SXSW 2014: Audience Award Winners Announced

The audience award winners have been announced for this year’s SXSW festival, which is wrapping up today.  Shawn Christensen‘s Before I Disappear won for the Narrative Feature Competition and Diana Whitten‘s Vessel picked up the award for Documentary Competition.

Hit the jump to take a look at all of this year’s winners and stay tuned for plenty more reviews from this year’s fest.

2014 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award Winners:
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

Audience Award Winner: Before I Disappear
Director: Shawn Christensen

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION

Audience Award Winner: Vessel
Director: Diana Whitten

DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT

Audience Award Winner: DamNation
Director: Ben Knight & Travis Rummel

NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT

Audience Award Winner: CESAR CHAVEZ
Directors: Diego Luna

VISIONS

Audience Award Winner: Yakona
Director: Anlo Sepulveda & Paul Collins

MIDNIGHTERS

Audience Award Winner: Exists
Director: Eduardo Sánchez

EPISODIC

Audience Award Winner: Silicon Valley
Director: Mike Judge

SXGLOBAL

Audience Award Winner: The Special Need
Directors: Carlo Zoratti

FESTIVAL FAVORITES

Audience Award Winner: The Case Against 8
Director: Ben Cotner & Ryan White

SXSW Film Design Awards
EXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN

Audience Award Winner: Big Significant Things
Designer: Corey Holmes

EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN

Audience Award Winner:  True Detective
Designer: Patrick Clair for Elastic