The little film festival that started as a punk reply to the bigger, more established Sundance Festival has
gotten bigger. In it’s thirteenth year, the Slamdance Film Festival received 36,000 entries for 100 slots, and attracted an audience of 20,000 people.

Now you know why Park City gets so crowded in January! The following is the list of winners from the alternative film festival -

Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: Dylan Verrechia’s Tijuana Makes Me Happy.

Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: Adam Hootnick’s Unsettled.

Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short: Robin Fuller’s The Ballad of Mary Slade.

Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short: Alice Nelson’s A Map with Gaps.

Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short: César Velasco Broca’s Avant Pétalos Grillados.

Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short: Charles Williams’s The Cow Thief.

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: Jeremy Saulnier’s Murder Party.

Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: Red Without Blue, written and directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills.

Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film: Danny Bourque’s Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith.

Spirit of Slamdance Award: JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees’s The Mallorys Go Black Market.

Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay: Nancy Kissam’s Drool.

Award for Best Short Screenplay: Ken Pisani’s 4 Corners.

Award for Best Teleplay: Marcus Clay Carmouche and Seamus Kevin Fahey’s Ghost Towns.

Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay: Bobby Darby and Nathan Brookes’s Slaughter.

Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition: Adam Balsam’s Blood-Sucking Leeches and Flesh-Eating Maggots.

Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography: Nikolaus Summerer, Director of Photography for Under the Sun.

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