'Jug Face' wins Slamdance writing prize

Chad Kinkle's ''Jug Face'' has won the Slamdance Writing Competition Grand Prize. The kudo, selected from greater than 2,300 distribution, was introduced Wednesday evening in occasions within the Authors Guild of America West. ''Jug Face'' notifies the story from the teenage girl, pregnant along with her brother's child, who tries to avoid a backwoods community when she discovers she must sacrifice herself with a creature in the pit. Kinkle remains granted $7,000 in cash honours. Frederic Richter's ''Appearances'' won the qualities prize. ''Dearborn Hotel'' by Peter Gaffney needed second place and ''Motor City'' by Matthew Kohnen and Sean Kohnen needed third. ''Harold's Bad Day'' by RJ Buckley won the shorts category. Second place visited ''He Knows'' by Stuart Creque while third was presented with to ''Six Years, Four Several days and 12 Days'' by John Mawson. To start with in teleplays visited ''Uncivilized'' by Adam Aresty. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com