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(LOS ANGELES - December 3, 2013)
The Slamdance Film Festival today announced their Narrative and Documentary Feature Film Competition programs for its 20th Festival season. As the premiere film festival for filmmakers by filmmakers, Slamdance's showcase for emerging filmmakers includes 10 narrative and 8 documentary films, including 11 World Premieres, 4 North American, and 1 US Premiere.
After receiving over 5,000 submissions this year, Slamdance is proud to present the best of first time feature filmmakers pushing the boundaries of filmmaking with innovation and unique talent. All competition films are feature film directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1 million and without US distribution, and were programmed entirely from blind submissions by the Slamdance filmmaking community.
Jury Awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for the Spirit of Slamdance Award judged by the filmmakers themselves, as well as the Audience Awards.
"The 2014 Feature Competition bristles with raw talent and innovative filmmaking. As an organization run by filmmakers for filmmakers, we couldn't imagine a truer way of representing the first 20 years and beginning our next," states Peter Baxter, Slamdance President and Co-Founder.
The 2014 Slamdance Film Festival will take place from January 17th - 23rd, 2014 in Park City, Utah at the Treasure Mountain Inn, located at 255 Main Street, Park City, UT 84060.
NARRATIVE FEATURES PROGRAM
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Copenhagen
Director & Screenwriter: Mark Raso
(USA, Canada, Denmark) World Premiere
A charming scoundrel visiting the city of his father's birth, William is drawn to his impromtu guide Effy - wise, spontaneous, and half his age.
Cast: Gethin Anthony, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian Armesto, Tamzin Merchant
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Goldberg & Eisenberg
Director & Screenwriter: Oren Carmi
(Israel)
A lonely computer programmer finds his life disrupted by a boorish thug who becomes dangerously obsessed in this darkly absurd drama.
Cast: Yitzhak Laor, Yahav Gal, Roni Dotan
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I Play With The Phrase Each Other
Director & Screenwriter: Jay Alvarez
(USA) North American Premiere
Young city dwellers with lyrical musings and a sliding sense of entitlement hold court in this film comprised entirely of cell phone conversations.
Cast: Jay Alvarez, Will Hand, Megan Kopp, Alexander Fraser
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I Put A Hit On You
Directors & Screenwriters: Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart
(Canada) World Premiere
A broken-hearted woman teams up with her ex-boyfriend to try and stop the hitman she accidentally hired to kill him.
Cast: Aaron Ashmore, Sara Canning
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My Blind Heart
Director & Screenwriter: Peter Brunner
(Austria) North American Premiere
Suffering from an incurable disease, a young man rebels against his body and the expectations forced upon him in this black and white expressionist film.
Cast: Christos Haas, Jana McKinnon, Susanne Lothar, Robert Schmiedt, Georg Friedrich
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The Republic of Rick
Director: Mario Kyprianou; Screenwriters: Mario Kyprianou, Becky Leigh
(USA) World Premiere
In this politic satire, a self-proclaimed President of the Republic of Texas rallies to lead a paranoid militia for Texas's independence in the late 1990s.
Cast: Dave Abed, Angie Gregory, Lori Jean Wilson
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Rezeta
Director & Screenwriter: Fernando Frias de la Parra
(Mexico) US Premiere
A jet-setting model leads a freewheeling and spontaneous life in Mexico City that starts to change when she falls in love with an unexpected young artist.
Cast: Rezeta Veliu, Roger Mendoza, Paulina Davila, Sebastian Cordova
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Rover (or Beyond Human: The Venusian Future and the Return of the Next Level)
Director & Screenwriter: Tony Blahd
(USA) World Premiere
A dispirited cult awaits the sign to off themselves when their leader fakes a prophecy instructing them to make a movie and share their story with the world.
Cast: Liam Torres, Jonathan Randell Silver, Steve Siddell, Natalie Thomas
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The Sublime and Beautiful
Director & Screenwriter: Blake Robbins
(USA) World Premiere
David and Kelly descend into a complicated hell of grief but they take very different paths to make things right after losing their children to a drunk driver.
Cast: Blake Robbins, Laura Kirk, Matthew Del Negro, Armin Shimerman
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Wizard's Way
Director & Screenwriter: Metal Man
(UK) North American Premiere
A champion online fantasy video game player, his encouraging best friend, and two ambitious would-be filmmakers who decide to capture it all for posterity.
Cast: Chris Killen, Joe Stretch, Kristian Scott, Socrates Adams-Florou, Sadie Frost
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES PROGRAM
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Elliot
Directors & Screenwriters: Matthew Bauckman, Jaret Belliveau
(Canada) World Premiere
The bizarre story of Elliot Scott, his supportive partner Linda Lum, and their cast and crew of outrageous dreamers all striving to achieve success.
Cast: Elliot Scott, Blake Zwicker, Linda Lum
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Glena
Director & Screenwriter: Allan Luebke
(USA) World Premiere
Glena Avila is a single mother in her 30's who is fighting to become a professional Mixed Martial Artist.
Cast: Glena Avila, Stormy Back, Ron Andersen
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Huntington's Dance
Director: Chris Furbee
(USA) World Premiere
Told through 20 years of home movie footage, Huntington's Dance is a personal and devastatingly raw look at how hereditary disease can shatter a family and a future.
Cast: Chris Furbee, Rosemary Shockey, Gene Furbee
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Kidnapped For Christ
Director: Kate S. Logan; Screenwriters: Yada Zamora, Kate S. Logan
(USA, Dominican Republic) World Premiere
The personal stories of American teenagers who are taken from their homes and sent to an Evangelical Christian reform school located in The Dominican Republic.
Cast: David Wernsman, Tai Matheiu, Elizabeth Engle
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Little Hope Was Arson
Director: Theo Love
(USA)
January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, 10 churches burn to the ground igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history.
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Skanks
Director: David McMahon
(USA) World Premiere
A community theatre in Birmingham, Alabama mounts a gender-bending new musical titled "Skanks In A One Horse Town."
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Sometimes I Dream I'm Flying
Director & Screenwriter: Aneta Popiel-Machnicka
(Poland) North American Premiere
The poignant story of a young dancer preparing to perform at the Berlin Opera and the serious injury that threatens her lifelong dream.
Cast: Weronika Frodyma, Anna Linnik, Sergey Basalayev
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Vanishing Pearls: The Oystermen of Pointe à la Hache
Director & Screenwriter: Nailah Jefferson
(USA) World Premiere
In Pointe à la Hache, Louisiana, the residents of this ruined fishing community continue dealing with the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in US history.
Cast: Byron Encalade, Stanley Encalde, Kenneth Feinberg
All Access, Industry, Local's, and Student Festival Passes are available now online, and individual tickets will be available shortly. To purchase, click here:
http://showcase.slamdance.com/#1598746/Passes-and-Tickets
About Slamdance
The 2014 Slamdance Film Festival will run concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, January 17-23, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Slamdance continues to serve as a showcase for the discovery and development of emerging independent talent and their unique cinematic vision. Slamdance is the only festival programmed entirely by filmmakers. With over half of 2013's feature films having found distribution after premiering in Park City, Slamdance continues to be a fertile ground for new filmmakers to begin their careers.
Notable Slamdance alumni who first gained notice at the festival include: Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises), Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity), Marc Forster (World War Z), Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), Lena Dunham (Girls), Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Anthony & Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) and Lynn Shelton (Humpday).
The organization supports its alumni beyond the festival, by increasing exhibition opportunities through international and domestic On The Road events and developing commercial distribution through Slamdance Studios. 2013 VOD releases include Daniel Martinico's OK, Good, Rudd Simmons' The First Season, Monteith McCollum's Hybrid and Eleanor Burke's and Ron Eyal's Stranger Things. Slamdance's 2013 On The Road program has traveled to Austin, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York further supporting award-winning feature films such as Nicole Teeny's Bible Quiz, Matt Johnson's The Dirties and James E. Duff's Hank and Asha, as well as a selection of local short filmmakers.
Presented by JuntoBox Films, the Slamdance Screenplay Competition welcomed a record number of entries in 2013 with Butterfly Children by Melanie Schiele winning its Grand Jury Prize and an unprecedented award of $60,000.
The 2014 Slamdance Film Festival Sponsors include MixBit, Blackmagic Design, Vimeo, and The Directors Guild of America. Further support is given by Different By Design, Pierce Law Group, InkHead Promotional Products, and Kodak. Slamdance is once again proud to partner with sponsors who share our unique vision and support emerging artists who are pushing the boundaries of independent filmmaking.
Slamdance is proud to introduce MixBit and Blackmagic Design as festival award sponsors. The Slamdance Trailer Competition, sponsored by MixBit, offers all filmmakers accepted into the 2014 festival an opportunity to create their best trailer. Entrants’ work will be presented on MixBit.com and the finalists will have their trailers shown during the festival. The winner will be announced during the Awards Ceremony on January 23, 2014. Blackmagic Design will be joining the presentation with their sponsorship of the 2014 Blackmagic Design Cinematography Award.
Additional information about the Slamdance Film Festival is available at www.slamdance.com
Connect with Slamdance:
http://twitter.com/slamdance and
http://www.facebook.com/ SlamdanceFilmFestival
http://www.mixbit.com/slamdance
PRESS CONTACT:
Annie Jeeves/Cinematic Red
Phone: 323.834.973
Annie@CinematicRed.com
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(LOS ANGELES - December 3, 2013)
The Slamdance Film Festival today announced their Narrative and Documentary Feature Film Competition programs for its 20th Festival season. As the premiere film festival for filmmakers by filmmakers, Slamdance's showcase for emerging filmmakers includes 10 narrative and 8 documentary films, including 11 World Premieres, 4 North American, and 1 US Premiere.
After receiving over 5,000 submissions this year, Slamdance is proud to present the best of first time feature filmmakers pushing the boundaries of filmmaking with innovation and unique talent. All competition films are feature film directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1 million and without US distribution, and were programmed entirely from blind submissions by the Slamdance filmmaking community.
Jury Awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for the Spirit of Slamdance Award judged by the filmmakers themselves, as well as the Audience Awards.
"The 2014 Feature Competition bristles with raw talent and innovative filmmaking. As an organization run by filmmakers for filmmakers, we couldn't imagine a truer way of representing the first 20 years and beginning our next," states Peter Baxter, Slamdance President and Co-Founder.
The 2014 Slamdance Film Festival will take place from January 17th - 23rd, 2014 in Park City, Utah at the Treasure Mountain Inn, located at 255 Main Street, Park City, UT 84060.
NARRATIVE FEATURES PROGRAM
Copenhagen
Director & Screenwriter: Mark Raso
(USA, Canada, Denmark) World Premiere
A charming scoundrel visiting the city of his father's birth, William is drawn to his impromtu guide Effy - wise, spontaneous, and half his age.
Cast: Gethin Anthony, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian Armesto, Tamzin Merchant
Goldberg & Eisenberg
Director & Screenwriter: Oren Carmi
(Israel)
A lonely computer programmer finds his life disrupted by a boorish thug who becomes dangerously obsessed in this darkly absurd drama.
Cast: Yitzhak Laor, Yahav Gal, Roni Dotan
I Play With The Phrase Each Other
Director & Screenwriter: Jay Alvarez
(USA) North American Premiere
Young city dwellers with lyrical musings and a sliding sense of entitlement hold court in this film comprised entirely of cell phone conversations.
Cast: Jay Alvarez, Will Hand, Megan Kopp, Alexander Fraser
I Put A Hit On You
Directors & Screenwriters: Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart
(Canada) World Premiere
A broken-hearted woman teams up with her ex-boyfriend to try and stop the hitman she accidentally hired to kill him.
Cast: Aaron Ashmore, Sara Canning
My Blind Heart
Director & Screenwriter: Peter Brunner
(Austria) North American Premiere
Suffering from an incurable disease, a young man rebels against his body and the expectations forced upon him in this black and white expressionist film.
Cast: Christos Haas, Jana McKinnon, Susanne Lothar, Robert Schmiedt, Georg Friedrich
The Republic of Rick
Director: Mario Kyprianou; Screenwriters: Mario Kyprianou, Becky Leigh
(USA) World Premiere
In this politic satire, a self-proclaimed President of the Republic of Texas rallies to lead a paranoid militia for Texas's independence in the late 1990s.
Cast: Dave Abed, Angie Gregory, Lori Jean Wilson
Rezeta
Director & Screenwriter: Fernando Frias de la Parra
(Mexico) US Premiere
A jet-setting model leads a freewheeling and spontaneous life in Mexico City that starts to change when she falls in love with an unexpected young artist.
Cast: Rezeta Veliu, Roger Mendoza, Paulina Davila, Sebastian Cordova
Rover (or Beyond Human: The Venusian Future and the Return of the Next Level)
Director & Screenwriter: Tony Blahd
(USA) World Premiere
A dispirited cult awaits the sign to off themselves when their leader fakes a prophecy instructing them to make a movie and share their story with the world.
Cast: Liam Torres, Jonathan Randell Silver, Steve Siddell, Natalie Thomas
The Sublime and Beautiful
Director & Screenwriter: Blake Robbins
(USA) World Premiere
David and Kelly descend into a complicated hell of grief but they take very different paths to make things right after losing their children to a drunk driver.
Cast: Blake Robbins, Laura Kirk, Matthew Del Negro, Armin Shimerman
Wizard's Way
Director & Screenwriter: Metal Man
(UK) North American Premiere
A champion online fantasy video game player, his encouraging best friend, and two ambitious would-be filmmakers who decide to capture it all for posterity.
Cast: Chris Killen, Joe Stretch, Kristian Scott, Socrates Adams-Florou, Sadie Frost
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES PROGRAM
Elliot
Directors & Screenwriters: Matthew Bauckman, Jaret Belliveau
(Canada) World Premiere
The bizarre story of Elliot Scott, his supportive partner Linda Lum, and their cast and crew of outrageous dreamers all striving to achieve success.
Cast: Elliot Scott, Blake Zwicker, Linda Lum
Glena
Director & Screenwriter: Allan Luebke
(USA) World Premiere
Glena Avila is a single mother in her 30's who is fighting to become a professional Mixed Martial Artist.
Cast: Glena Avila, Stormy Back, Ron Andersen
Huntington's Dance
Director: Chris Furbee
(USA) World Premiere
Told through 20 years of home movie footage, Huntington's Dance is a personal and devastatingly raw look at how hereditary disease can shatter a family and a future.
Cast: Chris Furbee, Rosemary Shockey, Gene Furbee
Kidnapped For Christ
Director: Kate S. Logan; Screenwriters: Yada Zamora, Kate S. Logan
(USA, Dominican Republic) World Premiere
The personal stories of American teenagers who are taken from their homes and sent to an Evangelical Christian reform school located in The Dominican Republic.
Cast: David Wernsman, Tai Matheiu, Elizabeth Engle
Little Hope Was Arson
Director: Theo Love
(USA)
January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, 10 churches burn to the ground igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history.
Skanks
Director: David McMahon
(USA) World Premiere
A community theatre in Birmingham, Alabama mounts a gender-bending new musical titled "Skanks In A One Horse Town."
Sometimes I Dream I'm Flying
Director & Screenwriter: Aneta Popiel-Machnicka
(Poland) North American Premiere
The poignant story of a young dancer preparing to perform at the Berlin Opera and the serious injury that threatens her lifelong dream.
Cast: Weronika Frodyma, Anna Linnik, Sergey Basalayev
Vanishing Pearls: The Oystermen of Pointe à la Hache
Director & Screenwriter: Nailah Jefferson
(USA) World Premiere
In Pointe à la Hache, Louisiana, the residents of this ruined fishing community continue dealing with the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in US history.
Cast: Byron Encalade, Stanley Encalde, Kenneth Feinberg
All Access, Industry, Local's, and Student Festival Passes are available now online, and individual tickets will be available shortly. To purchase, click here:
http://showcase.slamdance.com/#1598746/Passes-and-Tickets
About Slamdance
The 2014 Slamdance Film Festival will run concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, January 17-23, 2014 in Park City, Utah. Slamdance continues to serve as a showcase for the discovery and development of emerging independent talent and their unique cinematic vision. Slamdance is the only festival programmed entirely by filmmakers. With over half of 2013's feature films having found distribution after premiering in Park City, Slamdance continues to be a fertile ground for new filmmakers to begin their careers.
Notable Slamdance alumni who first gained notice at the festival include: Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises), Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity), Marc Forster (World War Z), Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), Lena Dunham (Girls), Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Anthony & Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) and Lynn Shelton (Humpday).
The organization supports its alumni beyond the festival, by increasing exhibition opportunities through international and domestic On The Road events and developing commercial distribution through Slamdance Studios. 2013 VOD releases include Daniel Martinico's OK, Good, Rudd Simmons' The First Season, Monteith McCollum's Hybrid and Eleanor Burke's and Ron Eyal's Stranger Things. Slamdance's 2013 On The Road program has traveled to Austin, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York further supporting award-winning feature films such as Nicole Teeny's Bible Quiz, Matt Johnson's The Dirties and James E. Duff's Hank and Asha, as well as a selection of local short filmmakers.
Presented by JuntoBox Films, the Slamdance Screenplay Competition welcomed a record number of entries in 2013 with Butterfly Children by Melanie Schiele winning its Grand Jury Prize and an unprecedented award of $60,000.
The 2014 Slamdance Film Festival Sponsors include MixBit, Blackmagic Design, Vimeo, and The Directors Guild of America. Further support is given by Different By Design, Pierce Law Group, InkHead Promotional Products, and Kodak. Slamdance is once again proud to partner with sponsors who share our unique vision and support emerging artists who are pushing the boundaries of independent filmmaking.
Slamdance is proud to introduce MixBit and Blackmagic Design as festival award sponsors. The Slamdance Trailer Competition, sponsored by MixBit, offers all filmmakers accepted into the 2014 festival an opportunity to create their best trailer. Entrants’ work will be presented on MixBit.com and the finalists will have their trailers shown during the festival. The winner will be announced during the Awards Ceremony on January 23, 2014. Blackmagic Design will be joining the presentation with their sponsorship of the 2014 Blackmagic Design Cinematography Award.
Additional information about the Slamdance Film Festival is available at www.slamdance.com
Connect with Slamdance:
http://twitter.com/slamdance and
http://www.facebook.com/ SlamdanceFilmFestival
http://www.mixbit.com/slamdance
PRESS CONTACT:
Annie Jeeves/Cinematic Red
Phone: 323.834.973
Annie@CinematicRed.com
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