SXSW Film Awards 2010
Feature Film Jury Awards
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner: Marwencol
Director: Jeff Malmberg
Special Jury Winner: War Don Don
Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen
NARRATIVE FEATURE
Winner: Tiny Furniture
Director: Lena Dunham
Special Jury Award - Best Ensemble: Myth of the American
Sleepover
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Special Jury Award - Best Individual Performance: Brian Hasenfus in
Phillip the Fossil
Director: Garth Donovan
Feature Film Audience Awards
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner: For Once in My Life
Director: Jim Bigham & Mark Moormann
NARRATIVE FEATURE
Winner: Brotherhood
Director: Will Canon
24 BEATS PER SECOND
Winner: When You're Strange - a film about the Doors
Director: Tom DiCillo
EMERGING VISIONS
Winner: NY Export: Opus Jazz
Director: Jody Lee Lipes
LONE STAR STATES
Winner: Thunder Soul
Director: Mark Landsman
MIDNIGHTERS
Winner: Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Director: Eli Craig
SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES
Winner: Richard Garriott - Man on a Mission
Director: Mike Woolf
Short Film Jury Awards
NARRATIVE SHORTS
Winner: Cigarette Candy
Director: Lauren Wolkstein
Special Jury Award: Teleglobal Dreamin'
Director: Eric Flanagan
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Winner: Quadrangle
Director: Amy Grappell
Special Jury Award: White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ
Junebug
Director: Travis Senger
ANIMATED SHORTS
Winner: The Orange
Director: Nick Fox-Gieg
Special Jury Award: One Square Mile of Earth
Director: Jeff Drew
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
Winner: Night Mayor
Director: Guy Maddin
Special Jury Award: Kids Might Fly
Director: Alex Taylor
MUSIC VIDEOS
Winner: Cinnamon Chasers, "Luv Deluxe"
Director: Saman Keshavarz
Special Jury Award: Grizzly Bear, "Forest"
Director: Allison Schulnik
TEXAS SHORTS
Winner: Petting Sharks
Director: Craig Elrod
Special Jury Award: The Big Bends
Director: Jason William Marlow
TIME WARNER CABLE & OVATION YOUNG FILMMAKER SCHOLARSHIP for TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SHORT
Winner: Give the Dog a Bone
Director: Edward Kelley
Special Jury Award: The Sleep Project
Director: Whitney Bennett & Matthew Cunningham
SXSW Special Jury Awards
SXSW WHOLPHIN AWARD
Winner: Quadrangle
Director: Amy Grappell
SXSW Chicken & Egg Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award
Winner: Lena Dunham for Tiny Furniture
Special Award - The Chicken & Egg Pictures "We Believe in You" Award
Martha Stephens for Passenger Pigeons
SXSW Film Design Awards
EXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN
Winner: Feeder
Designer: Joseph Ernst
Special Jury Award: Amer
Designer: Gilles Vranckx
Audience Award Winner: Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission
Designer: Michael Anderson
Special Jury Award: Equestrian Sexual Response
Designers: Martim Vian & Zeke Hawkins
EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN
Winner: Zombieland
Designer: Ben Conrad
Special Jury Award: earthwork
Designer: Stan Herd
Audience Award Winner: earthwork
Designer: Stan Herd
Special Jury Award: Enter the Void
Designer: Gaspar Noé and Tom Kam
The annual SXSW Film Awards Ceremony took place on Tuesday, March 16 at the Austin Convention Center Theater. The 2010 SXSW Film Festival Awards were hosted by Ovation TV.
A special thank you to awards graciously donated by:
Alpha Cine Labs, Audio Technica, Chicken and Egg Pictures, Criterion Collection, iScript.com, Lonely Seal Releasing, QuickFilmBudget.com, Seagate, Taylor Guitars, Wholphin DVD.
Photo Credit: Lena Dunham picks up a Narrative Feature Award for "Tiny Furniture". Photo by Jonathan LaChance