SXSWclick Winners

"When we are in love, all is possible," intones the mousy, Parisian narrator of Dan Brown's irresistibly love-struck short film "Pierre." "To make it to the moon ... is only halfway there."

Brown's film, which flawlessly melds live action with CGI to create 81/2 minutes of romance that recalls Amélie by way of Ratatouille, took the Grand Jury Award at the fourth annual SXSWclick film festival, the year-round offspring of the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival.

Juried by actor Kal Penn (The Namesake), Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk, indie doc helmer A.J. Schnack (Kurt Cobain: About a Son), and bloggers Agnes Varnum and Violet Blue, among others. SXSWclick pulled in more than 1,000 entries this year, paring them down to a final five films, which range in tone from Will Elliott's coy meditation on customer-service call centers run amok (Popularity Contest winner "Peterson's Savings and Loan") to David Serota's inspiring minidoc "Ubuntu." The latter chronicles the efforts to broaden kids' horizons both culturally and artistically amid the squalor of the South African shantytown dubbed Kliptown and won the Really Real Shorts category. In between, you can find top-drawer examples of the current state of the music video (Andrea Giacomini behind the lens for Socadia's track "Always Near" in the Sound Checks category) as well as -- in the aptly titled category What the F*#!? -- Tipper Newton's sweet, bizarre, unclassifiable "The Timebox Twins." (Newton previously appeared in the Joe Swanberg-directed SXSW 06 favorite, LOL.)

All winning films are available for screening (and download) online in both standard MPEG and WMV formats and, in a nod to the fest's mandate toward creating content for mobile devices (iPhone users, they're talking to you), via the infinitely more cell-phone-friendly 3GP format. Go to www.sxswclick.com/winners for more.