SLAMDANCE ANNOUNCES WINNERS

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