Here's looking at you: Austinite Laura Dunn won the Truer Than Fiction Award for her Barton Springs doc The Unforeseen at Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards. Credit: Ada Calhoun

Texas was well-represented – and rewarded – at this year’s Independent Spirit Awards, with Laura Dunn nabbing the Truer Than Fiction Award for The Unforeseen and Chris Eska winning the John Cassavetes Award for August Evening. Both films premiered at last year’s South by Southwest Film Festival – and speaking of, SXSW Film producer Matt Dentler co-hosted coverage of the awards on IFC.com with IFC’s Matt Singer and Alison Wilmore. Check out Dentler’s indiewire blog for all the dirt, as well as snaps from the event.

This article appears in February 22 • 2008.

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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...