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    Saturday, January 27, 2007
    Slamdance winners announced
    Dylan Verrechia's "Tijuana Makes Me Happy," the story of a boy, a prostitute and a rooster, won the grand jury award for best narrative feature at the Slamdance Film Festival.

    Winners in the alternative festival were announced Friday night. Here are the other winners:

    • Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: "Unsettled" by Adam Hootnick.
    • Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short: "The Ballad of Mary Slade" by Robin Fuller.
    • Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short: "A Map with Gaps" by Alice Nelson.
    • Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short: "Avant Petalos Grillados" by Cesar Velasco Broca.
    • Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short: "The Cow Thief" by Charles Williams.
    • Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature:"Murder Party" by Jeremy Saulnier (who won Slamdance's top prize in 2004 for "Crabwalk")
    • Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: "Red Without Blue" by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills & Todd Sills.
    • Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film: "Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith" by Danny Bourque.
    • Spirit of Slamdance Award: "The Mallorys Go Black Market" by JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees.
    • Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay: "Drool" by Nancy Kissam.
    • Award for Best Short Screenplay: "4 Corners" by Ken Pisani.
    • Award for Best Teleplay: "Ghost Towns" by Marcus Clay Carmouche & Seamus Kevin Fahey.
    • Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay: "Slaughter" by Bobby Darby & Nathan Brookes.
    • Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition: "Blood-Sucking Leeches and Flesh-Eating Maggots" by Adam Balsam.
    • Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography: "Under the Sun," Nikolaus Summerer, director of photography.

    The entrants in the Slamdancd Guerrilla Gamemaker Competition opted - "in a spirit of solidarity, and in recognition of the reduced list of finalists," according to a statement from Slamdance - not to compete. Several finalists dropped out of the competition in protest of Slamdance's decision to pull one finalist, a game based on the school shootings at Colorado's Columbine High School.
    -- Sean P. Means

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