SXSW 2011 Film Awards
Jury and audience award winners announced
Fri., March 18, 2011
Jury Awards
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Grand Jury Winner: Dragonslayer (Director: Tristan Patterson)
Best Editing: Where Soldiers Come From (Editors: Kyle Henry & Heather Courtney)
Best Cinematography: Dragonslayer (Director of Photography: Eric Koretz)
Best Score/Music: The City Dark (Music by: The Fishermen Three, Ben Fries)
NARRATIVE FEATURE
Grand Jury Winner: Natural Selection (Director: Robbie Pickering)
Breakthrough Performances: Evan Ross (96 Minutes), Rachael Harris (Natural Selection), Matt O'Leary (Natural Selection)
Best Screenplay: Natural Selection (Writer: Robbie Pickering)
Best Editing: Natural Selection (Editor: Michelle Tesoro)
Best Cinematography: A Year in Mooring (Director of Photography: Elliot Davis)
Best Score/Music: Natural Selection (Music by: iZLER, Curt Schneider)
SHORT FILM
Narrative Shorts: "Pioneer" (Director: David Lowery)
Documentary Shorts: "Mothersbane" (Director: Jason Jakaitis)
Animated Shorts: "THE WONDER HOSPITAL" (Director: Beomsik Shimbe Shim)
Music Videos: Hollerado, "Americanarama" (Director: Greg Jardin)
Texas Shorts: "8" (Director: Julie Gould & Daniel Laabs)
Time Warner Cable & Ovation Young Filmmaker Scholarship for Texas High School Shorts: "( __ )" (Director: Chad Werner)
Audience Awards
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Kumaré (Director: Vikram Gandhi)
NARRATIVE FEATURE
Natural Selection (Director: Robbie Pickering)
SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES
Becoming Santa (Director: Jeff Myers)
EMERGING VISIONS
Weekend (Director: Andrew Haigh)
SXSW Film Design Awards
EXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN
Silver Bullets (Designer: Yann Legendre)
Audience Award Winner: Green (Designer: Adrian Kolarczyk)
EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN
Blue Valentine (Designer: Jim Helton)
Audience Award Winner: Blue Valentine (Designer: Jim Helton)
SXSW Special Awards
SXSW WHOLPHIN AWARDS
"The Eagleman Stag" (Director: Mikey Please)
SXSW CHICKEN & EGG EMERGENT NARRATIVE WOMAN DIRECTOR AWARD
Sophia Takal for Green
LOUIS BLACK LONE STAR AWARD
Incendiary: The Willingham Case (Directors: Steve Mims & Joe Bailey Jr.)
