It’s a double win for Bob Trevino Likes It. Not only did Tracie Laymon’s cringe-cute comedy win the Grand Jury Award for narrative feature at last week’s South by Southwest Film & TV Festival, now it’s walked away with the audience award.
The comedy, starring Euphoria‘s Barbie Ferreira as a woman with two father figures (played by French Stewart and John Leguizamo) walks away from the fest with two of its biggest prizes.
In a big year in the Headliners category, including the world premieres of The Fall Guy, Road House, and The Idea of You, SXSW audiences went with a hard hitting passion project: Monkey Man, the directorial debut of The Green Knight star Dev Patel.
It was a particularly strong year for Austin films, with three big wins for movies with local connections. Baseball documentary Clemente about overlooked legend Roberto Clemente (produced by Austin Film Society board member Mike Blizzard) hit a home run in the Documentary Spotlight category. Austin-based director Greg Kwedar (Transpecos) took the audiences’ laurels for Festival Favorite for prison drama Sing Sing, starring another filmmaker familiar to and with Austin, Fear the Walking Dead star Colman Domingo (Zola, Rustin). Rounding out a trio of home town wins was Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience, the loving and funny tribute to the definitional Austin radio host by directed by David Hartstein and Sam Wainwright Douglas, took top honors among musical true stories in the 24 Beats Per Second program.
Here’s the full list of winners: congratulations to all.
HEADLINER
Audience Award Winner: Monkey ManDirector: Dev Patel, Producers: Dev Patel, Jomon Thomas, Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, Ian Cooper, Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, Christine Haebler, Sam Sahni, Antay Nagpal, Screenwriters: Dev Patel, Paul Angunawela, John Collee
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION Audience Award Winner: Bob Trevino Likes It
Director/Screenwriter: Tracie Laymon, Producers: Tracie Laymon, Sean Mullin, Edgar Rosa, Felipe Dieppa
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: Resynator
Director: Alison Tavel, Producers: Kathryn Robson, Jon Lullo, Brendan Walter, Sara Nesson, Barbara McDonough, Christopher Noviello
NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: My Dead Friend Zoe
Director: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, Producers: Paul Scanlan, Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, Terri Lubaroff, Ray Maiello, Mike Field, Richard Silverman, Robert Paschall Jr., Screenwriters: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, AJ Bermudez
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: Clemente
Director: David Altrogge, Producers: Mike Blizzard, Mary Sabol, Sarah Altrogge, Jocelyn Hartnett, Stephen Turselli, Keith Ayers, Andrew Calvetti, Steve Burman, John Bennett Scanlon
MIDNIGHTER
Audience Award Winner: Oddity
Director/Screenwriter: Damian McCarthy, Producers: Katie Holly, Laura Tunstall, Evan Horan, Mette-Marie Kongsved
VISIONS
Audience Award Winner: Songs From the Hole
Director: Contessa Gayles, Producers: Contessa Gayles, Richie Reseda, David Felix Sutcliffe, Screenwriters: James “JJ’88” Jacobs, Contessa Gayles
GLOBAL presented by MUBI
Audience Award Winner: Bionico’s Bachata
Director: Yoel Morales, Producer: Cristian Mojica, Screenwriters: Cristian Mojica, Yoel Morales
24 BEATS PER SECOND presented by Tito’s Handmade Vodka
Audience Award Winner: Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience
Directors: David Hartstein, Sam Wainwright Douglas, Producer: Shelby Hadden
FESTIVAL FAVORITE
Audience Award Winner: Sing Sing
Director: Greg Kwedar, Producers: Monique Walton, Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Screenwriters: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar
Short Film Programs presented by You42
NARRATIVE SHORT COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: “Can”
Director/Screenwriter: Kailee McGee, Producers: JP Bolles, Kailee McGee
DOCUMENTARY SHORT COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: “Frank”
Director: David Gauvey Herbert, Producers: David Gauvey Herbert, Lance Oppenheim, Abigail Rowe, Nate Hurtsellers
ANIMATED SHORT COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: “A Crab in the Pool”
Directors/Screenwriters/Producers: Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
MIDNIGHT SHORT COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: “Meat Puppet”
Director/Screenwriter: Eros V, Producers: Leah Draws, Masha Thorpe
TEXAS SHORT COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: “Sangre Violenta / Sangre Violeta”
Directors: Edna Diaz, Arturo R. Jiménez, Producers: Maggie M. Bailey, Edna Diaz, Arturo R. Jiménez
MUSIC VIDEO COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: Dillon Francis – “LA on Acid”
Director/Screenwriter: Parker Seaman, Producers: Melissa Langaas, Parker Seaman
TV Program
TV PREMIERE
Audience Award Winner: STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A.
Director: Jamila Wignot, Producers: Jamila Wignot, Kara Elverson
TV SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: Hacks Season 3 Premiere
Showrunners: Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky, Director: Lucia Aniello, Producers: Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Michael Schur, David Miner, Morgan Sackett
INDEPENDENT TV PILOT COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: Neo-Dome
Director: Bonnie Discepolo, Screenwriter: Matt Pfeffer, Producers: Anna Camp, Michael Johnson, Matt Pfeffer, Mark Pfeffer, Valerie Steinberg
XR Experience
XR EXPERIENCE COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: Last We Left Off
Directors: Connor Illsley, Jon Riera, Grayson Moore, Aidan Shipley, Producers: Cameron MacLaren, Peter Fisher, Connor Illsley, Jon Riera, Screenwriter: Grayson Moore
XR EXPERIENCE SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: EmperorDirectors: Marion Burger, Ilan J. Cohen, Producers: Oriane Hurard, Katharina Weser, Jeanne Marchalot, Screenwriters: Marion Burger, Ilan J. Cohen
XR EXPERIENCE SPECIAL EVENT
Audience Award Winner: Kiss/CrashDirector: Adam Cole
This article appears in SXSW 2024 Festival Guide, Part II.
