2018 Slam Festival
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Awards
Septi Award Winner – “Fruit Therapy” by I know Kung Fu
Hip Clip Award Winner – “Budding Love” by Lighting Shock
Slammy Award Winner – “Wifebot” by Abbi Rose Productions
Spirit Award – “50 Shades of Genre” by E Equals
Best Actress – Nancy Gasper “Fruit Therapy”
Best Actor – Devon McDonald “Soft Reflections“
Best Editorial – “Noesis” – Nik Owens, Preston Maughan from team Schnooby Nooblers
Best Cinematography – “Update in Progress” – Trevin Spencer from team Noir Bizarre
Best Story – “Who Died and Made you Dead” by Zoo Wee Mamas
Best Tweet – “Sketch” by Tiger Trauma
Maybe he can give us a good egg 🤔 #50hourslam #tigertrauma pic.twitter.com/5QWTE75okB
— Tiger Trauma (@TigerTrauma) March 24, 2018
Runner Ups
Septi Award Runner Up – “Budding Love” by Lighting Shock
Hip Clip Runner Up – “Wifebot” by Abbi Rose Productions
2018 Festival Criteria
A PROP –
This year the Slam is reflected on the growth that our event and the Spokane film community has seen over the last eight years. To help symbolize that growth, each team must visually feature a seed as a prop somewhere in thier film. (Any type of seed was acceptable)
Location –
This year’s location element incorporates a new addition to Riverfront Park, also symbolizing growth within Spokane: The Ice Skating Ribbon.
The filmmakers may feature the Ice Skating Ribbon in any way htey choose, but it must visually appear somewhere in the film.
THEME –
Each film must incorporate a provided theme and thier entry was judged by how well the theme was worked into it. The theme for this year’s competition centers on works of art created by local visual artists that were inspired by the idea of “growth”.
Each team received a card with a number on it. (1, 2, or 3). The number on thier card corresponds to one of three different visual art pieces created and explored by local Spokane visual artists. Each work of art is featured in a video where they discuss their artistic process and their individual art piece. The videos can be viewed below.
The films entered must incorporate their assigned art piece into its theme. How they interpret the art and the artist’s approach to creating it and weave it into thier film is entirely up to them, but the score from the judges will be based on how creatively they incorporated the artwork and the artist’s process/philosophy into the overall theme of the film.
Number 1 – Vanessa Swenson
Number 2 – Reinaldo Gil Zambrano
Number 3 – Lisa Waddle
2018 Festival Entries