We’re still trying to decompress from the South By Southwest Film Festival adventure, but the news hasn’t stopped. We’ve got more interviews coming, more reviews too, but in the meantime we’ve been updated on some additional award winners fro SXSW. These are part of the audience awards. Whenever a film is screened at the festival, each audience member gets a ballot, giving them the power to vote on a film’s quality. I will say, I think I voted high marks on just about every film I went to, so I’d love to know which films got low ratings. The list is below, so take note of these titles, as you may want to check them out for yourself once they receive distribution.
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SXSW FILM ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL 2010 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS
Austin, Texas – March 22, 2010 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival announced additional Audience Award-winners today from the Spotlight Premieres, Emerging Visions, Lone Star States, 24 Beats Per Second and Midnighters categories.
For the 2010 SXSW Film Festival, 134 feature-length films, including 64 world premieres, were selected from a record 1,572 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,206 U.S. and 366 international feature-length films. 130 shorts were selected from 2,312 short film submissions. The 2010 SXSW Film Festival Awards were hosted by Ovation TV.
Feature Film Audience Awards
SPOTLIGHT PREMIERES:
Winner: Richard Garriott – Man on a Mission
Director: Mike Woolf
EMERGING VISIONS:
Winner: NY Export: Opus Jazz
Director: Henry Joost and Jody Lee Lipes
24 BEATS PER SECOND:
Winner: When You’re Strange – a film about the Doors
Director: Tom DiCillo
LONE STAR STATES:
Winner: Thunder Soul
Director: Mark Landsman
MIDNIGHTERS:
Winner: Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
Director: Eli Craig
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. 
