SXSW Winners 2021

WIF congratulates the women who received awards at the 28th SXSW Film Festival in March 2021.

Feature Film Grand Jury Awards

Narrative Feature Competition

  • Winner
    The Fallout, director: Megan Park
  • Special Jury Recognition for Multi-hyphenate Storyteller
    I’m Fine (Thanks for Asking), directors: Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina

Documentary Feature Competition

  • Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling
    Introducing, Selma Blair, director: Rachel Fleit

Short Film Grand Jury Awards

Narrative Shorts

  • Special Jury Recognition for Direction
    Like the Ones I Used to Know, director: Annie St-Pierre

Documentary Shorts

  • Winner
    Águilas, directors: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Maite Zubiaurre

Animated Shorts

  • Special Jury Recognition for Storytelling
    Your Own Bullshit, director: Daria Kopiec

Music Videos

  • Winner
    Madame Gandhi – “Waiting for Me,” director: Misha Ghose
  • Special Jury Recognition for Pure Joy
    Kuricorder Quartet – “Southpaw,” director: Sawako Kabuki

Texas Shorts

  • Winner
    Summer Animals, director: Haley Elizabeth Anderson
  • Special Jury Recognition for Vision
    O Black Hole!, director: Renee Zhan

Texas High School Shorts

  • Winner
    A Really Dark Comedy, director: Manasi Ughadmathe
  • Special Jury Recognition for Directing
    Beyond the Model, director: Jessica Lin

Episodic Pilot Competition

  • Winner
    4 Feet High, directors: Maria Belen Poncio and Rosario Perazolo Masjoan
  • Special Jury Recognition for Best Duo
    Pretend Partners, Kristin Erickson with director Ron Najor

Title Design Competition

  • Winner
    The Queen’s Gambit Title Sequence, designer: Saskia Marka

Audience Awards

Headliners
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free, director: Mary Wharton

Narrative Feature Competition
The Fallout, director: Megan Park

Narrative Spotlight
Language Lessons, director: Natalie Morales

Documentary Spotlight
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, directors: Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler

Visions
Inbetween Girl, director: Mei Makino

Midnighters
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, director: Kier-La Janisse

Global
Ninjababy, director: Yngvild Sve Flikke

Festival Favorites
In The Same Breath, director: Nanfu Wang

2020 Spotlight
We Are The Thousand, director: Anita Rivaroli

Texas Shorts Competition
Learning Tagalog with Kayla, director: Kayla Abuda Galang

Texas High School Shorts Competition
Beyond the Model, director: Jessica Lin

Music Videos Competition
Kuricorder Quartet – “Southpaw,” director: Sawako Kabuki

Episodic Pilot Competition
4 Feet High, directors: Maria Belen Poncio and Rosario Perazolo Masjoan

Virtual Cinema Competition
Finding Pandora X, director: Kiira Benzing

SXSW Special Awards

Brightcove Illumination Award
The Fallout, director: Megan Park

Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award
Delia Derbyshire – the Myths and the Legendary Tapes, director: Caroline Catz

Louis Black “Lone Star” Award
Without Getting Killed or Caught, directors: Tamara Saviano and Paul Whitfield

Mailchimp Support the Shorts Special Jury Recognition

  • Like the Ones I Used to Know, director: Annie St-Pierre
  • Malignant, directors: Morgan Bond and Nickolas Grisham