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SXSW Grand Jury Award

Animated Short

Winner
Wander to Wonder
6.7 (1.4K)
Nina Gantz(director/screenwriter)
Simon Cartwright(screenwriter)
Daan Bakker(screenwriter)
Stienette Bosklopper(screenwriter)
A Crab in the Pool
6.9 (248)
Jean-Sébastien Hamel
Alexandra Myotte
Au 8ème jour
7.1 (15)
Alicia Massez
Agathe Sénéchal
Beautiful Men
6.0 (1.2K)
Nicolas Keppens
Bug Diner
6.6 (341)
Phoebe Jane Hart
La perra
6.7 (122)
Carla Melo
Matta und Matto
6.7 (43)
Bianca Caderas
Kerstin Zemp
Sweetmeats
George Metaxas
Tennis, Oranges
7.6 (39)
Sean Pecknold
This is TMI
6.6 (8)
Subarna Das
Vidushi Gupta

Documentary Feature

Winner
Grand Theft Hamlet
6.9 (2.3K)
Sam Crane(director/screenwriter)
Pinny Grylls(director/screenwriter)
Julia Ton(producer)
Rebecca Wolff(producer)
A House Is Not a Disco
7.0 (33)
Brian J. Smith
Resynator
7.0 (96)
Alison Tavel
Roleplay
6.9 (17)
Katie Mathews
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
7.7 (137)
Isaac Gale
Ryan Olson
We Can Be Heroes
9.2 (22)
Alex Simmons
Carina Mia Wong
An Army of Women
8.0 (26)
Julie Lunde Lillesæter
The in Between
6.0 (24)
Robie Flores

Documentary Short

Winner
Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too
6.1 (14)
Shannet Clemmings(director/screenwriter)
Ursa Kastelic(director/screenwriter)
Filippo Bonacci(producer)
Gabriel Grosclaude(producer)
Been There
6.3 (32)
Corina Schwingruber Ilic
The Big Wait
7.4 (22)
Yannick Jamey
Christmas, Every Day
6.7 (28)
Faye Tsakas
Frank
8.5 (15)
David Gauvey Herbert
Leonie, Skeet & de biggen (Leonie, Skeet & the piglets)
Jip Heijenga
Pamilya
Miles Blacket
The Puzzle Palace
7.7 (9)
Brian Bell
Jenny Schweitzer Bell
Sandcastles
Carin Leong
The School of Canine Massage
6.5 (12)
Emma D. Miller
Shotplayer
8.3 (8)
Sam Shainberg
We Ride for Her
9.4 (6)
Prairie Rose Seminole
Katrina Sorrentino
Wouldn't Make It Any Other Way
6.9 (13)
Hao Zhou

Independent TV Pilot Competition

Winner
Marvin Is Sorry
Brett Morrow(showrunner/screenwriter)
Alex Gehrlein(showrunner/screenwriter)
Jack Gacek(showrunner/screenwriter)
Clint Pang(director)
Aidan Erbter(producer)
Kenzie Packer(producer)
Slab Productions
Bettendorf Talks
David Pasquesi(showrunner/screenwriter)
T.J. Jagodowski(showrunner/screenwriter)
Jack C. Newell(director/producer)
Shane Simmons(producer)
Halfrican American
Zeke Nicholson(showrunner/director/screenwriter)
Claire Glassford(producer)
Sophie Webb(producer)
Lucy & Sara
Susan Park(showrunner/director/screenwriter)
Ryan Gage(producer)
Tossers
Chase Block(showrunner/director/screenwriter)
Bryce Van Leuven(showrunner/director/screenwriter)
Tim Rowberry(producer)

Midnight Short

Winner
Transylvanie
6.9 (89)
Rodrigue Huart(director/screenwriter)
David A. Cassan(screenwriter)
Axel Wursten(screenwriter)
Lucie Vigier(producer)
Apotemnofilia
6.3 (38)
Jano Pita
The Bleacher
6.8 (36)
Nicole Daddona
Adam Wilder
Dream Creep
6.3 (139)
Carlos A.F. Lopez
Inner Demons
Jasmine J Johnson
Lullaby
5.9 (11)
Chi Thai
Make Me a Pizza
6.9 (64)
Talia Shea Levin
Meat Puppet
7.6 (177)
Eros V
Tight
7.2 (13)
Jessica Barr

Music Video

Winner
Célen - 'Mom told you so'
Cécile Cournelle
Bambina: Anyway U Want It
8.2 (6)
Erin Murray
Benjamin Earl Turner - 'Headspace/Bent'
Abteen Bagheri-Fard
'All I Need' by the Burning Hell
Joe Nicolosi
Crumb - 'Crushxd'
Abraham El Makawy
Alex Futtersak
Chappell Roan: Casual
8.9 (76)
Hadley Hillel
Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas + the Voidz: Infinity Repeating (2013 Demo)
8.1 (42)
Warren Fu
Dhruv Visvanath - 'Gimme Love'
Tanvi Gandhi
Dillon Francis - 'LA on Acid'
7.0 (8)
Parker Seaman
Dominic Fike - 'Mama's Boy'
Rubberband
Fatoumata Diawara - 'Nsera'
Gregory Ohrel
The Hives: Bogus Operandi
9.0 (23)
Aube Perrie
Ismay - 'Stranger in the Barn'
Kirsten Bode
Rose Bush
Lil Yachty - 'Say Something'
Crowns & Owls
Little Dragon - 'Kenneth'
Travis Barron
Cady Buche
Milkblood - 'Run Thru Me'
Brandon Bolmer
Mike Diva
Paris Texas - 'Bullet Man'
Aus Taylor
Rainbow Chan - 'Seven Sisters'
Anne Berry
YACHT - 'My Idea'
Kailee McGee

Narrative Feature

Winner
Bob Trevino Likes It
7.5 (3.6K)
Tracie Laymon(director/screenwriter/producer)
Felipe Dieppa(producer)
Sean Mullin(producer)
Edgar Lacey Rosa(producer)
Audrey
5.7 (340)
Natalie Bailey
Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in 4 Parts
8.5 (30)
Shaun Seneviratne
The Black Sea
7.3 (132)
Derrick B. Harden
Crystal Moselle
Mamífera
6.5 (492)
Liliana Torres
We Strangers
5.9 (50)
Anu Valia
We Were Dangerous
6.4 (445)
Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
We're All Gonna Die
5.8 (451)
Matthew Arnold
Freddie Wong

Narrative Short

Winner
Dissolution
8.6 (10)
Anthony Saxe(director/screenwriter/producer)
Thomas J. Lopez(producer)
A Rotten Woman
6.2 (9)
Niamh Sauter Cooke
À toi les oreilles
6.2 (5)
Alexandre Isabelle
Beach Logs Kill
5.1 (20)
Haley Z. Boston
Bits
8.8 (7)
Lilliya Scarlett Reid
Caller Number Nine!
6.4 (11)
Sandy Honig
Can
7.5 (18)
Kailee McGee
If I Die in America
7.8 (28)
Ward Kamel
The Last Brunch
6.8 (252)
Jim Cummings
Learning English
8.0 (21)
Jean Liu
Let
7.0 (57)
Alyssa Loh
Los Mosquitos
Nicole Chi
Mon coeur de tomate
7.2 (8)
Benoît Le Rouzès Ménard
The Rainbow Bridge
6.9 (37)
Dimitri Simakis
Die Räuberinnen
5.4 (14)
Isa Schieche
Say Hi After You Die
7.2 (20)
Kate Hollowell
See it Say It
8.8 (18)
Nez Khammal
Shé (Snake)
6.5 (57)
Renee Zhan
Sound & Colour
7.4 (11)
Emma Foley
Trapped
7.6 (9)
David Cutler-Kreutz
Sam Cutler-Kreutz
We Are Not Alone
Adebukola Bodunrin

Poster Design Competition

Winner
7 Beats Per Minute
8.0 (19)
John Godfrey(designer)

Texas Short

Winner
Jedo's Dead
8.3 (12)
Sara Nimeh(director/screenwriter)
Michael Mittelstaedt(producer)
Jeff Walker(producer)
Ellyn Church(producer)
Beeps
8.6 (5)
Kirk C. Johnson
Hair Care
Fatima Wardy
Live from the Clouds
5.5 (7)
Mackie Mallison
The Passing
6.4 (16)
Patrick Bresnan
Ivete Lucas
The Queen vs Texas
Raemonn James
Emil Lozada
Sangre Violenta/Sangre Violeta
Edna Diaz
Arturo R. Jiménez

XR Experience Competition

Winner
The Golden Key
Marc Da Costa(director)
Matthew Niederhauser(director)
Reimagined Volume III: Young Thang
Melissa Joyner(director/screenwriter)
Julie Cavaliere(director/producer)
Michaela Holland(director/producer)
Ryan Genji Thomas(producer)
Zoe Roellin(producer)

Special Jury Award

Animated Short

Winner
Bug Diner
6.6 (341)
Phoebe Jane Hart

Documentary Feature

Winner
We Can Be Heroes
9.2 (22)
Alex Simmons
Carina Mia Wong

Documentary Short

Winner
Frank
8.5 (15)
David Gauvey Herbert

Independent TV Pilot Competition

Winner
Halfrican American
Zeke Nicholson

Midnight Short

Winner
Meat Puppet
7.6 (177)
Eros V

Music Video

Winner
'All I Need' by the Burning Hell
Joe Nicolosi

Narrative Feature

Winner
We Were Dangerous
6.4 (445)
Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
For Filmmaking
Winner
Mamífera
6.5 (492)
Maria Rodríguez Soto
For Performance

Narrative Short

Winner
Trapped
7.6 (9)
David Cutler-Kreutz
Sam Cutler-Kreutz

Poster Design

Winner
If I Die in America
7.8 (28)
Andrei Captan

Texas Short

Winner
Hair Care
Fatima Wardy

XR Experience

Winner
SoulPaint
Sarah Ticho(director/screenwriter)
Niki Smit(director)
Anna Firbank(producer)

Audience Award

24 Beats Per Second

Winner
Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience
9.0 (10)
David Hartstein(director)
Sam Wainwright Douglas(director)
Shelby Hadden(producer)
Diane Warren: Relentless
7.5 (113)
Bess Kargman
This Is a Film About the Black Keys
8.2 (28)
Jeff Dupre
Dandelion
5.3 (428)
Nicole Riegel

Animated Shorts Competition

Winner
A Crab in the Pool
6.9 (248)
Jean-Sébastien Hamel(director/screenwriter/Producer)
Alexandra Myotte(director/screenwriter/Producer)

Documentary Feature

Winner
Resynator
7.0 (96)
Alison Tavel(director)
Kathryn Robson(producer)
Jon Lullo(producer)
Brendan Walter(producer)
Sara Nesson(producer)
Christopher Noviello(producer)
Barbara Mcdonough(producer)

Documentary Shorts Competition

Winner
Frank
8.5 (15)
David Gauvey Herbert(director/producer)
Lance Oppenheim(producer)
Abigail Rowe(producer)
Nate Hurtsellers(producer)

Documentary Spotlight

Winner
Clemente
8.4 (22)
David Altrogge(director)
Stephen Turselli(producer)
Keith Ayers(producer)
Andrew Calvetti(producer)
John B. Scanlon(producer)
Mike Blizzard(producer)
Mary Sabol(producer)
Sarah Altrogge(producer)
Jocelyn Hartnett(producer)
Brandy Hellville & the Cult of Fast Fashion
6.2 (1.1K)
Eva Orner
MoviePass, MovieCrash
6.7 (2.9K)
Muta'Ali
Secret Mall Apartment
7.3 (592)
Jeremy Workman
The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
6.4 (2.8K)
Giorgio Angelini
Arthur Jones
How to Build a Truth Engine
7.5 (54)
Friedrich Moser
Fly
7.2 (645)
Christina Clusiau
Shaul Schwarz
Preconceived
8.2 (14)
Kate Dumke
Sabrine Keane
Dickweed
7.0 (46)
Jonathan Ignatius Green(Director)
Jefferis Gray(Producer)
David Ricksecker(Producer)

Festival Favorites

Winner
Sing Sing
7.6 (25K)
Greg Kwedar(director/producer/screenwriter)
Monique Walton(producer)
Clint Bentley(producer/screenwriter)
Smugglers
6.2 (2K)
Ryoo Seung-wan
Toll
7.2 (705)
Carolina Markowicz
The Moogai
5.4 (466)
Jon Bell
Gasoline Rainbow
6.4 (1.4K)
Bill Ross IV
Turner Ross
Sasquatch Sunset
5.4 (5.8K)
David Zellner
Nathan Zellner
Backspot
5.9 (397)
D.W. Waterson
Black Box Diaries
7.5 (3.9K)
Shiori Itô
Dìdi
7.3 (14K)
Sean Wang
Every Little Thing
7.2 (345)
Sally Aitken
The Queen of My Dreams
6.6 (494)
Fawzia Mirza
Pet Shop Days
5.8 (166)
Olmo Schnabel
Never Look Away
7.1 (305)
Lucy Lawless
Love Machina
6.9 (26)
Peter Sillen
Kneecap
7.6 (21K)
Rich Peppiatt
I Saw the TV Glow
5.8 (40K)
Jane Schoenbrun
Girls Will Be Girls
7.1 (2.9K)
Shuchi Talati
Ghostlight
7.6 (6.7K)
Kelly O'Sullivan
Alex Thompson

Global

Winner
Bionico's Bachata
8.6 (80)
Yoel Morales(director/sreenwriter)
Cristian Mojica(producer/sreenwriter)

Headliners

Winner
Monkey Man
6.8 (95K)
Dev Patel(director/producer)
Jomon Thomas(producer)
Jordan Peele(producer)
Win Rosenfeld(producer)
Ian Cooper(producer)
Basil Iwanyk(producer)
Erica Lee(producer)
Christine Haebler(producer)
Samarth Sahni(producer)
Anjay Nagpal(producer)
Paul Angunawela(screenwriter)
John Collee(screenwriter)
Babes
6.3 (6.7K)
Pamela Adlon
Civil War
7.0 (249K)
Alex Garland
The Fall Guy
6.8 (232K)
David Leitch
The Idea of You
6.3 (77K)
Michael Showalter
Immaculate
5.8 (56K)
Michael Mohan
Road House
6.2 (173K)
Doug Liman
Y2K
4.8 (17K)
Kyle Mooney

Independent TV Pilot Audience Award

Winner
Neo-Dome
5.7 (24)
Bonnie Discepolo
Mark Pfeffer
Matt Pfeffer
Valerie Steinberg
Anna Camp
Michael Johnson

Independent TV Pilot Competition

Winner
Neo-Dome
5.7 (24)
Michael Johnson(producer)
Bonnie Discepolo(director)
Matt Pfeffer(screenwriter/producer)
Mark Pfeffer(producer)
Valerie Steinberg(producer)
Anna Camp(producer)

Midnight Shorts Competition

Winner
Meat Puppet
7.6 (177)
Eros V(director)
Leah Draws(producer)
Masha Thorpe(producer)

Music Video Competition

Winner
Dillon Francis - 'LA on Acid'
7.0 (8)
Parker Seaman(director/screenwriter/producer)
Melissa Langaas(producer)

Narrative Feature

Winner
Bob Trevino Likes It
7.5 (3.6K)
Tracie Laymon(director/screenwriter/producer)
Sean Mullin(producer)
Edgar Lacey Rosa(producer)
Felipe Dieppa(producer)

Narrative Shorts Competition

Winner
Can
7.5 (18)
Kailee McGee(director/screenwriter/producer)
JP Bolles(producer)

Narrative Spotlight

Winner
My Dead Friend Zoe
6.5 (3K)
Kyle Hausmann-Stokes(director/producer/screenwriter)
Paul Scanlan(producer)
Terri Lubaroff(producer)
Ray Maiello(producer)
Mike Field(producer)
Richard Silverman(producer)
Robert Paschall Jr.(producer)
A.J. Bermudez(screenwriter)
High Tide
6.4 (913)
Marco Calvani
LD Entertainment
Cuckoo
5.7 (30K)
Tilman Singer
Omni Loop
5.6 (3.4K)
Bernardo Britto
Arcadian
5.5 (25K)
Benjamin Brewer
One of a Kind
8.0 (97)

TV Premieres

Winner
STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A.
8.5 (738)
Jamila Wignot(director/producer)
Kara Elverson(producer)

TV Spotlight

Winner
Hacks
8.2 (57K)
Lucia Aniello(director/showrunner/producer)
Paul W. Downs(showrunner/producer)
Jen Statsky(showrunner/producer)
Michael Schur(producer)
David Miner(producer)
Morgan Sackett(producer)
For "Season 3 Premiere"

Texas Shorts Competition

Winner
Sangre Violenta/Sangre Violeta
Edna Diaz(director/producer)
Arturo R. Jiménez(director/producer)
Maggie M. Bailey(producer)

Visions

Winner
Songs from the Hole
5.9 (64)
Contessa Gayles(director/producer/screenwriter)
Richie Reseda(producer)
David Felix Sutcliffe(producer)
Jim Jacobs(screenwriter)

XR Experience Competition

Winner
Last We Left Off
Connor Illsley(director/producer)
Grayson Moore(director/screenwriter)
Jon Riera(director/producer)
Aidan Shipley(director)
Cameron MacLaren(producer)
Peter Fisher(producer)

XR Experience Special Events

Winner
Kiss/Crash (Installation)
Adam Cole(director)

XR Experience Spotlight

Winner
Empereur
8.7 (7)
Marion Burger(director/screenwriter)
Ilan Cohen(director/screenwriter)
Oriane Hurard(producer)
Katharina Maria Weser(producer)
Jeanne Marchalot(producer)

Grand Jury Award

XR Experience

Maya: Birth of a Superhero
Poulomi Basu(director)
CJ Clarke(director)
Just Another Production Company

Audience Award: Midnighters

Midnight Audience

Winner
Oddity
6.7 (49K)
Damian Mc Carthy

XR Experience Spotlight Audience Award

XR Experience

Dreaming of Lebanon

Janet Pierson Champion Award

Winner
Kara Durrett

Kickstarter NextGen Award

Winner
Family
6.8 (33)
Benjamin Finkel(director/screenwriter)

Best First Genre Feature Film

Things Will Be Different
5.2 (3K)
Michael Felker

Visions

Sew Torn
6.0 (1.2K)
Freddy Macdonald
Sew Torn
ORISONO
Barry Navidi Productions

Best of Texas Award

Winner
Preconceived
8.2 (14)
Kate Dumke
Sabrine Keane

SXSW Competition Award

Best Episodic Pilot

Neo-Dome
5.7 (24)
Matt Pfeffer
Mark Pfeffer
Michael Johnson
Valerie Steinberg
Bonnie Discepolo

Doppelgängers3 was selected for the Feature Documentary, Vision Category which promotes audacious filmmakers, risk-taking artists in the new cinema landscape who demonstrate raw innovation and creativity in documentary and narrative filmmaking.

Doppelgängers³
6.9 (22)

XR Experience

Madame Pirate: Code of Conduct
Dan-Chi Huang
Morgan Ommer
Serendipity Films
Digital Rise

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