Slamdance has announced the winners of its 2006 festival. Lynn Shelton's We Go Way Back, "a sly and tender depiction of one young woman's journey of self-rediscovery," snagged the Grand Jury award. The Special Jury Recognition went to The Guatemalan Handshake, a mystery about a vanished demolition derby driver by writer/director Todd Rohal. A film about Sierra Leone, Philippe Diaz' The Empire in Africa, won Best Documentary, and the Documentary Jury Recognition went to the controversial Forgiving Dr. Mengele, by Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh. Tim Skousen's The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature.

The official site has the complete list of awards, including the Screenplay Competition and the Sparky Award for Global Anarchy. Best-of screenings are held today in Salt Lake City, and winning films will come to New York and LA soon.