2008 Slamdance Film Festival
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The 2008 Slamdance Film Festival
took place in Park City, Utah
from January 17 to January 25, 2008. It was the 14th iteration of the Slamdance Film Festival
, an alternative to the more mainstream Sundance Film Festival
.
The Festival received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 slots.
Slamdance Film Festival
As a year-round organization, Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery of new and emerging talent in the film industry; it is also the only major film festival fully programmed by filmmakers. Slamdance counts among its alumni many notable writers and directors who first gained notice at the...
took place in Park City, Utah
Park City, Utah
Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the U.S. state of Utah. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 7,558 at the 2010 census...
from January 17 to January 25, 2008. It was the 14th iteration of the Slamdance Film Festival
Slamdance Film Festival
As a year-round organization, Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery of new and emerging talent in the film industry; it is also the only major film festival fully programmed by filmmakers. Slamdance counts among its alumni many notable writers and directors who first gained notice at the...
, an alternative to the more mainstream Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
.
The Festival received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 slots.
Awards
The 2008 Slamdance Film Festival recognized the following films at its awards ceremony. The Grand Jury Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature Award winners will be screened at the IFC Center in New York City in February 2008. Only first-time filmmakers working with production budgets of $1 million or less were allowed to compete in Feature competition. The winners shared more than $200,000 in cash and prizes, and one winner won guaranteed production of a feature film.| Award Name | Film Title | Award Recipient |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature | The New Year Parade | Tom Quinn |
| Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature | How To Be How To Be How to Be is an award-winning independent comedy/drama feature film written and directed by Oliver Irving. It is about a young man named Art, played by Robert Pattinson, who is going through a quarter-life crisis.... |
Oliver Irving |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature | Song Sung Blue | Greg Kohs |
| Special Jury Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature | My Mother's Garden | Cynthia Lester |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short | Blood Will Tell | Andrew McPhillips Andrew McPhillips -Film career:Andrew has a background in film & photography. His professional experience includes a five-year stint at PDI/DreamWorks, where he worked on films such as Shrek 2, Minority Report & Artificial Intelligence: AI, before moving on to Core Animation in Toronto to work on Disney's The Wild... |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short | The Ladies | C.A. Voros |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short | Doxology | Michael Langan |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short | Son | Daniel Mulloy Daniel Mulloy Daniel Mulloy is a British artist and filmmaker. He is winner of The Golden Dragon, BIFA and BAFTA Awards.-Life and career:Born in Brixton , London, Mulloy moved to Carmarthen, Wales, as a teenager... |
| Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Short | 4960 | Wing-Yee Wu |
| Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature | The Project | Ryan Piotrowicz |
| Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature | Song Sung Blue | Greg Kohs |
| Spirit of Slamdance Award | Woman in Burka | Jonathan Lisecki |
| Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay | The Wonder Girls | Anthony Meindl |
| Award for Best Short Screenplay | Easy Pickins | Will Hartman |
| Award for Best Teleplay | Stage Six Pandemic | Barbara Marshall |
| Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay | The Punished | Tony Mosher |
| Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition | Child in the Dark | Damian Lahey and Ian Ogden |
| Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography | Crooked Lake (programmed as Portage) | Sascha Drews and Ezra Krybus |