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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Slamdance 2008 Awards

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 [...]

Slamdance 2008: Twilight Screenings

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 with the monstrous reality of the present.
 
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007, 80 min, USA)
Directed by Jeffrey Schwarz
Interviews with John Waters, John Landis, Roger Corman, Leonard Maltin, Marcel Marceau, Joe Dante
A chronicle of the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo who became a brand name in movie horror with his outrageous audience participation gimmicks.
 
Trailer [...]

Slamdance 2008: Documentary Special Screenings

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 nation’s capital.
 
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, World Premiere (2008, 95 min, USA)
Written/Directed by Kurt Kuenne
On Nov. 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby was murdered by his ex-girlfriend. To memorialize him, his friend Kurt began making a documentary film; then the killer revealed she was pregnant with Andrew’s son.
 
Frontrunner (photo), World Premiere (2007, 90 min, USA)
Written/Directed by Virginia [...]

Slamdance 2008: Narrative Special Screenings

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 Schechter
Starring Christine Evangelista, Kevin Corrigan, Jerry Adler, Alan Ruck, Donnell Rawlings
When Melissa Brooks discovers she can’t afford college she moves to New York City and gets a job as a waitress at a comedy club. Living with her eccentric older brother, she enters a love triangle while trying to muster the nerve to get on stage and perform.
 
Just Add Water (photo), World Premiere (2008, 90 [...]

Slamdance 2008: Documentary Feature Competition

Slamdance 2008: Documentary Feature Competition
 

Pageant by Ron Davis, Stewart Halpern
 
Circus Rosaire, New Edit Premiere (2007, 93 min, USA)
Written/Directed by Robyn Bliley
For nine generations the Rosaire family has entertained audiences all over the world with their legendary animal acts. However, the circus industry is changing and attendance has dramatically declined. The Rosaire’s livelihood and future are at risk as they struggle to continue the family tradition.
 
I Think We’re Alone Now, World Premiere (2008, 70 min, USA)
Written/Directed by Sean Donnelly
Labeled "stalkers" by the media, Jeff and Kelly profess their love for the 80’s pop icon, Tiffany.
 
More Shoes, World Premiere (2008, 75 min, USA)
Written/Directed by Lee Kazimir
The story of one individual’s 3,000-mile trek across Europe on foot from Madrid to Kiev.
 
My Mother’s [...]

Slamdance 2008: Narrative Feature Competition

Slamdance 2008: Narrative Feature Competition
 

Glory Boy Days by Paul Encinas
 
Fix, World Premiere (2008, 90 min, USA)
Written/Directed by Tao Ruspoli
This darkly comedic road movie journeys from Beverly Hills to Watts over the course of 12 hours, as documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race to get Milo’s brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8 p.m. – or Leo goes to prison for three years.
 
Frost, World Premiere (2008, 92 min, USA)
Written/Directed by Steve Clark
When a Manhattan playboy learns his childhood love is engaged he is forced to face the demons of his past and grow up.
 
Glory Boy Days (photo), World Premiere (2008, 100 min, USA)
Written/Directed by Paul Encinas
A story about a group of young adults in the prime of their lives, in [...]

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