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Austin Film Festival

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    Feature Film Award

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    Best Feature

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      Winner

      Still A Fairytale

      Rakesh Kumar

    Short Film Award

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    Best Narrative Short

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      Puppet Me

      8.2 (9)
      Julie Cavaliere
      Annie Tippe
      Sarah Donnelly
      Very Cavaliere Productions

    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]

      Yahrzeit

      DW Medoff(writer/director)

    Special Mention

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    Staff Pick

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      Ragged Heart

      8.0 (253)
      Evan McNary
      Unfilmables

    Comedy Screenplay Competition Award

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    Semifinalist

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      Gulp!

      John Whitcher

    Comedy Screenplay Competition

    • The Navajo and the Astronaut

      Jane Therese(Writer)

    Audience Award

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    Audience Choice Award

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      Winner

      Last Strike

      Zan Gillies
      Deep Structure Productions
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      Winner

      With This Breath I Fly

      9.1 (15)
      Sam French
      Clementine Malpas
      Leslie Knott
      Martin Desmond Roe
      Chris Uettwiller
      Jeff Zimbalist

    Best Narrative Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Jeff Can't Swim

      7.4 (25)
      Jon Ebeling(Writer)
      Michaela Myers(Director)

    Comedy Vanguard

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      Winner

      Des vacances à tout prix

      7.1 (298)
      Stevan Lee Mraovitch
      Charlotte Russe Films

    Documentary Feature

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      Winner

      With This Breath I Fly

      9.1 (15)
      Clementine Malpas
      Sam French
      Leslie Knott
      Development Pictures
      Dirty Robber
      Tiger Nest Films

    Narrative Feature

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      Winner

      Unsilenced

      6.8 (557)
      Leon Lee
      Flying Cloud Productions

    Texas Independent Feature

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      Winner

      Buck Alamo or (A Phantasmagorical Ballad)

      8.6 (56)
      Benjamin Epstein
      Epstein Productions

    Screenplay & Teleplay Competition

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    Finalist

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      Winner

      Mo'allem

      Nerris Nevarez-Nassiri(writer)

    Second Round Quarterfinalist

    • Winner

      The Village People

      Michael Busza(created by)

    Second Rounder

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      Winner

      Gloomy Sunday

      Kevin Machate
    • Winner

      Why Storms Are Named After People

      Austin Jennings Boykin
      Short Screenplay Competition
    • Winner

      go-LOVE-go

      John Griffin

    • Ghosts of War

      J. Penberth Rabold

    • Ghosts of War

      J. Penberth Rabold
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      Saborrrr!

      Gianfranco Fernandez-Ruiz
      Zach K. Johnson

    Rooster Teeth Fellowship

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      Saviors

      Liz Fields

    Teleplay: Sitcom Pilot

    • The Sub

      Drew Masse

    Jury Award

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    Dark Matters Feature

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      Winner

      Jacinto

      6.3 (96)
      Javi Camino
      Vizuals Lab

    Narrative Feature

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Disfluency

      6.5 (204)
    • [object Object]

      The Falconer

      6.0 (183)
      Seanne Winslow
      Adam Sjoberg
      Required Reading

    Narrative Short

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Play It Again

      7.8 (20)
      Dan Abramovici
      Ali Mashayekhi
      Myrthin Stagg
      Kate Elyse Forrest
      Liam Gareau
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      Puppet Me

      8.2 (9)
      Julie Cavaliere
      Sarah Donnelly
      Annie Tippe
      Morris S. Levy
      Very Cavaliere Productions
      Palikari Pictures
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      Princesse de Jérusalem

      7.4 (14)
      Guillaume Levil
      Nicolas Paban
      La Boîte à Songes

    Best Director

    • Sarah Hanner at the Bläckfisk screening at Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema
      • Sarah Hanner(Producer)
      • Alexandra

    Narrative Feature Award

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    Best Narrative Feature

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      The Grand Bolero

      5.6 (153)
      Gabriele Fabbro
      Xamxela
      Bedeschi Film
      G&F Pictures
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      No Vayas a Clase Mañana

      6.0 (34)
      Diego Barragan(Director)
      Cine Chacal

    Student Short Jury Award

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    Best Student Film

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      When the Sun Sets

      7.2 (102)
      Phumi Morare
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      Rubber Gun Club

      Alex Bendo

    Drama Feature Screenplay Award

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    Script Competition Second Rounder

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      Winner

      Betrayal of Reason

      C. Hope Belmont
    • Angela Matemotja
      • Angela Matemotja
      Matemotja Productions
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      Ghost Species

      Justin Hayward

    • The Plutocrats

      Alison Lani(writer)

    Enderby Entertainment Fellowship Award

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      Faster Than Horses

      Chris Mul
      Michael Mul

    Comedy Vanguard Jury Award

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    Jury Award

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      Winner

      Des vacances à tout prix

      7.1 (298)
      Stevan Lee Mraovitch
      Charlotte Russe Films

    Animated Short Jury Award

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    Animated Short

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      Memento Mori

      8.1 (16)
      Paul O'Flanagan
      Boulder Media

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    • Austin Film Festival (AFF) and Heart of Film Screenwriter's Conference

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    Austin, Texas, USA

    Event links

    • http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/

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