The award winners for this year’s SXSW Film Festival have been announced, with Olivia Newman‘s First Match winning the Narrative Feature Competition and Gabriel Silverman and Fiona Dawson‘s TransMilitary picking up the award for Documentary Feature. Take a look at the fill list of winners below.
2018 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award Winners:
NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: First Match
Director: Olivia Newman
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION
Audience Award Winner: TransMilitary
Directors: Gabriel Silverman, Fiona Dawson
NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: All Square
Director: John Hyams
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Audience Award Winner: The Dawn Wall
Director: Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
VISIONS
Audience Award Winner: Profile
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
MIDNIGHTERS
Audience Award Winner: Upgrade
Director: Leigh Whannell
EPISODIC
Audience Award Winner: Vida
Director: Alonso Ruizpalacios, So Yong Kim
24 BEATS PER SECOND
Audience Award Winner: Ruben Blades Is Not My Name
Director: Abner Benaim
GLOBAL
Audience Award Winner: Virus Tropical
Director: Santiago Caicedo
FESTIVAL FAVORITES
Audience Award Winner: Science Fair
Director: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster
SXSW Film Design Awards
EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN
Audience Award Winner: #19 – Offf Barcelona 2017
Directors: Eve Duhamel, Julien Vallee
