The annual festival, hosted this year by actress and animal activist Nikki Reed, premiered six original short films starring shelter cats, highlighting the fun and quirky nature of cats while supporting Fresh Step in its Million Meow Mission campaign to help shelters and rescues find more permanent homes for cats.
The Twilight star presented the golden prize, the coveted 2015 Golden Litter Scoop and a $10,000 “kitty”, to grand prize winner Alana Grelyak, who wrote “French CATastrophe.” The two-time Catdance finalist from Chicago took home the prize in her third year for her story about a man who signs up for Frenchat.com to improve his language skills, only to find that his foreign exchange teacher, Guy LaFurrr, is much shorter and furrier than expected.
*Fresh Step litter is hosting the screening and using the Catdance Film Festival name with permission, but is not an official sponsor of the Sundance Film Festival.