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 [...]

by Andre Soares | January 26, 2008   
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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 [...]

by Andre Soares | December 5, 2007   
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