2008 Slamdance Film Festival

[1] The Festival received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 slots.

The Grand Jury Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature Award winners will be screened at the IFC Center in New York City in February 2008.

Only first-time filmmakers working with production budgets of $1 million or less were allowed to compete in Feature competition.

The winners shared more than $200,000 in cash and prizes,[3] and one winner won guaranteed production of a feature film.

[2] Films that premiered at the festival included Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, a documentary about the murder of Zachary Turner.