SXSW Film Festival 2022 announced the winners, starring James Morosini I love my dad and Rosa Ruth Boesten’s Master of Light won the top prizes in the narrative and documentary categories respectively.
I love my dad tells the story of a man who is knocked down by his estranged father (Patton Oswalt) in an attempt to reconnect, while Master of Light is a portrait of artist George Anthony Morton. Other winners include Undone something (multi-episode pilot) and All crows in the world (short narrative).
The 2022 SXSW Film Festival is the first live iteration of the Austin-based festival since 2019. The film premiered some of the studio’s major titles, including the Sandra Bullock film. Lost City and the film Nicolas Cage The unbearable weight of mass talentas well as items A24 Anything Anywhere Anytime and Agencies Agency Agencies.
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden was one of the jurors for the narrative contest, along with filmmaker Siddhant Adlakhaand Jenelle Riley from Diversity.
The festival’s audience awards are still to be announced. See the full list of SXSW winners below.
Grand Jury Prize for Feature Film
COMPETITIVE NARRATIVE FEATURES Presented by Panavision
Winner: I love my dad
Director/Writer: James Morosini, Producers: Bill Stertz, Patton Oswalt, Sean O’Grady, Dane Eckerle, Phil Keefe, Daniel Brandt, Sam Slater
Special Jury Recognition for Special Cinematic Vision: Crew, It’s all in us
Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Performance: Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Nika
HIGHLIGHTS COMPETITIVE DOCUMENTS presented by IMAX
Winner: Master of Light
Director: Rosa Ruth Boesten, Producers: Roger Ross Williams, Anousha Nzume, Ilja Roomans
Special Jury recognition for exceptional intimacy in storytelling: Bad ax
Director: David Siev, Producer: Jude Harris, Diane Quon, Katarina Vasquez, David Siev
Special Jury Recognition for Acting in the Documentary: Steve Glew, Pez Outlaw
GRAND JURY MOVIE SHORT AWARD Presented by IMDbPro
NARRATIVE SHORT COMPETITION
Winner: All crows in the world
Director/Scriptwriter: Tang Yi, Producer: Haozheng Li
Special Jury Recognition for Community Directing and Filmmaking: Glitter is not gold
Director/Writer: Christian Nolan Jones, Producers: Maia Miller, T. Popps, O. Valerie Nicolas
Special Jury recognition for outstanding work: Aphrodite Armstrong, Kyle Riggs, West of God
SHORT-TERM COMPETITION DOCUMENTS
Winner: Women’s long line
Director: 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 everything stands still
Director: Jamie Meltzer, Producers: Annie Marr, Jamie Meltzer, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg
SHORTS LIFE
Winner: Moshari
Director/Writer: Nuhash Humayun, Producer: Bushra Afreen, Nuhash Humayun
Special Jury Recognition for the Powerful “Short Trip”: Omi
Director: Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, Screenwriter: Tamar Bird, Kelly Fyffe-Marshall, Producer: Tamar Bird
CLASSIC ANIMALS
Winner: Bestia
Director: Hugo Covarrubias, Screenwriter: Martín Erazo, Hugo Covarrubias, Producers: Tevo Diaz, Hugo Covarrubias
Special Jury Recognition for Unexpected Emotions: Les Larmes de la Seine
Director/Writer: Yanis Belaid, Eliott Benard, Producer: Carlos De Carvalho
Special Jury Recognition for Visceral Storytelling: Something in the garden
Director / Screenwriter / Producer: Marcos Sánchez
MUSIC VIDEOS
Winner: Desirée Dawson – ‘Meet Me Under the Light’
Director/Writer: Alexander Farah
Special Jury recognition for going the extra mile: Myd – ‘Let You Speak’
Director/Writer: Dan Carr
TEXAS SHORTS
Winner: Folklore Frontera
Directed by: Alejandra Vasquez, Sam Osborn
Special Jury Recognition for Vision: Bird
Director/Writer: Katherine Propper, Producer: Sophia Loffreda
TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP
Winner: Honeybee
Director / Screenwriter / Producer: Emilio Vazquez Reyes
Special Jury Recognition for Artistic Expression: It got worse again
Director/Writer: Sarah Reyes, Producers: Sarah Reyes, Kenneth Rogers
COMPETITION EPISODIC PILOT
Winner: Undone something
Director: Nicole Dorsey, Screenwriter: Michael Musi, Madison Walsh, Producer: Max Topplin, Jordan Hayes
Special Jury Recognition for Unique Vision in Writing and Directing: Pamela Ribon and Sara Gunnarsdottir, My Five Dicks
