2010 SXSW Film Festival Award Winners

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The width and breadth of the 2010 SXSW Film Festival has been awe-inspiring, and the programmers each deserve a cold beverage of their choice, and a hearty pat on the back. With so many quality films, both the panel of judges for the Festival’s Jury and the audience voters have had their hands full in selecting the “best of the fest.” Here, now, are your winners for the SXSW 2010 Film Festival Awards:

Feature Film Jury Awards

• DOCUMENTARY FEATURE – Marwencol (Director: Jeff Malmberg)
  Runner-up: War Don Don (Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen)

• NARRATIVE FEATURE – Tiny Furniture (Director: Lena Dunham)
• Special Jury Award – Best Ensemble: Myth of the American Sleepover (Director: David Robert Mitchell)
• Special Jury Award – Best Individual Performance: Brian Hasenfus in Phillip the Fossil (Director: Garth Donovan)

Feature Film Audience Awards

• DOCUMENTARY FEATURE – For Once in My Life (Directors: Jim Bigham & Mark Moormann)

• NARRATIVE FEATURE – Brotherhood (Director: Will Canon)

Short Film Jury Awards

• NARRATIVE SHORTS – Cigarette Candy (Director: Lauren Wolkstein)
  Runner Up: Teleglobal Dreamin’ (Director: Eric Flanagan)

• DOCUMENTARY SHORTS – Quadrangle (Director: Amy Grappell)
  Runner Up: White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug (Director: Travis Senger)

• ANIMATED SHORTS – The Orange (Director: Nick Fox-Gieg)
  Runner Up: One Square Mile of Earth (Director: Jeff Drew)

• EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS – Night Mayor (Director: Guy Maddin)
  Runner Up: Kids Might Fly (Director: Alex Taylor)

• MUSIC VIDEOS – Cinnamon Chasers, “Luv Deluxe” (Director: Saman Keshavarz)
  Runner Up: Grizzly Bear, “Forest” (Director: Allison Schulnik)

• TEXAS SHORTS – Petting Sharks (Director: Craig Elrod)
  Runner Up: The Big Bends (Director: Jason William Marlow)

• TIME WARNER CABLE & OVATION YOUNG FILMMAKER SCHOLARSHIP for TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SHORT – Give the Dog a Bone (Director: Edward Kelley)
  Runner Up: The Sleep Project (Directors: Whitney Bennett & Matthew Cunningham)

SXSW Film Design Awards

• EXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN – Feeder (Designer: Joseph Ernst)
  Runner Up: Amer (Designer: Gilles Vranckx)

• Audience Award Winner: Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission (Designer: Michael Anderson)
• Special Jury Award: Equestrian Sexual Response (Designers: Martim Vian & Zeke Hawkins)
• EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN – Zombieland (Designer: Ben Conrad)
  Runner Up: earthwork (Designer: Stan Herd)
  Audience Award Winner – earthwork (Designer: Stan Herd)
  Special Jury Award: Enter the Void (Designers: Gaspar Noé and Tom Kam)

SXSW Special Awards

• SXSW WHOLPHIN AWARD – Quadrangle (Director: Amy Grappell)

• SXSW CHICKEN & EGG EMERGENT NARRATIVE WOMAN DIRECTOR AWARD – Lena Dunham for Tiny Furniture
• Special Award – The Chicken & Egg Pictures “We Believe in You” Award: Martha Stephens for Passenger Pigeons