Slamdance Film Festival Articles

The Slamdance Film Festival winners were announced Jan. 29. The Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Film went to Charles-Olivier Michaud's Snow and Ashes (above), in which a war correspondent wakes from a coma to discover that his collaborator has disappeared. The Best Documentary Film was Mark Claywell's American Jihadist. The synopsis below is from the Slamdance website: "American Jihadist is a look at militant [...]

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 [...]