Slamdance 2008 Articles

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 [...]

Slamdance 2008: Twilight Screening Features   Trailer Park of Terror by Steven Goldmann   Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, North American Premiere (2007, 90 min, CANADA) Written/Directed by Jon Knautz Starring Robert Englund Jack Brooks is an angry young plumber who witnessed his family's brutal murder when he was a child. Unknowingly, he awakens an ancient evil which forces him to confront his past and deal [...]

Slamdance 2008: Documentary Special Screening Features   Frontrunner by Virginia Williams   Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene, World Premiere (2008, 60 min, USA) Written/Directed by Loren Mendell Narrated by Don Cheadle The unlikely story of America's first shock-jock, a black man in a white man's world who battled the system and his own demons during a time of civil unrest in our [...]

Slamdance 2008: Narrative Special Screening Features   Danny DeVito in Just Add Water   Real Time, World Premiere (2008, 80 min, CANADA) Written/Directed by Randall Cole Starring Randy Quaid and Jay Baruchel A comedic drama about a compulsive gambler who is given one hour to live by the hitman hired to kill him.   Goodbye Baby, World Premiere (2008, 87 min, USA) Written/Directed by Daniel [...]