2008 Slamdance Film Festival Awards

2008 Slamdance Film Festival: January 17–25, 2008

GRAND JURY AWARDS

Writer-director Tom Quinn’s The New Year Parade portrays the effects of an acrimonious divorce on a couple’s teenage children. The film mixes actors and non-actors, documentary footage and fiction. In the cast: Greg Lyons, Jennifer Welsh, Andrew Conway, MaryAnn McDonald.

Best Narrative Feature: The New Year Parade directed by Tom Quinn

Oliver Irving’s Hot To Be is a coming-of-age comedy about an aimless twenty-something who tries to jumpstart a career as a singer/songwriter. Things, however, don’t go quite as planned. In the cast: Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Powell Jones.

Special Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature: How To Be directed by Oliver Irving

Greg Kohs‘ Song Sung Blue tells the story of Mike and Claire Sardina, aka Lightning & Thunder, a homegrown Milwaukee husband & wife singing duo who pay tribute to the music of Neil Diamond.

Best Documentary Feature: Song Sung Blue directed by Greg Kohs

Special Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature: My Mother’s Garden directed by Cynthia Lester

Best Animated Short: Blood Will Tell directed by Andrew McPhillips

Best Documentary Short: The Ladies directed by C. A. Voros

Best Experimental Short: Doxology directed by Michael Langan

Best Narrative Short: Son directed by Daniel Mulloy

Special Honorable Mention for Narrative Short: 4960 directed by Wing-Yee Wu

AUDIENCE AWARDS

In Ryan Piotrowicz’s The Project, three first-time filmmakers set out to make a documentary about the problems in inner-city Brooklyn, but end up becoming entangled with the reality they’re trying to depict. In the cast: Michael Stahl-David, Matt Servitto, and Juelz Santana.

Best Narrative Feature: The Project directed by Ryan Piotrowicz

Best Documentary Feature: Song Sung Blue directed by Greg Kohs

Writer-director Gloria U. Y. Kim’s Rock Garden: A Love Story follows a couple of farmers who "tend to their rocks day and night. Then one day, they stumble on something out of the ordinary, and what they discover changes everything."

Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film: Rock Garden: A Love Story directed by Gloria U.Y. Kim

Writer-director Jonathan Lisecki’s Woman in Burka is the story of an actress up for the role of an Iraqi rape victim’s ghost in a new — and mysterious — film. Woman in Burka stars Sarita Choudhury, Sam Rockwell, Kerry Washington, and Samantha Buck.

Spirit of Slamdance Award: ("for exhibiting passion and talent as a filmmaker, commitment to the independent community, and enthusiastically embracing all Slamdance has to offer") Woman in Burka directed by Jonathan Lisecki

Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography: Crooked Lake / Portage, cinematography by Sascha Drews & Ezra Krybus

WRITER AWARDS

Best Feature Length Screenplay: "The Wonder Girls" by Anthony Meindl

Best Short Screenplay: "Easy Pickins’" by Will Hartman

Best Teleplay: "Stage Six Pandemic" by Barbara Marshall

Best Horror Competition Screenplay: "The Punished" by Tony Mosher

Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition: "Child in the Dark" by Damian Lahey & Ian Ogden

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