SXSW Festival Jury Award Winners Announced

Written by: Tony Lazlo, CC2K Staff Writer

Mark Webber's Explicit Ills took home the top jury prize at this year's SXSW Festival.

Here's a complete list of winners:

REEL SHORTS

Special Jury Award – "The Second Line," Director: John Magary.
Winner – (Tie) "Warlord," Director: David Garrett & "Small Apartment," Director: Andrew T. Betzer

ANIMATED SHORTS

Special Jury Award – "I hate you don't touch me or Bat and Hat," Director:

Becky James
Winner – "Madame Tulti-Putli," Director: Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski

EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS

Special Jury Award – "Upwards March," Director: Kaveh Nabatian
Winner – "Safari," Director: Catherine Chalmers

SXSW WHOLPHIN AWARD

Winner – "Glory at Sea," Director: Benjamin Zeitlin

MUSIC VIDEOS

Special Jury Award – (TIE) Group Sounds, 'Temporarily in Love,' Director:

Randy Scott Slavin & Cornelius, 'Fit Song,' Directors: Keigo Oyamada & Koichiro Tsujikawa
Winner – TV on the Radio," 'Me-I,' Directors: Mixtape Club & Daniel Garcia

TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL COMPETITION

Special Jury Award – "Inflections," Director: Matthew Campbell
Winner – "Picnic," Director: Wesley Bronez

ON NETWORKS GREENLIGHT AWARD

Best Original Production – "The Guild," Director: Jane Selle Morgan
Best Original Series Idea – "Knock Off," Written: Brandi-Ann Milbradt

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Special Jury Award – "Full Battle Rattle," Directors: Tony Gerber & Jesse Moss
Grand Jury Award – "They Killed Sister Dorothy," Director: Daniel Junge

NARRATIVE FEATURE

Special Jury Award for Cinematography – "Explicit Ills," Director: Mark Webber
Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast – "Up With Me," Director: Greg Takoudes
Grand Jury Award – "Wellness," Director: Jake Mahaffy

Audience Awards

EMERGING VISIONS

Winner – "In a Dream," Director: Jeremiah Zagar

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Winner – "They Killed Sister Dorothy," Director: Daniel Junge

NARRATIVE FEATURE

Winner – "Explicit Ills," Director: Mark Webber

Additional winners will be announced on March 17. The Festival ends March 15.

Author: Tony Lazlo, CC2K Staff Writer

Robert J. Peterson is a writer and web developer living in Los Angeles. A Tennessee native, he graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He’s written for newspapers and websites all over the country, including the Marin Independent Journal, the Telluride Daily Planet, CC2KOnline.com, Offscreen, and Geekscape.net. He co-hosts the podcasts Make It So and Hiram’s Lodge. He’s appeared as a pop-culture guru on the web talk shows Comics on Comics, The Fanbase Press Week In Review, Collider Heroes, ScreenJunkies TV Fights, and Fandom Planet. He’s the founder of California Coldblood Books.

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