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TINY FURNITURE, BROTHERHOOD, and MARWENCOL are among the winners at SXSW
The film portion of South by Southwest comes to close, and what a ride it’s been. We’ve seen some amazing movies (dare I say almost all of them great), both in the documentary and narrative categories, and though exhausting this trip has been well worth it. But now the SXSW panel of judges for the Festival’s Jury and the audience votes (by way of ballot) have spoken, and the winners have emerged victorious. So it is with pleasure we present to you the official SXSW winners list for the 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
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
