The Sundance Film Festival has announced the jury members for its upcoming 2023 edition, which includes Brazilian director Petra Costa in the World Cinema Documentary competition and Peruvian-American editor Carla Gutiérrez in the U.S. Documentary Competition Jury.
Gutiérrez, a member of the American Cinema Editors, edited the Oscar-nominated films RBG and La Corona. Her latest film, Julia, premiered at Telluride and played at the Toronto Film Festival. She edited the Emmy nominated Pray Away for Netflix. Her work has received awards at Sundance, Tribeca, Berlinale, the Critics’ Choice Awards, the National Board of Review, and the duPont-Columbia Awards. Gutiérrez was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures.
Costa is a Brazilian documentary filmmaker whose work lives on the borderlines of the personal and political. She directed The Edge of Democracy (2019), which was nominated for the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2020; Undertow Eyes (2009); Elena (2012); and Olmo and the Seagull (2015). Petra is associate producer of Bárbara Paz’s Babenco (2019), producer of Moara Passoni’s Ecstasy (2020), and executive producer of Rebeca Huntt’s Beba (2021).
The 2023 edition of the Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19-29 in Park City, Utah.
