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!
