Sandra Oh, Jason Reitman named Sundance jurors

Canadian actress Sandra Oh and director Jason Reitman are among a host of prominent Hollywood faces and indie film regulars named Tuesday as jurors for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.

Oh, known both for her role on TV's Grey's Anatomy as well as many studio and indie films, will join fellow actors Marcia Gay Harden, Diego Luna and directors Mary Harron and Quentin Tarantino in choosing the winner of the dramatic competition grand jury prize.

Five acclaimed documentary directors Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp), Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight), Steven Okazi (Rehab) and Annie Sundberg (The Devil Came on Horseback) will team up with Michelle Byrd, executive director of the International Feature Project (IFP) organization to pick the documentary competition grand jury prize.

Sundance organizers chose a trio of international indie filmmakers (Japan's Shunji Iwai, Argentina's Lucrecia Martel and Germany's Jan Schuette) to judge the world dramatic competition.

An equally diverse team, including My Kid Could Paint That director Amir Bar-Lev, will decide on the winner in the world documentary competition.

Reitman, currently winning raves for his teen-pregnancy film Juno, will join fellow filmmakers Jon Bloom and Melonie Diaz on the jury judging U.S. and international shorts.

The winner of the festival's Alfred P. Sloan feature film prize, awarded to a title that focuses on science or technology, will be decided by a jury that includes actor Alan Alda and science writer Evan Schwartz.

With indie hits like Little Miss Sunshine and Napoleon Dynamite first discovered at Sundance, film distributors are usually on the hunt for similar gems that capture the attention of moviegoers or critics at the popular festival.

The annual movie event, which shines a light on U.S. and international independent moviemaking, gets underway at various locations around the ski resort town of Park City, Utah, on Jan. 17.

The awards will be announced Jan. 26.

At least 12 Canadian productions are headed to this year's edition: six shorts and six features, including a new title from previous Sundance special jury prize winner Julia Kwan, the award-winning animated work Madam Tutli-Putli and the documentary Up the Yangtze.