The Sundance Institute has announced its short film-making awards with Don Hertzfeldt’s World Of Tomorrow taking the short film grand jury prize.

The US director and screenwriter took home top honours for his piece about a young girl’s mind-bending journey to the future. Hertzfeldt was nominated for an Academy Award in 2001 for his short film, Rejected.

In other awards announced on January 27, the short film jury award for US fiction went to Frankie Shaw’s SMILF, while the international fiction award was granted to Atsuko Hirayanagi’s Oh Lucy! from Japan.

Kitty Green’s The Face Of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul took home the award for the non-fiction category and the jury award for animation went to French writer-director Paul Cabon for Storm Hits Jacket.

Cécile Ducrocq’s Back Alley was honoured with the special jury award for acting, while Polish director Paulina Skibińska was awarded the special jury award for visual poetry in her film, Object.

The Short Film Program for this year’s Sundance Film Festival consisted of 60 selections narrowed down from 8,061 submissions.

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