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AFF: Awards

By Kimberley Jones, October 23, 2010, 1:46pm, Picture in Picture

At today’s awards luncheon at the Austin Club, the Austin Film Fsetival announced its competition winners, including a big win for a UT grad.

Director/co-writer Jack Zagha Kababie and producer Yossy Zagha, who both attended UT-Austin, won Best Narrative Feature for the Mexico City-set comedy Adios Mundo Cruel. Best Documentary Feature went to Louder Than a Bomb, which chronicles a high school slam poetry competition in Chicago. It screens at 6pm today at the Rollins Theatre and Tuesday, 5pm, at the Arbor; Adios Mundo Cruel, which premiered Friday, screens again tomorrow (10/24), 7pm, at the Arbor.

2010 AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL FILM COMPETITION JURY WINNERS

Best Narrative Feature: Adios Mundo Cruel – Writers: Jack Zagha Kababie, Enrique Chmelnik
Narrative Feature Special Jury Mention: Dog Sweat – Writers: Maryam Azadi, Hossein Keshavarz
Best Documentary Feature: Louder Than a Bomb - Directors: Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel
Best Narrative Short: Katrina’s Son - Writer: Ya’Ke
Narrative Short Special Jury Mention: The Six Dollar Fifty Man - Writers: Louis Southerland
Best Documentary Short: Birthright – Director: Sean Mullens
Best Animated Short: The Lost Thing - Director: Shaun Tan
Best Narrative Student Short: Down in Number 5 - Writer: Kim Spurlock