Slamdance Film Festival

6 Films to Watch at Slamdance 2012

While Sundance will soon consume the lives of many moviegoers in Park City, it's been years since it was the only game in town. Starting in 1995, the Slamdance Film Festival has retained its underdog status at the top of Main Street, where about 30 features and shorts will screen January 20 - 26...

Watch: Exclusive Trailer For Slamdance Entry 'The Sound of Small Things'

Come January, Park City sees the Sundance Film Festival generating a press frenzy in Utah, but don't discount the great talent showcasing their latest works at the annual Slamdance Film Festival, occuring just up Main Street. One of this year's Slamdance narrative competing films, "...

Neil Young, Jonathan Demme and Stan Lee Headline Slamdance Master Classes

Neil Young, filmmaker Jonathan Demme and comic book legend Stan Lee will headline this year's series of Morning Coffee Master Classes at the 2012 Slamdance Film Festival, which runs January 20-26. Young and Demme will be at Slamdance to support their documentary "Neil Young Journeys,&q...

Slamdance Film Festival Sets Jonathan Demme's Neil Young Doc, Other Special Screenings & Shorts

Meet the Slamdance Film Festival Programmers

We all know how Slamdance began when its founders' projects were rejected from the 1995 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. Some 18 years later, it's received the offhand blessing from Sundance founder Robert Redford (who has said he "wishes them well") and become an significant...

Slamdance Announces "On The Road" Tour

Slamdance is going on the road this year with "On The Road," its new traveling theatrical showcase which will screen the acclaimed documentary "Superheroes," about actual community superheroes who patrol their streets, along with Andrew Putschoegl's short film "Hello Caller."

IndiePix To Bring Bhopal Disaster Doc to U.S./Canadian Theaters

Following an Indian Supreme Court decision regarding the fate of several managers and supervisors who were arrested following the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster at Union Carbide, IndiePix has announced that they have acquired the U.S./Canadian distribution rights to Van Maximilian Carlson's doc about...

Critics Notebook | At Slamdance, "Superheroes" and "Silver Tongues" Impress

"The more the merrier," Robert Redford told a roomful of journalists at the beginning of the Sundance Film Festival this year. He was responding to a question about the Slamdance Film Festival, as he often must. Started in 1995 in response to Sundance's ultra-competitive submission pile, Slamdance i...

"Stranger Things" & "Bhopali" Among Top Winners at 17th Slamdance Film Festival

The 2011 Slamdance Film Festival concluded Thursday night with Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal's "Stranger Things" winning the event's Best Narrative Film prize, while Van Maximillian Carlson's "Bhopali" took Slamdance's Best Documentary Film award in both the jury and audience categories. "Simon Arthur'...