#SXSW: Tiny Furniture, Brotherhood Win Dramatic Jury and Audience Awards

At the SXSW closing awards ceremony Tuesday night, Lena Dunham's offbeat autobiographical drama Tiny Furniture won the narrative feature jury prize. Shot in November and edited in December, the filmmakers finished the micro-budget drama last Monday, and flew into Austin with a tape in hand. Dunham also won the Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award.

The dramatic jury also awarded two special jury prizes: best ensemble, Myth of the American Sleepover, directed by
David Robert Mitchell and best individual performance: Brian Hasenfus in Phillip the Fossil, directed by Garth Donovan.

The feature doc jury winner was Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol, about Mark Hogancamp and his fantasy world. The runner-up was War Don Don, from
director Rebecca Richman Cohen.

The audience awards went to Will Canon's fraternity thriller Brotherhood and documentary filmmakers Jim Bigham & Mark Moormann's For Once in My Life, about the members of the Spirit of Goodwill Band.

Prizes for Shorts, Film Design, the SXSW Chicken & Egg and the SXSW Wholphin Award are on the jump and at indieWIRE.

Audience Awards for Spotlight Premieres, Emerging Visions, 24 Beats Per Second, Lone Star States, and Midnighters will be announced on Monday, March 22, 2010.

Jurors considered 134 feature-length films (selected from a record 1,572 feature submissions: 1,206 U.S. and 366 foreign films) and 130 shorts (selected from 2,312 submissions). In its inaugural year, the title design competition had 18 finalists (selected from 101 submissions).

Short Film Jury Awards

NARRATIVE SHORTS
Winner: Cigarette Candy
Director: Lauren Wolkstein
Runner Up: Teleglobal Dreamin'
Director: Eric Flanagan

DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Winner: Quadrangle Director: Amy Grappell
Runner Up: White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug
Director: Travis Senger


ANIMATED SHORTS
Winner: The Orange 
Director: Nick Fox-Gieg
Runner Up: One Square Mile of Earth 
Director: Jeff Drew



EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS


Winner: Night Mayor
Director: Guy Maddin


Runner Up: Kids Might Fly
Director: Alex Taylor



MUSIC VIDEOS 

Winner: Cinnamon Chasers, "Luv Deluxe"
Director: Saman Keshavarz
Runner Up: Grizzly Bear, "Forest"
Director: Allison Schulnik

TEXAS SHORTS
Winner: Petting Sharks 
Director: Craig Elrod

Runner Up: The Big Bends
Director: Jason William Marlow

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Winner: Give the Dog a Bone
Director: Edward Kelley
Runner Up: The Sleep Project
Director: Whitney Bennett & Matthew Cunningham


SXSW Film Design Awards

EXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN
Winner: Feeder
Designer: Joseph Ernst
Runner Up: Amer
Designer: Gilles Vranckx
Audience Award Winner: Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission
Designer: Michael Anderson
Emergent Narrative Woman Director Award Winner: Lena Dunham: Tiny Furniture
Special Jury Award: Equestrian Sexual Response 
Designers: Martim Vian & Zeke Hawkins

EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN
Winner: Zombieland
Designer: Ben Conrad
Runner Up: earthwork
Designer: Stan Herd

Audience Award Winner: earthwork 
Designer: Stan Herd

Special Jury Award: Enter the Void
Designer: Gaspar Noé and Tom Kam


SXSW Special Awards

SXSW WHOLPHIN AWARD
Winner: Quadrangle
Director: Amy Grappell

SXSW CHICKEN & EGG EMERGENT NARRATIVE WOMAN DIRECTOR AWARD
Special Award - The Chicken & Egg Pictures "We Believe in You" Award:
Martha Stephens for Passenger Pigeons