Slamdance 2010

10 animated shorts from all around the world were featured as part of Slamdance's 2010 Animation Block.

One of the biggest crowd-pleasers of Slamdance 2010, this film uses actors and location to craft something unique in American cinema.

British director Ben Wheatley (Modern Toss, IDEAL) shreds the preconceptions surrounding modern UK gangster fare (no Guy Richie-isms here) in this great drama.

Stephen Soderbergh’s first documentary premiered at Slamdance with aplomb and a bit of heartstring strumming. Spalding Gray, the subject of this documentary, left a family behind after his disappearance/assumed suicide in 2004.

To produce a film for no more than $99 in 99 days or less is damn hard. It’s the kind of thing you just can’t do for any reason other than the love.

"Justice rides shotgun, 'cus that bitch is blind." -Sean Sharpstone, Ironic Action Hero

From an Asian youth's self-hatred to a totalitarian sitcom to an Iranian Farmer's new television - reviews of another entirely original block of Slamdance short films

 Screening with The Wild Hunt, the short film Junko's Shamisen is a wonderfully animated piece of amalgamated storytelling.

A portrait of Carmen Rosa the Champion–a colorful female professional wrestler in the male-dominated world of Bolivian wrestling

A poignant yet modest look at the lives of a family split across the Mexican/American border. 

 A Modern Medieval Saga–an impressive cinematic escape.

Director Henry Saine’s film explores the reality of a world crawling with convincing monsters of H.P.Lovecraft’s design.

This movie is loosely based around a script filled with murdered blondes in L.A. It’s tongue-in-cheek take on Los Angeles.

While never amazing, Tony is a solid, eerie, and very well acted film.  Definitely recommended for fans of the serial killer genre.

Although the pacing is slow, this film is a thoughtful meditation on human nature and the nature of morality in the absence of society.  An intelligent, well-crafted narrative.

Kirsten Kearse directed and starred in this interesting fable about the “modern woman” and the trials she encounters on a daily basis—literally.

That Go music video Golden Prize, Joey and Jerome's Artistic Meaningful Independent Film, Ha'agam (The Lake)

Head In the Sand & Sandhill Boys

Santa seeks to gain world domination through an army of toys

 Screening in Gallery Shorts Block 3, LOWbASIC is a unique short by Director Frank Rinaldi, winner of 2009's Slamdance Grand Jury Award for Best Experimental Film

 I Am Comic delivers big laughs and a glimpse into the world of a professional comedian

The Growing Season & Celestial Avenue

This short follows a day-in-the-life account of a young teenager named Lucy who tests the waters of pedophilia with an older man.

The Highwaymen is an organization of landscape artists from South Florida formerly classified as “motel-art artists.” The recently redeemed artists now command thousands of dollars per piece.

This film lives somewhere between Lifetime movie and genuine, earnest film. The story involves a social networking site, urFrenz, and the lives ruined by seemingly good intentions.

This is a film about dying, going crazy, and the damage that one man's unchecked ambition can do to others.