Second Season, Here We Go! AGBO + Slamdance DTLA Summer Showcase 2024We’re thrilled to announce the second season of this exciting event, once again hosted at the stunning AGBO campus by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. This year, we’re bringing together a diverse array of groundbreaking talent and cutting-edge stories over an action-packed weekend. Kicking …
The move will allow the festival to expand its mission of supporting truly independent filmmakers and provide greater accessibility to attendees. LOS ANGELES, CA (April 30, 2024) – Slamdance, the artist-led “by filmmakers for filmmakers” organization, today announced that its annual film festival will move to Los Angeles, starting in February 2025. The move to Los …
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ANNOUNCING THE SLAMDANCE 2024 AWARD WINNERS Photo by Lauren Desberg GRAND JURY AWARDS – FEATURES Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize: “The Accident” (Giuseppe Garau, Italy)Honorable Mention: “The Complex Forms” (Fabio D’Orta, Italy) Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize: “Inheritance” (Matt Moyer, Amy Toensing, United States)Honorable Mention: “Petro” (Sean Mattison, United States) Breakouts Feature Grand Jury Prize: …
We are excited to announce our mind-bending lineup for our 2024 Animated, Experimental, Unstoppable, Narrative, and Documentary Shorts programs as well as the Digital, Interactive and Gaming (DIG), Episodes, and new Revolution lineup. Dedicated to providing accessible programming both in-person and online, the 2023 hybrid festival will return this year with events in Park City …
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The 2023 Slamdance Screenplay Awards, in collaboration with Landmark Theatres, celebrated exceptional writing talent across categories that include; Features, Horror/Thrillers, Pilots, and Shorts. Leading the accolades was Mike Ackerman, whose feature-length script “This End Up” clinched the Grand Prize. In the TV pilot category, Teri Ruske’s “Do I Belong Here?” emerged as the First Place …
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2023 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION WINNERS Slamdance is honored to have recognized the following writers as the official winners of the 2023 Slamdance Screenplay Competition at the Landmark Theatre in Westwood, LA on October 25th. We received over 4,000 scripts this season, with writers from across the globe submitting their stories. These screenplays represent the top 0.28% …
On behalf of our entire Slamdance team, I am writing to extend our sincerest gratitude for your participation in the AGBO+Slamdance DTLA Summer Showcase. Your presence brought an extraordinary and dynamic dimension to the event, infusing it with the best energy we could have asked for. Through your attendance, the event not only underscored the …
Slamdance is back with a bang on the LA theater scene! Thanks to our Landmark collaboration and event partnership with The Chimaera Project. This sold out show featured a collection of 8 outstanding short films all directed by women based out of Los Angeles. Thank you to everyone who came out to support this screening …
Spirited entertainment lawyer and champion of independent artists David Pierce, our great supporter and friend, has passed away. Founder of Pierce Law Group in 1996, David represented Slamdance and many independent artists who rose to international acclaim, including the filmmakers of the 2012 Oscar winning film The Artist. But what really made David a hero …
Co-Presented with Slamdance & Museum of the Moving Image Brown Girls Doc Mafia (BGDM) works to disrupt inequity in the film industry by nurturing, amplifying, and investing in the creative capacity and professional success of our members. The term “MENASA” (Middle East, North African, and South Asian) encompasses a wide diversity of cultures, loosely linked …
AGBO and Slamdance Create Summer Showcase For New Artists in Downtown Los Angeles AGBO and Slamdance are partnering for a multi-faceted showcase including digital, interactive and gaming work, stand up comedy, screenplay workshops, award-winning short films, and a program dedicated to filmmakers with visible and non-visible disabilities at AGBO’s Los Angeles campus. The showcase represents …
I was given some questions about script reading and such and am delighted to answer so you can be both enlightened and entertained. Here goes: What is Your Favorite Snack While Reading a Script: For the slower, more confusing scripts I need anything with caffeine or chocolate. Chocolate all the time. Back in the day… …
Taylor Miller, Unstoppable cofounder and Slamdance Miami organizer has been announced as Slamdance’s Festival Director. Taylor’s first festival as director will be in January 2024 for its 30th anniversary. Taylor joins Slamdance’s festival producer Michael Morin in preparation of the Park City showcase and will also lead the festival’s year-round programs, including the Screenplay Competition …
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Every festival has programming departments for short films, documentaries, and so on… but only Slamdance has a Department of Anarchy. The casual cinephile might associate the Department of Anarchy with avant-garde, transgressive, or underground cinema. It is all of those things and none of them. We like to think of Anarchy as an anti-genre. Anarchy …
Slamdance is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival. The festival is still available for on-demand streaming through January 29th on the Slamdance Channel. GRAND JURY AWARDS — FEATURES Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize: Waiting for the Light to Change (dir. Linh Tran)Honorable Mention: Where the Road Leads (dir. Nina …
We are deeply saddened to learn of the loss of filmmaker and alumni Summer Chastant. Summer was a committed and passionate member of our community, especially as a programmer and Co-Captain of Episodes. Crucially, Summer gave Slamdance her light to lift other filmmakers and the organization as a whole. It seemed as though Summer was …