The 2008 Slamdance Film Festival took place in Park City, Utah from January 17 to January 25, 2008. It was the 14th iteration of the Slamdance Film Festival, an alternative to the more mainstream Sundance Film Festival.[1]
The Festival received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 slots.[2]
The 2008 Slamdance Film Festival recognized the following films at its awards ceremony. The Grand Jury Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature Award winners will be screened at the IFC Center in New York City in February 2008. Only first-time filmmakers working with production budgets of $1 million or less were allowed to compete in Feature competition. The winners shared more than $200,000 in cash and prizes,[3] and one winner won guaranteed production of a feature film.[2]
| Award Name | Film Title | Award Recipient | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature | The New Year Parade | Tom Quinn | |
| Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature | How To Be | Oliver Irving | |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature | Song Sung Blue | Greg Kohs | |
| Special Jury Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature | My Mother's Garden | Cynthia Lester | |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short | Blood Will Tell | Andrew McPhillips | |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short | The Ladies | C.A. Voros | |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short | Doxology | Michael Langan | |
| Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short | Son | Daniel Mulloy | |
| Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Short | 4960 | Wing-Yee Wu | |
| Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature | The Project | Ryan Piotrowicz | |
| Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature | Song Sung Blue | Greg Kohs | |
| Spirit of Slamdance Award | Woman in Burka | Jonathan Lisecki | |
| Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay | The Wonder Girls | Anthony Meindl | |
| Award for Best Short Screenplay | Easy Pickins | Will Hartman | |
| Award for Best Teleplay | Stage Six Pandemic | Barbara Marshall | |
| Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay | The Punished | Tony Mosher | |
| Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition | Child in the Dark | Damian Lahey and Ian Ogden | |
| Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography | Crooked Lake (programmed as Portage) | Sascha Drews and Ezra Krybus |
Films that premiered at the festival included , a documentary about the murder of Zachary Turner.[1]