Patrick Dugan has written a recap of the Slamdance festival, which you can now read over on Gamasutra. He covers the games that presented their work. Go read it, but here are a couple interesting tidbits:

Dugan ends on a bullish note, arguing "The Slamdance Games competition is not a shambles, it is very much alive in cocktail conversations between game and film creators, in people playing, in the lessons each culture can teach the other." I guess we'll have to wait and see if he's right.