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SXSW Grand Jury Award

Animated Short

Winner
Beast
7.0 (2.2K)
Hugo Covarrubias
The Shaman's Apprentice
7.3 (76)
Zacharias Kunuk
Anxious Body
5.7 (118)
Yoriko Mizushiri
Les larmes de la Seine
7.9 (85)
Yanis Belaid
Eliott Benard
Life Is a Particle Time Is a Wave
7.0 (10)
Daniel Zvereff
Local Middle Schooler
8.6 (6)
Sanjna Bharadwaj
Soft Animals
6.2 (36)
Renee Zhan
Something in the Garden
5.5 (32)
Marcos Sanchez
Steakhouse
6.4 (220)
Spela Cadez
Tennis Ball on His Day Off
6.8 (40)
Julian Glander
Wet
6.7 (27)
Marianne Bergeonneau
Five Cents
7.0 (13)
Aaron Hughes

Documentary Feature

Winner
Master of Light
6.7 (269)
Rosa Ruth Boesten
Bad Axe
7.5 (573)
David Siev
Clean
7.3 (267)
Lachlan Mcleod
It's Quieter in the Twilight
7.1 (178)
Billy Miossi
Mama Bears
7.7 (81)
Daresha Kyi
Jurassic Punk
7.3 (524)
Scott Leberecht
The Pez Outlaw
6.9 (3.2K)
Amy Bandlien Storkel
Bryan Storkel
The Thief Collector
6.7 (702)
Allison Otto

Documentary Short

Winner
Long Line of Ladies
7.4 (72)
Shaandiin Tome
Rayka Zehtabchi
Kulisy
5.6 (5)
Ada Smyk
Big Water Summer: A Creation Story
Sophie Harris
Coming Home
7.8 (21)
Margot Bowman
Naim Naif
Dress A Cow
6.3 (22)
Dawn Luebbe
My Dudus
8.0 (24)
Tom Krawczyk
Nalujuk Night
7.1 (62)
Jennie Williams
Not even for a moment do things stand still
7.0 (23)
Jamie Meltzer
Nuisance Bear
6.8 (821)
Gabriela Osio Vanden
Jack Weisman
Stranger Than Rotterdam with Sara Driver
8.2 (39)
Lewie Kloster
Noah Kloster
The Sentence of Michael Thompson
8.3 (22)
Haley Elizabeth Anderson
Kyle Thrash
The Trails Before Us
7.2 (6)
Fritz Bitsoie
Video Visit
7.8 (10)
Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Episodic Pilot

Winner
Something Undone
5.9 (377)
Nicole Dorsey(Director)
Michael Musi(Screenwriter)
Madison Walsh(Screenwriter)
Jordan Hayes(Producer)
Max Topplin(Producer)
Awayy
8.0 (13)
Aqsa Altaf(Director/Producer)
John X. Carey(Director/Producer)
Amina Nada(Producer)
Brownsville Bred
6.1 (28)
Elaine del Valle(Showrunner/Director/Screenwriter/Producer)
Adrienne Acevedo Lovette(Producer)
Leslie Cohen(Producer)
Debbie Esko-Gold(Producer)
Eddie Frente(Producer)
Hidden Kingdom
Jacqueline Davis(Director)
Sunny Lee(Director)
Emily Backerman(Producer)
My Year of Dicks
7.1 (3.1K)
Pamela Ribon(Showrunner/Screenwriter)
Sara Gunnarsdóttir(Director)
Jeanette Jeanenne(Producer)
We're Doing Good
7.3 (13)
Elvira Ibragimova(Director)
Lana Link(Producer)
Rob Pfaltzgraff(Producer)

Midnight Short

Winner
Moshari
7.3 (819)
Nuhash Humayun
Blink
6.3 (335)
Spenser Cohen
Don't Go Where I Can't Find You
6.4 (46)
Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair
The Horse Brothers
5.5 (17)
Milos Mitrovic
Fabian Velasco
Night Breakers
7.5 (72)
Gabriel Campoy
Guillem Lafoz
Omi
5.6 (60)
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
Tank Fairy
6.8 (93)
Erich Rettstadt
White Devil
4.0 (26)
Mariama Diallo
Benjamin Dickinson
Wild Bitch
6.3 (23)
Rebekka Johnson
Kate Nash

Music Video

Winner
Desirée Dawson: Meet You at the Light
9.3 (7)
Alexander Farah
Lil Nas X: Montero (Call Me by Your Name)
7.3 (206)
Tanu Muino
Peaches: Pussy Mask
Leah Shore
Julia Stone: Dance
7.7 (20)
Jessie Hill
Baby Tate: Pedi
Norton
Boys Noize & Kelsey Lu: Ride or Die feat. Chilly Gonzales
Art Camp
Danae Gosset
Danica Tan
Conditioner: Terms of Surrender
Travis Barron
Cady Buche
Dave East, Jay Electronica, Tavis Eaton: No Hoodie
Mayukh Goswami
Sean Wehrli
David Lindmer feat. Johanson: Omen
Drust
Delta Spirit: What's Done Is Done
8.2 (10)
Michael Parks Randa
Dumbfoundead: Secret Menu
Sean Wang
Hana Vu: Keeper
Maegan Houang
Hrishikesh Hirway: Between There and Here (feat. Yo-Yo Ma)
Prashanti Aswani
Hrishikesh Hirway
KIKO: Ka Puta
Francis Baker
Rewi Mclay
MYD: Let you Speak
Dan Carr
Number One Popstar: I Hate Running
Kate Hollowell
Peter $un: Work
Bevin Brown
Chris Scholar
Pop Smoke Feat. Dua Lipa: Demeanor
5.4 (39)
Nabil Elderkin
Run the Jewels feat. 2 Chainz: Out of Sight
8.0 (19)
Ninian Doff
Colin Read
SCH ft. Freeze Corleone: Mannschaft
Gregory Ohrel
The Burning Young: Quiet Nights
Paola Ossa
Tyler, the Creator: Corso
8.9 (48)
Tyler the Creator
Unknown Mortal Orchestra: That Life
Tony Blahd
Lydia Fine

Narrative Feature

Winner
I Love My Dad
6.3 (3.6K)
James Morosini
A Lot of Nothing
4.4 (665)
Mo McRae
It Is in Us All
5.3 (547)
Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Linoleum
6.5 (4.2K)
Colin West
Nika
6.6 (283)
Vasilisa Kuzmina
Seriously Red
5.7 (1.1K)
Gracie Otto
Slash/Back
5.7 (2.3K)
Nyla Innuksuk
Soft & Quiet
6.2 (13K)
Beth de Araújo

Narrative Short

Winner
All the Crows in the World
6.1 (666)
Yi Tang
Aspirational Slut
5.4 (356)
Caroline Lindy
Brutalia, ergasimes meres
7.3 (129)
Manolis Mavris
Le censeur des reves
7.1 (224)
Leo Berne
Raphaël Rodriguez
Clare
7.0 (43)
Lauren Minnerath
Daddy's Girl
6.9 (36)
Lena Hudson
Datsun
7.7 (365)
Mark Albiston
Dear Mama
8.5 (27)
Winter Dunn
El Carrito
7.2 (45)
Zahida Pirani
Everything Will Be All Right
7.2 (13)
Farhad Pakdel
For Love
6.6 (24)
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
Glitter Ain't Gold
6.8 (36)
Christian Nolan Jones
Homesick
6.6 (38)
Will Seefried
If I Go Will They Miss Me
6.2 (24)
Walter Thompson-Hernandez
Monsieur Le Butch
7.0 (19)
Jude Dry
Radical Honesty
5.2 (56)
Bianca Poletti
Roommates
6.8 (23)
Ashley Eakin
The Voice Actress
8.4 (26)
Anna J. Takayama
Too Rough
7.3 (208)
Sean Lìonadh
Warsha
7.1 (459)
Dania Bdeir
We Should Get Dinner!
6.8 (5)
Eliza Jiménez Cossio
Lexi Tannenholtz
West by God
6.1 (40)
Scott Lazer(Director)
Juli Blachowiak(Writer)
Jefferis Gray(Producer)
Talia Cohen(Producer)

Texas High School Short

Winner
Honeybee
9.5 (6)
Emilio Vazquez Reyes

Texas Short

Winner
Folk Frontera
8.6 (14)
Sam Osborn
Alejandra Vasquez
Act of God
7.9 (22)
Spencer Cook
Parker Smith
Birds
7.9 (53)
Katherine Propper
To Build A Fire
7.0 (6)
Emily Potter
Grace Potter
Gay Haircut
Jude Harris
How We Found Our Sound
Alan Berg
Memory Builds the Monument
Isaac Yowman
More Than I Want to Remember
6.6 (280)
Amy Bench

Special Jury Award

Narrative Feature

Winner
It Is in Us All
5.3 (547)
Tamryn Reinecke
Emma Foley
Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Conor Barry
Pale Rebel Productions

Narrative Short

Winner
The Voice Actress
8.4 (26)
Anna J. Takayama(director)
Joe Skinner(producer)
Mailchimp Support the Shorts Award

Audience Award

24 Beats Per Second

Winner
The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile
7.3 (298)
Kathlyn Horan
Julie Goldman
Christopher Clements
Carolyn Hepburn
Motto Pictures
TinFish Films
Impact Partners
Look at Me: XXXTentacion
7.6 (2.1K)
Sabaah Folayan
Really Good Rejects
9.3 (22)
Alice Gu

Animated Shorts Competition

Winner
Five Cents
7.0 (13)
Aaron Hughes

Documentary Feature

Winner
Bad Axe
7.5 (573)
David Siev

Documentary Shorts Competition

Winner
The Sentence of Michael Thompson
8.3 (22)
Haley Elizabeth Anderson
Kyle Thrash

Documentary Spotlight

Winner
We Are Not Ghouls
8.2 (95)
Chris James Thompson(director)
Jessica Farrell(producer)
Andrew Swant(producer)
What We Leave Behind
6.7 (197)
Iliana Sosa
Isidore Bethel
Emma D. Miller
Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down
7.4 (264)
Julie Cohen
Betsy West
Skate Dreams
8.0 (23)
Jessica Edwards
We Feed People
7.3 (647)
Ron Howard
Still Working 9 to 5
7.4 (152)
Camille Hardman
Gary Lane
Mighty Fine Entertainment
Artemis Rising Foundation

Episodic Pilot Competition

Winner
Brownsville Bred
6.1 (28)
Elaine del Valle
Adrienne Acevedo Lovette
Leslie Cohen
Debbie Esko-Gold

Festival Favorites

Winner
The Art of Making It
7.6 (55)
Kelcey Edwards
Fire of Love
7.6 (16K)
Sara Dosa
Descendant
7.1 (1.5K)
Margaret Brown
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
7.6 (33K)
Dean Fleischer Camp
Boycott
8.4 (84)
Julia Bacha
32 Sounds
7.4 (319)
Sam Green
Aftershock
6.8 (404)
Paula Eiselt
Tonya Lewis Lee
Cha Cha Real Smooth
7.3 (30K)
Cooper Raiff
Emergency
6.2 (11K)
Carey Williams
Master
5.3 (6.3K)
Mariama Diallo
2nd Chance
6.8 (505)
Ramin Bahrani
TikTok, Boom.
6.2 (245)
Shalini Kantayya

Global

Winner
Receta no Incluida
7.2 (27)
Juliana Maité

Headliners

Winner
Atlanta
Episode:
Three Slaps
8.6 (97K)
Hiro Murai
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
7.2 (13K)
Richard Linklater
Bodies Bodies Bodies
6.2 (88K)
Halina Reijn
Everything Everywhere All at Once
7.7 (598K)
Daniel Kwan
Daniel Scheinert
The Lost City
6.1 (174K)
Aaron Nee
Adam Nee
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
7.0 (175K)
Tom Gormican

Midnight Shorts Competition

Winner
Tank Fairy
6.8 (93)
Erich Rettstadt

Midnighters

Winner
Bitch Ass
4.1 (927)
Bill Posley
X
6.5 (219K)
Ti West
Watcher
6.3 (60K)
Chloe Okuno

Music Video Competition

Winner
Desirée Dawson: Meet You at the Light
9.3 (7)
Alexander Farah

Narrative Feature

Winner
I Love My Dad
6.3 (3.6K)
James Morosini

Narrative Shorts Competition

Winner
Aspirational Slut
5.4 (356)
Caroline Lindy

Narrative Spotlight

Winner
Pretty Problems
5.7 (1.6K)
Kestrin Pantera(director)
Britt Rentschler(producer)
Michael Tennant(producer)
Katya Alexander(producer)
Charlotte Ubben(producer)
Lover, Beloved
Michael Tully
To Leslie
7.1 (19K)
Michael Morris

Texas High School Shorts Competition

Winner
Football
William Herff

Texas Shorts Competition

Winner
Act of God
7.9 (22)
Spencer Cook
Parker Smith

Visions

Winner
Shadow
7.6 (29)
Bruce Gladwin

XR Experience

Winner
The Choice: VR Documentary
Joanne Popinska(producer)
Tom C. Hall(producer)
Audience Award: XR Experience Spotlight

Louis Black/Lone Star Award

Best Texan Film

Winner
What We Leave Behind
6.7 (197)
Iliana Sosa
Isidore Bethel
Emma D. Miller

SXSW Film Design Award

Excellence in Poster Design

Winner
More Than I Want to Remember
6.6 (280)
Yen Tan(Poster Designer)
Maya Edelman(Artist)

SXSW Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award

Winner
Chee$e
6.9 (34)
Damian Marcano
A Vanishing Fog
4.6 (120)
Augusto Sandino
Jethica
5.4 (660)
Pete Ohs
Self-Portrait
6.1 (29)
Joële Walinga
Sell/Buy/Date
6.7 (62)
Sarah Jones
Shadow
7.6 (29)
Bruce Gladwin
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
7.4 (2.1K)
Teemu Nikki
The Unknown Country
6.3 (964)
Morrisa Maltz

Special Jury Recognition

Acting in a Documentary

Winner
The Pez Outlaw
6.9 (3.2K)
Steve Glew

Artistic Expression

Winner
It's Getting Bad Again
Sarah Reyes

Breakthrough Performance

Winner
Nika
6.6 (283)
Liza Yankovskaya

Directing and Community Filmmaking

Winner
Glitter Ain't Gold
6.8 (36)
Christian Nolan Jones

Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling

Winner
Bad Axe
7.5 (573)
David Siev

Extraordinary Cinematic Vision

Winner
It Is in Us All
5.3 (547)
Antonia Campbell-Hughes

Going the Extra Mile

Winner
MYD: Let you Speak
Dan Carr

How the Hell Did They Do That?!

Winner
Waze & Odyssey, George Michael, Mary J. Blige & Tommy Theo: Always
Nelson de Castro

Immersive Storytelling

Winner
(Hi)story of a Painting: The Light in the Shadow
Quentin Darras
Gaelle Mourre

Outstanding Performances

Winner
West by God
6.1 (40)
Kyle Riggs
Aphrodite Armstrong

Powerful “Short Trip”

Winner
Omi
5.6 (60)
Kelly Fyffe-Marshall

Unexpected Emotion

Winner
Les larmes de la Seine
7.9 (85)
Yanis Belaid
Eliott Benard

Unique Vision in Writing and Directing

Winner
My Year of Dicks
7.1 (3.1K)
Pamela Ribon

Visceral Storytelling

Winner
Something in the Garden
5.5 (32)
Marcos Sanchez(director)

Vision

Winner
Birds
7.9 (53)
Katherine Propper

Visual Reflection

Winner
Not even for a moment do things stand still
7.0 (23)
Jamie Meltzer

ZEISS Cinematography Award

Best Cinematography

Winner
A Vanishing Fog
4.6 (120)
Gio Park

Adobe Editing Award

Winner
Everything Everywhere All at Once
7.7 (598K)
Paul Rogers

Final Draft Screenwriters Award

Winner
Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break
5.7 (753)
Nick Gillespie
Matthew White
Brook Driver

Fandor New Voices Award

Winner
What We Leave Behind
6.7 (197)
Iliana Sosa
Isidore Bethel
Emma D. Miller

XR Experience Spotlight Audience Award

XR Experience

Madame Pirate, Becoming a Legend
6.7 (7)
Dan-Chi Huang(director)
Morgan Ommer(director)
Serendipity Films
Paper Birds
6.9 (49)
German Heller(Director,)
Federico Carlini(Director)
3Dar
Surviving 9/11 - 27 hours under the rubble
8.6 (9)
Victor Agulhon
Chloé Rochereuil
TARGO

SXSW Competition Award

XR Experience

Winner
On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)
5.8 (84)
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Mike Brett
Steve Jamison
Pierre Zandrowicz
Arnaud Colinart

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South By Southwest Film Competition

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Austin, Texas, USA

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