Slamdance. Awards.

"The 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival has announced 15 film and screenplay prize winners in three categories who will share more than $200,000 in cash and prizes, plus, for one winner, guaranteed production of a feature film."

So here we go, with related linkage:

Updated through 1/30.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: Tom Quinn's The New Year Parade.

• Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature: Oliver Irving's How to Be.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: Greg Kohs's Song Sung Blue, which has also won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature. Related: For Filmmaker, Brandon Harris talks with Kohs.

• Special Jury Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature: Cynthia Lester's My Mother's Garden. Related: Brandon Harris, Filmmaker, Lester. Update: "While a documentary tends to suffer when the filmmaker becomes a part of the story, the Lesters' ability to cope with the ramifications of hoarding suggests hope for other people afflicted with the disease," writes Eric Kohn at indieWIRE.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short: Andrew McPhillips's Blood Will Tell. Related: An online listening tip. At Twitch, Todd Brown talks with McPhillips.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short: CA Voros's The Ladies.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short: Michael Langan's Doxology.

• Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short: Daniel Mulloy's Son.

• Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Short: Wing-Yee Wu's 4960.

• Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: Ryan Piotrowicz's The Project. Related: Brandon Harris, Filmmaker, Piotrowicz.

• Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film: Gloria Kim's Rock Garden.

• Spirit of Slamdance Award, "Awarded by the 2008 filmmakers, for exhibiting passion and talent as a filmmaker, commitment to the independent community, and enthusiastically embracing all Slamdance has to offer": Jonathan Lisecki's Woman in Burka.

• Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay: Anthony Meindl, for The Wonder Girls.

• Award for Best Short Screenplay: Will Hartman, for Easy Pickins.

• Award for Best Teleplay: Barbara Marshall, for Stage Six Pandemic.

• Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay: Tony Mosher, for The Punished.

• Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition Prize: Damian Lahey and Ian Ogden, for Child in the Dark.

• Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography: Sascha Drews and Ezra Krybus, for Crooked Lake.

Update, 1/30: Now at the main site: The updated list of past Sundance award-winners.

Posted by dwhudson at January 26, 2008 6:55 AM