About —
The unanimous winner of the 1998 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera d'Or and Prix du Public (Audience Award) at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, Slam is an emotionally charged, uplifting film about a talented young man who discovers himself through the love of a woman and through his extraordinary talent at spoken word poetry 'slamming'—a combination of poetry and rap which is exploding across America. Spoken word poetry 'Slams' are competitions in which poets go one on one against each other using only their words and their emotions