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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2016 JURIES AND DIGITAL BOLEX 2016 FEARLESS FILMMAKERS LINEUP

LOS ANGELES – The Slamdance Film Festival announced Jury members for its 22nd edition, which includes the minds behind William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe,” Curfew, The Resurrection of Jake The Snake, the novel AGAINST CONTROL, Clever Fox, Caucho Technology, the Montclair Film Festival and the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival to name a few. Juries of leading industry experts and esteemed filmmakers determine the Slamdance Jury Awards for Narrative Feature, Documentary Feature, and Short Film categories. These awards will be presented on Thursday, January 28th, during the Festival’s Awards Ceremony.

“We are fortunate to have such acclaimed industry members and alumni join our juries and we welcome the Digital Bolex fearless filmmakers to round out our festival program,“ states Peter Baxter Co-Founder and President of the Slamdance Film Festival.

Tuesday, January 26th, Digital Bolex will present the second edition of FEARLESS FILMMAKING: ART ON YOUR OWN TERMS, a block of shorts shot on the D16 camera that bring together the Slamdance and Digital Bolex filmmaking communities in Park City for Festival audiences.

The 90-minute showcase features the work of fourteen filmmakers from Croatia, Australia, Romania, France, and the USA, including two films created at the 2015 Résidence Audiovisuelle Francophone in Slon, Romania, and a University of Connecticut thesis film that received the Digital Bolex Grant for Women Cinematographers.

“We’re thrilled that for the second year we’ve been able to give users of our camera the opportunity to premiere their work on the big screen at such an esteemed celebration of independent cinema,” said Digital Bolex Creative Director Elle Schneider. “We’re grateful to Slamdance for partnering with us to give back to our incredible user community, and that the filmmaker initiatives we began to support in 2015, such as the Women Cinematographer’s Grant and the Slon Residence, are already producing festival-quality work.”

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– Originally Posted January 19, 2016.