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Tarantino, Harron and Reitman among Sundance Jurors

Published on July 12, 2012

Lots of familiar Sundance faces are the make up of the six juries that will be judging the films in various sections of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

The six juries for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival are:

Dramatic Competition:
Marcia Gay Harden, Mary Harron, Diego Luna, Sandra Oh and Quentin Tarantino;

Documentary Competition:
Michelle Byrd, Heidi Ewing, Eugene Jarecki, Steven Okazaki and Annie Sundberg;

World Dramatic Competition:
Shunji Iwai (Japan), Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) and Jan Schuette (Germany);

World Documentary Competition:
Amir Bar-Lev (US), Leena Pasanen (Finland/Denmark) and Ilda Santiago (Brazil);

American and International Shorts:
Jon Bloom, Melonie Diaz and Jason Reitman;

The Alfred P. Sloan Prize: (acknowledge an outstanding film for the quality of its thematic presentation of science and technology.)
Alan Alda, Michael Polish, Evan Schwartz, Benedict Schwegler and John Underkoffler

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).