This is it! Our unofficial 2023 jury awards at Sundance Film Festival

Ah, Sundance Film Festival - the mental state for filmmakers and film lovers. It's a place where both innovative filmmaking techniques and high elevation will leave you breathless. The "Sundance Sickness" is the inexplicably strong desire to be at all of the parties at the same at the same time as well as the inevitable infection that will besiege your bod as a result from shaking all the hands while chatting up with strangers in noisy rooms and hardly sleeping.

And without further delay, here are the curation team's not-officialaward winners...

 Grand Jury Prize

"A Folded Ocean" by Ben Brewer

U.S Fiction

"Troy" by Mike Donahue

International Fiction

"Simo" composed by Aziz Zoromba

 Non-Fiction

"Will You See My Face" by Shuli Huang

 Animation

"Christopher At Sea" by Tom CJ Brown

 Special Jury Prize - Acting

Lena Papaligoura in "AirHostess-737," directed by Thanasis Neofotistos

 The Special Jury Prize - Directing

Ben Brewer for "A Folded Ocean"

We'll see you at the festivals throughout the next few months We're looking forward to saluting a fresh batch of shorts at Sundance 2024!