Slamdance. Awards.

Announcing its awards, Slamdance notes that this year's edition, its 13th, "shattered all previous submission and attendance records, having received over 3,600 submissions from 20 countries for less than 100 slots, a milestone that catapults the movie showcase into one of the largest film festivals in the world, and attracted approximately 20,000 attendees." The winners:

• Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: Dylan Verrechia's Tijuana Makes Me Happy.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: Adam Hootnick's Unsettled.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short: Robin Fuller's The Ballad of Mary Slade.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short: Alice Nelson's A Map with Gaps.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short: César Velasco Broca's Avant Pétalos Grillados.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short: Charles Williams's The Cow Thief.

• Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: Jeremy Saulnier's Murder Party.

• Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills.

• Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film: Danny Bourque's Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith.

• Spirit of Slamdance Award: JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees's The Mallorys Go Black Market.

• Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay: Nancy Kissam's Drool.

• Award for Best Short Screenplay: Ken Pisani's 4 Corners.

• Award for Best Teleplay: Marcus Clay Carmouche and Seamus Kevin Fahey's Ghost Towns.

• Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay: Bobby Darby and Nathan Brookes's Slaughter.

• Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition: Adam Balsam's Blood-Sucking Leeches and Flesh-Eating Maggots.

• Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography: Nikolaus Summerer, Director of Photography for Under the Sun.

Coverage of the coverage: The Park City Index.

Posted by dwhudson at January 27, 2007 8:11 AM