Austin Film Festival Announces Winners of 2014 Screenplay & Teleplay Competition, Film Competition, and Audience Awards
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Austin Film Festival (AFF) announces its 2014 Jury and Audience Awards. A record number of scripts were received and Finalists were reviewed by an industry jury.
Screenplay and Teleplay Awards:
Drama Screenplay Award presented by the Writers Guild of America, East: Dead River Girl, Morris Long
Comedy Screenplay Award: Three Months, Jared Frieder
Enderby Entertainment Award: Suicide Boy, Laura Hainke
Fade to Black Award: I Fucked James Bond, Josh Hallman
Darkwoods Productions Horror Award: The 700 Year Itch, Molly Stein & Moon Unit Zappa
Darkwoods Productions Sci-Fi Award: The Incomparable Donald Strange, James Fant & Zach Cannon
AMC One-Hour Teleplay Pilot: Ascension, Wes Brown
Sitcom Teleplay Pilot: Great Points Park, Danny Sullivan
One-Hour Teleplay Spec: The Americans: Barium Meals, Adam Turner
Sitcom Teleplay Spec: Bob’s Burgers: Mr. Whiskers, Damir Konjicija & Dario Konjicija
The 2014 Jury award-winning films included the inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award. AFF’s competition juries include talented filmmakers and notable industry insiders Dan Guando (The Weinstein Company) and Tom Skerritt (founder, The Film School), among others. Animated, Documentary, and Narrative Short Jury Winners are eligible for Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences nomination.
Jury Awards:
Narrative Feature: The Kings Surrender, Philipp Leinemann
Documentary Feature Jury Award: Once Upon a Crime: The Borrelli-Davis Conspiracy, Sheldon Wilson
Dark Matters Feature: One Eyed Girl, Nick Matthews and Craig Behenna
Comedy Vanguard Feature: Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero, Maz Jobrani & Amir Ohebsion
Narrative Short: Skunk, Annie Silverstein
Documentary Short: The Next Part, Erin Sanger
Animated Short: Between Times, Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter
Narrative Student Short: Luke, Conor Hamill
Young Filmmakers Program Competition: Special Is Just a Word, Abby Thompson
During the Festival, audiences scored each film, resulting in 2014 Audience Award Winners.
Audience Awards:
Narrative Feature: Terrible Love, Luke Helmer & Christopher Thomas
Documentary Feature: The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young, Annika Iltis & Timothy Kane
Dark Matters Feature: The Suicide Theory, Michael J. Kospiah
Comedy Vanguard Feature: Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero, Maz Jobrani & Amir Ohebsion
Narrative Short: Mimi & Me, Marly Reed
Documentary Short: Albert, Daniel Jaffe
Animated Short: TIE The Dam Keeper, Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi | The Last Resort, Gillian Park
Student Short: Luke, Conor Hamill
Heart of Film: Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West, Mike Thompson, Jerry Thompson, & Gregory Popovich
Stories From Abroad: Taking it Back, Andreas Schmied
Texas Independents: Flutter, Eric Hueber
Marquee Feature: Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, James Keach
About Austin Film Festival
Austin Film Festival is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, City of Austin Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division.
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