Cloverfield star Michael Stahl-David (center-left) at the 2008 Festival

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.[1]

The Festival received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 slots.[2]

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,[3] and one winner won guaranteed production of a feature film.[2]

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 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
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
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

Films

Films that premiered at the festival included Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, a documentary about the murder of Zachary Turner.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Slamdance Film Festival Announces 2008 Features Competition And Special Programs". slamdance.org. 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  2. 1 2 "2008 Slamdance Film Festival Announces Awards Winners". slamdance.org. 2008-01-25. Archived from the original on 29 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  3. ↑ ""Parade" leads Slamdance winners". Reuters/The Hollywood Reporter. 2008-01-27. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  4. ↑ "Documentary about Andrew Bagby and son Zachary to premiere at festival - Living - The Western Star". Archived from the original on 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  5. ↑ "2008 Features: Competition And Special Programs". slamdance.org. 2007-12-05. Archived from the original on 2008-05-05. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
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