Slamdance Film Festival

Slamdance 2012: "Getting Up: The TEMPT ONE Story" is an Inspiring Documentary About Our Collaborative Future

In Bob Bryan’s low-budget 1995 documentary “Graffiti Verite,” L.A. street artist Tony Quan, aka ‘TEMPT,’ talks about how artists in his community feed off each other like jazz musicians. “Graffiti is very communal...very interactive,” he says. A clip of...

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...

Sundance and Slamdance 2012: Documentary Preview

As I look back on my “Sundance Documentaries People Will Be Talking About” column from last January, I realize this is my equivalent to other bloggers’ annual “Most Anticipated Movies of [the Coming Year]” list. Partly because to preview the docs playing at Sundance is usually to preview the docs we...

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...