Director Alexandre Franchi’s feature debut The Wild Hunt is one of three Canuck titles set to play in competition at the 2010 Slamdance Festival, which unveiled its picks Thursday afternoon.

Wild Hunt has gained momentum since its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it took the best first Canadian feature prize, and was recently named one of the Top Ten Canadian films of 2009. It follows a young man who crashes a medieval re-enactment game to win his girlfriend back from a charismatic suitor. The film’s Canadian distributor is TVA Films.

Also making the cut at Slamdance — which runs concurrent with Sundance — is Quebec filmmaker Charles Olivier-Michaud’s Snow and Ashes, about a war correspondent who wakes up from a temporary coma and sets out to recapture events at an armed conflict in eastern Europe.

Both Snow and Wild Hunt will play in the narrative program.

The Canada/Switzerland copro doc Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae, from Swiss director Stascha Bader, will bow in the indie fest’s documentary program. The film reunites singers and musicians of Jamaica’s Golden Age of music to record an album of their greatest hits and perform a concert in Kingston. Rocksteady is one of eight documentary films selected for Slamdance.

The 16th annual Slamdance runs Jan 21-28 in Park City, Utah. Canuck titles playing at Sundance include the doc Last Train Home and Vincenzo Natali’s bio-horror Splice.