Slamdance Film Festival
Slamdance Award Ceremony 2015
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| Location | Park City, Utah, United States |
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| Founded | 1995 |
| Language | English |
| Website | slamdance |
The Slamdance Film Festival is an annual film festival focused on emerging artists and low-budget independent films, created in 1995.
Slamdance has since developed to become a year-round organization fostering the continued career development of independent filmmakers at all stages of the creative process, consisting of the Film Festival, Screenplay Competition, and Slamdance Studios.
The festival was founded in 1995 by Dan Mirvish, Jon Fitzgerald, Shane Kuhn, and Peter Baxter along with co-conspirator Paul Rachman and has since become a year-round organization championing emerging filmmaking talent and their new work. Peter Baxter has been in charge of Slamdance since 1997.
Festival discoveries have included directors Christopher Nolan ("The Dark Knight Trilogy"), Marc Forster ("Monster's Ball"), Jared Hess ("Napoleon Dynamite"), Oren Peli ("Paranormal Activity"), Benh Zeitlin ("Beasts of the Southern Wild"), Seth Gordon ("Horrible Bosses"), Lynn Shelton ("Humpday"), and Lena Dunham ("Girls"). Slamdance also attracts renowned alumni including Larry Clark, Steven Soderbergh and Johnathan Demme.
At the 2005 Festival, Slamdance screened the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom, which was immediately purchased by Paramount Pictures for the largest amount ever for a feature-length documentary. Also in 2005, actor Chip Godwin, won an unprecedented Honorable Mention Sparky award for his performance in John Erick Dowdle's comedy, The Dry Spell.
At the 2007 Festival Seth Gordon's premiere The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters became another sought after documentary and was acquired by New Line Cinema.
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