Here Are the Winners of the 2017 SXSW Film Festival Awards
The 2017 SXSW Film Festival is drawing to a close, but there is still one order of business to attend to: announcing the Jury Award winners.
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While on the ground at this year's SXSW, we were able to talk to so many fantastic filmmakers, sit in on engaging panel discussions, and watch a plethora of exciting films. Now it's time to see which of the 130 films screened at SXSW rose to the top. Here is the full list of winners of the 2017 SXSW Film Festival.
Narrative Feature Competition
Grand Jury Winner: Most Beautiful Island (Director: Ana Asensio)
Special Jury Recognition for Best Breakthrough Performance: James Freedson-Jackson forThe Strange Ones
Special Jury Recognition for Best Ensemble: Matt Jones, Eleanore Pienta and Will Rogers for A Bad Idea Gone Wrong
Documentary Feature Competition
Grand Jury Winner: The Work (Director: Jarius McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
Special Jury Recognition for Excellence in Documentary Storytelling: I Am Another You (Director: Nanfu Wang)
Special Jury Recognition for Excellence In Observational Cinema: Maineland (Director: Miao Wang)
'The Work'
SXSW Short Film Jury Awards
Narrative Shorts
Jury Award Winner: Forever Now (Director: Kristian Håskjold)
Special Jury Recognition for Acting: Tarra Riggs for DeKalb Elementary
Special Jury Recognition: Charlotte Wells for Laps
Documentary Shorts
Jury Award Winner: Little Potato (Director: Wes Hurley & Nathan M. Miller)
Midnight Shorts
Jury Award Winner: The Suplex Duplex Complex (Director: Todd Rohal)
Animated Shorts
Jury Award Winner: Wednesday With Goddard (Director: Nicolas Menard)
Special Jury Recognition: Pussy (Director: Renata Gasiorowska)
'Forever Now'
Music Videos
Jury Award Winner: Leon Bridges – “River” (Director: Miles Jay)
Special Jury Recognition: Tame Impala- “The Less I Know the Better” (Director: Canada)
Texas Shorts
Jury Award Winner: The Rabbit Hunt (Director: Patrick Bresnan)
Texas High School Shorts
Jury Award Winner: Better Late Than Never (Director: Atheena Frizzell)
Special Jury Recognition: Darcy’s Quinceanera (Director: Sam Cooper)
'The Rabbit Hunt'
SXSW Film Design Awards
Excellence in Poster Design
Jury Award Winner: FRY DAY (Designer: Caspar Newbolt)
Special Jury Recognition: Like Me (Designer: Jeremy Enecio)
Excellence in Title Design
Jury Award Winner: Into the Current (Director: Chris R. Moberg & Jared Young)
Virtual Reality
Jury Award Winner Room – Scale: After Solitary (Director: Cassandra Herrman, Lauren Mucciolo)
Special Jury Recognition Room-Scale for Innovative Use of Virtual Reality Technology in the Field of Health: Reinvent (Director: Ian Forester, Sook-lei Liew, Phd)
Jury Award Winner 360° Video: Behind the Fence (Director: Lindsay Branham, Jonathan Olinger)
Special Jury Recognition 360° Video for Technical Excellence: Dreams of “O” (Director: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël)
'Fry Day'
SXSW Special Awards
SXSW LUNA® Chicken & Egg Award
Winner: Nanfu Wang I am Another You
SXSW LUNA® Gamechanger Award
Winner: Ceylan Ozgun Ozcelik. Inflame
Louis Black “Lone Star” Award
Winner: Mr. Roosevelt
Director: Noel Wells
Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship
Presented to: Leigh Johnson
Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award
Winner: Peter Vack Assholes
'I Am Another You'
Audience Award Winners
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: The Light of the Moon (Director: Jessica M. Thompson)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: Dealt (Director: Luke Korem)
HEADLINERS
Audience Award Winner: Baby Driver (Director: Edgar Wright)
'Baby Driver'
NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: Mr. Roosevelt (Director: Noël Wells)
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin (Director: Jennifer M. Kroot)
VISIONS
Audience Award Winner: Becoming Bond (Director: Josh Greenbaum)
MIDNIGHTERS
Audience Award Winner: 68 Kill (Director: Trent Haaga)
EPISODIC
Audience Award Winner: Dear White People (Director: Justin Simien)
'Dear White People'
24 BEATS PER SECOND
Audience Award Winner: May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers (Directors: Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio)
GLOBAL
Audience Award Winner: Divine Divas (Director: Leandra Leal)
FESTIVAL FAVORITES
Audience Award Winner: The Big Sick (Director: Michael Showalter)