The 15th Annual Slamdance Film Festival, which is scheduled to take place from January 15–23, 2009, in Park City, Utah, has launched its call for entries today. As per the festival's press release, they're "looking for short and feature film submissions in all genres" in addition to, for the first time, music video submissions. Entry forms, rules, and regulations are available on the Slamdance website. The early submission deadline is August 25, 2008; it includes a "significant" entry fee discount. The final submission deadline is October 10.
Slamdance 2009, presented by Kodak and Indie Road, will screen approximately 100 films. The film selections will be posted on the 2008 festival page in the second week of December.
The 2008 Slamdance festival received more than 3,300 submissions from all over the world, though only 20 films in the narrative and documentary feature categories were screened in the main competition, "which is strictly devoted to films without domestic theatrical distribution, from first-time feature directors, working with relatively low budgets."
As stated in its press release, "Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery of new and emerging talent and is dedicated to the nurturing and development of new filmmakers and their cinematic vision. The feature competition programs are reserved for first time directors working with limited budgets, thus enabling the Festival's mission to give exposure to emerging filmmaking talent. Slamdance is programmed through a unique democratic method, just one of many elements that make Slamdance a pioneering standout among its festival counterparts. Every film is programmed by majority rule by a committee of filmmakers. Slamdance alumni are recruited to serve as programmers, so first-timers are represented and assisted by Slamdance veterans. The mantra of 'by filmmakers, for filmmakers' resounds at every level of the organization, and plays a part in all of its undertakings."
Slamdance also features writing competitions for screenplays, teleplays, and horror scripts; the Anarchy Online Short Film Competition; the Dirty Dozen Short Film DVD Series; and a $99 Special short film production project.
Acquisitions from the 2008 Slamdance festival include Paranormal Activity, which will be released by DreamWorks; Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer; and Trailer Park of Terror. Among former Slamdancers are Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess ('03 Peluca); The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan ('99 award-winner Following); and Marc Forster ('96 Audience Award winner Loungers), the director of Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, and the upcoming James Bond flick The Quantum Solace.
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Hello, Ehiz,
I'd suggest you contact Slamdance directly.
Good luck!
hi Andre,
I am a Nollywood (Nigerian) movie maker, my short film "CHILL PILL" won a prize in SEHSUCHTE in Germany this year. Will SLAMDANCE accept movies shot on video?
Please inform me when the next set of entries should be submitted because i've missed this year's SLAMDANCE.
The entry forms are available on the Slamdance website, http://www.slamdance.com/
Hi, I'm a movie maker from Nigeria. please I will like to have your 2009 Entry form. I'm interested. Thanks.