Sarah-Violet Bliss & Charles Rogers’ Fort Tilden and Margaret Brown’s Deepwater Horizon doco The Great Invisible have taken the major gongs at the just-concluded SXSW film awards. SXSW is a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards Short Film categories. The Best Narrative, Documentary and Animated Short winners become eligible for the Academy Awards, which is how Michelle Savill’s Ellen is Leaving qualified last year.
In 2013 Ellen was joined at SXSW by three other shorts: David White and Paul Wedel’s I Kill, Mick Andrews and Brett O’Gorman’s Dotty, and James Cunningham’s Media Design School short Shelved.
This year, Paul Neason’s Queenie played in the Animated Shorts competition, with features Housebound, What We Do in the Shadows and PULP also selected.
Yes, I do know I look like a 1980s social worker
In addition to juried awards SXSW presents Audience Awards, which will be announced on Sunday 16 March (NZ time).
The SXSW jury award winners were:
Feature Film Jury
Narrative Feature
Fort Tilden, directed by Sarah-Violet Bliss & Charles Rogers
Special Jury Recognition:
Animals, directed by David Dastmalchian
10,000KM, directed by Natalia Tena & David Verdauge
Documentary Feature
The Great Invisible, directed by Margaret Brown
Special Jury Recognition:
Vessel, directed by Diana Whitten
Print the Legend, directed by Luis Lopez & Clay Tweel
Short Film Jury
Narrative Short
Quelqu’un d’extraordinaire, directed by Monia Chokri
Special Jury Recognition:
Person to Person, directed by Dustin Guy Defa
Krisha, directed by Trey Edward Shultz
Doco Short
An Economy of Grace, directed by Jeff Dupre
Animated Short
Coda, directed by Alan Holly
Midnight Shorts
(not Academy Award-qualifying)
Wawd Ahp, directed by Steve Girard and Josh Chertoff
Design
Excellence in Title Design
True Detective, designed by Patrick Clair
Special Jury Recognition:
The Lego Movie, designed by Brian Mah
Excellence in Poster Design
Starry Eyes, poster by Jay Shaw
Special Awards
Gamechanger Award
(Outstanding Woman Director)
Jen McGowan, for Kelly and Cal
Louis Black “Lone Star Award”
Richard Linklater, for Boyhood
Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship
Colin Nusbaum (Tough Love, The Sheik & I)
