Slamdance 2009 Articles

2009 Slamdance Film Festival Awards 2009 Slamdance Film Festival: January 15-23, 2009   Directed by Mo Perkins, from a screenplay by Perkins, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, and Cy Carter, A Quiet Little Marriage focuses on a married woman (Ellis) who, after discovering that her father is suffering from Alzheimer's, decides she wants to have a baby. Her husband (Carter), however, is unwilling to become a father [...]

Slamdance 2009: Gay Themes The 15th Slamdance Film Festival will take place in Park City, Utah, from January 15-23. The synopses below are from the Slamdance 2009 website.   Steve M. Kelly's City Rats City Rats (Feature Narrative Competition) Steve M. Kelly (Director), Simon Fantauzzo (Writer) World Premiere, Drama, 2008, UK, 96 minutes. Cast: Susan Lynch, Kenny Doughty, Tamer Hassan. A modern day Dickensian tale [...]

I Sell the Dead by Glenn McQuaid The 15th Slamdance Film Festival will take place in Park City, Utah, from January 15-23. Utah?? The Prop. 8 Mormon State?? To the best of my knowledge, Slamdancers haven't been attacked by those who have been going for the throat of Sundance festival organizers. Perhaps the fact that calls for a Slamdance boycott would have attracted considerably less [...]

SLAMDANCE 2009: DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION Graphic Sexual Horror Graphic Sexual Horror Barbara Bell & Anna Lorentzon (Directors/Writers) World Premiere, 2009, USA, 85 minutes A look behind the terrifying façade of insex.com, the most notorious of the ‘violent porn’ websites, while exploring the dark mind of its artistic creator and asking hard questions about personal responsibility. Hard To Be An Indian Beth Toni Kruvant (Director), Jonah [...]