The Austin Film Festival has announced the winners of its Audience Awards for the festival that wrapped up last week.
“There is no greater reward for a filmmaker than an Audience Award, which confirms their ability to tell a good story," AFF programmers Stephen Jannise and Stephen Belyeu in a press release. "Every filmmaker is a storyteller at heart, and you can’t receive better validation than the approval of your audience."
Austin-based writer/director Jeremiah Jones won the Audience Award in the narrative feature competition. KUT News interviewed Jones before the festival. You can hear that interview below.
http://kut.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/QA-Largey-Jones-on-AFF-Restive-MIX-FOR-WEB.mp3
Here's a full list of the 2011 AFF Audience Award winners:
Out of Competition Feature:
THE ARTIST
Writer/Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Narrative Feature Competition:
RESTIVE
Writer/Director: Jeremiah Jones
Documentary Feature Competition: Tie
ECSTASY OF ORDER: THE TETRIS MASTERS
Director: Adam Cornelius
STORIES FROM AN UNDECLARED WAR
Director: Dennis Rice
Texas Independents:
SIRONIA
Writers: Brandon Dickerson, Thomas Ward, Wes Cunningham
Director: Brandon Dickerson
Comedy Vanguard:
FRED & VINNIE
Writer: Fred Stoller
Director: Steve Skrovan
Narrative Short:
MWANSA THE GREAT
Writers: Rungano Nyoni, Gabriel Gauchet
Director: Rungano Nyoni
Narrative Student Short:
BENNY
Writers: Evan Ho, Huay Bing-Law
Director: Huay Bing-Law
Animated Short:
THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE
Writer: William Joyce
Directors: William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
Documentary Short:
ELLIOTT ERWITT: I BARK AT DOGS
Director: Douglas Sloan
