The Slamdance International Film Festival has announced its jury prizes and audience award winners, led by "The Bible and Gun Club," the festival's Grand Jury Prize winner in the feature film competition.
"The Bible and Gun Club" is Daniel J. Harris' comic satire about five Orange County Bible salesmen who take a trip to Las Vegas for their annual convention.Slamdance's first Ilford Award for Best Black-and-White Film went to "Angryman," a dark comedy from director David Baer about a man who gets fed up with everyday frustrations.
Two films, Azazel Jacobs' "Kirk and Kerry" and "Three Minutes" by Paul Benz, shared the festival's Jury Prize for Best Short.
Audience awards went to "Eight Days A Week" (Best Drama), Michael Davis' romantic comedy about a teenager who stands under his dream girl's window every day during the summer to prove his love, "Loafing" (Best Short) by Duane Lavold and "Perfect Moment" (Best Documentary), Nicholas Hondrogen's look at what people would do if they had 24 hours to live.
"Driven," Michael Paradies Shoob's drama about three L.A. cab drivers, also won an honorable mention in the feature category.
"Choosing the winner was obviously very difficult. The level of competition was very high," said Slam-dance Executive Director Jon Fitzgerald. "We congratulate all the films in the competition."
The festival also announced winners of its First Annual Screenplay Competition. Grand prize winners were "Bow Tie Wednesday" by Ted Robbins; "The Stand Up," Carl R. Weaver; and "Walking Backwards," Jeffrey Howard. Finalists were "Better Love a Dream," Jane Trost and Griffith Lambert; "Duke Snider Eats Here Free," Julian Stone; and "Fifteen Years Later," Gregg Rosenzweig.
Though this year's Slamdance festival, which ran from Jan. 17 to 23, is over, officials have gotten their website, which includes filmmaker resources and screen-plays, online. The address is http://www.slamdance.com