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:
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.
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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