This year the well established Slamdance Film Festival celebrates its fifth year with its strongest line-up yet. Once again taking refuge at the Treasure Mountain Inn at the top of Main Street, mad hatter Dan Mirvish, Festival Director Peter Baxter and the gang return to present 19 features selected from nearly 2,000 films making it statistically more difficult for a filmmaker to get into Slamdance than Sundance.
Subjects range from screenplay readings to Australian and British indie cinema.
In addition, short films can be seen all day for free in the lounge area. While Berman starts out mapping Paul's descent from Vassar to prison, the film becomes about how the filmmaker himself copes with a friend from whom he cannot consciously walk away. The film follows a girl around Chicago who makes a bet that she can get any man to come home with her. Also notable is. This high-concept indie is fresh and original.