Slamdance Awards 2009

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 right away.
 

GRAND JURY AWARDS
Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature
A QUIET LITTLE MARRIAGE, directed by Mo Perkins
Special Jury Mention for Best Performance: Larry Fessenden in I SELL THE DEAD
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature
STRONGMAN, directed by Zachary Levy
Special Jury Mention: SECOND SIGHT, directed by Alison [...]

by Deborah Arthur | January 23, 2009   
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Slamdance 2009: Gay Themes

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 of eight haunted people who meet and fall apart while searching for redemption in each other.
Mississippi Damned (Feature Narrative Competition)
Tina Mabry (Director/Writer) World Premiere, Drama, 2009, USA, 120 minutes. Cast: DB Woodside, Malcolm David Kelly, Malcolm Goodwin, Tessa Thompson, Michael Hyatt.
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the [...]

by Andre Soares | December 18, 2008   
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Slamdance 2009

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 media coverage has something to do with it.
In any case, Slamdance 2009 will screen approximately 100 films, with 20 of those in the narrative and documentary feature competition categories, which are supposed to showcase films without domestic theatrical distribution and budgets under $1 million, from first-time feature directors. Unlike at Sundance 2009, chances are you [...]

by Andre Soares | December 8, 2008   
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Slamdance 2009: Documentary Feature Competition

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 Kruvant (Writer)
World Premiere, 2007, USA, 84 minutes
The trials and tribulations of an inner city school and the principal, Jewish alumni and gang members who return it to safety and restore its former glory.
Lost Sparrow
Chris Billing (Director/Writer)
World Premiere, 2009, USA, 78 minutes
Filmmaker Chris Billing probes at his family history while investigating the tragic 1978 deaths of his adopted Crow [...]

by Andre Soares | December 8, 2008   
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Slamdance 2009: Special Screenings

SLAMDANCE 2009: SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

At Any Second
Jan Fehse (Director), Jan Fehse & Christian Lyra (Writers)
International Premiere, Drama, 2008, GERMANY, 99 minutes. Cast: Sebastian Koch, Mina Tander, Wotan Wilke Mohring.
A handful of relationship-scarred individuals zigzag to a new beginning, but the danger of skidding off track is greatest in the home stretch.
Drool
Nancy Kissam (Director/Writer)
World Premiere, Drama, 2008, USA, 88 minutes. Cast: Laura Harring, Jill Marie Jones, Oded Fehr.
An abused wife’s plan to escape her husband goes awry when she accidentally kills him, causing her to split on a cross-country drive with her best friend and his corpse in tow.
Finding Bliss
Julie Davis (Director/Writer)
World Premiere, Comedy, 2008, USA, 104 minutes. Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Matthew Davis, Denise Richards, Kristen [...]

by Andre Soares | December 8, 2008   
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Slamdance 2009: Narrative Feature Competition

SLAMDANCE 2009: NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

Mississippi Damned

The Ante
Max Perrier (Director), Danek S. Kaus, James Chancellor & Simon Perrier (Writers)
West Coast Premiere, Black Comedy/Thriller, 2006, CANADA, 82 minutes
An innocent man becomes the killer everyone wants him to be when he gambles with his freedom in order to save it.
A Quiet Little Marriage
Mo Perkins (Director/Writer)
Utah Premiere, Drama, 2008, USA, 83 minutes. Cast: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Cy Carter, Jimmi Simpson.
A loving young couple square off against each other in a covert, domestic battleground of their own making.
City Rats
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 of eight haunted people who meet [...]

by Andre Soares | December 8, 2008   
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