Steph Curry’s Directorial Debut Just Won a Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival
Dr. Clarence B Jones appears in ‘The Baddest Speechwriter of All’ directed by Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Photo by Brandon Somerhalder.
Curry and Ben Proudfoot focused a lens on Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King Jr.’s speechwriter. Other prizes went to ‘Crisis Actor,’ ‘Jazz Infernal,’ ‘The Boys and the Bees’ and ‘Living With a Visionary.’
Steph Curry is now a Sundance Film Festival award winner.
The Baddest Speech Writer of All — a short film co-directed and produced by Curry and directed by two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot — picked up the grand jury prize Tuesday night during the festival’s short film awards ceremony and party in Park City, Utah.
The victory is not Curry’s first Sundance showing. In 2023, he attended the festival in support of the Peter Nicks-directed documentary about him, Underrated from Apple TV. The Baddest Speech Writer of All short, also produced by Erick Peyton, focuses a lens on Clarence B. Jones, 93, who served as Martin Luther King Jr.’s longtime lawyer and speechwriter. In it, he reflects on his time with the civil rights icon as he made history while also opening up on the personal costs of his tenure.
