Slamdance Movie Competition Awards Winners for 2022

The twenty eighth Slamdance Film Competitors launched its awards winners on Friday, with Grand Jury Awards going to “Hannah Ha Ha” for Narrative Attribute, “Overlook Me Not” for Documentary Attribute, “Killing the Eunuch KHAN” for Breakout Attribute and “Straighten Up and Fly Correct” for Unstoppable Attribute.

The Viewers Award for Best Narrative Attribute went to “The Civil Lifeless,” whereas “Iron Family” scooped up the Viewers Award for Best Documentary Attribute. “The Ember Knight Current: ‘Getting Mad’” obtained the Viewers Award for Episodes.

“We congratulate the winners of Slamdance 2022 and every one among our filmmakers who collectively created a showcase that pushes the boundaries of what’s doable in storytelling,” acknowledged Slamdance President and Co-founder Peter Baxter. “The way in which ahead for film will rely on these distinctive voices who defy simple classification and transcend analytics. Key to supporting this endeavor is accessibility and crucial progress of our on-line viewers who’ve tuned into the model new Slamdance Channel.”

There have been moreover 4 festival-wide awards given out this 12 months, along with the AGBO Fellowship, supplied by Slamdance alumni and “Avengers” helmers Joe and Anthony Russo. For guiding “Treatment Canines,” Ethan Eng will get hold of the $25,000 prize along with mentorship from the Russo brothers.

The competitors’s prime showing award went to Hannah Lee Thompson of “Hannah Ha Ha,” with an honorable level out for “Bracha”s Batel Moseri. The George Starks Spirit of Slamdance Award, awarded to the filmmaker who most interesting embodies the spirit of Slamdance, went to Sasha Levinson, director of “Sylvie of the Sunshine State.” Lastly, Hannah Saidiner picked up the CreativeFuture Innovation Award for the animated film “My Guardian Neal.”

Primarily based in 1995 in insurgent to its neighboring competitors Sundance, the twenty eighth model of Slamdance runs nearly from Jan. 27 to Feb. 6. This 12 months’s lineup included 23 premieres and showcased the talents of filmmakers from in all places on this planet. As a platform for rising experience and a celebration of low-budget filmmaking, each of the 8,000 submissions chosen for opponents have been made on a funds of decrease than $1 million.

Proper right here’s the whole file of awards issued by the competitors:

GRAND JURY AWARDS – FEATURES

Narrative Attribute Grand Jury Prize: Hannah Ha Ha (Dir: Jordan Tetewsky and Joshua Pikovsky)
Honorable Mentions: Ultrainocencia (Dir: Manuel Arija)

Documentary Attribute Grand Jury Prize: Overlook Me Not (Dir: Olivier Bernier)
Honorable Level out: Fury (Dir: Krzysztof Kasior)

Breakouts Attribute Grand Jury Prize: Killing the Eunuch KHAN (Dir: Abed Abest)
Honorable Mentions: Retrograde (Dir: Adrian Murray)

Unstoppable Attribute Grand Jury Prize: Straighten Up And Fly Correct (Dir: Kristen Abate and Steven
Tanenbaum)

Honorable Mentions: Selahy (My Weapon) (Dir: Alaa Zabara)

JURY AWARDS – SHORTS

Narrative Shorts Grand Jury Prize: Ratking (Dir: Eric Colonna)
Honorable Level out: See You, Garbage! (Dir: Romain Dumont)

Documentary Temporary Grand Jury Prize: The Ritual to Magnificence (Dir: Shenny de Los Angeles and Maria
Marrone)
Honorable Level out: Partitions Can’t Keep Us From Flying (Dir: Jonathan Haff Mehring)

Experimental Shorts Grand Jury Prize: Chameleon (Dir: Ima Iduozee and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko)
Honorable Level out: Compositions for Understanding Relationships (Dir: David De La Fuente)

Animated Shorts Grand Jury Prize: I’m Proper right here (Dir: Julia Orlik)
Honorable Level out: Oldboy’s Apples (Dir: Brad Hock)

FESTIVAL WIDE AWARDS

The AGBO Fellowship, supplied by Joe and Anthony Russo, Award Winner: Ethan Eng, director of
Treatment Canines

Slamdance Showing Award: Hannah Lee Thompson of Hannah Ha Ha
Honorable Level out: Batel Moseri of Bracha

George Starks Spirit of Slamdance Award Winner: Sasha Levinson, director of Sylvie of the Sunshine
State

CreativeFuture Innovation Award: My Guardian, Neal (Dir: Hannah Saidiner)

AUDIENCE AWARDS

Viewers Award for Best Narrative Attribute: The Civil Lifeless (Dir. Clay Tatum)

Viewers Award for Documentary Attribute: Iron Family (Dir. Patrick Longstreth)

Viewers Award for Episodes: The Ember Knight Current: “Getting Mad” (Dir. Bobby McCoy)