2026 Sundance Film Festival Producers Awards Honoring Amazon MGM Studios Winners
- PARK CITY, UTAH, January 25, 2026 - Every year at the Sundance Film Festival, producers come together to celebrate and honor the autonomous filmmaking community of producers.
- [On producers can effect change in the industry] "… At the moment, what is getting me through is the company I keep.
- [On living inside of the unknown while creating art] "… One thing I can say about the filmmaking process is that we will undoubtedly experience not knowing what...
PARK CITY, UTAH, January 25, 2026 – Every year at the Sundance Film Festival, producers come together to celebrate and honor the autonomous filmmaking community of producers. Today, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival Producers Festivity presented by Amazon MGM Studios, held at The Park in park City, Utah, producers of films featured in the program came together for the Sundance Institute | Amazon MGM Studios Producers Awards and a keynote address by Shane Boris, producer of Fire of Love.
Dawne Langford (Who Killed Alex Odeh?). Both films are premiering at the 2026 Festival. In addition to the keynote and award winners, other speakers include Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter, Kristin Feeley, Shira Rockowitz, and Maria clement.
Highlights from Shane boris’ keynote include:
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[On producers can effect change in the industry] “… At the moment, what is getting me through is the company I keep. I have collaborated with some of the best producers in the world. Not only have they helped me navigate remarkably challenging circumstances in order to turn ideals into reals, they have made space for me to have a chance to give projects something of value. I can’t thank them enough.”
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[On living inside of the unknown while creating art] “… One thing I can say about the filmmaking process is that we will undoubtedly experience not knowing what to do or where to go,and we will have to figure it out. We will be forced to ask ourselves time and time again how to live spontaneously and improvisationally in relationship with the mystery. And after we respond once, however imperfectly, to the unknown with grace, we will hopefully be able to do it again, and again until we gain a confidence that, as the Chinese folk saying goes, we’ll be able to cross the river by feeling for stones.”
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Joyland, premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, winning the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and the Independent spirit Award for Best International Feature in 2023. Her second feature, Take Me Home, won Tribeca Festival’s AT&T Untold Stories prize.
The Amazon MGM Studios Nonfiction Producers Award was given to Dawne Langford, producer for Who Killed Alex Odeh?, which will premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the
The Sundance Institute has announced that producers julia Nottingham and Laura Wagner will be honored with the Sundance Institute Amazon MGM Studios Producers Awards at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival Producers Celebration.
Julia Nottingham is being recognized for her work on Past Lives, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. Laura Wagner is being honored for her work on Who killed Alex Odeh?, which premiered at the 2024 sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy; and Who Killed Alex Odeh?.
The Sundance Institute Producers Program is supported by an endowment from the Sandra and Malcolm Berman Charitable Foundation, with generous additional support from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Amazon MGM Studios, Wyck Godfrey, Unapologetic Projects, RAMO, APM Music, ESME GRACE, Nina and David Fialkow, Scott and Jennifer Frank, Greg Sarris, Skoll Foundation, Andrea van Beuren, and an anonymous donor.
MEDIA CONTACTS: Tiffany Duersch, tiffany_duersch@sundance.org
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