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2024
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Narrative Feature Competition Jury Award

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Tracie Laymon
Bob Trevino Likes It
Bob Trevino Likes It is inspired by the true friendship that writer/director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger when…

Narrative Feature Competition Special Jury Award for Performance

Maria Rodríguez Soto
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Liliana Torres
Mamifera
Lola (40) enjoys a happy life until an unforeseen pregnancy throws her plans into disarray. Resistant to motherhood and…

Narrative Feature Competition Special Jury Award for Filmmaking

Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
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Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
We Were Dangerous
Nellie and Daisy attempt to escape the institution for delinquent girls in 1954 New Zealand, however not only are they…

Documentary Feature Competition Jury Award

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Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane
Grand Theft Hamlet
January 2021. The UK is in its 3rd lockdown and all entertainment venues remain closed. For theatre actors Sam and Mark,…

Documentary Feature Competition Special Jury Award for Bravery and Empathy

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Carina Mia Wong, Alex Simmons
We Can Be Heroes
Sometimes, finding your tribe requires a bit of magic. For attendees of a live action role-playing (LARP) camp in…

Short Film Competition Jury Award

14 min
Anthony Saxe
Dissolution
Dissolution is a film chronicling my parents’ divorce after forty-eight years of marriage. Starring my parents as…

Short Film Competition Special Jury Award

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Sam Cutler-Kreutz, David Cutler-Kreutz
Trapped
Trapped follows the story of Joaquin, a highschool janitor at the prestigious Hallston Academy, finishing up his rounds…

Documentary Short Competition Jury Award

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Shannet Clemmings, Urša Kastelic
Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too
Shannet's voice echoes in the darkness. She is lost. The night scenery of a modern city opens up. She remembers it was a…

Documentary Short Competition Special Jury Award

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David Gauvey Herbert
Frank
At 99 years old, Frank Lucianna is the oldest practicing attorney in America. And now, he's preparing to mount his final…

Midnight Shorts Competition Jury Award

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Rodrigue Huart
Transylvanie
Ewa is a 10-year-old girl living in a high building in a quiet town. She's an odd, lonely child and for good reason:…

Midnight Shorts Competition Special Jury Award

12 min
Eros V
Meat Puppet
Oz, an irresponsible man baby, nearly misses his girlfriend’s Graduation because he’s too busy playing with toys.…

Animated Shorts Competition Jury Award

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Nina Gantz
Wander to Wonder
After the death of their creator, Mary, Dick and Bill are left behind in the studio with his dead body. Left to their…

Animated Shorts Competition Special Jury Award

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Phoebe Jane Hart
Bug Diner
A dissatisfied marriage, a secret crush, and workplace fantasies come to a head in a diner run by a mole with a hot ass.

Music Video Competition Jury Award

7 min
Cécile Cournelle
Célen - 'Mom told you so'
It's a video game session (online) where the mission is for the player to get home alone after a night out. The avatar…

Music Video Competition Special Jury Award for Technical Wizardry

4 min
Joe Nicolosi
The Burning Hell - 'All I Need'
A music video for The Burning Hell's song 'All I Need' . In a post-human world a lone robot scours apocalyptic…

Texas Shorts Competition Jury Award

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Sara Nimeh
Jedo's Dead
During the social and political turmoil of 9/11, a young girl and her brother intimately confront loss when they…

Texas Shorts Competition Special Jury Award

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Fatima Wardy
Hair Care
After a visit to the African hair salon goes awry, a young Ivorian-American woman must traverse a fantastically animated…

Independent TV Pilot Competition Jury Award

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Brett Morrow and 2 more
Marvin Is Sorry
While filming a challenge video, famed YouTuber Marvin Weaver accidentally causes a fan’s death, and is swiftly banned…

Independent TV Pilot Competition Special Jury Award

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Zeke Nicholson
Halfrican American
When Zeke attends a cookout with his estranged father, Nick, he initially struggles to feel comfortable amongst his…

Poster Design Competition Jury Award

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Yuqi Kang
7 Beats Per Minute
During a world-record attempt, freediving champion Jessea Lu blacked out and was lifeless for four minutes. Director…

Poster Design Competition Special Jury Award

15 min
Ward Kamel
If I Die in America
According to Muslim practice, burial ought to occur within 24 hours of death — so after Manny’s immigrant husband,…

XR Experience Competition Jury Award

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Marc Da Costa, Matthew Niederhauser
The Golden Key
What power do myths have? How do the myths of the future get shaped? "The Golden Key" brings audiences into contact with…

XR Experience Competition Special Jury Award

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Sarah Ticho, Niki Smit
Soul Paint
"Soulpaint" exists at the nexus of immersive technology, creative storytelling and wellbeing to explore the richness of…

SXSW Best Of Texas Award

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Kate Dumke, Sabrine Keane
Preconceived
"Preconceived" tells the stories of Maleeha and Maria, two women who, while navigating unplanned pregnancies,…

Kickstarter NextGen Award

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Benjamin Finkel
Family
Summer, 2002. Watching her sick father decline, 11-year-old Johanna makes a call for a good spirit to save him. But…

Headliners Audience Award

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Dev Patel
Monkey Man
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous…

Narrative Feature Competition Audience Award

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Tracie Laymon
Bob Trevino Likes It
Bob Trevino Likes It is inspired by the true friendship that writer/director Tracie Laymon found with a stranger when…

Documentary Feature Competition Audience Award

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Alison Tavel
Resynator
Inventor Don Tavel died suddenly when his daughter was ten weeks old. Growing up surrounded by mythical stories of her…

Narrative Spotlight Audience Award

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Kyle Hausmann-Stokes
My Dead Friend Zoe
A dark comedy drama that follows the journey of Merit, a U.S. Army Afghanistan veteran who is at odds with her family…

Documentary Spotlight Audience Award

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David Altrogge
Clemente
Roberto Clemente is one of baseball’s most iconic figures. As the first high-profile Latino player to play in Major…

Midnighter Audience Award

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Damian McCarthy
Oddity
In this new supernatural spectacle from "Caveat's" Damian McCarthy, a blind medium uncovers the truth behind her…

Visions Audience Award

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Contessa Gayles
Songs from the Hole
At 15, he took a life. Three days later, his brother’s life was taken. A documentary visual album, “Songs from the…

Global Audience Award

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Yoel Morales
Bionico's Bachata
Bionico is a hopeless romantic addicted to crack, who, along with Calvita, his drug partner, tries to find a job, a…

24 Beats Per Second Audience Award

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David Hartstein, Sam Wainwright Douglas
Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience
"Faders Up" takes a cinematic deep-dive into the extraordinary life and career of iconic KUTX radio host John Aielli.…

Festival Favorite Audience Award

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Greg Kwedar
Sing Sing
Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre…

Narrative Short Competition Audience Award

15 min
Kailee McGee
Can
Filmmaker Kailee McGee’s world turns sideways with a late-stage breast cancer diagnosis. She’s in the middle of…

Documentary Short Competition Audience Award

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David Gauvey Herbert
Frank
At 99 years old, Frank Lucianna is the oldest practicing attorney in America. And now, he's preparing to mount his final…

Animated Short Competition Audience Award

11 min
Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel
A Crab in the Pool
Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves on a scorching summer day. They will have to burst the…

Midnight Short Competition Audience Award

12 min
Eros V
Meat Puppet
Oz, an irresponsible man baby, nearly misses his girlfriend’s Graduation because he’s too busy playing with toys.…

Texas Short Competition Audience Award

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Edna Diaz, Arturo R. Jiménez
Sangre Violenta / Sangre Violeta
In September 2022, a series of document leaks revealed that the Mexican government labeled feminist groups as a bigger…

Music Video Competition Audience Award

3 min
Parker Seaman
Dillon Francis - 'LA on Acid'
After eating an acid-laced chicken nugget in Diplo's car, Dillon Francis goes on a journey inside of a Chinese resturant…

TV Premiere Audience Award

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Jamila Wignot
STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A.
"STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A." tells the story of an underdog, interracial record label that ushered in the groundbreaking…

TV Spotlight Audience Award

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Lucia Aniello
Hacks
Hacks explores the dark mentorship between comedy legend Deborah Vance (Emmy Award winner Jean Smart) and an outcast…

Independent TV Pilot Competition Audience Award

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Bonnie Discepolo
Neo-Dome
In a post economic collapse America, a woman (Anna Camp) travels alone towards the promise of a utopian dome on the…

XR Experience Audience Award

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Connor Illsley and 3 more
Last We Left Off
While their fantasy characters search for an evil entity known as "The Wax One", a family takes on a quest in real life…

XR Experience Spotlight Audience Award

40 min
Marion Burger, Ilan J. Cohen
Emperor
"Emperor" is an interactive and narrative experience in virtual reality, which invites the user to travel inside the…

XR Special Event Audience Award

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Adam Cole
Kiss/Crash
The installation triptych "Kiss/Crash" employs AI-imagery to explore themes of desire and the expanding gap between real…