Growth of Festival
Slamdance continued to create new avenues for its filmmakers expanding beyond Park City during the festival by creating the annual Filmmaker Summit in 2010.
In 2011, Slamdance presented the second annual Filmmaker Summit, along with the Ford Foundation, IndieFlix and Banyan Branch, bringing together some of the most innovative thinkers in the industry. Speakers included Scilla Andreen (IndieFlix), Tiffany Shlain (Director of "Connected", "Yelp"), Brian Newman (subgenre media), Jenny Samppala (Banyan Branch), Amy Powell ("Paranormal Activity"), Lance Weiler ("Pandemic"), John Anderson (Variety), Orlando Bagwell (Ford Foundation), and Greg Pak (Robot Stories and Hulk comic book scribe).
Slamdance also collaborated with Kodak in order to bring Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond to the festival and host an intimate discussion about the future of film and digital cinematography.
At the 2011 Festival, Slamdance launched a Student Initiative program involving both students and their faculty to help them gain a greater understanding of the current realities and opportunities in independent film.
When the Festival began it received 48 submissions. As of 2012, Slamdance receives over 7,500 submissions per annum and is now seen as one of the most significant Film festival's in the world.
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