January 2009

NEWS/WATCH EM: Slamdance Selected Videos

Noted independent film fest Slamdance — aka the other film festival unfurling this week in Park City, UT — reinforces its image as the scrappier antithesis to the more upmarket Sundance Film Festival by launching its first ever music video component. Slamdance Executive Director / Chair of Music Video Programming Drea Clark — known to many in the video industry from her years working for the MVPA — says about the move, "Besides being biased to the format due to my own history, adding a music video line-up this year seemed like a no-brainer, what with the paradigm shifts in the music industry and the artists’ easy access to talented low-budget filmmakers." Word.

The inaugural line-up of Slamdance Music Videos runs as follows...

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