Dax to the Max: First-time writer/director (and onetime Punk’d-ster) Dax Shepard (r) was on hand with with co-star and producer Nate Tuck for Saturday night’s world premiere of faux documentary Brother’s Justice. For more of our AFF coverage, visit the Screens blog, Picture in Picture, at austinchronicle.com/pip. Credit: Photo by Jana Birchum

One thing’s for sure: The University of Texas Department of Radio-Television-Film will have no shortage of alumni news with which to fill its next newsletter. UT grads came up big at this year’s Austin Film Festival awards luncheon on Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Austin Club, with Jack Zagha Kababie and Ya’Ke taking home prizes for their narrative films, while Andrew Lanham’s script The Jumper of Maine – which won a prestigious Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last week – was picked for both Best Drama Screenplay and the Latitude Productions Screenplay Award, which is sponsored by Curtis Burch’s L.A.-based production company.

Best Narrative Feature: Adiós 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” (Writer: Louis Sutherland)

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)

This article appears in Rick Perry (Digital Edition).

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...