Congratulations to Kevin Napier, writer of the short screenplay Assasin Emetirus. Kevin’s short was picked by Slamdance and Duke City readers as the official Duke City Shootout selection for this years Duke City Shootout competition. Kevin's short will begin production this summer.
Slamdance Supports: Cycles Gladiator Wines - Special Discount for Slamdancers!
All of our 2008 filmmakers, writers, and attendees already know about our fantastic Official Wine of Slamdance, Cycles Gladiator - and we encourage our entire Slamdance community to visit their website and learn more about this product and how to purchase - http://www.cyclesgladiator.com. And, with the special discount code for Slamdancers, you can receive a 50% discount on shipping up until August 1st! Just use the discount code SLAMDANCE when you check out.
And, just like Slamdance, Cycles Gladiator represents and champions alternative creatives.
Cycles Gladiator, featured at the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival, is a brand not only for independents, but their winemakers are independent trendsetters as well! Check out their world at: http://www.youtube.com/user
Slamdance is proud to support Cycles Gladiator as our Official Wine Sponsor and we encourage our community to do the same. Please visit http://www.cyclesgladiator.com for more information.
THANK YOU & GOOD LUCK TO THOSE OF YOU WHO SUBMITTED YOUR SCREENPLAY TO THE 2008 SLAMDANCE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION
$7000 Feature Grand Prize, $500 Short Grand Prize.
Slamdance at Bonnaroo!
The Slamdance Film Festival is pleased to join Bonnaroo Cinema by presenting a program of Slamdance short films at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, June 12-25, 2008 in Manchester, Tennessee! Slamdance short films will be playing at the Bonnaroo Cinema each day of the festival - our featured program includes: Everything Said, The Story of Charles Riverbank, A Catalogue of Anticipations, Sins of the Nude, I Hate You Don't Touch Me or Bat and Hat, Doxology, Origins of Electricity, Kid Show, and Bush vs Bin Laden. Slamdance is very excited to partner with Bonnaroo this year and we look forward to reporting back from Tennessee.
The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day, multi-stage camping festival held on a beautiful 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee every June. Bonnaroo brings together some of the best performers in rock and roll, along with dozens of artists in complementary styles such as jazz, Americana, hip-hop, electronica, and just about any contemporary music you can think of. In addition to dozens of epic performances, the festival's 100-acre entertainment village buzzes around the clock with attractions and activities including a classic arcade, on-site cinema, silent disco, comedy club, theater performers, a beer festival, and a music technology village. For its peaceful vibe, near-flawless logistics, and unrivaled entertainment options, Rolling Stone magazine named this revolutionary entertainment experience one of the 50 moments that changed the history of rock and roll. Please visit http://www.bonnaroo.com/ for more information.
BUY SLAMDANCE FILM "CHI GIRL" ON I-TUNES!
IFC Films has FINALLY released 1999 Slamdance Grand Jury Prize winner "CHI GIRL" on iTunes this week! Log on, buy it, tell your friends to buy it, and then buy it again!
CHI GIRL (89min, 35mm, b&w) - COMEDY - A mockumentary about a documentarian guy…who stalks a girl on camera…while she's stalking her ex-boyfriend.
Directed by Heidi Van Lier (Politics of Preschool, Midlife with Glasses, Baby Life, Monday)
'Chi Girl's' a consistently amusing and ingeniously inventive piece that appears made in a single burst of enthusiasm… - Joe Leydon, Variety
indieWIRE: Slamdance as "Refreshing Alternative"
Big ups to our longtime supporters at indieWIRE for a great piece by Eric Kohn on some of our festival offerings.
"Compact in terms of programming and scale, the Slamdance Film Festival offers a refreshing grassroots alternative to the Sundance Film Festival's glamour. This year's program includes several markedly similar attempts to tell fictional stories within a documentary framework. These aren't lighthearted mockumentaries of the Christopher Guest variety: YouTube generation filmmakers have adapted the style as a non-ironic storytelling device--and when the tactic works, it's stunning."
You can check out the full article here.
Being relatively biased towards the often easy-way-out feel of the indie mockumentary, I couldn't agree more that the films in that genre that we've selected give a swift kick to the tuckus of the standard "what, is that a camera? are you guys filming?" falseness that often pervades the style. High-five, filmmakers!