Editor

Festival organizers announced the winners of the 2002 SLAMDUNK FILM FESTIVAL
this evening in an awards ceremony. This is SLAMDUNK'S fifth year in Park
City, adding to the growing list of "alternative" fests that have mushroomed
around the SUNDANCE Film Festival.

The winners are as follows:
BEST FEATURE FILM: Ordinary Sinner, Dir. John Henry Davis
BEST DIRECTOR: John Henry Davis, ORDINARY SINNER
BEST ACTOR: Roger G. Smith, A HUEY P. NEWTON STORY
BEST ACTRESS: Annabeth Gish, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
BEST SCRIPT: Teo Konuralp, Adrien McKechnie, Marcos Sorrian, FEEDBACK
BEST EDITING: Teo Konuralp, FEEDBACK
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Teck Tan, SPINNING GASING
BEST SHORT - Narrative: **TIE**
THE CRICKET PLAYER, Dir. Adam Rubin & THE MAN IN THE EMPTY ROOM, Dir. Todd
Korgan
BEST SHORT - Comedy THE BALL CHAIR, Dir. Ben Weinstein
AUDIENCE AWARD - Feature: R.S.V.P., Director: Mark Anthony Galluzzo
AUDIENCE AWARD - Short: BORN LOSER, Director: Stan Mendoza


Screen Play Competition Info:

The Slamdunk Film Festival is pleased to announce Benjamin Shahrabani¹s
script titled ³Knowing² is the 2002 Slamdunk Film Festival Screenplay
Competition Award Winner. Shahrabani¹s script about murder, betrayal and
lust in a small New England town was selected out of 300+ submitted scripts.
Shahrabani lives in Los Angeles, but grew up in Connecticut