Director Marcus Armitage wins the jury award for short animation for ‘My Dad’; Josh Shaffner receives an honorable mention for his short film ‘Flaws.’
The 22nd Slamdance Film Festival came to an end last week as organizers bestowed this year’s Sparky awards in the Audience, Jury and Sponsored Categories. The award winners were announced at the festival’s annual awards ceremony at the Treasure Mountain Inn in Park City, Utah.
BAFTA-nominated director and animator Marcus Armitage won the jury award for short animation for My Dad, while CalArts alum and experimental filmmaker Josh Shaffner received an honorable mention for his short film, Flaws.
In keeping with tradition, juries of leading industry experts and filmmakers determined the Slamdance Awards for the Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature and Short Film categories. The Audience Awards, as well as the Spirit of Slamdance, an award given by the filmmakers of Slamdance 2016 to the filmmaker who best embodies the spirit of the festival, were also awarded. The feature competition films in the Documentary and Narrative Programs were limited to first-time filmmakers working with production budgets of less than $1 million.
The full list of winners of the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival is shown below:
Audience Award for Narrative Feature
Honey Bunnies, Alex Simmons
Audience Award for Documentary Feature
The Million Dollar Duck, Brian Golden Davis
Jury Award for Narrative Feature
Driftwood, Paul Taylor
Jury Honorable Mention for Acting - Narrative Feature
Hunky Dorky, starring Tomas Pais and Edouard Holdener
Jury Award for Documentary Feature
The Million Dollar Duck, Brian Golden Davis
Jury Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature
Art of the Prank, Andrea Marini
Jury Award for Documentary Short
If Mama Ain’t Happy, Nobody’s Happy, Mea de Jong
Jury Honorable Mention for Cinematography - Documentary Short
The Bullet, cinematography by Mike Gioulakis
Jury Award for Narrative Short
Winter Hymns, Dusty Mancinelli
Jury Honorable Mention for Narrative Short
The Beast, Daina Oniunas
Jury Award for Animation Short
My Dad, Marcus Armitage
Jury Honorable Mention for Animation Short
Flaws, Josh Shaffner
Jury Award for Experimental Short
Infrastructures, Aurèle Ferrier
Jury Honorable Mention for Experimental Short
Cup of Stars, Ryan Betschart, Tyler Betschart
Jury Award for Anarchy Short
Disco Inferno, Alice Waddington
Jury Honorable Mention for Anarchy Short
Gwillam, Brian Lonano
Jury Honorable Mention for Anarchy Short
Hi How Are You Daniel Johnston?, Gabriel Sunday
Digital Bolex Fearless Filmmaking Grand Prize
Small Talk, Hilary Campbell
Digital Bolex Fearless Filmmaking Honorable Mention
You Will Find A Way, A.J. Molle
Digital Bolex Fearless Filmmaking Honorable Mention
Eyes of the City, Luke Randall
Source: Slamdance Film Festival
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
