Slamdance Film Festival Articles

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]