sleep Dealer)