Slamdance Film Festival Program 2013 by Paul Sbrizzi

Slamdance Film Festival January 18-24, 2013 Park City, Utah

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Events

Gallery

Main Screening Room

Thursday, Jan. 17

9am Filmmaker Check-In Opens 9am Box Office Opens

Friday, Jan. 18

Saturday, Jan. 19

Sunday, Jan. 20

11am Bible Quiz w/ Good Karma $1 10am Kohlhaas 1:30pm Diamond on Vinyl 12:30pm What Isn’t There 4pm Big Words w/ Glory Days 3:10pm The Bitter Buddha w/ The Birdman 7pm Fynbos w/ Shale 5:40pm Best Friends Forever w/ All You Can Eat 8:10pm Hank and Asha w/ Fireworks 10:30pm The Dirties w/ Turtle

10am Coffee With... Special Guest 12:30pm Vipaka 3pm He’s Way More Famous Than You w/ Pearl Was Here 5:40pm Between Us 7:50pm Joy de V. w/ A Time in a Dark Cloud 10:20pm Ghost Team One w/ Keep The Fire

10:15am Shorts Block 1 12:30pm Shorts Block 2 2:30pm The Court of Shards w/ Dreemer 5pm The Last Shepherd w/ The Mercantile 7:30pm Battery Man w/ Rebel, Rebel, Rebel

11am Where I Am w/ Track by Track 1:30pm Running Wild w/ Chicken and Zoe 4pm Blackmagic Fireside Chat 5:30pm Shorts Block 3 7:30pm The Institute w/ The Corner Garden 10pm The Brotherhood of the Traveling Rants w/ The Sandwich Nazi

10:15am Shorts Block 4 12:15pm Animation Shorts 2:30pm My Name is Faith w/ April 5pm Without Shepherds w/ Lollywood 7:30pm Visitors w/ Spark 10pm Anarchy Shorts

9:30am Filmmaker Breakfast in the Filmmaker Lounge 9:15pm Kodak Filmmaker Welcome at the Slamdance Public House 10pm Opening Night Party at the Slamdance Public House

9:30am Filmmaker Breakfast in the Filmmaker Lounge 5pm Blackmagic Happy Hour in the Filmmaker Lounge

9:30am Filmmaker Breakfast in the Filmmaker Lounge 5pm Vimeo Happy Hour in the Filmmaker Lounge 10pm The Weekend Party at the Slamdance Public House

Thursday, Jan. 24

10:30am Visitors w/ Spark 1pm The Court of Shards w/ Dreemer 3:30pm Best Friends Forever w/ All You Can Eat 6pm I Want To Be an American 8pm Kohlhaas 10:20pm Musgo

12pm Fynbos w/ Shale 2:40pm What Isn’t There 5:20pm Terms and Conditions May Apply 7:30pm Big Words w/ Glory Days 10:20pm Domestic

10am Coffee With Kodak DPs 12pm Joy De V. w/ A Time in a Dark Cloud 2:30pm Without Shepherds w/ Lollywood 5pm He’s Way More Famous Than You w/ Pearl Was Here 7:40pm Hank and Asha w/ Fireworks 10pm Jug Face

1pm Ghost Team One w/ Keep The Fire 3:30pm The Dirties w/ Turtle 6pm Where I Am w/ Track by Track 9pm Awards Ceremony

10am Marketing and Distribution Fireside Chat 11:30am The Bitter Buddha w/ The Birdman 2pm Shorts Block 2 4:30pm The Brotherhood of the Traveling Rants w/ The Sandwich Nazi 7pm Bible Quiz w/ Good Karma $1 9:30pm Diamond on Vinyl

10am New Forms of Distribution Fireside Chat 11:30am The Institute w/ The Corner Garden 2:15pm Battery Man w/ Rebel, Rebel, Rebel 4:45pm Anarchy Shorts 7pm Running Wild w/ Chicken and Zoe 9:30pm Musgo

11:30am Terms and Conditions 12:30pm Shorts Block 3 May Apply 2:30pm Shorts Block 4 2pm The Last Shepherd 4:30pm Domestic w/ The Mercantile 4:30pm Animation Shorts 7pm Shorts Block 1 9:30pm My Name is Faith w/ April

9:30am Filmmaker Breakfast in the Filmmaker Lounge 3pm Filmmaker Sled-Off 5pm Happy Hour in the Filmmaker Lounge 6pm Hot Tub Summit

9:30am Filmmaker Breakfast in 9:30am Filmmaker Breakfast in the Filmmaker Lounge the Filmmaker Lounge 5pm Happy Hour in the Filmmaker 5pm Kodak Happy Hour in the Lounge Filmmaker Lounge

9:30am Filmmaker Breakfast in the Filmmaker Lounge 10:30pm Awards Reception

Events

Wednesday, Jan. 23

Gallery

Tuesday, Jan. 22

Main Screening Room

Monday, Jan. 21

Shorts at a Glance

Block 1

Block 3

Animation

Anarchy

Prometheus ROTKOP Indoor To the Bone The Robber Caterwaul

Start the Engine and Reverse Baby Blues Gigantic Resurrection Slope Sweetheart

FIX The War Profiteers The Compositor Desert Hopes Sci-Fly Shepherds, Have You Seen My Love?

Block 2

Block 4

Lu’bba Summer Suit For Dorian Josephine and the Roach Donald Cried

Seed Story Hearts of Napalm Maelstrøm Suspended 37 The Devil’s Ballroom

An Elegy for Eden Baboon Ballpit Bermuda El delirio del pez león Drifters The Eater Gum Home I Am Tom Moody The Jennings Account Noodle Fish Royal Issues Shelter Snail Trail Sugarcoat Tap to Retry Triangle What Is Dead May Never Die

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Table of Contents 11. Introduction 14. Staff & Credits 15. Programmers 18. Sponsors 21. Sponsorship: Off the Grid 24. Events 27. Founders Screening 28. Special Screenings 35. Beyond 41. Narrative Features 55. Documentaries 67. Shorts 72. Animation 76. Anarchy 79. On Programming

81. War Stories 89. Slamdance on the Road 91. Slamdance TV 92. Fireside Chats 93. Awards & Prizes 95. Coffee With... Events

96. Poetry by Dan Mirvish 97. Slamdance NYC 98. Jury 104. Screenwriting & Teleplay Competition Finalists 108. Alumni 112. Film Index

PROUDLY SUPPORTS

Welcome to Slamdance! Not just a film festival, Slamdance is an ongoing experiment that has proven, year after year, that when it comes to recognizing talent and launching careers, the independent and grassroots film communities can do it themselves. Slamdance’s 2013 showcase is full of exhilarating filmmaking and a revolutionary take on our world. These filmmakers will innovate, explore and revitalize the independent filmmaking landscape.

Thank you to all of our programmers, production team, sponsors, our TMI hosts, and last but not least, you, the audience, for continuing the Slamdance story. Enjoy the show! Onward and upward,

Peter Baxter

President/Co-founder

Our showcase could not happen without our programmers who, after previously participating at the festival as filmmakers, return to select the next year’s slate. Over the years, this practice has led to dynamic programming that defies categorization. As a result we continue to grow and exemplify our mantra: By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers.

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Staff and Credits Peter Baxter

President & Co-founder

Mark Matukewicz

Kristin Molloy

Jeremy Coon Skizz Cyzyk Marc Forster Steve Montal Paul Rachman Anthony Russo Joe Russo Steven Soderbergh Penelope Spheeris Greg Urich Lance Weiler Saskia Wilson-Brown

Slamdance TV Producer & slamdance.com Editor

Sue-Ellen Chitunya

Park City Friends

Eric Ekman

Cameron Lobdell

Mandy Wilson

Skizz Cyzyk

Marketing Coordinator

Projectionist Captain

Clementine Leger

Andres Olsen-Rodriguez

Festival Passes & Jury Coordinator

Projectionist

Programming & Filmmaker Relations Manager

Dina Badamshina

Projectionist

Kelly Calligan

Randall Good

Producer

Anna Germanidi

Sponsorship & Events Manager

Summre Garber

Director of Operations

Dana Blackwell Production Coordinator

Paul Rachman Slamdance East Coast Director

Dan Mirvish Slamdance Co-founder at large

Paul Sbrizzi Art Director

Rebecca McLoney Salt Lake City Producer

George Starks Salt Lake City Producer

Slamdance Advisors

Filmmaker Relations Liaison Theater Manager

Ben Hethcoat

Mario DeAngelis Jeff Satsuda Projectionist

Front of House Coordinator Slamdance Studios Coordinator

Slamdance TV Producer, Cameraman & Editor

Production Assistant

Michael Felker

Merchandise

Jessica Davis

Slamdance TV Cameraman & Editor

Hayley Blumenstock

Beth Prouty

Connor Rickman

Program Editor

Ken Coelho Accountant

David Albert Pierce Legal Council

Box Office Box Office

Festival Publicity: Cinematic Red

Annie Jeeves Melanie Marquez

Pete Ashdown Thea & Andy Beerman Joanna Charnes Frank Normile Susan Packard John Webster Dana Williams Slamdance Film Festival Co-founders

Peter Baxter Jon Fitzgerald Shane Kuhn Dan Mirvish

Programmers Narrative Features

Documentary

Narrative Shorts

Animation

Amber Benson Todd Berger Daniel Berube Drea Clark* Joel Garber Josh Mandel Stacey Marbrey Aaron Marshall Craig Parish Mo Perkins Paul Sbrizzi Jana Winternitz

Adam Busch Fabian Euresti Summre Garber Ben Hethcoat Theodore James Mick Muhlfriedel Ehren Parks* Terrie Samundra Heather Santora Edward Stencel* M. K. West Saskia Wilson-Brown

Brian Bolster John Butkovich Steve Christolos Brian Doom Joseph Ernst Dylan Gravley Sarah Hudson Digant â&#x20AC;&#x153;DCâ&#x20AC;? Kasundra Taylor Miller* Natalie Neal Kristina Nikolova Beth Prouty* James Raymond Kseniya Rukavishnikova Susan Sfarra Breven Angaelica Warren Victoria Westover

Randall Good Kent Osborne

Beyond

Nicole Arbusto Peter Baxter Daniel Berube Josh Mandel* Robert Nichols* Paul Sbrizzi

Special Screenings

Peter Baxter Dan Mirvish Paul Rachman

Anarchy

Noel Lawrence Burke Roberts Associate Programmers

Patricia Alvarez Lilly Scourtis Ayers Chris Newman Sharad Kant Patel * Team Captain

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Off the Grid

Slamdance is a one-of-a-kind festival. In many ways, it is a social experiment that has lasted almost 20 years. It’s not easy to go out on your own and create something that goes against the grain. You need people who support you and believe in what you do – in the festival world, these are sponsors. The nature of Slamdance sponsorship is as organic and inspired as its programming. Some sponsors, like Kodak and the DGA, have been with us since the beginning. Without them, we wouldn’t even have the space to construct screening rooms to host our unique line-up of films. Our partners do more than fund the festival and our year-round efforts. Their involvement lends real and tangible support to an ongoing independent film community unlike any other out there. Slamdance is the underdog in Park City and our sponsors come aboard with integrity and commitment, not opportunism. Just as our festival grows each year, our sponsorship base also evolves to meet the needs of our attending filmmakers. This year, we are beginning partnerships with companies that are becoming increasingly important to our industry and our filmmakers, like Vimeo and JuntoBox Films. They, and all of our sponsors, are not just logos in a grid, but actual people dedicated to fostering your creative freedom and expression. Slamdance is a unique festival and it takes equally unique and passionate sponsors to pull it off.

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Events KODAK FILMMAKER WELCOME

Slamdance Public House – 628 Park Ave. 21 and over, filmmakers only Friday, Jan. 18th @ 9:15pm

THE WEEKEND PARTY

Sunday, Jan. 20th @ 10pm Slamdance Public House – 628 Park Ave. 21 and over, invite and passholders only

Cool your jets after the opening weekend festival madness!

SLED-OFF Kodak welcomes the 2013 filmmakers to the Slamdance family and kicks off the festival with a toast to their achievements.

SLAMDANCE OPENING NIGHT PARTY Slamdance Public House – 628 Park Ave. 21 and over, Invite and passholders only Friday, Jan. 18th @ 10pm

Music by Dorian Missick aka DJ Tailwind Turner, star of Big Words. Shaves, shines and cuts courtesy of New Amsterdam Vodka.

Meet in the TMI Lobby Monday, Jan. 21st @ 3pm

Everyone is welcome to our 12th Annual Great Park City Sled-Off presented by Royal Purple Motor Oil! Meet in the lobby of Treasure Mt. Inn @ 3pm, then we walk from there. Come shake off the stress of interviews and meetings with some fun in the snow! Protective headgear recommended, costumes encouraged, if you’ve got a sled bring it, if not… we’ll figure something out.

HOT TUB Summit

Hot Tub at the TMI, 2nd floor Monday, Jan. 21st @ 6pm The “wettest panel discussion on the festival circuit” at Treasure Mt. Inn’s massive hot tub (seats 50+). Intimately led by Slamdance old-schoolers Dan Mirvish and Paul Rachman, with Oscar-nominated Adrian Belic, Slamdance Audience-winner Andrew Edison & special guests. Clothing optional. #HotTubSummit for updates.

Coffee With...

Main Screening Room at the TMI Priority to filmmakers/passholders Our Coffee With events involve independent luminaries sharing their stories, creative trials and tribulations, and wisdom over a cup of coffee with our filmmakers. They fill up quickly. Past guests have included Neil Young, Stan Lee, Vilmos Zsigmond and Jonathan Demme. Sunday, Jan. 20th @ 10am

Coffee With...

Surprise special guest. Wednesday, Jan. 23rd @ 10am

Coffee With Kodak & Directors Of Photography

FIRESIDE CHATS

Gallery Screening Room at the TMI Free Admission Saturday, Jan. 19th @ 4pm Monday, Jan. 21st @ 10am Tuesday, Jan. 22nd @ 10am Join us as we bring together filmmakers, industry figures and leading technology gurus to meet in an informal setting. Designed to provide you with new and essential tools and knowledge to embark on your next filmmaking adventure. See page 92 for Fireside Chats program.

HAPPY HOURS

With notable luminaries from the world of cinematography.

Filmmaker Lounge at the TMI 21 and over, hosted bar Open to passholders, per venue capacity

FILMMAKER BREAKFASTS

Saturday, Jan. 19th through Wednesday, Jan. 23rd from 5pm to 7pm

Filmmaker Lounge at the TMI Daily @ 9:30am

Coffee, tea and fresh juices, fruit and continental breakfast spread. Open to filmmakers.

Your daily opportunity to blow off some steam and hang out with the other Slamdancers. Saturday is brought to you by Blackmagic Design, Sunday comes courtesy of Vimeo, and Kodak will be your host for Wednesday. Bottoms up!

SLAMDANCE AWARDS CEREMONY

Main Screening Room at the TMI Thursday, Jan. 24th @ 9pm

Join us as we announce the Slamdance 2013 Jury and Audience Awards. Presented by JuntoBox Films.

Founders Screening 5:40pm, Sunday, Jan. 20

Between Us USA / 90 min

In this darkly comedic drama, two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where any-

On his first film, Omaha (The Movie), Slamdance Co-founder at Large Dan Mirvish was mentored by Robert Altman. Dan’s film Open House led the Academy Awards to controversially rewrite their rules on Best Original Musicals. Mirvish cowrote the critically-acclaimed novel I Am Martin Eisenstadt. Between Us is fresh off a 7-country, 14-festival fall run where it was the Closing Night film at Gijon and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Bahamas International Film Festival.

thing can happen. Grace and Carlo are a newly married New York couple who visit their old friends Sharyl and Joel in their huge Midwestern home. Despite their wealth, the hosts are in a bitterly destructive marriage. A few years later, the couples reunite in New York, but the tables are turned as the young couple struggles with parenthood and finances, only to discover their old friends even more successful and much happier than before. Director: Dan Mirvish Producers: Hans Ritter, Mike S. Ryan, Dan Mirvish Writers: Joe Hortua, Dan Mirvish, based on a play by Joe Hortua Editor: Dean Gonzalez DP: Nancy Schreiber Cast: Taye Diggs, Melissa George, David Harbour, Julia Stiles Music: Tobias Enhus, H. Scott Salinas dmirvish@slamdance.com

Special Screening 6pm, Monday, Jan. 21

I Want To Be an American

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Known as the Slam Collective, seven Slamdance filmmakers from five continents come together to make I Want To Be an American, Slamdance’s first documentary feature. In the spirit of the Surrealist parlor game of chance Exquisite Corpse, each filmmaker makes a documentary short film based on imagery forwarded on by the previous filmmaker in the chain. The composite story forms a global independent filmmaking experience.

Mission Statement The Slam Collective supports film-production collaborations between global filmmakers using innovative methods and shared experience. Be it the $99 Short film program or Anarchy online, the Slamdance Film Festival has for over a dozen years produced short films with its alumni. Slamdance has always been a showcase for original, raw and innovative filmmaking, as well as a year-round organization serving new and emerging artists. Governed by its maxim By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers, Slam Collective No.1 titled I Want To Be an American is Slamdance’s first collaborative feature. It’s inspired by the idea that – with digital technology, cameras, and online distribution – like-minded filmmakers from different cultures across continents can embrace a basic concept and create several films with one unifying theme: the discovery of community.

I Want To Be an American

Suzanne Takes Me Down by Q

by Dale Yudelman

Suzanne, a transgender sex worker, walks the streets of Kolkata. We spend an orange-hued night with her. She spills her dreams.

Stix, a 19-year-old youth, has lived on the streets of Cape Town and the suburb of Manenburg all his life. The Americans he mentions are a notorious gang on the Cape Flats, but what Stix really wants is to see the world and America someday.

Clown in the Crowd by Maya Newell Yani, a 29-year-old Peruvian refugee, leads a double life: part wife and mother, part clown. A passionate advocate of painted faces and floppy shoes, Yani’s simple desire is to make children smile.

Aidee by Dylan Verrechia The story of Aidee, a stripper living in Tijuana, struggling relentlessly to provide her daughter with a good education and a better life.

Listen by Monteith McCollum A story about man’s love affair with shortwave radio.

All About Eve by Peter Baxter Eve, an outgoing 12-year-old girl living in Hollywood, California is preparing to meet the world and life in the 21st Century.

Rosa by Daniel J. Harris Rosa is about a traditional wedding song from Cape Malay culture, sung mostly now at choral competitions.

Directors: Dale Yudelman (The Witness, 2010), Maya Newell (Two, 2011), Dylan Verrechia (Tijuana Makes Me Happy, 2007), Q (Gandu, 2011), Monteith McCollum (Hybrid, 2001), Peter Baxter (Slamdance President /Co-Founder), Daniel J. Harris (The Bible and Gun Club, 1996). Producers: Peter Baxter and Daniel J. Harris. villagegreen@slamdance.com, biginvegas@gmail.com

Special Screening 10pm, Wednesday, Jan. 23

Jug Face

USA / 81 min / World Premiere

The pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brother’s child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, determined to save the life of her unborn. But if she doesn’t sacrifice herself, the creature from the pit will crawl out and kill everyone in the village. Director: Chad Crawford Kinkle Producers: Andrew van den Houten, Robert Tonino Writer: Chad Crawford Kinkle Editor: Zach Passero DP: Chris Heinrich Cast: Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Sean Young, Larry Fessenden, Daniel Manche, Scott Hodges, Katie Groshong, Alex Maizus Music: Sean Spillane chadckinkle@mac.com

Born in rural Tennessee, Chad Crawford Kinkle grew up making horror movies with his parents’ VHS camcorder. This led him to earn two degrees in film with aspirations to become America’s next horror filmmaker. After eight years of writing, his career finally began with his award-winning screenplay Jug Face.

Special Screening 12:30pm, Sunday, Jan. 20

Vipaka

USA / 90 min / World Premiere

An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez,

who delves into Thomas’ teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him and his family for their past sins.

Director: Philippe Caland Producers: Philippe Caland, Forest Whitaker, Nina Yang Writers: Shintaro Shimosawa [screenplay], Philippe Caland [story] Editors: Lee Haugen, Rick Shaine DP: Denis Maloney Cast: Forest Whitaker, Anthony Mackie, Mike Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Nicole Ari Parker, Ariana Neal Music: Mark Kilian thefounder@ybg.com, joseph@ybg.com

Caland grew up in Paris and Beirut, attended the American College of Paris and was part of the French National Swim Team. Caland wrote the story for Boxing Helena in 1993. He’s also the founder of Econology, an organization that promotes environmental sustainability. Vipaka is based on Caland’s The Guru and the Gypsy and is his fourth film as director.

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Programming Notes

Beyond Beyond is a brand new section at Slamdance that showcases bold and daring films from emerging narrative and documentary filmmakers working just beyond their first features. Over the last 19 years, Slamdance has developed a strong reputation of discovering first-time filmmakers and giving them their first platform. Recognizing that some of the most exciting new filmmakers today are breaking out on their subsequent films, Slamdance is expanding its reach and thus its reputation for discovering new voices in independent filmmaking.

and expectations among even the most savvy film audiences.

The films selected for Beyond this year are provocative, impassioned and as different from each other as night is from day. They capture the world through an independent lens, inciting wildly divergent emotions like riots: fear, joy, anger, love. If they share one thing in common, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that they push boundaries in story, character

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As with every section at Slamdance, Beyond was programmed entirely from blind submissions. Programmers found, fell in love with, and ultimately fought for these films as if they were their own. These films of the present represent the talent of the future. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re excited to show them to World and North American audiences for the very first time. Enjoy.

Josh Mandel Beyond Programming Committee

Beyond 1:30pm, Friday, Jan. 18 9:30pm, Monday, Jan. 21

Diamond on Vinyl USA / 94 min / World Premiere

Henry’s fiancee Beth kicks him out after discovering his audio recordings of their intimate life and his confes-

sion that he may no longer love her. A chance meeting with Charlie, a headstrong young photographer, allows Henry to act out his obsession with creating the perfect interaction: spontaneous, rehearsed, both fixed and changeable. Charlie and Henry’s recordings of imagined conversations become a dangerous game where intimacy and identity may be both real and imagined. J.R. Hughto’s films and photography explore duality, principally the friction between nostalgia/modernity and documentary/lyricism. Hughto uses his experience as a Digital Cinema Workflow Specialist and Post Super to foster innovative, low-cost filmmaking practices. In addition to his work in the film industry, Hughto teaches at CalArts.

Director: J.R. Hughto Producer: J.R. Hughto Writer: J.R. Hughto Editor: Apolonia Panagopoulos DP: Ki Jin Kim Cast: Brian McGuire, Sonja Kinski, Nina Millin, Jeff Doucette, Jessica Golden, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Katherine Pawlak Music: Circuit des Yeux, Hertta Lussu Ässä, Pens, Phantom Payn Days, Jerusalem and the Starbaskets, Parasites of the Western World jrhughto@gmail.com

Beyond 10:20pm, Tuesday, Jan. 22 4:30pm, Thursday, Jan. 24

Domestic

Romania / 85 min / N. American Premiere

Wonderfully surreal, painfully real, this is the story of children, adults and animals who live together trying

to have a better life, but sometimes death comes unexpectedly. The lives of three characters surrounded by a bunch of extraordinary, funny, absurd but quite realistic events. It is all about us, people who eat the animals that they love, and the animals that love people unconditionally. Adrian Sitaru is based in Romania. His shorts Waves and The Cage won over 50 awards, including 2 BAFTA/LA Awards. His first feature Hooked premiered at Venice Days and won ten awards; his second feature Best Intentions won the awards for Best Director and Best Male Actor at Locarno.

Director: Adrian Sitaru Producer: Monica Lazurean-Gorgan Writer: Adrian Sitaru Editors: Andrei Gorgan, Adrian Sitaru DP: Adrian Silisteanu Cast: Adrian Titieni, Gheorghe Ifrim, Sergiu Costache, Ioana Flora, Clara Voda, Dan Hurduc, Ariadna Titieni Music: Sebastian Zsemlye, Adrian Sitaru monica@4prooffilm.ro

Beyond 10:20pm, Monday, Jan. 21 9:30pm, Tuesday, Jan. 22

Musgo re

Spain / 72 min / World Premie

Sara runs a large country house in the middle of the Pyrenees, away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Her peaceful life is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of her stepmother with whom she does not get along. Her stepmother brings her father’s ashes. What at first looks like a reconciliation turns into a nightmare.

Director: Gami Orbegoso Producers: Maite Güell, Gami Orbegoso Writer: Gami Orbegoso Editor: Gami Orbegoso DP: Gami Orbegoso Cast: Meritxell Ortega, Merçe Espelleta, German Parreño, Joan Manel Chilet Music: Gami Orbegoso gaminedesor@gmail.com

Born in Peru, living in Barcelona, Spain since 1990, Gami Orbegoso left Psychology to study acting at Col·legi de Teatre and at the Centre d´Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona. There, he became interested in directing as a selftaught filmmaker. Musgo is his second movie.

Beyond 5:20pm, Tuesday, Jan. 22 11:30am, Wednesday, Jan. 23

Terms and Conditions May Apply USA / 79 min / World Premiere

Have you ever read the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies con-

nected to every website you visit, phone call you make, or app you use? Of course you haven’t. But those agreements allow corporations to do things with your personal information you could never even imagine. This film explores the intent hidden within these ridiculous agreements, and reveals what corporations and governments are legally taking from you and the outrageous consequences that result from clicking “I accept.” Director: Cullen Hoback Producers: John Ramos, Cullen Hoback, Nitin Khanna Writer: Cullen Hoback Editor: Cullen Hoback DP: Ben Wolf Cast: Margaret Atwood, Danah Boyd, Orson Scott Card, Ray Kurzweil, Doug Rushkoff, Moby, Sherry Turkle, Mark Zuckerberg Music: John Morgan Askew cullenhoback@gmail.com

Cullen Hoback has directed several films, including the acclaimed documentary Monster Camp. He likes taking seemingly weird and complicated subjects and making them relatable. Even after directing Terms and Conditions May Apply, he still has a Facebook account, which he uses mostly to untag himself from photos.

Programming Notes

Narrative Features I do not know more about movies than you. I have likely seen more than you, watching with a sincerity and passion that would be dorky if I werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t such a bossy gal, but I am under no pretense that I know more about movies than you, and my fellow programmers would say the same about themselves. And that, I think, is the heart of our process at Slamdance. We are all filmmakers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a distinction that I would be genuinely shocked if another festival could match â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but we view each submission from the humble perspective of the movie fanatic.

more about movies than you, but I do know the 12 films we selected as a team answered the call, motivating us as fellow filmmakers, inspiring us as fans and making us fist pump in the air like passionate, bossy dorks. Enjoy the crap out of them.

Drea Clark

Narrative Programming Team Captain

Our experience and our taste and our empathy and our eye rolls certainly inform our selections, but we know we are not better than the film we are about to see. We truly WANT that film to blow us away, to unleash a new talent, to debut a fresh style, to make us excited and challenged and better for having watched it. I do not know 41

Narrative Competition pm, Monday, Jan. 21 5:40pm, Saturday, Jan. 19 • 3:30

Best Friends Forever USA / 82 min / World Premiere

Best Friends Forever is a clever dark comedy and heartfelt road trip buddy film wrapped in an apocalyptic disaster

Director: Brea Grant Producers: Stacey Storey, Vera Miao Writers: Brea Grant, Vera Miao Editors: Jacob Chase, Amy McGrath DP: Michelle Lawler Cast: Brea Grant, Vera Miao, Sean Maher, Kit Williamson, Alex Berg, Alex Fernie, Stacey Storey Music: Matthew Puckett

story, with two badass girls. Harriet, a perpetually optimistic comic-book artist, dreams of escaping her past in Los Angeles and hits the road for a new life in Austin, Texas. She drags Reba, her seemingly devil-may-care BFF, along for the ride. In the hush period following mysterious nuclear explosions, the girls are forced to ask: when faced with the end of the world – what is most important to you? Brea Grant is best known for roles on Dexter, the hit NBC series Heroes, and Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2. Brea has made a name for herself as a writer in the comic book world. This is her directorial debut.

bestfriendsforeverfilm@gmail.com

All You Can Eat

Directors: Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik USA / 14 min

At one point Randy Stormberg, host of Food Channel’s All You Can Eat, wanted to be a comedian. Now it’s 9:30 in the goddamn morning and he’s already eaten a bucket of shrimp. burchanik@gmail.com

Narrative Competition Tuesday, Jan. 22 4pm, Friday, Jan. 18 • 7:30pm,

Big Words

USA / 93 min / World Premiere

Brooklyn, 2008. On the eve of Obama’s history-making election, three friends, once members of a promising hip-hop

Director: Neil Drumming Producer: Matthew Keene Smith Writer: Neil Drumming Editor: Keith Overton DP: Cliff Charles Cast: Dorian Missick, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Darien Sills-Evans, Yaya Alafia, Zachary Booth, Amir Arison, Jean Grae Music: Steven Cohen info@bigwordsthemovie.com

Glory Days

trio, cross paths once again and discover that some things never change. Former frontman John, once known as “Big Words,” is now a struggling IT guy who raps only to himself. James is a publicist living with his boyfriend, far removed from the days when he rhymed about getting girls. DJ Malik still spins records, but he wants the old days back. Together again, the guys reckon with the past and dreams deferred. Neil Drumming is a filmmaker, journalist, and pop culture critic. He is a former staff writer and editor at Entertainment Weekly and his work has appeared in numerous publications including Wired, The Washington Post, Vibe, Rolling Stone, Essence and Vanity Fair. He lives in Brooklyn.

Director: Benjamin Rutkowski USA / 11 min

On New Years Eve, Jack, a recovering alcoholic, takes his two children on a road trip to the country. ben.m.rutkowski@gmail.com

Narrative Competition , Monday, Jan. 21 2:30pm, Friday, Jan. 18 • 1pm

The Court of Shards miere

Germany / 75 min / World Pre

The two friends Nora and Isabel, both disabled, try to lead normal lives. Strangely enough, it is their family, well-meaning

Director: Jan Eilhardt Producers: Jan Eilhardt, Brigitte Eilhardt Writer: Jan Eilhardt Editor: Verena Neumann DPs: Benjamin Bayer, Raphael Beinder, Marian Engel, Lukas Majka, Ulrike Thiele Cast: Caroline Fricke, Anna Böttcher, Silvia Giehle, Steffi Kühnert, Natalia Bondar, Frank Hoffmann, Alexander Scheer, Doris Egbring-Kahn

friends and care workers who appear not to want normality at all. When Nora decides to marry her immigrant lover Amadou, her family does everything in its power to stop her. Amadou’s presence sets in motion a bitter deal, a forced homecoming, and a whole series of unfortunate events. And the consequences have only just begun... Jan Eilhardt was born in the Harz Mountains in Germany. Having studied in Hamburg Film and Fine Arts (under Marina Abramović), he went on to work as theatre assistant to Heiner Müller at the Berliner Ensemble. Jan’s film career took off in Berlin with several short films, which screened in various European film festivals, galleries and theatre productions.

janeilhardt@gmx.net

Dreemer

Director: Laura Dawe Canada / 13 min / US Premiere

All that 19-year-old Brandy wants is love from her abusive 35-year-old pot-dealing boyfriend, Rat Jon, who just wants his oppressive best friend Mikey to respect him. Powerless in the real world, Brandy finds strength in her dreams.

mjohnson@cfccreates.com

Narrative Competition 3:30pm, Thursday, Jan. 24 10:30pm, Saturday, Jan. 19 •

The Dirties

USA / 83 min / World Premiere

Matt and Owen are best friends who live in a world of endless movie references and hijinks. It would be perfect, if

not for the cruel bullies at their high school who make their lives hell. While working on a movie for class, the lines between fiction and reality blur together in this horrifying look at high school bullying. Director: Matt Johnson Producers: Matthew Miller, Matt Johnson, Evan Morgan & Jared Raab Writers: Matt Johnson, Evan Morgan, based on a story by Josh Boles Editors: Matt Johnson & Evan Morgan DP: Jared Raab Cast: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Krista Madison, David Matheson, Brandon Wickens, Josh Boles, Alen Delaine, Jay McCarrol Music: Jay McCarrol

Matt Johnson co-created Nirvana the Band the Show. The Dirties is his first feature film. He’d like to use this section for shout outs: Bird! What up Milliskube! Hey Candy Candy! We made it! LiL’JaZZy in dA MiX! Yo E-R0cK! We in it N0W b0i!

ntbmatt@gmail.com

Turtle

Director: Ian Wittenber USA / 8 min / World Premiere

Sam and Jen have a unique dilemma in their relationship. One that pulls them close together even as their time runs out. ianwittenber@gmail.com

Narrative Competition sday, Jan. 22 7pm, Friday, Jan. 18 • 12pm, Tue

Fynbos

South Africa, USA / 96 min / N.

American Premiere

A real estate developer, on the brink of bankruptcy, travels with his wife to a lavish and remote glass house bordering an

Director: Harry Patramanis Producer: Eleni Asvesta Writers: Jonathan Glatzer, Harry Patramanis Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis DP: Dieter Deventer Cast: Jessica Haines, Warrick Grier, Susan Danford, Sthandiwe Kgoroke, John Herbert, Cara Roberts, Chad Phillips Music: Coti K

informal settlement on a sweeping landscape in the Western Cape of South Africa. He’s desperate to sell the property. When his wife goes inexplicably missing, stifled by a sense of looming distrust and financial pressure, he is caught in a maze of missteps and uncertainty. Harry Patramanis was born in Athens, Greece and studied at the University of Film and Television in Munich, Germany (HFF). His first short films and story-driven television commercials won him international recognition and screenings at numerous festivals. He lives and works between the USA, Greece and South Africa.

Harry@companyfilms.net

Shale

Director: Jed Cowley USA / 13 min / World Premiere

In the heat of divorce, John has ignored all attempts to divide his meager estate with his wife, Sheila. Bringing her lawyer as emotional support, Sheila returns to John’s shale pit to make one final push. When they arrive, John’s only plan is to refuse Sheila what she’s after.

jedcowley@gmail.com

Narrative Competition , Thursday, Jan. 24 10:20pm, Sunday, Jan. 20 • 1pm

AM ONE GHOST TEmie re USA / 83 min / World Pre

Brad and Sergio are what wimps refer to as wussies. They don’t want to see a ghost. But the girl they want to have

Directors: Scott Rutherford, Ben Peyser Producers: Hernany Perla, Adam Mutchler Writers: Andrew Knauer, Arthur Pielli, Scott Rutherford, Ben Peyser Editors: John de Jesus, Ben Peyser, Scott Rutherford DP: Ben Peyser Cast: Carlos Santos, J.R. Villarreal, Fernanda Romero, Meghan Falcone, Tony Cavalero, James Babson, Scott MacArthur, Craig Stott Music: Slicklife

sex with sure does. The housemates set out to film their own version of a Paranormal Activity as an excuse to be near her, but quickly find themselves much closer to a demon whore than the woman of their dreams. GHOST TEAM ONE is a charmingly racist spin on the found footage genre that delights in the dream space between a man’s heart and his balls. Scott Rutherford and Ben Peyser met while playing homosexual hobos for a professor in UCLA’s graduate film program. Scott has written for Comedy Central’s Workaholics, and won a Humanitas prize for some truly heartfelt fart jokes. Ben has shot three features, and directs and shoots commercials.

info@ghostteamone.com

Keep the Fire

Director: Jake Rice USA / 13 min

With a ton of radio hits under his belt, a veteran record producer in his corner, and enough session musicians to make even Steely Dan jealous, Kenny Loggins has a problem...his album cover! It’s 1979 and Kenny’s album cover for Keep The Fire has to be one for the books. jakericesauce@gmail.com

Narrative Competition pm, Wednesday, Jan. 23 8:10pm, Saturday, Jan. 19 • 7:40

Hank and Asha USA / 73 min / World Premiere

When Asha, an Indian student in Prague, sees Hank’s documentary at a film festival, she feels inspired to send him a

Director: James E. Duff Producers: James E. Duff, Julia Morrison Writer: James E. Duff, Julia Morrison Editor: Julia Morrison DP: Bianca Butti Cast: Mahira Kakkar, Andrew Pastides Music: Lara Meyerratken paperchainproductions@gmail.com

Fireworks

video message. Intrigued, Hank responds in kind from New York. The film unfolds through the video letters they record and send to each other – two strangers aching for human connection in a hyper-connected world. As their unconventional relationship intensifies, they must decide whether or not to meet face-to-face. It’s a story about isolation, identity, and the irresistible appeal of entertaining life’s what-ifs. James E. Duff earned his MFA in Film from USC. He spent two years in West Africa directing development and human rights documentaries, and taught filmmaking in Kenya, the Sahara Desert, and the Czech Republic. His awardwinning short Life is a Sweet screened at over 40 festivals worldwide.

Director: Victor Hugo Duran USA / 11 min

Growing up in Los Angeles, the Fourth of July was always about fireworks. Against the holiday backdrop in South L.A., Fireworks is a coming-of-age story of two adolescent brothers on a quest to impress a group of girls and their growing bond.

fireworksshortfilm@gmail.com

Narrative Competition nesday, Jan. 23 3pm, Sunday, Jan. 20 • 5pm, Wed

He’s Way More Famous Than You USA / 96 min / World Premiere

When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop

Director: Michael Urie Producers: Christopher Sepulveda, Michael Anderson, Geoffrey Soffer Writers: Halley Feiffer, Ryan Spahn Editor: Jim Mol DP: Austin F. Schmidt Cast: Halley Feiffer, Ryan Spahn, Michael Urie, Ralph Macchio, Natasha Lyonne, Jesse Eisenberg, Ben Stiller, Tracee Chimo, Mamie Gummer Music: Jeff Beal info@hwmfty.com

she finally realizes that something has got to change...she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make a movie, starring herself (of course), and any A-list celebrity she can land. She will stop at nothing, even if it means hurting the only people who truly care about her.

Michael Urie co-directed and executive produced the documentary Thank You For Judging. As an actor he has appeared On/Off Broadway, on film (Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Decoy Bride, Petunia) and on TV (Partners/Ugly Betty). He directed the upcoming short The Hyperglot, and executive produced Grantham & Rose.

Pearl Was Here

Director: Kate Marks USA / 9 min / World Premiere

This is not for kids who have spelling-bee trophies, sweet dreams, or homes that smell like supper. It’s for kids with food on their face, who hate their birthday because they never get what they want, who fear their mother’s boyfriend and hide in cabinets to make them feel safe. Kate.sugarcane@gmail.com

Narrative Competition m, Wednesday, Jan. 23 7:50pm, Sunday, Jan. 20 • 12p

Joy de V.

USA / 87 min / World Premiere

Roman is a con-artist from Long Island; his wife Joy is seven months pregnant. One morning she vanishes into thin air.

Director: Nadia Szold Producer: Jean-Marie Parisi Writer: Nadia Szold Editor: Kristen Swanbeck DP: Tristan Allen Cast: Evan Louison, Josephine de La Baume, Claudia Cardinale, Iva Gocheva, Victoria Imperioli Music: John Prince, Noah Plotkin nadiaszold@gmail.com

The same morning she disappears, Roman discovers that his most consistent scam, government disability checks from a faked madness, will run out if he doesn’t do something soon to prove he is insane. We begin here, and from here dive into the mysterious behavior of those stricken by love and who are perhaps more certifiably crazy than they believe themselves to be. Nadia Szold began directing and producing theatre of the absurd in her teens. Learning the ropes working for Robin O’Hara and Scott Macaulay at Forensic Films, she went on to direct her feature debut Joy de V. Over the Summer of 2012, she directed Mariah, a Mexican revenge drama now in post-production.

A Time in a Dark Cloud

Director: Rebecca Sgan-Cohen

USA / 13 min / World Premiere

Emily is spending the weekend at her mother’s. Her first night home, she goes out to the local bar, meets a good-looking stranger and goes home with him. The encounter prompts her to reflect on her choices.

rsgancohen@gmail.com

Narrative Competition , Monday, Jan. 21 10am, Saturday, Jan. 19 • 8pm

Kohlhaas or the

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Germany / 90 min / N. Americ

Deep in the Bavarian countryside Kleist’s historical drama Michael Kohlhaas is being shot. But instead of extraordinary cosDirector: Aron Lehmann Producers: Frank Kaminski, Ulrich Stiehm, Miriam Klein Writer: Aron Lehmann Editor: David Hartmann DP: Cristian Pirjol Cast: Robert Gwisdek, Jan Messutat, Thorsten Merten, Rosalie Thomass, Heiko Pinkowski, Michael Fuith Music: Boris Bojadzhiev info@kaminskistiehmfilm.de

tumes and props, grown-up men in suits fight with imaginary weapons. Young director Lehman is fighting for his film, although all funds have been canceled. He’s convinced that the actor’s play and the fantasy of the audience will be sufficient. He fights for his vision as much as Kleist’s Kohlhaas fights for his rights. This film has to be finished. Whatever may come. Even if he has to go too far. Born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1981, Aron Lehmann grew up in the Bavarian countryside. He always dreamt of telling stories and staging them. In 2003 he moved to Berlin where he worked for TV production companies before starting his film studies at the Konrad Wolf film academy in Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Narrative Competition 0am, Monday, Jan. 21 7:30pm, Sunday, Jan. 20 • 10:3

Visitors

an Premiere

Germany / 92 min / N. Americ

During an unannounced visit to Berlin, Jakob and Hanna let their three grown up children know that they are

Director: Constanze Knoche Producer: Silvia Loinjak Writers: Leis Bagdach, Constanze Knoche Editor: Kai Minierski DP: Kirsten Weingarten Cast: Uwe Kockisch, Corinna Kirchhoff, Anjorka Strechel, Anne Müller, Jakob Diehl, Irina Potapenko, Bernhard Schütz, Andreas Leupold c-knoche@web.de

Spark

no longer able to support them financially. Karla, Arnolt and Sonni seem to live successful city lives; but, on closer inspection, they are in the middle of different life-crises, which have a common cause: lack of independence. After a big family quarrel and a painful revelation of life-lies, every single relative is made aware of how little he or she knows about the others – though they are still interdependent. Born in Magdeburg. After studying Dramaturgy at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, she studied Directing at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Potsdam, at the Filmakademie Wien and at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon. She works as director and writer for film and television.

Director: Annie Silverstein USA / 9 min

While a boy waits out his father’s tryst, he is unexpectedly forced to deal with the lady-friend’s daughter. annasophia@mac.com

Narrative Competition 2:40pm, Tuesday, Jan. 22 12:30pm, Saturday, Jan. 19 •

What Isn’t There

an Premiere

Philippines / 116 min / N. Americ

Gibson Bonifacio stopped speaking when he was a child. Now twenty, he is back in Manila for Christmas.

Director: Marie Jamora Producers: Bernard Dacanay, Trinka Lat, John Sy, Daphne O. Chiu, Marie Jamora Writers: Marie Jamora, Ramon De Veyra Editors: Edsel Abesames, Marie Jamora DP: Ming Kai Leung Cast: Dominic Roco, Dawn Zulueta Felix Roco, Boboy Garrovillo, Annicka Dolonius, Alchris Galura, Mercedes Cabral, Marc Abaya Music: Mikey Amistoso, Diego Mapa, Jazz Nicolas

While always festive in the Philippines, for his family it is tinged with sadness, marking the anniversary of his twin brother’s death. Against the backdrop of the local music scene, his childhood best friend tries to reconnect with him, while he unexpectedly finds a chance at his first romantic relationship. Gibson reconsiders and redefines his relationship with his family, with himself, even with his dead brother: the only person he talks to. Marie Jamora is an award-winning music video director, who also directed the first season of Project Runway Philippines. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film from Columbia University, NYC. She is a director at Gung Ho Films, and a film teacher at the Ateneo de Manila University.

whatisntthere@gmail.com

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Programming Notes

Documentaries This year’s Slamdance documentary slate urges you to look forward because the world marches on and waits for no wo/man. Too often we’re lost in the cacophony of bad news and overwhelmed by the echo chamber of indecision. It’s time to make sense and move forward.

Faith. The story of a girl and her peers who were raised in stomach-turning conditions and suffer from “Disassociative Disorder,” we follow Faith and her team of relentless therapists who try to reclaim some semblance of a normal childhood and reintegrate into the larger society.

While many film festivals this year will look back at the Arab Spring and wonder “Is it a good thing?” like stereotypically naïve Westerners, we’re moving forward with the film, Without Shepherds and into the hopes for a Pakistani Peace.

It’s very easy to point a camera at a societal issue and say, “There’s a problem.” However, it takes a special filmmaker to see past the issue and offer solutions. These are the filmmakers we are so honored to present to you. So join us at the 2013 Slamdance Film Festival. You have permission to launch.

Too often in our larger societal struggles, the individual feels helpless to affect major change. However, we encourage you to watch Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde, realize his contributions to the conservation movement, and challenge yourself to follow his example.

Ehren Parks & Edward Stencel Documentary Programming Team Co-Captains

In the wake of the discussion about how to prevent school shootings, we offer you My Name Is 55

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Rebel, Rebel, Rebel

Director: Kyle Schneider USA / 25 min

Josh Lecash, an eccentric self-absorbed DJ, lurches from one disastrous gig to the next. Despite his ineptitude and bizarre behavior, Josh’s shows, popularity, and paychecks expand at a reality-defying rate. mr.rockatansky@hotmail.com

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Good Karma $1

Directors: Jason Berger, Amy Laslett USA / 14 min

Acclaimed ad-guru Alex Bogusky is fascinated with collecting homeless signs. What starts out as a project to understand the world’s simplest form of communication turns into a lesson of generosity. amy@kidsatplaymedia.com

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The Birdman

Director: Jessie Auritt USA / 11 min

With CDs, VHSs, and cassette tapes stacked head-high, Rainbow Music is a hoarder’s paradise, but its quirky old owner, “The Birdman,” knows exactly where everything is. Despite the bad economy, online music sales, and gentrification, The Birdman rules the roost at his unique mom and pop used music store.

Jessie.Auritt@gmail.com

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tohypnotic come along. They haven’t meditation seen each other in 20 years identity, but quickly fall into a and tweaked-out on performance, anxiety, theirone old habits of outrageous behavior. As the tour progresses, however, our and man’s personal apocalypse. heroes learn they’re not kids anymore and what started out as mere hijinx is now endangering their friendship, their careers, and their lives. Daniel Martinico is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and video artist best known for hacking VHS tapes and remixing Wrath of Khan. His work has Gavin, Bryan, and Steven making stupid movies with theirisfriends shown in galleries, festivalshave andbeen museums internationally. OK, Good his sincefeature they were first film. kids, but Bryan actually does it for a living.

bryan@lastpictures.com

The Sandwich Nazi

Director: Lewis Bennett Canada / 10 min

Salam Kahil runs La Charcuterie, a Scandinavian deli located near Vancouver, British Columbia. He is an art collector, a former male escort, an amateur piano player, and a sandwich maker to the homeless in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, but his true passion is talking about blowjobs. mail@lewisbennett.com

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Director: Spencer Daniel Martinico McCall Producer: Uriah Hugo Armstrong &Spencer Findley, Daniel Martinico McCall Writers: Writer: Hugo Uriah Armstrong Findley, Jeff & Daniel Hull Editor: Martinico Spencer Editor: McCall Daniel DPs: Martinico Paul Encinas, DP: Daniel Rudy Lopez Martinico Cast: Cast: Daniel Hugo Shoup, Armstrong Arye Michael Music:Bender, XXX Carolee Gilligan Wheeler, Garland Glessner, Michael martinico@ucsd.edu Wertz, Kiyomi Tanouye, Geordie Aiken, Jeff Hull Music: Anthony Cardenas spencer@penandbanjo.com

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The Corner Garden

Director: Duygu Eruçman USA / 14 min / World Premiere

In East Oakland, access to fresh produce is a problem, but there’s a small garden where a group of teenagers struggle to grow their own vegetables and think about the food they eat in a different way.

derucman@gmail.com

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Director: Marco Daniel Martinico Bonfanti Producers: Producer: Hugo Anna Armstrong & Daniel Godano, FrancoMartinico Bocca Gelsi, Writer: Fabrizio Hugo Cerato Armstrong Writer: & Daniel Martinico Marco Bonfanti Editor: Editor:Valentina Daniel Martinico AndreoliDP: DP:Daniel Michele Martinico Cast: D’Attanasio Cast: Hugo Renato Armstrong Zucchelli, Music: Piero XXX Lombardi, Lucia Zucchelli, Patrizia Frisoli, Hedy Krissane, Barbara martinico@ucsd.edu Sorrentini (voice) lazagorafilm@gmail.com

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The Mercantile

Director: Brian Bolster USA / 16 min / World Premiere

A young couple’s search for the ideal marriage location yielded them the most unforeseen and rewarding challenges of their lives – proprietorship and preservation of a century-old, unchanged business enterprise nestled in a remote mountain valley, at the front door of Montana’s Glacier National Park. briansbolster@icloud.com

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Directors:Daniel Director: JasonMartinico Banker, Jorge Producer: Torres-Torres, Hugo ArmTiffany strong & DanielProducers: Sudela-Junker Martinico Writer: Tiffany Hugo Sudela-Junker, Armstrong & Daniel Banker, Jason Martinico Jorge Editor: Torres-Torres Daniel Martinico Editor:DP: Jorge Daniel TorresMartinico Torres DP:Cast: JasonHugo Banker Armstrong Music: XXX martinico@ucsd.edu tifjunker@gmail.com

April

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Director: Alan Spearman USA / 4 min / World Premiere

Faith’s smile obscures the pain of the past and her fear of bullets striking her mother’s Memphis apartment. Her refuge is a magnolia tree that she calls April. Nearby, Hattie Mae is a fading echo of the young girl. She writes messages on a battered tree stump in her front yard, telling those who pass to live now.

spearmanalan@gmail.com

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Dayton Hyde’s Guided by motivational destiny leads affirmations him on and a dramatic encouraged journey by an intense through thephysical-movement West, from rodeos, conservation workshop, battles, actor andPaul wild Kaplan horse

Director: Suzanne Daniel Martinico MitchellProducer: Producer:Hugo Suzanne Armstrong &Editor: Mitchell Daniel Martinico R.A. Fedde Writer: DP: Mauro HugoBrattoli Armstrong & Daniel Dayton Cast: Martinico O.Editor: Hyde Music: DanielSteve Martinico PoltzDP: Daniel Martinico Cast: Hugo Armstrong Music: XXX Suzanne.mitchell@runningwildfilm.com martinico@ucsd.edu

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Chicken and Zoe

Director: Yael Bridge USA / 4 min

A brief glimpse into the world of four-year-old Zoe, who goes from being excited at witnessing a slaughter to feeling conflicted at witnessing death. Yael.Bridge@gmail.com

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Director: Pamela Daniel Martinico Drynan Producer: Producer:Pamela Hugo Armstrong &Writer: Drynan Daniel Martinico Pamela Drynan Writer: Editor: Hugo Armstrong Janice & Daniel Martinico Toomey DPs: Richard Editor: Kendrick, Daniel Ross Martinico KeithDP: Daniel MartinicoNiall Music: Cast: Byrne Hugo Armstrong Music: XXX martinico@ucsd.edu pamela@subotica.ie

struggles years havethrough passedasince seriesaof violent demoralizing and bloody auditions attackthat by two push young him towards men in the Sligo, edge. Ireland OK,one Good dark mixes nightvérité left him technique paralyzed. withFrom confining his home formalism in Philadelto build a phia hypnotic we follow and Robert’s tweaked-out trip back meditation to Sligo, onwhere performance, his drama identity, began,anxiety, to lay and the past one to man’s rest.personal Full of laughter, apocalypse. tears and literary types, this documentary captures Robert’s spirit and intention – that of moving on positively and taking theMartinico world withishim. Daniel a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and video artist best known for hacking VHS tapes and remixing Wrath of Khan. His work has shown PamelainDrynan galleries, lives festivals in Dublin, andIreland museums and internationally. is originally from OK, Scotland. Good isThis his is first her feature featuredirectorial film. debut. She was lucky to produce two films, Chancers and Gutted, that won two Scottish BAFTAs. She has made documentary films for RTE, BBC, PBS and Channel 4.

Track by Track Director: Anna Moot-Levin USA / 15 min / World Premiere An 18-year-old sketch artist with autism struggles with the tension between the sanctuary of his sketched world and an unknown future in the world of adults. But using his passion for trains and art, he lays tracks for the journey ahead.

amootlevin@gmail.com

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Directors:Daniel Director: Cary McClelland, Martinico Producer: Imran Babur Producers: Hugo Armstrong Cary McClelland, & Daniel Martinico Billy Smith, Writer: Robert Hugo Profusek, Armstrong Ryan Silbert & Daniel Martinico Editors: Faisal Azam, Editor: Connor Daniel Kalista, Martinico Gabriel DP:Rhodes Daniel Martinico DPs: ImranCast: Babur,Hugo Armughan Armstrong Hassan, Music: Cary McClelland, XXX Zeeshan Shafa, Noman Waheed Cast: Vaneeza Ahmad, martinico@ucsd.edu Arieb Azhar, Abdullah Khan, Imran Khan, Ibrahim Waheed, Laiba Yousafzai Music: Arooj Aftab, Grey McMurray cary@withoutshepherds.com

Lollywood

struggles a progressive through political a series party, ofademoralizing female journalist auditions goesthat behind push Taliban him towards lines, an the ex-mujahid edge. OK, seeks Good redemption, mixes vérité a trucker technique crosses with confining dangerousformalism territory to tofeed build a hishypnotic family, aand supermodel tweaked-out pushes meditation feminism onthrough performance, fashion, identity, and a subveranxiety, and sive one Sufi man’s rockerpersonal uses music apocalypse. to heal. Filmed by a team of Americans and Pakistanis over two years, Without Shepherds cuts through alarmist media depictions of theiscountry to celebrate thefilmmaker bravery ofand its people. Daniel Martinico a Los Angeles-based video artist best known for hacking VHS tapes and remixing Wrath of Khan. His work has shown Cary McClelland in galleries, has festivals trainedand former museums child soldiers internationally. to be journalists OK, Good in the is his first Eastern feature Congo, film.directed conflict transformation programs in East Timor, and worked alongside opposition activists in Zimbabwe. He launched YouTube’s Human Rights Channel. He has a BA in Screenwriting from Harvard, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia, and is pursuing his JD at Stanford.

Director: Todd Looby Liberia, USA / 10 min / World Premiere

Edwin G Kollie, a 15-year-old Liberian war orphan and honor student, always wanted to make a Nollywood movie. So one day he wrote a script, cast the 30 actors needed, and in just 3 hours he and his fellow students built an entire African village. todd@obrigadoproductions.com

Programming Notes

Shorts Creating a well-rounded program of short films is more challenging than it may seem. You need to watch hundreds of films and still retain fresh eyes and ears, remaining receptive to the ridiculously silly as well as the soberly serious. Both the realistic and the fantastical must be considered with equal weight. In the end, if you’ve maintained your enthusiasm but lost a little bit of your sanity, you hopefully have a good program. That’s what we believe we’ve done this year, pruning down hundreds of great films to a handful we believe will entertain and enlighten, provoke thought and stir emotion. It’s an honor to present to you the 2013 Slamdance Narrative Shorts.

Beth Prouty

Gigantic turtle, suspended seed story. The robber & sweetheart left the devil’s ballroom & flew towards 37 resurrection slope. Her summer suit, their hearts of napalm, softly whispered, ‘start the engine and reverse.’ Prometheus played an indoor l’ubba(game) to the bone while donald cried for dorian. Josephine & the roach built a staircase on the moon. Their pet rotkop(skunk) slammed with dance, maelstrom spinning away the world’s distant caterwaul, the Big Bang baby blues. You see, once upon a time in a dark cloud, pearl was here & this is her spark in shale. So dreemer, keep the fire & eat all you can eat. These are OUR fireworks, OUR glory days.

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Shorts Block 1 10:15am, Friday, Jan. 18 7pm, Wednesday, Jan. 23

Prometheus Rotkop

Indoor

Dir: Tannaz Hazemi Dir: Jan Roosens, Raf Roosens USA / 9 min / World Premiere Belgium / 19 min / A blind man undergoes US Premiere

Dir: Si & AD Dir: Erin Li UK / 15 min / USA / 7 min / N. American Premiere World Premiere

To the Bone The Robber Caterwaul

A boy uses discarded Valencia and her little dialysis at home with Olli is a lonely skunk objects he finds around brother, Marcos, have his doctor. The doctor who makes trouble the seaside community grown up working the warns him against he lives in to make a “migrant stream,” a whenever he can. drinking alcohol due to When his mortally ill kite. He can’t make the year-round journey problems with the blind mother throws a party kite fly. He befriends a in which they travel man’s liver. The blind for his sixteenth birth- peculiar girl and asks around the country man opens a six pack day, he has no intention her to help him fly the chasing farming jobs. of beer and plays a kite, but she refuses. One day, Valencia atto let her down. He drinking game. needs to embark on a She can’t go outside. tempts to rebel against quest for friendship. The boy makes it his the status quo, causing nick@omnikino.com mission to rectify the unintended consejan@rococo.be, quences for herself and situation. raf@rococo.be her family. Jessie@academyfilms. com Info@ErinLi.com

Dir: Felix Schaffert Dir: Ian Samuels Switzerland / 16 min / USA / 14 min N. American Premiere A Cape Cod fisherman An 11-year-old girl is in turmoil and struggling for words. When her bourgeois family sits down for dinner, she finally manages to make herself understood. ich@felixschaffert.ch

brings home a lobster. Their relationship deepens as the enigmatic creature grows. It crawls back to the Cape Cod shore where the fisherman intuits a past love. The more the fisherman holds onto the creature, the more dissonant his relationship becomes, and the heavier his ultimate decision weighs. samuels.ian@gmail.com

Shorts Block 2 12:30pm, Friday, Jan. 18 2pm, Monday, Jan. 21

Lu’bba

Summer Suit For Dorian

Dir: Saleh Nass Dir: Rebecca Bahrain, UAE / 6 min / Peniston-Bird N. American Premiere Australia / 15 min / A schoolboy is dropped N. American Premiere off by his parent to Over the summer of yet another weekend 1987, ten-year-old football game at the tomboy Robbie suflocal park, and faces fers from occasional a recurring reality of life. seizures which make her feel like a freak. saleh@elementsbh.com When she discovers a discarded two-piece suit, she feels she has found a new identity. But when her suit fails her, a crisis looms.

Josephine

Donald

Dir: Rodrigo and the Roach Cried Barriuso Dir: Jonathan Dir: Kris Avedisian Canada / 16 min / Langager USA / 21 min N. American Premiere USA / 15 min Returning to his home-

Oliver, a controlling yet loving father, is shaken when forced to recognize his son, a teenager living with Down syndrome, as an emerging adult with sexual urges who yearns for his independence. He starts to be concerned about his son’s sexual orientation. becpb@iprimus.com.au fordorianfilm@gmail. com

A surreal, offbeat story town to retrieve his of a cockroach and the grandmother’s ashes, woman he loves. Her Peter must rely on his brutish husband stands only local contact, esin the way of their hap- tranged buddy Donald. Awkwardness ensues, piness, so the roach as the men have difinhabits his brain, controlling him, in order ferent expectations (from action figures to to be with her. marijuana) for rekinjonlangager@gmail.com dling their friendship. krisavedisian@gmail. com

Shorts Block 3 5:30pm, Saturday, Jan. 19 12:30pm, Thursday, Jan. 24

Start the Resurrection Sweetheart Baby Blues Gigantic Dir: Eva Riley Engine and Dir: Pascal Plante Dir: Georgia Fu Slope Canada / 22 min / USA, Taiwan / 18 min / Dir: Tamara Feldman UK / 15 min / Reverse N. American Premiere US Premiere World Premiere Dir: Andrey Zagidullin Russia / 4 min / US Premiere

After running out of alternatives, Mel, 22, leaves her 3- and 6-year-old children alone in her apartment for the night in order to meet the man she loves. Her recklessness, however, will bear tragic consequences.

A young couple driving on an isolated road knocks over a pedestrian. Their first reaction is to assist the man, but the two lovers have reasons to hide their affair. The girl presses her pascal@nemesisfilms. boyfriend to finish off com the wounded man. a.r.zagidullin@gmail.com

USA / 15 min / Lou may have Down’s Kim, a sad nurse, is on World Premiere Syndrome but is more her way to having the A young boy at the than capable of looking worst day of her life brink of adolescence when she unexpect- takes a harrowing jour- after herself. She lives with her controlling sisedly meets Frank, a ney through a mystical suicidal lovesick punk. dreamworld. Through ter Ashley, who always gets what she wants. The two embark on a splintered fantasies When a new man journey through the of his reckless, fading comes into their lives, night together wander- beauty of a mother and the sisters become love ing around Taipei, find- cruel, alcoholic father, rivals, bringing their ing that through death he performs a holy ritual relationship to a head. that will one day form one can also discover info@evariley.com into a defiantly singular the meaning of life. adult persona. georgiafu@gmail.com

faerysparkle5@yahoo. com

Shorts Block 4 10:15pm, Sunday, Jan. 20 2:30pm, Thursday, Jan. 24

Seed Story Dir: William D. Caballero USA / 12 min / World Premiere A lone dandelion blossoms in an abandoned parking lot, negatively impacting the lives of a miniature society that becomes dependent upon it . An examination of the effect that religion, capitalism, pollution, and fascism have had on humanity throughout the ages. william.d.caballero@ gmail.com

Hearts of Napalm Dir: Andy Irvine USA / 9 min / World Premiere

Maelstrøm Suspended 37 Dir: Tom Geraedts Dir: Damian UK, Netherlands / 8 min Walshe-Howling / N. American Premiere Australia / 18 min / When a lonely young N. American Premiere

Dir: Puk Grasten USA / 8 min / World Premiere

March 13, 1964. For woman in London Seven-year-old Caleb more than half an hour, After another faces an ever growing grapples with his sense 37 law-abiding citizens anticlimatic night, a loss of identity, the only of belonging after find- in Queens watched sexually frustrated thing she can cling to is ing out that his father is their neighbor, Kitty girl challenges her melancholic devo- seeing another woman. Genovese, being bruher unimaginative tion to her snake and Then Caleb meets tally killed outside their boyfriend to stimulate plants. Mysteriously, Eddie, a blind man with apartment building. her in new ways. her plant shows her a sense of mischief and This is the story of two irvineaf@gmail.com that there is enlighten- a subtle inner knowof those bystanders. ment to be found slip- ing, and he begins to puk@grasten.com ping through the cracks explore his own innate of consciousness. potential for magic. tom@tri-state.nl

lisa@chaoticpictures. com

The Devil’s Ballroom Dir: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken Norway / 16 min After burying his last remaining companion, an explorer has to find his way to the North Pole alone, fighting snowblindness and physical strain. An unexpected encounter forces him to decide between honor and fame in the history books or keeping the moral high ground. dahlsbakken@gmail. com

Animation Shorts 12:15pm, Sunday, Jan. 20 4:30pm, Wednesday, Jan. 23

Baboon

Ballpit

Dir: Einar Baldvin USA / 2.5 min / US Premiere

Dir: Kyle Mowat Canada / 2 min

a bad day to punch a clown in the head.

themselves within a hostile environment.

Bermuda

El delirio del Drifters

Dir: Calvin pez león Frederick Dir: Quique Rivera Life forms struggle to USA / 4 min / Puerto Rico, USA / N. American Premiere 4 min By all accounts, it was assert and organize earnason@usc.edu

Created entirely incamera, Bermuda is a mowat.kyle@gmail.com kaleidoscopic biscuit drowned in hyperpsychedelic gravy.

Dir: Ethan Clarke USA / 8 min

Dir: Jason Guy

Three strangers awake McLagan on a train they do not USA / 8 min / remember boarding.

Inspired by the Lionfish plague, this underwater eclarke@gmail.com neo-noir tells a story about greed and hierarchy in the Caribbean calvinfrederick@gmail. reefs. com

An Elegy for Eden

cocobale@gmail.com

The Eater

Dir: Wally Chung USA / 3 min

World Premiere As the Darkness comes for ‘Atom’ (the creature who lives inside and operates the pixel), his perception of the natural world, obscured through the computational lens of the screen, refocuses, and he begins to experience life outside his binary cell.

A man has a strange experience that affects JasonMcLagan@gmail. the people around him. com info@wallychung.com

Gum

Home

I Am Tom

The Jennings Noodle Fish Royal Issues

Dir: KIM Jin Man Dir: Noam Sussman Dir: Luiz Stockler Moody Account UK, Brazil /1.5 min / Dir: Ainslie Henderson Dir: Sean Buckelew S. Korea / 10 min Canada / 1 min Omogeo, a small The consequences of N. American Premiere UK / 7 min USA / 1 min swallowing gum.

A look at the idea of belonging and what noam.sussman@gmail. that may or may not com mean to people.

luizstockler86@gmail. com

noodle fish, is trying In his first moment on Clad in the finest, the to get out of his world stage, Tom Moody grass crisp. Badminton made of stick noodles. struggles to open his is ordinarily played He asks himself, “Who mouth and sing. In his inside, due to wind. am I? Am I a fish? Am subconscious mind, Ten percent of men I noodles? Am I a man two voices battle to age 40 to 60 have an who makes noodles narrate the film. Tom is age-related midlife move?” These are the caught in the crossfire, crisis. Putting your questions that I want pulled and pushed, Roth account in good to ask myself. tormented by his own hands can yield high kiafanews@naver.com duplicity. Tom’s quest returns. is to discover the seanbuckelew@gmail. source of these inner com voices, and unify them.

Dir: NOMINT UK / 1 min An interpretation of delicate Royal Family relationships and particularly the delicate balance of a grandmother-in-law accepting a new member (like Kate Middleton) into the family. Inspired by anime movies. london@nomint.com

ainslieainslie@gmail. com

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Animation Shorts (cont.)

Shelter

Snail Trail

Sugarcoat

Tap to Retry Triangle

What Is

Dir: Carl Burton Dir: Philipp Artus Dir: Meejin Hong Dir: Neta Cohen Dir: Grace Nayoon Dead May Rhee USA / 6 min / Germany / 3 min / USA / 6 min / Israel / 4.5 min / Never Die N. American Premiere N. American Premiere N. American Premiere N. American Premiere USA / 6 min / Dir: François A vast, secret world is A snail invents the The experience of A series of short visual US Premiere revealed within an attic wheel and goes something both terrify- metaphors for the way What would you do if Grumelin-Sohn Netherlands / 2 min / during a rainstorm. The through a cultural ing and beautiful having we conduct ourselves a stranger disrupted work was inspired by evolution to finally get the most effect on in an era of information your daily routine? The US Premiere memory, biology, and back to its origin. one’s psyche, walking the writings of Gaston post@philippartus.com and falling at the same Bachelard. time. The deeper the venture, the greater the ccburton@gmail.com hunger becomes.

overload. A tangible choice is whether to interpretation of vague, accept this person as a undefined ideas, acfriend, or reject him as centuating the disorien- an outsider. tation we all feel, living gracerhee@alum. in a world where real calarts.edu meejinhong@gmail.com and virtual constantly mix and shift. netacohen3@gmail.com

A time capsule in which things like landing on the moon and film credits are explored, by passing them through a series of experiments. fgsohn@gmail.com

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Programming Notes

Anarchy The casual cinephile might associate Anarchy with avant-garde, transgressive, or underground cinema. It is all of these things and none of them. We like to think of Anarchy as an anti-genre. It is a form of resistance to dominant cultural paradigms. The films value innovation of form, violation of taboo, a disdain for institutional modes of representation and above all: an unapologetic exploration of an auteur’s personal ‘trip’. There is something about an Anarchy film that is feral. They are black sheep in the herds of film festival submissions. As square pegs in round holes, these films rarely get programmed at mainstream festivals. In that regard, Burke Roberts and I carry on the tradition of the Salon des Refusés, the 19th Century exhibition of rejected paintings that did not pass muster with the official Paris Salon. Those “rejects” included artists such as Manet and Whistler. 76

As to whether we have discovered future works of significance, we leave that decision to the audience and, ultimately, to history.

Noel Lawrence & Burke Roberts

Anarchy Shorts 10pm, Sunday, Jan. 20 4:45pm, Tuesday, Jan. 22

FIX Dir: Benjamin McPherson USA / 4 min / World Premiere

The War Profiteers

Dir: Benjamin Markus USA / 7 min / Beneath the city streets, World Premiere deep in the abandoned corridors of a sprawling subway system, a disheveled and broken man struggles to obtain the thing he desires most. Delusional and overcome with anxiety, he sets out to find his fix. It is the very nature and duality of his fix that makes his journey so profound. benfineart@gmail.com

The Desert Compositor Hopes

Dir: Joey Shanks Dir: John Mattiuzzi Dir: Michael Patten USA / 6 min / World Premiere USA / 33 min / USA / 10 min / A journey through World Premiere World Premiere

Paul, a New York On New Year’s Eve City film compositor, an aging man tends In a war-torn city, a totalitarian dictator is struggles to decode his to a litter of newborn holed up inside a seedy mind-body existence. rabbits. bordello where he and While confronting the iammichaelpatten@ his henchmen engage daily digital realities gmail.com in sordid acts of limbo- that he creates, Paul like repetition. When an begins to submerge unknown force enters into the illusions that he is sworn to uphold. the room, peace is restored, if only for an John.mattiuzzi@gmail. instant. com benjaminmarkus@alum. calarts.edu

Sci-Fly

time & space, and the fight for existence. A dark premise contrasted with the divine imaginary creates a hypnotic ride of tone and emotion. Only in-camera effects were used to capture SCI-FLY. The wonders of our own world were filmed in order to create another. joeSchenkenberg@ gmail.com

Shepherds, Have You Seen My Love? Dir: Benji Kast USA / 14 min / World Premiere A destitute man checks into a motel and discovers something transformative in the walls. He is soon sent into a particularly bad patch of the memory bank of a certain Lord S. Within this setting the man begins to see himself as a central player in an 18th century love triangle. kastironproductions@ gmail.com

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On Programming Programming is the most fulfilling independent film work I do. It doesn’t even feel like work; it feels like a hunt. Thousands of films are submitted to Slamdance each year and I want to find the best ones. At times it can be tedious, but when I first see a film that I absolutely love, everything changes. The hunt morphs into a mission. I want that film in the next year’s festival. Sometimes it’s a piece that comes in just before the final deadline, and sometimes it’s an early entry that still shines no matter how many other films I view. I’m not the only one. There are Slamdance programmers all over the world, all on that hunt, all on that mission. Only with this ongoing and international support are we able to fulfill our promise that each

and every submission be viewed at least twice. In November, we gather together for two weekends to champion our favorite films. No film would be here if it weren’t for at least one programmer dedicated to showing others its brilliance.

This process happens every year, and our program couldn’t evolve without the addition of new programmers from the ranks of our alums. When the buzz of Park City has worn off and you’re back home, bored with the television and multiplex, an email will pop up asking you to program for Slamdance 2014. I urge you to respond, whether you can watch 10 films or 10 dozen, with a resounding “Yes!”

Beth Prouty

Narrative Shorts Co-Captain

War Stories

Big Words: Big Words shot with a skeleton crew for 18 days over thirty locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, but primarily in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A key locaBetween Us: When the UPM is the end my friend, I did a tion was a rundown brownstone said he had bad news that both bad film!” But then Slamdance at Greene & Lafayette, on the our production trucks had hit selected it. Oaw! It came like a same block where Spike Lee shot cars within the first two days of happy SLAM! Do The Right Thing. shooting, I was ecstatic. Why? I’d Musgo: Musgo was born as a The Court of Shards: In their never had a film with more than personal project and, at the same everyday lives as people with disone truck! time, a moral obligation for me abilities, the actors involved have I Want To Be an American: to try to shoot a film, making no limited independent authority It’s all Love. apologies of any kind, from two over their lives. The shoot was an main premises: creative liberty and opportunity to fulfill passionate Jug Face: The hardest day we commitment from the whole team. ambitions ordinarily forbidden by had was our first night shoot when both the actors’ families – for real! the temperature dropped into the Terms and Conditions May thirties. The cold sucked the life Apply: Initially the film was going The Dirties: Day to day shooting out of the cast and crew, and I had to be about how technology is of the film was very stressful. We to cut a scene in half. But in the changing our brains, our children, all wore bullet-proof vests during end, it worked out. and our communication methods. the scenes filmed in school and Six months into shooting, Cullen had the police on speed dial in Diamond on Vinyl: We were Hoback, the director, totally case Matt or Owen were actually shooting in hotels and keeping a changed gears, instead focusing planning a school shooting. It low profile; our equipment was on the legal mumbo-jumbo behind was like being at war; I think minimal. After a terrible night’s that technology. 18 interviews we’re all glad it’s over. sleep, I complained about the were cut completely. lumpy hotel mattress – camera Fynbos: It was made with a miniop Norbert Shieh admitted he’d Best Friends Forever: The mal crew and an intimate “family” snuck in a c-stand and hid it under AMC Pacer was voted by Time approach to creative collaborathe mattress. It was never used. Magazine as one of the 50 worst tion. I never shouted ‘action,’ and cars of all time. We chose to use I never had to explain a scene. Domestic: I finished the film in a 1976 version as our picture car. We were always in creative spring 2012 but no European In a road trip movie. You fill in the lockstep on the story and the way festival wanted it. I was very disapblanks. pointed. I said to myself: “This

to tell it. It was truly an amazing experience. Ghost Team One: 4 am. Final scene. Everyone’s in here. No one out there – the door locked from the inside. Landlord said it used to happen before his mother died. It just happened again. The lights go out… everyone fucks. Lights come back on. It’s weird. Finish shoot in awkward silence. Hank and Asha: Just before color correction, three of our four hard drives crashed simultaneously, erasing all of our footage. Our film literally vanished; we didn’t sleep for a week while our drives went through “emergency surgery.” We no longer take technology for granted! He’s Way More Famous Than You: Shooting in one of the most densely populated cities on the planet, we expected to encounter our share of logistical challenges, but none of us anticipated the Category 3 hurricane, Irene, which shut down the entire New York City Subway system—and our production with it—for three full days.

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war stories cont. Kohlhaas: If you want to make a film about a filmmaker shooting an epic with no money, be prepared: your film turns into reality and you find yourself tending a 900 kilo ox for six weeks because you don’t have the money for an animal trainer. Joy de V.: Guerrilla filmmaking with Claudia Cardinale. She was a sport. She didn’t skip a beat getting down with it, and turned out to be the wiliest, most steel-willed to get the shot on set. So she only wears rags made by her friend Giorgio. So what? Wouldn’t you? What Isn’t There: A project almost ten years in development, the film is composed of images, characters, scenes, and dialogue that Jamora has been collecting since college and film school. She only got a co-writer to finally finish the script as a New Year’s Eve 2011 drunken dare. The Bitter Buddha: Aside from maxed out credit cards and innerpersonal turmoil, the production went well. Steven Feinartz was banned from a comedy club in Edinburgh attempting to get

Hugh Grant and seven ladies into Pepitone’s show. Two of Hugh’s friends had no identification. Of course, this landed in the British tabloids. Fun. Where I Am: As a filmmaker with two children under five, working in two continents, filming was a challenge but with such a brave subject in Robert, everything was kept in perspective. Without Shepherds: In 2009, the Swat valley was caught in the middle of a civil war that displaced millions of Pakistanis. A group of refugees rioted when the government shut down their aid efforts, and we were caught in the middle. It is only because one of our subjects had the courage and temperament to get out of the car and ask the crowd what was wrong, that they allowed us to pass safely. We owe Laiba and all our partners a tremendous debt for their trust, hospitality, and encouragement. Battery Man: Battery Man doesn’t believe anyone. It took almost 4 years to shoot the film. He said that we should film a great porno documentary, because “he can discharge electricity with every part of his body.” He didn’t want

his mother and brother to be present at the film premiere. My Name is Faith: Here we were, this family in crisis, in the fight of our lives, and making a film?!? We were dealing with our own family, hosting others, pulling together a camp, asking other families to expose themselves in the middle of a therapeutic experience, and putting ourselves right out there in front of everyone, in our most intimate and vulnerable moments. I honestly look back and say to my self, “A. What the hell were we thinking? and B. How did we do that??!!!” Running Wild: We met in 1992 while I was producing a short TV spot, instantly I knew Dayton’s story deserved more. What I didn’t know was it would take years to complete. Massive debt, rattlesnakes, horse bites and long hot days, it was all worth it. The Brotherhood of the Traveling Rants: It’s hard to get into this without giving away the “plot” but let’s just say flipping a car is a lot easier than you’d think. The Institute: Due to the number of interviews that had to be conducted with people experiencing severe mental health issues,

months worth of trust had to be developed with many such people before shooting could even begin. When you see their confessions in the film, you understand why many were reluctant to be on camera. The Last Shepherd: The hardships the production had to go through, in particular regarding the permission to film in the Duomo square in Milan, have in a sense contributed to spread this jewel of a movie and to fit it into a new category for cinema: “modern-day documentarism.” April: Three of us needed to let go of personal disappointments and see anew. We did so by making a film about the resiliency of others. We allied with drunks at sunrise, angry women with deep wounds, and a dog named Chomp that fancied pissing on our gear in Soulsville — one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the country but one of the richest in modern music. The Birdman: I’ve shot in rural villages in Ethiopia and slums in Guatemala, but Rainbow Music was the one of the most difficult locations I’ve ever shot in. The store is so small and cluttered that

I was constantly bumping into things and knocking down stacks of CDs. Chicken and Zoe: I had no idea that Zoe was going to even be in the film. Once I started shooting I soon realized she had no interest in leaving the scene so I quickly got out my microphone and started recording her. The Corner Garden: I wanted to film a scene where the kids watch carrots being harvested, and eat the fresh carrots. But, the gopher ate them all, so I couldn’t film anything being harvested. Because of the gopher, the beds were empty for the most time I was shooting. Good Karma $1: The planning of the film happened in true doc form, changing completely the moment we started shooting in Boulder. This change is true and evident as you watch Alex transform in the piece. Lollywood: When I saw the huge ‘set’ that these kids built, I distinctly remember thinking, “I’m in the Liberian bush, I’ve shot three features in the US, and this is the closest I’ll probably ever come to shooting a film on a Hollywood backlot…nice!”

The Mercantile: Polebridge, Montana defines ‘remote’, and, as one can imagine, the few who choose to call it home likely do so for that very reason. Gaining the trust of this most camera-shy lot of characters, not to mention working around those who didn’t wish to participate, was no small feat! Rebel, Rebel, Rebel: I met Josh Lecash at one of his L.A. gigs, and upon talking with him thought a little documentary could be fun and interesting. What followed shattered any expectations I had, as it was hard to believe what was unfolding in front of me. The Sandwich Nazi: The first time I walked into Salam’s deli he immediately asked me if I was a homosexual. All of the customers in the store looked over, anticipating my answer. I told them all that I had a girlfriend and Salam went back to making sandwiches. A few minutes later he asked me if I was an undercover cop. No, I wasn’t a police officer either, I told the group. Track by Track: I had the most fun shoot of my life: riding in the cab of a restored steam engine train and seeing the engineers operate this magnificent historical

piece of machinery. We also had the privilege of riding in the beautifully restored Oakland car, standing on the back of the train right where Robert Kennedy had given a speech shortly before he died. 37: On March 13th I went on location scout; the same date that Kitty Genovese was murdered. I didn’t mind walking in East New York after dark, not until two police officers were determined to drive me to set. Since it was only two blocks, I walked – with my cell phone close by. Kitty Genovese only had a 50 ft walk home. All You Can Eat: We all got stomachaches. Baby Blues: An incomplete screenplay, with no dialogue, was provided to the two child actors, and most of what you see on screen is the result of improvisation. In the key sequence where the children are alone in the apartment, the parents of the two childactors were present on set, but hidden. No children were harmed in the making of this film. Caterwaul: The character in the film deals with sickness and loss. Our lead actor came down with pneumonia, had a heart attack, and had to be recast a week

before shooting. The actor who ultimately played the role passed away before seeing the film. The Devil’s Ballroom: The weather was surprisingly good during the 3-day exterior shoot on the east coast of Spitsbergen, and I guess our only threat was the polar bears. There are 4000 of them at Spitsbergen as opposed to only 2000 inhabitants. Luckily, the whole crew survived and we got what we came for: beautiful images. Dreemer: Live cockroaches... rainbow-colored head wounds... dirt pile birthing...prosthetic penises...male menstruation. They say there’s a first time for everything. Fireworks: Two days into production, we came to terms with the fact that despite moments that hit their mark and beautiful footage, the film was not working. Before the last day, we revised the script and set out to make sure every moment felt authentic. For Dorian: The producers of this film received two marriage proposals, several dating requests, endured sexual harassment while dancing to Lady Gaga and

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cording dialogue. Filming the final scene on the beach he decided to witnessed one count of indecent change tack and played an album exposure. We like to see it as sign by Ska musician Judge Dread. It of our commitment to research was surreal. The track is featured in telling a story about sexual in the scene where the boy plays awakening. the girl a CD. Thanks Danny. Gigantic: Dry socks are essential Josephine and the Roach: After in situations such as war and killing off dozens of roaches in my shooting films in the rainy winters apartment, I made this film as a of Taipei. way of making amends. They got Glory Days: I shot it on location at their revenge by making sure every the house I grew up in; it’s a loose moment of production was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. memoir of events of my childhood. Through grassroots efforts, Keep the Fire: We cast a dopwe shot, funded, cast the film in pelganger for the role of Loggins Upstate New York, and fittingly but he backed out a week before premiered it at the Woodstock production, so the director jumped Film Festival 15 miles from where in. We borrowed a camera and I grew up. some sound equipment, shot for Hearts of Napalm: Due to count- six crazy days and everything was paid for with the director’s unemless reshoots and obsessive perfectionism, director Andy Irvine ployment checks. forced actress Ashley Spillers to Lu’bba: Shot over the course of fake her orgasm 107 times. two days in Dubai, UAE. I had acIndoor: Indoor was filmed in Jay- cess to a DSLR and a faulty tripod wick. 500 prefabricated bungalows – and some charming, talented kids in a setting they knew well. All built in the 1950s. Each house is I had to do was ‘observe’. unique. Danny owns one house, which is covered in Irish memoMaelstrom: The film took almost rabilia and has an epic speaker 1.5 year to complete and has been system on the exterior. Throughout a labour of love for all involved. the shoot he played a soundtrack The live-action shoot consisted of of Irish favorites, tricky when re3 days, and the production wasn’t

as smooth as it should’ve been. A stolen Mac, an incompetent DIT guy and some creative discussions of the crew made it a real challenging process, but luckily all of these problems resulted in an even more beautiful film. Pearl Was Here: When casting the role of Pearl, we were looking for a spirited girl who had not been brainwashed by her stage mom. 300 polished, cute, over-rehearsed kids later we found Miana, a temporary tattoo-loving seven year old with a zest for singing bad and loud. Prometheus: We selected Elijah Hobbes after auditioning several professional blind actors in New York City. Elijah is not an actor he is a computer technician who spends his free time volunteering for the visually impaired. Resurrection Slope: Tamara’s mother plays the singer in the film. It was always her dream to wear a blue sequin gown and sing Patsy Cline on a stage. “This was the best I could do mom! It may not be exactly what you wanted, but it’s pretty cool.” The Robber: Never work with children or animals. I did both! To shoot a film with a 12-year-old girl

wasn’t that challenging after all. Ella acted much better than most actors I ever worked with – even when she had to go to bed with ants inside... To get the ants back in the cage, that was the real challenge. ROTKOP: When my brother Raf and I were driving, we heard that a guy had won a party for 100 persons through a radio show. That made us ask the question: “What if someone throws a party for you, but you don’t have any friends to invite?” Seed Story: Blackened fingers covered with dirt and grime from gluing one-inch figures to a cement parking lot floor littered with broken glass, sweat dripping down your forehead onto the camera lens from 95 degree shoots, and sore back muscles from constant bending makes the miniature world of macro filmmaking a gigantic (and literal) pain-inthe-neck. Still, having a wonderful crew to help you craft your vision (and keep your sanity) makes all the difference. Shale: On our last morning, we had a 4-camera shot of an intricate 35,000 lb. tractor stunt. However, fog filled our location, forcing us to wait for a clearing. While wait-

ing, the tractor engine failed. We raced to find a tractor mechanic. Twenty minutes before sundown, the tractor was fixed and the fog finally cleared, just in time to get our shot. Spark: Filming on 16mm, handheld, for three days during “magic hour,” combined with children, fire, intense wind, intense sun, a herd of naughty cows, and swarming Junebugs – not to mention trying to find a vegetarian option in rural Texas to feed our DP. Start the Engine and Reverse: Make it in one shot in one day – now that’s a war story. Also this annoying car traffic in the outskirts of Moscow – you can’t escape it, especially when somebody ruins the perfect take. Summer Suit: Heavily pregnant director. Also producing. Young cast. Lot of cars. Novice lead actress. Unseasonable rain - grass too green! sky too grey! Smoking audio recorder. Missing sound recordist. Lighting truck also missing. Broken down. No runners! Stunning rooftop sunset shot.... abandoned due to gale force winds. No real dramas. Suspended: The scenes are shot entirely on one property, in a com-

bination of the main house, an old barn and a set house, built in the ’80s by Disney to shoot a ‘movie of the week’ and maintained ever since by the owners. Sweetheart: A new experience for me as a director: it involved more characters, locations and budget than I was used to. I learnt a lot in the process and was lucky enough to work with a fantastic cast and crew. A Time in a Dark Cloud: I lost one of my closest friends four days before shooting my film. I was completely distraught and did not think I could go through with the shoot. My cast and crew came together and formed a circle of love and support for me. There was a level of heightened emotion on set which I think comes through in the film. To the Bone: We got kicked out of the Santa Monica library at 10am then had to talk our way into a vet’s office at noon. The next day we all nearly froze in the snowy mountains overlooking LA. ‘All’ means a total of three people, by the way. It was just a few friends driving around the city trying to make a good movie.

An Elegy for Eden: The stopframe character animation for the “Eve” sequence was shot in a single 22-hour marathon. The nature of the effects achieved required the simultaneous animation of the character, hand-cranked dolly, projected background images, as well as the one-way-mirrors that made up the set walls. Baboon: It might not be obvious but Baboon needed a lot of reference, one in particular was memorable which was the reference shoot for the scene in which a clown gets punched through the stomach. I wanted some good reference on that so I had my friend Ryan punch me as hard as he could in the stomach. Ballpit: The cry heard at the end of the film comes from the composer’s young son who was dropped on his noggin by the director during a bit of rough housing. After a kiss on the head from mum he got back to it. Bermuda: On February 9, 2011 (three weeks before the shoot) I bumped my elbow into one of the mirrors and got real, real nervous. Everything was fine in the end, but it taught me a valuable lesson about courage and understanding.

Drifters: Was just about to begin storyboarding my thesis film when I found out that there was already a feature in production involving cowboys and aliens. Back to square one. The Eater: So it took me four years to finish this film. I started this project with oil bar and paper. My bedroom was 10’ x 7’ and I hung up all the pictures, smelling up the apartment. It took way too long for not even one second of footage to dry... So I switched to Sharpie. That made me sick. I finally found something that didn’t make me so nauseous. El delirio del pez león: Building puppets for months, spending long days and nights slowly shooting 24 pictures for every single second of your film during endless weeks of very little sleep, can be a painful war story in itself. But ask any animator: ultimately, it’s all worth it. Gum: We had a super warm winter, unlike most winters here in Toronto, and it was too tempting to just go run around outside and enjoy the nice weather. That was a big challenge – balancing work and play!

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war stories cont. Home: Home is based on one of the many war poems I wrote during my time serving in the Brazilian army in the 1950s. The Jennings Account: I was drawing lots of rigid men in suits. Someone told me that I needed to loosen up. I tried to be as loose as possible, but I made sure to include emotionless, stiff audio. I hate when people give me advice like that. Noodle Fish: This is a stop-motion animation made with noodle. I got the idea from pin-screen animation. I piled thousands of dried stick noodles in the wooden frame which is 2 meters wide and 0.5 meter high, and made each scene by moving them back and forth with my fingers. Royal Issues: In May 2012 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her 60 years in royalty. A few months back, her grandson Prince William married Kate Middleton. It was heard that The Queen didn’t accept Kate as she was a commoner. Kate got angry and killed The Queen’s favorite dogs... Little did she know that Her Majesty was an Kung Fu master.

Shelter: I have a full-time job in the Design industry. As a result, all of my personal work must be completed in the month I take off each year. Most of Shelter was completed during this period using a rigorous working schedule. There wasn’t much sleeping. Snail Trail: The animation is based on a laser sculpture, which has a somehow purer and darker feeling than the film. I had to free my mind from the original character and to give space to an evolution. Finally, the film turned out much brighter and more colorful than I had imagined in the beginning. Tap to Retry: The entire film was shot on my dining table. That alone took a toll on my relationships :) For 4 months the house looked like a crumpled disaster area, with discarded, squashed paper models lying around, piles of shredded Bristolboard piling everywhere, and cardboard barricading the windows. I was lucky not to have suffered a single paper cut, though. Triangle: To figure out the camera move in the last shot, I wanted to do a test in Maya for reference, which I thought would

be easy and quick, however, I simply couldn’t figure out how to set the camera in Maya and gave up. Desert Hopes: Due to budget and location constraints, we were faced with the difficult task of constructing a cracked desert floor out of plaster, dye, and sand. Through trial and error, we found the perfect recipe for our desert. FIX: Tenderloin SF - We had finished our scenes with the rats; they were no longer needed. What do you do? What you do is place a cardboard sign on the plastic rat cage that reads FREE RATS. Within 5 to 10 minutes a large man with an Afro and a mad Gangsta lean will see them and say: I think I’m gunna have them! SCI-FLY: We ran through our budget rather quickly purchasing helium tanks, fireworks, DJ lighting, aquariums, and every small flashlight imaginable. Toy shops became a renewed addiction. Once broke, I became a frequent customer to the Dollar Tree. Items like Alka-Seltzer & food coloring soon became my weapon of choice.

Shepherds, Have You Seen My Love? Central Park. Gluttonous summer storm. Huddled under tree with scrawny umbrellas and fragile costumes, we munch on turkey sandwiches and wait it out. The sound recordist keeps equipment safely sheltered under the slide in a playground. He stands there bare chested, wringing out his shirt - just as patrol pulls up. The Compositor: I needed to cast an actor to play me, which at the time I thought was possible. Almost 100 auditions later, I decided to do what I was dreading most. I would play the lead role. So on top of writing the script, casting, directing, producing, editing, doing the sound design and the visual effects, I had to now memorize lines, get into character, and eventually sit in a dark room for six months, sleeplessly staring back at myself, wondering, “Who the hell is editing this film?” Psychosis began to feel normal. The War Profiteers: I rendered on over 12 Mac Pro towers. Since the film was created in one long digital camera move I had to wait until it was finished to begin the rendering process. After a week, I noticed some glitches, and I had to re-render. n

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Slamdance on the Road In October 2012, Slamdance took a trip to Russia. “2-in-1” - a Moscow-based international film festival – proudly welcomed Peter Baxter as one of its jury members. His documentary Wild in the Streets was screened as part of the “Slamdance: Subjective View” program, as well as Brian Knappenberger’s Slamdance favorite We Are Legion. Additionally, we filled our theatre for a collection of shorts previously featured at Slamdance. Why Slamdance at “2-in-1”? So that our audiences can be exposed to other festivals that we like – festivals with a kindred spirit. Today, there is no doubt that Slamdance is about much more than just experimental, microbudget projects and ironical trash. It has always been true that the festival is created by filmmakers for filmmakers. And yes, we like it. “2-in-1” is an international festival of contemporary film, an acknowledged forum for new inspired cinema and unorthodox filmmakers. It’s is an important window for independent

cinema in Russia featuring great films that otherwise might not have found their way to a Russian audience. Focusing on art films that have a potential for success with the public, “2-in1” provides meeting grounds for independent filmmakers and Russian distributors. Among the guests and participants of “2-in1” IFF were such filmmakers as Abel Ferrara, Christopher Doyle, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jos Stelling, Rutger Hauer, Robert Siegel, Petr Zelenka and others. It was a pleasure for us to welcome Slamdance in Moscow!

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Director of Programming, 2-in-1 Film Festival SLAMDANCE SHORTS SCREENED AT 2-IN-1 IFF 1. The Centrifuge Brain Project (Till Nowak, Germany, 7 min) 2. I’m Coming Over (Sam Handel, USA, 25 min) 3. The Hunger Artist (Tom Gibbons, USA, 16 min) 4. Egg (Benh Zeitlin, USA, 9 min) 5. When a Kid was a Kid (Anahita Ghazvinizadeh, Iran, 17 min) 6. Mahahula, the Giant Rodent of Happiness (NOMINT, Greece, 45 sec) 7. The Dude (Jeff Feuerzeig, USA, 19 min) 8. A Scene at the Sea (Jaehee Lee, South Korea, 22 min) 9. The Origins of Electricity (Behn Zeitlin, USA, 8 min) 89

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More than just Festival Coverage Slamdance TV has expanded the 2013 festival by launching an original Web series, Modern Imbecile’s Idiot’s Guide to Making Movies for Dummies, which explores the ups and downs of independent filmmaking with festival alums like Todd Berger (The Scenesters ’10), Doug Manley (Planet World ’11) and Kevin M. Brennan (Holiday Road ’12). The irreverent web series builds upon last year’s innovative effort to produce real-time narrative and documentary content ‘By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers’ as an alternative to typical film festival coverage. Highlights from the 2012 Slamdance TV slate include coffee sessions with Neil Young and Stan Lee, flying an Ed Wood-inspired spaceship down Main Street, and

celebrating anarchy with the 99% at the Great Park City Sled-Off. I’m thrilled to be returning to Slamdance this year and look forward to collaborating with the next visionaries of the independent filmmaking community. We promise an even more irreverent lineup of Slamdance TV pieces that explore the themes from this year’s films. Experience the Anarchy in Utah at slamdance.com. FIND US. FIND ANARCHY. FIND FUN. Slamnit,

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Fireside Chats The tradition that was started at Slamdance ’99 continues this year with another great chance for filmmakers to talk with industry professionals from around the US and get important advice. The Chats are an excellent, free way to get insider information that other filmmakers spent years and lots of money to learn! The panelists are made up of producers, executives, distributors, and filmmakers. Every year there are great conversations that keep filmmakers and professionals alike returning for more! 92

Creating Independent Films with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and DaVinci Resolve Saturday, Jan. 19th @ 4pm Gallery Screening Room at the TMI Sponsored by Blackmagic Design Meet with Blackmagic Design, check out the new Blackmagic Cinema Camera and DaVinci Resolve and hear about how you can create amazing images on a workflow that anyone can afford. Blackmagic Design, in conjunction with a well-known cinematographer, will give hands on demos of the new Blackmagic Design camera and latest version of DaVinci Resolve color correction software. You’ll also learn how to affordably go from shooting to editing to grading to creating your independent film. Demos to follow at the Blackmagic Happy Hour in the Filmmaker Lounge from 5-7pm. With Bob Caniglia, Kendall Eckman and Mark Thompson

Getting Your Film Out: Understanding and Maximizing Marketing and Distribution Monday, Jan. 21st @ 10am Gallery Screening Room at the TMI So you only have a few bucks and you want to make a big impact with your film. You need to do some marketing and find some distribution! This chat will inform you on the latest ways filmmakers are beating the odds and getting their films out in the marketplace. Panelists include: Mike Sergio – President and Co-Founder of CAVU Pictures Isil Bagdadi – Co-Founder/President of Distribution & Marketing of CAVU Pictures Nate Bolotin – Partner, XYZ Films Sheri Candler – Director of Digital Marketing Strategy, The Film Collaborative and owner of Sheri Candler Marketing and Publicity Brian Knappenberger – Writer/Director of We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists. Owner, Luminant Media. Moderated by James Kaelan - Managing Editor of MovieMaker Magazine

The Brave New World of Distribution! Tuesday, Jan. 22nd @ 10am Gallery Screening Room at the TMI In this rapidly changing world of distribution filmmakers need to know how to get their films distributed and get their money back so they can move on to their next project. This chat will look at the new and effective ways to distribute your film. Panelists include: Jeremy Boxer – Creative Director, Film + Video for Vimeo Melanie Miller – Vice President of Acquisitions of Gravitas Ventures Rachael McLean – SVP of JuntoBox Films Yan Vizinberg – Chief Content Officer, Cinecliq Moderated by Timothy Rhys - Publisher/ Editor-in-Chief of MovieMaker Magazine

Awards & Prizes Rescued from a fetid Turkish street, Sparky has since fathered many a fine offspring in solid bronze. Highly sought after around the world, this year’s litter are ready to be awarded and accompanied by generous sponsor prizes in the following categories:

Jury Award for Short Film Jury Award for Animation Jury Award for Feature Doc Jury Award for Short Doc Jury Award for Narrative Feature Audience Award for Feature Doc Audience Award for Feature Narrative Filmmaker Award for Spirit of Slamdance In addition to the Sparkies, Kodak, Slamdance’s long-standing sponsor, will present:

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Putting the Festiv back into Festival By Dan Mirvish

So, one day at the Hamptons, Just past Labor Day I’m not wearing white, Just very light grey I talk to a critic, From the Wire that’s Indie Forehead unadorned, No trace of a bindi He said how goes it Dan, You got a new flick? Of course, yes I do, I just finished my pic! North American Premiering, At the Hamptons tonight I just met Alec Baldwin, and now we are tight

Really? he said, You’re not at Toronto? Nope, I said proudly, And then I said pronto

From Germany I flew, AirChina to Greece I screened in Athens, I said with caprice

And then on to Memphis, The same time as Virginia Two states in one weekend? I’m a festival ninja!

I met filmmakers from Ecuador, Korea and Serbia A Russian, a Greek and from Tehran’s suburbia

I world preem’d in Germany, just a week ago In Oldenburg, you really should go

To 700 people, I’m festing with skill, man! I saw the Parthenon, With director Whit Stillman

They made me an offer, To screen on Closing Night With fireworks in a castle, I said “Outasight!”

Why’d you go there? He said with a snort, Why not choose Venice? As if to retort.

And from there to the Hamptons, Then crossing New York Woodstock a week later, Is that crazy like Bjork?

And I sat on a plane with a doc Oscar winner I saw Woodward and Bernstein, And ate BBQ dinner

Or why not just wait, for Sundance or SouthwestBy Or wait 9 more months for the Beca that is Tri I explained that I finished My film on a Thursday I then flew to Europe, And screened it on Friday

A movie rarely plays both, I said with aplomp The film must not suck, Or be a stink bomb

Then at Napa Valley, Where the biggest names cater I drank wine and ate food, Made from rabbit and gator To St. Louis I traveled, Where I went to college They put me on the jury, Cause they thought I had knowledge From there on to Spain, In Gijon in the north Their 50th festival, They said to come forth

Two days later in Canada, I’m eating granola At the Whistler Film Fest, And I ride a gondola My film played in Australia, Where my investor presented it An earthquake in Anchorage Could not have prevented it On a tour that consisted of Fire And Ice I then went to Bahamas, ‘Cause I heard that it’s nice

With filmmaker paintball, And nudes on the bar The festival took us, On boats near and far

‘Cause when you finish a movie, I tell you, I posit Just go out and show it, Don’t leave it in the closet.

I ate frittered conch, From a shell that was broken I met gigolos, performing word that was spoken

Life is worth living, So if you’re feeling restive You can’t spell festival, Without feeling festive.

And lo and behold, I won a prize from the jury An aluminum fish! Man, I’m not in Missouri! I finally returned, To my kids and my spouse They did not recognize me, I snuck into the house And so I ask you, Dear critic, of my quest Was it best to have waited, For an A-listed fest? That may never have come, And I’d wasted a year Waiting by the phone, Living with the fear? That no bigwig would dig it, At Berlin or Cannes Then I’d start over again, But this time in Spokane

Cofounder of Slamdance and director of the feature Between Us, Dan just completed a whirlwind 7-country, 14-festival tour with his film. Everything in this poem is true.

Slamdance NYC Slamdance NYC continues to keep New York and East Coast alumni and prospective applicants connected. Whether it’s IFP’s Independent Film Week and Labs, the New York and Tribeca Film Festivals, or the many other New York-area indie film events, Slamdance’s East Coast Director Paul Rachman is around supporting, advising and helping filmmakers with their films. In 2013 we’ll be bringing “Best of Slamdance” back to NYC screens and we’ll continue to keep our community tightly knit in NYC. The DGA has been supporting Slamdance since 1996. It’s a special relationship in that the festival was founded by directors. Every year the DGA hosts events for the new Slamdance filmmakers in both LA and NY.

East Coast Director Paul Rachman and Slamdance 2013 filmmakers at New York’s DGA reception.

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Nancy Schafer is currently a consultant who works in independent film. Until July 2012 she was Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Festival and Executive Vice President of Tribeca Enterprises. Prior to joining Tribeca, she created and ran the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas for eight years. Schafer has worked on several films including John Sayles’ Sunshine State and Limbo and Robert Byington’s Olympia and Shameless. She began her film production career on The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Schafer is a graduate of the University of Virginia and currently resides in Manhattan. Meira Blaustein is the Co-founder / Executive Director / Programmer of the Woodstock Film Festival, which was launched in 2000 and has quickly become one of the most respected and influential regional film festivals in the US. The Woodstock Film Festival will be entering its 14th year in October 2013. Blaustein has over twenty years of experience in filmmaking, writing, producing and directing numerous projects including her full-length documentary For Love of Julian, narrated by Susan Sarandon and distributed by Wellspring Media. She is currently in devel-

opment on a number of full length fiction and non-fiction films. Blaustein is a freelance writer and blogger and has served as juror, speaker, mentor and panelist at a variety of film festivals and special events in Norway, England, Texas and New York. Dan Schoenbrun is the Communications & Programming Coordinator at the Independent Filmmaker Project, the nation’s oldest and largest non-profit for independent filmmakers. At IFP, Dan works year-round as part of the programming team, where he helps manage the organization’s Emerging Narrative screenplay program, Independent Filmmaker Labs (for filmmakers in post-production on their first feature), Festival Forum (a community-based interest group for film festival professionals), and a new partnership with Brooklyn’s rerun Theater. Dan also oversees IFP member events and screenings, and serves as the Associate Editor of Filmmaker Magazine. In addition to his work at IFP, Dan has served on programming committees for several film festivals, included the Hamptons and Nantucket, and recently was on the jury for the 2012 Brooklyn Film Festival.

Director, Writer, Producer Brian Knappenberger has created numerous documentaries and feature films for the Sundance Channel, PBS FRONTLINE/World, The Travel Channel, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. He is also Executive Producer of the 23 part Bloomberg Television documentary series Bloomberg Game Changers. His films have explored the changing politics and tensions in post9/11 southern Afghanistan in Life After War and abuses of power and freedom of speech with the killing of a journalist in Ukraine in A Murder in Kyiv. Sheri Candler is a digital marketing strategist who assists filmmakers in building an engaged & robust online community for their work. She directs digital marketing strategy for non-profit film distribution & filmmaker education organization The Film Collaborative; she co-authored a book of case studies for filmmakers called Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul, and she regularly speaks about using social media on panels and workshops at industry events including AFM, DGA, NSI Canada, & Danish Film Directors Association. She can be contacted on Twitter: @shericandler, Facebook: Sheri Candler Marketing and Publicity, & Google Plus.

Daniel J. Harris produced the documentary collective feature I Want To Be an American for Slamdance Film Festival 2013. He originally trained in animation I worked on shows like The Simpsons and The Ren & Stimpy Show, and produced the documentary Kurt and Courtney for Nick Broomfield. He wrote and directed Slamdance/Locarno jury winner The Bible and Gun Club. He is working on The Fabulous Las Vegas, a feature documentary about a Kaapse Klopse (Cape Town Minstrel) troupe based in Lentegeur, Mitchell’s Plain, as it attempts to beat the competition in this year’s carnival season best-of-show. He’s also working on Meet Julie Wilson, about the legendary cabaret singer, currently shooting in New York. www.danieljharris.com Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal are a filmmaking team who use actor-centric methods. Their debut feature Stranger Things won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival and at the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival, as well as Best U.K. Feature at the 2011 Raindance Film Festival. They are currently developing their second feature, Bright As Day, which was a selection of the 2012 Sundance Creative Producing Lab.

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Jury Cont. Comedian, writer, and regular on G4TV’s Attack of the Show, Chris Gore hosts his own groundbreaking podcast called PodCRASH. He likes Batman, zombies and “long walks on my back.” The founder and longtime editorin-chief of the seminal magazine Film Threat, Gore is also a critically acclaimed film director, writer and producer. He is the author of Chris Gore’s Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, currently in its fourth edition, and has served on countless festival panels and juries. Chris is also a founding co-host of Slamdance’s annual Hot Tub Summit. Non-playing Jury Co-Captains Skizz Cyzyk is a filmmaker/writer/musician/ artist who has held positions at MicroCineFest, Maryland Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, and has served on juries at many other festivals. This is Skizz’s 17th year as a Slamdance projectionist, tenth year on the Slamdance advisory board, and sixth nonconsecutive year on the Slamdance jury. He has been making films since 1983, currently in various stages of production on documentaries about Rev. Fred Lane, the Catonsville Nine, and a 1981 “music war.” He also writes

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for music and film magazines, is on the Board of Directors for Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, plays punk rock ukulele with Go Pills, and plays drums for indie-pop sensations The Jennifers, surf/garage band Garage Sale, and Mink Stole & Her Wonderful Band. Paul Rachman is a founding filmmaker, Programmer and East Coast Director for the Slamdance Film Festival. From a successful music video career he went on to direct his first feature film Four Dogs Playing Poker. In 2006, his first documentary feature film, American Hardcore, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics. He is currently finishing his new feature documentary, Lost Rockers.

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screenwriting & teleplay The seventeenth year of the Slamdance Screenwriting and Teleplay Competition brought even more surprises and big news than we could ever have hoped for. First of all, we reached a record number of submissions with over 2,200 scripts. Also, for the first time in our history, the Grand Prize winner was drawn from the Teleplay category. The Bloodline, by Sneha Koorse took home $5,000 plus the $3,000 prize for the category totaling a $8,000 prize to support this work and her future endeavors.

We also have some great updates on previous years’ finalists. 100 Bloody Acres, the Horror Category Winner in 2010 was produced this year and has had a great festival run; we couldn’t be happier for Cameron and Colin Cairnes. And of course we are thrilled to be premiering at this year’s festival the screen version of Jug Face, the 2011 Screenwriting Grand Prize Winner. Everyone at Slamdance is really excited to have writer/director Chad Kinkle back in Park City and to see his work come full circle. Now we begin to prepare for the 2013 competition and are working to provide even better prizes to our Winners and Finalists. We’ll be unveiling some of this news in Park City this year, but let’s just say for now that they are the sorts of things that screenwriters dream about. Our objective of giving our finalists a platform to get their work in the hands of people in the industry and produced remains the same and we will continue to strive to make that happen. We look forward to reading your scripts next year!

Summre Garber Director of Operations

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TELEPLAY: GRAND PRIZE WINNER: The Bloodline by Sneha Koorse Seventeen-year-old Lucy can’t get away from her overprotective parents fast enough. But what she doesn’t know is they’re protecting the world from HER. Contact Info: snehakoorse@gmail.com

Breaking News by Mark Hefti

Breaking News is a fast-paced, inside look at the volatile world of network news. Contact Info: mhefti@yahoo.com

Nurse Jackie – “Jesus Rx”

by Bisanne Masoud & Tal Gonzalez It’s the season of giving, and the unwelcome gifts keep coming as Jackie struggles with her daughter Grace’s downward spiral, a possible pregnancy, and a disturbing revelation that could change everything. Contact Info: bisanne@gmail.com

Competition Finalists FEATURE:

HORROR:

SHORTS:

CATEGORY WINNER Chump by Jasmin Tekiner A brilliant, but hopelessly awkward computer guy creates a program that lets him break into anyone’s computer and spy on them, turning him into the country’s most powerful celebrity “psychic.” Contact Info: jtekiner@gmail.com

CATEGORY WINNER The Unraveling by Tobin Addington After a violent home invasion takes the lives of her parents, Romy, a tough but unstable high school gymnast, leaves a psych ward for a fresh start in a small mountain town, only to be haunted by visions of the man who murdered her parents... a man she believes she killed. Contact Info: tobinaddington@gmail.com

CATEGORY WINNER

The Third Sex

by Sheila Sawhny & Dee Johnson Based on a true story, an American transgender woman travels to India and becomes enchanted by the age-old society of Hijras – a colorful and provocative Third Sex. Contact Info: sgiammarco@ sbcglobal.net

Call me Luke by David Carren

Seeking a stolen diamond necklace, an ex-convict plays father for three desperate children in an isolated country diner. Contact Info: dbcarren@aol.com

Purge by David Christopher O’Neill

A reluctant outsider finds himself trapped in a house with a team of occult specialists whose goal is to attempt to exorcise the evil entity controlling the one man who can save the lives of two little girls. Contact Info: davphantom@msn.com

The Decent Man

by Scott Robert Waldvogel & Matt DeMartini On the edge of becoming a serial killer, a man fights his violent urges to protect the woman he loves from himself. Contact Info: srwxiv@msn.com

La Mime

by Marjorie Cohen & Alan Kininsberg Two mimes compete for their audience while conducting a show that bends reality. Contact Info: marjcohen@mac.com

Ethan and Ian by Katrina Albright

Teenaged best friends facing one boy’s imminent army deployment wrestle with increasingly divergent ideals amidst boredom, confusion, and absurdity that mark the last moments of childhood. Contact Info: albrightkatrina@gmail.com

Glare by April Rouveyrol

Car Thief stranded in the desert gets taken for a ride of which he could never have dreamed. Contact Info: aprilrouveyrol@ aol.com

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inning Best Experimental Short Film at Slamdance was a gold star for my film’s ongoing festival life and publicity. It was a highlight that boosted my film’s profile across the blogosphere and various press publications. It was this press that ultimately led to my collaboration with Bjork as well as winning a spot at the Cannes Lions Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase. Slamdance was the perfect platform to launch my film, and having their endorsement has given my career extra legs this year.

Andrew Huang

director of Solipsist, Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short, Slamdance 2012

h my goodness, all the pain, fear, tiredness disappeared again. It was such a joy and we were so happy. I can’t tell you in words. We flew back to Germany really proud of our two prizes in the baggage with new friends in our hearts and a big smile in our face. Heavy Girls has now played around the world in over 40 festivals. It seems that every independent film festival looks at the line up from Slamdance and trusts the good taste of the programmers. We would say without the good reputation of Slamdance we wouldn’t be invited to so many other film festivals. And now Heavy Girls has been released in Germany and France in the cinema. What a success. SO THANK YOU SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL AND GO FURTHER WITH YOUR SPIRIT.

MAGIC!!!!!!!

Axel Ranisch Director/Writer

Heiko Pinkowski Writer

Anne Baeker Producer

of Heavy Girls, Spirit of Slamdance Award Winner 2012

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lamdance opened up so many doors for me even after the fest came to a close. Winning the audience award last year gave my film the exposure required to get the attention of buyers, fans, and talent reps. I truly owe this amazing festival all the credit for kickstarting the career I’ve always dreamed of. Slamdance is operated by a tightly connected group of artists who believe whole heartedly in the voices of the underdog. Many of the filmmakers I met in 2012 have since become my greatest mentors, providing me with guidance every step of the way. I have never found such a supportive nurturing group behind any other festival. The intimacy of the festival experience tied with the exposure of Park City makes Slamdance the best truly independent film festival in the world.

Andrew Edison

Director of Bindlestiffs, Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature 2012

year after our premier at Slamdance, a lot of people ask me how does that fit in to the big picture and all that came after it. The one thing I’ve come to see is that there really isn’t one big picture. Instead, there are a lot of pictures, each one with specifics and nuances that don’t really apply to every film and every situation. Trying to figure it out, so that it becomes clear, would drive me crazy. So I just try to figure out what I need to know as it comes up and keep it in mind for the next time. Most of us who have made a film know that the process is like creating a family or a community. One of the great things about Slamdance and the festivals that followed, was realizing that the community of this movie would continue to grow with other festivals and other places. Getting to meet so many great filmmakers and programmers just made the tough fight to finish the movie that much more worth it. My festival strategy is pretty straightforward: Have fun. It’s too hard to make the movie and there are too many awesome people not to. We worked hard to get people to see the movie, but if we weren’t having fun, why bother? Luckily, the Slamdance folks agree. We now have distribution. We had screenings and moving Q&As at festivals and we’re now friends with some amazingly talented filmmakers and programmers. Everybody at Slamdance were really the ones that made it possible. So: thanks Josh, Dan, Peter, Drea, Summre and everyone else in the Slamdance family.

Keith Miller

Director of Welcome to Pine Hill, Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature 2012

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Film Index 37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Compositor, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Fynbos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

All You Can Eat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Corner Garden, The . . . . . . . . . . 60

GHOST TEAM ONE . . . . . . . . . . 47

April . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Court of Shards , The (Scherbengericht) . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Gigantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Desert Hopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Good Karma $1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Baboon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Baby Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Ballpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Battery Man (Biba Struja) . . . . . . 56

Devil’s Ballroom, The . . . . . . . . . 71 Diamond on Vinyl . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Dirties, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Glory Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Gum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Hank and Asha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Domestic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

He’s Way More Famous Than You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Donald Cried . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Hearts of Napalm . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Dreemer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Drifters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

I am Tom Moody . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Eater, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

I Want To Be an American . . . . . 29

The Bitter Buddha . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

El delirio del pez león . . . . . . . . . 72

Indoor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Brotherhood of the Traveling Rants, The . . . . . . . . . . 59

Elegy for Eden, An . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Caterwaul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

FIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Chicken and Zoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

For Dorian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Institute, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Jennings Account, The . . . . . . . . 73 Josephine and the Roach . . . . . . 69 Joy de V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Bermuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Best Friends Forever . . . . . . . . . . 42 Between Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Bible Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Big Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Birdman, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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Jug Face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

ROTKOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Tap to Retry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Keep The Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Royal Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Kohlhaas or the Proportionality of Means . . . . . . . 51

Running Wild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Terms and Conditions May Apply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Last Shepherd, The (L’ultimo Pastore) . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

SCI-FLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Lollywood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Lu’bba (Game) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 MAELSTRØM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Mercantile, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Musgo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 My Name is Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Noodle Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Sandwich Nazi, The . . . . . . . . . . 59 Seed Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Shale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Time in a Dark Cloud, A . . . . . . . 50 To the Bone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Track by Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Triangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Shelter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Turtle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Shepherds, Have You Seen My Love? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Vipaka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Visitors (Die Besucher) . . . . . . . . 52

Snail Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

War Profiteers, The . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Spark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

What Is Dead May Never Die . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Pearl Was Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Start the Engine and Reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Prometheus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Sugarcoat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Rebel, Rebel, Rebel . . . . . . . . . . 56

Summer Suit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Resurrection Slope . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Suspended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Robber, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Sweetheart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

What Isn’t There (Ang Nawawala) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Where I am . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Without Shepherds . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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