The curtain came down on the 14th Slamdance Film Festival last night with a ceremony to announce winners in fifteen categories. Tom Quinn's standout
The New Year's Parade, a clear favorite among a pedestrian narrative field, walked away with the grand jury prize, while Greg Kohs'
Song Sung Blue won both the jury and audience awards for documentary. A full list of winners follows:
Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature
Prize: $15,000 Credit at Filmworksfx
LP3 Pictures Grip, Electric, and Studio Package ($15,000 value)
$3,500 Credit on legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP
Winner: "The New Year Parade" directed by Tom Quinn
Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature
"How To Be" directed by Oliver Irving
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature
Prize: Panasonic HVX200 Camera
$10,000 Credit Filmworksfx
$3,500 Credit on legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP
$500 Credit from Discmakers
Winner: "Song Sung Blue" directed by Greg Kohs
Special Jury Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature
Winner: "My Mother¹s Garden" directed by Cynthia Lester
Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short
Prize: $2,500 Credit at Filmworks/FX
Winner: "Blood Will Tell" directed by Andrew McPhillips
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short
Prize: $2,500 Credit at Filmworks/FX
Winner: "The Ladies" directed by C.A. Voros
Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short
Prize: $2,500 Credit at Filmworks/FX
Winner: "Doxology" directed by Michael Langan
Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short
Prize: $2,500 Credit at Filmworks/FX
Winner: “Son” directed by Daniel Mulloy
Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Short
Winner: “4960” directed by Wing-Yee Wu
Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
Prize: $4,000 Credit from Filmworksfx
Winner: "The Project" directed by Ryan Piotrowicz
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
Prize: $4,000 Credit from Filmworksfx
Winner: "Song Sung Blue" directed by Greg Kohs
Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film
Prize: $2,500 Credit from Filmworksfx
Winner: "Rock Garden" directed by Gloria Kim
Spirit of Slamdance Award*
Prize: Jagermeister Gift Basket
Winner: "Woman in Burka" directed by Jonathan Lisecki
*Awarded by the 2008 filmmakers, for exhibiting passion and talent as a filmmaker, commitment to the independent community, and enthusiastically embracing all Slamdance has to offer.
Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay
Prize: $7,000 cash
Winner: "The Wonder Girls" by Anthony Meindl
Award for Best Short Screenplay
Prize: $500.00 cash
Winner: "Easy Pickins'" by Will Hartman
Award for Best Teleplay
Prize: $5,000 cash
Winner: "Stage Six Pandemic" by Barbara Marshall
Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay
Prize: $10,000 cash prize and a production deal with Angel Baby Entertainment & Maverick Films
Winner: "The Punished" by Tony Mosher
Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition
Prize: $1,000 cash
Winner: "Child in the Dark" by Damian Lahey & Ian Ogden
Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography
Prize: $10,000 worth of Kodak film (16mm or 35mm)
This is the 11th year Kodak is sponsoring the Kodak Vision Award at Slamdance
Winner: "Portage" cinematography by Sascha Drews & Ezra Krybus
# posted by Brandon Harris @ 1/26/2008 12:37:00 PM
Comments (1)
Thanks so much for posting the Brandon, it was nice meeting you if even for a moment...Thank you so much to Slamdance for making our dream come true and to all the filmmakers which i hope to build lasting friendships with!
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posted by Cynthia @ 1/27/2008 8:14 PM
