The 2022 SXSW Film Festival announced its winners: James Morosini’s I Love My Dad and Rosa Ruth Boesten’s Master of Light won the top prizes for narrative and documentary, respectively.
“I Love My Dad” tells the story of a man who is tricked by his estranged father (Patton Oswalt) in an attempt to reunite, while “Master of Light” is a portrait of artist George Anthony Morton. Other winners include Something Undone (pilot episode) and All the Crows in the World (short story).
The 2022 SXSW Film Festival is the first in-person iteration of the Austin festival since 2019. The film premiered several major studio films, including Sandra Bullock’s release The Lost City and Nicolas Cage’s The Unbearable Weight of Enormous Talent. as well as records A24 All Everywhere All At Once and Bodies Bodies Bodies.
Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter was on the jury for the feature story competition along with director Siddhant Adlakha and Janelle Riley of Variety.
The audience awards of the festival have not yet been announced. See the full list of SXSW winners below.
Feature Film Grand Jury Awards
DESCRIPTIVE FUNCTION CONTEST presented by Panavision
Winner: I love my father
Director/Writer: James Morosini Producers: Bill Stertz, Patton Oswalt, Sean O’Grady, Dane Ackerl, Phil Keefe, Daniel Brandt, Sam Slater
Special Jury Recognition for Outstanding Cinematic Vision: Cast and crew It’s in us all
Special Jury Recognition for Outstanding Performance: Elizaveta Yankovskaya, Nika
DOCUMENTARY FUNCTION COMPETITION presented by IMAX
Winner: Master of Light
Director: Rosa Ruth Boesten Producers: Roger Ross Williams, Anusha Nzume, Ilya Rumans
Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Narrative Intimacy: bad ax
Director: David Siev Producers: Jude Harris, Diane Quon, Katharina Vasquez, David Siev
Special Jury Recognition for Documentary Feature: Steve Glue, Pez Outlaw
GRAND JURY PRIZES FOR A SHORT FILM Submitted by IMDbPro
STORY COMPETITION
Winner: All crows in the world
Director/Writer: Tang Yi, Producer: Haozheng Li
Special Jury Recognition for Directing and Community Cinema: Glitter is not gold
Director/Writer: Christian Nolan Jones, Producers: Maya Miller, T. Popps, O. Valerie Nicholas
Special Jury Recognition for Outstanding Performances: Aphrodite Armstrong, Kyle Riggs, West of God
DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION
Winner: Long line of ladies
Directors: Raika Zehtabchi, Shahandiin Thome, Producers: Garrett Schiff, Pimm Tripp-Allen, Raika Zehtabchi, Sam Davis, Dana Kurt
Special Jury Recognition for Visual Reflection: don’t stop for a moment
Director: Jamie Meltzer Producers: Annie Marr, Jamie Meltzer, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg
MIDNIGHT SHORTS
Winner: Moshari
Director/Writer: Nuhash Humayun, Producers: Bushra Afrin, Nuhash Humayun
Special Jury Recognition for the powerful “Short Journey”: Omi
Director: Kelly Fife-Marshall Writers: Tamar Bird, Kelly Fife-Marshall Producer: Tamar Bird
ANIMATED SHORTS
Winner: Bestia
Director: Hugo Covarrubias Writers: Martin Eraso, Hugo Covarrubias Producers: Tevo Diaz, Hugo Covarrubias
Special Jury Recognition for Unexpected Emotions: Les Larmes de la Seine
Director/Writer: Janis Belaid, Elliott Benard, Producer: Carlos De Carvalho
Special Jury Recognition for Intuitive Narrative: Something in the garden
Director/Writer/Producer: Marcos Sanchez
VIDEO CLIPS
Winner: Desiree Dawson – “Meet Me by the Light”
Director/Writer: Alexander Farakh
Special recognition of the jury for the work done: Myd – “Let You Talk”
Director/Writer: Dan Carr
TEXAS SHORTS
Winner: Folk Frontera
Directed by: Alejandra Vazquez, Sam Osborne
Special Jury Recognition for Vision: Birds
Director/Writer: Kathryn Propper, Producer: Sophia Loffreda
TEXAS SCHOOL SHORTS
Winner: Bee
Director/Writer/Producer: Emilio Vasquez Reyes
Special Jury Recognition for Artistic Expression: It’s getting bad again
Director/Writer: Sarah Reyes, Producers: Sarah Reyes, Kenneth Rogers
EPISODIC PILOTS COMPETITION
Winner: Something is undone
Director: Nicole Dorsey Writers: Michael Musi, Madison Walsh Producers: Max Topplin, Jordan Hayes
Special Jury Recognition for the unique vision of the script and direction: Pamela Ribon and Sarah Gunnarsdottir, “My Year of Members”