South By Southwest organizers have announced the 2022 recipients of all Jury and Special awards for the Austin festival. Audience awards are still being decided, and you can vote for your personal favorite SXSW films if you saw them online or at the festival between now and the morning of Monday, March 21st.
Out of the 99 feature films, 111 short films, and even more music videos, series pilots, and more making their premieres at the festivals, these are the big winners that caught the attention of the SXSW jury of professional filmmakers and film critics.
The top winners of the Feature category were comedy I Love My Dad, which stars Patton Oswalt going to great lengths to bond with his estranged son, and the documentary Master than Light, which profiled painter George Anthony Morton. It Is In Us All won a special mention for Extraordinary Cinematic Vision, which was apparently a bold new take on a psychological thriller by writer/director/star Antonia Campbell-Hughes.
Along with the many memorable feature films screened at the festival, there were some great shorts highlighted by the Jury Awards as well. The big winner of the Narrative Short competition was All The Crows In The World, written and directed by Tang Yi, which was also honored with the Short Film Palme D’or at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s described as a surreal and sharp black comedy that showed huge directorial confidence by Yi.
Other short film highlights were the doc Long Line of Ladies described as a “tapestry of beautiful cinematography and vivid character moments,” and the “spine-chilling” Midnight Shorts winner Moshari from Bangladeshi director Nuhash Humayun.
The festival also handed out special awards which included craft recognition like Cinematography and Editing, and more special commendations like the Fandor New Voices award and Louis Black “Lone Star” Award, which both went to the documentary What We Leave Behind, which shows the health decline of filmmaker Iliana Sosa’s elderly grandfather.
A full list of winners is available below:
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITIONWinner: I Love My DadWriter/Director: James Morosini, Producers: Bill Stertz, Patton Oswalt, Sean O’Grady, Dane Eckerle, Phil Keefe, Daniel Brandt, Sam Slater
Special Jury Recognition for Extraordinary Cinematic Vision: Cast and Crew, It Is In Us All
Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Performance: Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Nika
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY COMPETITIONWinner: Master of Light
Director: Rosa Ruth Boesten, Producers: Roger Ross Williams: Anousha Nzume, Ilja Roomans
Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling: Bad Axe. Director: David Siev, Producers: Jude Harris, Diane Quon, Katarina Vasquez, David Siev.
Special Jury Recognition for Acting in a Documentary: Steve Glew, Pez Outlaw
NARRATIVE SHORT COMPETITIONWinner: All The Crows in the WorldWriter/Director: Tang Yi, Producer: Haozheng Li
Special Jury Recognition for Directing and Community Filmmaking: Glitter Aint GoldDirector/Screenwriter: Christian Nolan Jones, Producers: Maia Miller, T. Poppos, O. Valerie Nicolas
Special Jury Recognition for Outstanding Performances: Aphrodite Armstrong, Kyle Riggs, West by God
SHORT DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Winner: Long Line of Ladies
Directors: Rayka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome, Producers; Garrett Schiff, Pimm Tripp-Allen, Rayka Zehtabchi, Sam Davis, Dana Kurth
Special Jury Recognition for Visual Reflection: not even for a moment do things stand stillDirector: Jamie Meltzer, Producers: Annie Marr, Jamie Meltzer, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg
MIDNIGHT SHORTSWinner: MoshariWriter/Director: Nuhash Humayun, Producers: Bushra Afreen, Nuhash Humayun
Special Jury Recognition for Powerful “Short Trip”: OmiDirector: Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, Screenwriters: Tamar Bird, Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, Producer: Tamar Bird
ANIMATED SHORTSWinner: BestiaDirector: Hugo Covarrubias, Writers: Martín Erazo, Huga Covarrubias, Producers: Tevo Díaz, Hugo Covarrubias
Special Jury Recognition for Unexpected Emotion: *es Larmes de la Seine*Writers/Directors: Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Producer: Carlos De Carvalho
Special Jury Recognition for Visceral Storytelling: Something in the GardenWriter/Director/Producer: Marcos Sánches
MUSIC VIDEOSWinner: Desirée Dawson – “Meet Me at the Light”
Director/Screenwriter: Alexander Farah
Special Jury Recognition for Going the Extra Mile: Myd – “Let You Speak”
Director/Screenwriter: Dan Carr
TEXAS SHORTSWinner: Folk FronteraDirectors: Alejandra Vasquez, Sam Osborn
Special Jury Recognition for Vision: BirdsWriter/Director: Katherine Popper, Producer: Sophia Loffreda
TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SHORTSWinner: HoneybeeWriter/Director/Producer: Emilio Vazquez Reyes
Special Jury Recognition for Artistic Expression: *t’s Getting Bad Again*Writer/Director: Sarah Rayes, Producers: Sarah Reyes, Kenneth Rogers
EPISODIC PILOT COMPETITIONWinner: Something UndoneDirector: Nicole Dorsey, Writers: Michael Musi, Madison Walsh, Producers: Max Topplin, Jordan Hayes
Special Jury Recognition for Unique Vision in Writing and Directing: Pamela Ribon and Sara Gunnarsdóttir, My Year of Dicks
POSTER DESIGN COMPETITIONWinner: More Than I RememberDesigner: Yen Tan, Maya Edelman
Special Jury Recognition: The Sentence of Michael ThompsonDesigner: Juan Miguel Marin
TITLE DESIGN COMPETITION
Winner: Foundation Title SequenceDesigner: Ronnie Koff
Company: Imaginary Forces
Special Jury Recognition: The White Lotus Title SequenceDesigners: Katrina Crawford, Mark Bashore
Company: Plains of Yonder
XR EXPERIENCE COMPETITIONWinner: On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World)Directors: Dr. Jamaica Heolomeleikalani Osorio, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz, Arnaud Colinart, Writers: Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Jamaica Heolomeleikalani Osorio, Producers: Arnaud Colinart, Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Jo-Jo Ellison
Special Jury Recognition for Immersive Storytelling: (Hi)story of a Painting: The Light in the ShadowDirectors: Quentin Darras, Gaëlle Mourre, Writer: Gaëlle Mourre, Producers: Charlotte Mikkelborg, Gaëlle Mourre
SXSW SPECIAL AWARDS
Fandor New Voices AwardWinner: What We Leave BehindDirector: Iliana Sosa, Producers: Emma D. Miller, Iliana Sosa, Isidore Bethel (co-producer)
Adam Yauch Hörnblowér AwardWinner: Chee$eWriter/Director: Damian Marcano, Producer: Alexa Marcano
Adobe Editing AwardWinner: Everything Everywhere All At OnceEditor: Paul Rogers
Louis Black “Lone Star” AwardWinner: What We Leave BehindDirector: Iliana Sosa, Producers: Emma D. Miller, Iliana Sosa, Isidore Bethel (co-producer)**
Zeiss Cinematography Award
Winner: A Vanishing FogCinematographer: Gio Park
Mailchip Support the Shorts Award
Winner: The Voice Actress**Writer/Director: Anna J. Takayama, Producer: Joe Skinner