Best International Short:Winner: RITA (Fabio Grassadonia / Antonio Piazza, Italy)Special Mention: MEGAHEAVY (Fenar Ahmad, Denmark)Special Mention: OUT IN THAT DEEP BLUE SEA (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)Jury: Philip Ilson / Damian Spandley (The Works UK) / Alexandra Heneka (Hamburg Short Film Agency)Best UK Short:Winner: BABY (Daniel Mulloy)Special Mention: DEFOE (Ross Neil)Jury: Jane Giles (BFI) / Shira Mcleod (Riverside Studios) / Jukka-Pekka Laakso (Tampere Short Film Festival) ...

The Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film sponsored by UK Film Council Somers Town Directed by Shane Meadows Standard Life Audience Award Man on Wire Directed by James Marsh Skillset New Directors Award Marianna Palka Director of Good Dick Best Documentary Award Encounters At The End of the World Directed by Werner Herzog PPG Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film Robert Carlyle for Summer UK Film Council Awa...

More than 2,000 short films from over 40 countries were submitted to the 2008 Slamdance Film Festival, and 67 have been selected to screen by the Shorts Programming Committee, which is comprised of Slamdance alumni filmmakers. Each of the 67 shorts is now in competition and eligible for a Grand Jury Award. As always, the Slamdance Film Festival will run concurrently with the Sundance Film Festival, January 17-25, in Park City, Utah. Slamdance and the box-office will be headquartered and its fil...