… go to Dear Pillow‘s Bryan Poyser (r) and Jacob Vaughan, who just picked up the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Central Standard Film Festival. Hey, Lions Gate: Get off your duff already and distribute this one… Also in line for back slaps is UT Austin grad student John Fiege, whose long-form doc and MFA thesis film, Mississippi Chicken, has won the film category of the New York/Monaco-based Princess Grace Awards. The prestigious honor netted Fiege $10,000 and a presentation from no less than Sharon Stone at the awards ceremony in NYC last week.

This article appears in November 5 • 2004.

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