The 14th annual Slamdance Film Festival has announced 15 film and screenplay prize winners in three categories who will share more than $200,000 in cash and prizes, plus, for one winner, guaranteed production of a feature film. The just-concluded Festival in Park City, Utah, received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 programming slots.

There are three competitive divisions at Slamdance: Grand Jury, Audience and Writer Awards, in addition to a Special Award given by Kodak. The Grand Jury Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature Award winners will be screened at the IFC Center in New York City in February. Feature competition is limited to first-time filmmakers working with production budgets of $1 million or less.

Additionally, Slamdance, Angel Baby Entertainment and Maverick Films will produce a feature film based on the year's prize-winning entry culled from the Slamdance Horror Screenplay Competition. Besides having their screenplay guaranteed to be made into a feature motion picture, the winning writer will receive an upfront payment of $10,000 against 5% of the film's budget, plus net profits participation on the movie and payments for any sequels made of the motion picture. Production of the completed script will occur during the ensuing months, with the intent of having the film's World Premiere during the follow year's Slamdance Film Festival.

The winners of the Grand Jury Awards are as follows:

Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature
Prize: $15,000 Credit at Filmworksfx
LP3 Pictures Grip, Electric, and Studio Package ($15,000 value)
$3,500 Credit on legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP
Winner: "The New Year Parade" directed by Tom Quinn

Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature
"How To Be" directed by Oliver Irving

Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature
Prize: Panasonic HVX200 Camera
$10,000 Credit Filmworksfx
$3,500 Credit on legal services from Pierce Law Group, LLP
$500 Credit from Discmakers
Winner: "Song Sung Blue" directed by Greg Kohs

Special Jury Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature
Winner: "My Mother’s Garden" directed by Cynthia Lester

Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short
Prize: $2,500 Credit at Filmworks/FX
Winner: "Blood Will Tell" directed by Andrew McPhillips

Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short
Prize: $2,500 Credit at Filmworks/FX
Winner: "The Ladies" directed by C.A. Voros

Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short
Prize: $2,500 Credit at Filmworks/FX
Winner: "Doxology" directed by Michael Langan

Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short
Prize: $2,500 Credit at Filmworks/FX
Winner: "Son" directed by Daniel Mulloy

Special Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Short
Winner: "4960" directed by Wing-Yee Wu

The winners of the Audience Awards are as follows:

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature
Prize: $4,000 Credit from Filmworksfx
Winner: "The Project" directed by Ryan Piotrowicz

Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
Prize: $4,000 Credit from Filmworksfx
Winner: "Song Sung Blue" directed by Greg Kohs

Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film
Prize: $2,500 Credit from Filmworksfx
Winner: "Rock Garden" directed by Gloria Kim

Spirit of Slamdance Award*
Prize: Jagermeister Gift Basket
Winner: "Woman in Burka" directed by Jonathan Lisecki
*Awarded by the 2008 filmmakers, for exhibiting passion and talent as a filmmaker, commitment to the independent community, and enthusiastically embracing all Slamdance has to offer.

The winners of the Writer Awards are as follows:

Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay
Prize: $7,000 cash
Winner: "The Wonder Girls" by Anthony Meindl

Award for Best Short Screenplay
Prize: $500.00 cash
Winner: "Easy Pickins'" by Will Hartman

Award for Best Teleplay
Prize: $5,000 cash
Winner: "Stage Six Pandemic" by Barbara Marshall

Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay
Prize: $10,000 cash prize and a production deal with Angel Baby Entertainment & Maverick Films
Winner: "The Punished" by Tony Mosher

Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition
Prize: $1,000 cash
Winner: "Child in the Dark" by Damian Lahey & Ian Ogden

Special Award:

Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography
Prize: $10,000 worth of Kodak film (16mm or 35mm)
This is the 11th year Kodak is sponsoring the Kodak Vision Award at Slamdance
Winner: "Crooked Lake" (programmed as "Portage") cinematography by Sascha Drews & Ezra Krybus

Slamdance 2008 Awards are sponsored by Kodak, Panasonic, LP3 Pictures, Filmworksfx, Pierce Law Group, LLP, Discmakers, Digital Film Central, Alpha Cine, and Angel Baby Entertainment. Closing Awards and Reception

Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature: “Tijuana Makes Me Happy”
Written/Directed by Dylan Verrechia
Prize: $15,000 credit at Filmworks/FX

Excellence in the Execution of a Non-Linear Narrative: "The Death of Michael Smith"
Directed by Daniel Casey

Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: “Unsettled”
Written/Directed by Adam Hootnick
Prize: Sony HDV Camera and tape courtesy of Media Distributors

Honorable Mention: "A Dream in Doubt"
Directed by Tami Yeager

Grand Jury Award for Best Animated Short: “The Ballad of Mary Slade”
Directed by Robin Fuller
Prize: $2,500 credit at Filmworks/FX

Honorable Mention: "Eva,"
Directed by Martin Quaden

Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short: “A Map with Gaps”
Directed by Alice Nelson
Prize: $2,500 credit at Filmworks/FX

Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Short: “Avant Petalos Grillados”
Directed by Cesar Velasco Broca
Prize: $2,500 credit at Filmworks/FX

Honorable Mention: "The Listening Dead"
Directed by Phil Mucci

Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short: “The Cow Thief”
Directed by Charles Williams
Prize: $2,500 credit at Filmworks/FX

Honorable Mention: "The Caress of the Creature,"
Directed by Stewart Alpine

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature: “Murder Party”
Written/ Directed by Jeremy Saulnier
Prize: $2,000 credit from Alpha Cine; $1,000 retail ready DVDs from Seraphic Studio; and legal services at Funkhouser, Vegosen Liebman and Dunn Ltd.

Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: “Red Without Blue”
Written/Directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills & Todd Sills
Prize: $2,000 credit from Alpha Cine; 1,000 retail ready DVDs from Seraphic Studio and legal services at Funkhouser, Vegosen Liebman and Dunn Ltd.

Global Audience Award for Best Anarchy Film: “Commode Creations: The Artwork of Barney Smith”
Directed by Danny Bourque
Prize: RESIN Software, from Caucho Technology, Inc. ($5000 value)

Honorable Mention: "Willowz: We Live on your Street"
Directed by Michael Sladek

Spirit of Slamdance Award: “The Mallorys Go Black Market”
Directed by JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees
Prize: Michael Collins Irish Whiskey gift bag

Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay: “Drool”
By Nancy Kissam
Prize: $7,000 cash

Award for Best Short Screenplay: “4 Corners”
By Ken Pisani
Prize: $500 cash

Award for Best Teleplay: “Ghost Towns”
By Marcus Clay Carmouche & Seamus Kevin Fahey
Prize: Blind Script Deal to develop an original pilot with fox21 ($45,000 value)

Award for Best Horror Competition Screenplay: “Slaughter”
By Bobby Darby & Nathan Brookes
Prize: $10,000 cash prize and a production deal with Angel Baby Entertainment & Maverick Red

Creative Excellence Award for the Horror Screenplay Competition: “Blood-Sucking Leeches and Flesh-Eating Maggots”
By Adam Balsam
Prize: $1,000 cash

Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography: “Under the Sun”
Director of Photography – Nikolaus Summerer
Prize: $10,000 worth of Kodak film (16mm or 35mm)