Slamdance Alum Daniel Harris Seeks Asylum from Sundance's New Sidebar

Just read about Sundance's lame low budget Sidebar. It demands a riposte from Slamdance and a list of true great underground no budget films down the decade that shows you as the true pioneers in the genre since NY Underground and Chicago vanished over a decade ago. To sidebar low budget films for their lack of finance makes them look like Special Olympics kids competing in the big show. Some of the best films over the last 15 years, Hybrid, Surendar Dorothy, Following, etc. are great despite their budgets. I really think this needs a challenge to Sundance; filmmakers must boycott enlisting in that event! I think program a separate Slamdance sidebar called Asylum for those films that make that Sundance Sidebar to defect to as a political statement.

Daniel Harris won the Slamdance Grand Jury prize at Slamdance in 1998 with his debut feature The Bible and Gun Club. Current projects include his photography exhibit at Resphoto www.sturmfilmfoto.wordpress.com and running Slamdance's Two Day Guerrilla Low Budget Film School at www.slamdanceafricafilmschool.wordpress.com in Cape Town, South Africa.