Austin Film Festival Announces Winners of 2014 Screenplay & Teleplay Competition & More

Austin Film Festival (AFF) announces its 2014 Jury and Audience Awards. A record number of scripts were received and Finalists were reviewed by an industry jury.

Screenplay and Teleplay Awards:

• Drama Screenplay Award presented by the Writers Guild of America, East: Dead River Girl, Morris Long
• Comedy Screenplay Award: Three Months, Jared Frieder
• Enderby Entertainment Award: Suicide Boy, Laura Hainke
• Fade to Black Award: I fed James Bond, Josh Hallman
• Darkwoods Productions Horror Award: The 700 Year Itch, Molly Stein & Moon Unit Zappa
• Darkwoods Productions Sci-Fi Award: The Incomparable Donald Strange, James Fant & Zach Cannon
• AMC One-Hour Teleplay Pilot: Ascension, Wes Brown
• Sitcom Teleplay Pilot: Great Points Park, Danny Sullivan
• One-Hour Teleplay Spec: The Americans: Barium Meals, Adam Turner
• Sitcom Teleplay Spec: Bob's Burgers: Mr. Whiskers, Damir Konjicija & Dario Konjicija

The 2014 Jury award-winning films included the inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award. AFF's competition juries include talented filmmakers and notable industry insiders Dan Guando (The Weinstein Company) and Tom Skerritt (founder, The Film School), among others. Animated, Documentary, and Narrative Short Jury Winners are eligible for Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences nomination.

Jury Awards:

• Narrative Feature: The Kings Surrender, Philipp Leinemann
• Documentary Feature Jury Award: Once Upon a Crime: The Borrelli-Davis Conspiracy, Sheldon Wilson

• Dark Matters Feature: One Eyed Girl, Nick Matthews and Craig Behenna
• Comedy Vanguard Feature: Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero, Maz Jobrani & Amir Ohebsion
• Narrative Short: Skunk, Annie Silverstein
• Documentary Short: The Next Part, Erin Sanger
• Animated Short: Between Times, Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter
• Narrative Student Short: Luke, Conor Hamill
• Young Filmmakers Program Competition: Special Is Just a Word, Abby Thompson

During the Festival, audiences scored each film, resulting in 2014 Audience Award Winners.

Audience Awards:

• Narrative Feature: Terrible Love, Luke Helmer & Christopher Thomas
• Documentary Feature: The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young, Annika Iltis & Timothy Kane
• Dark Matters Feature: The Suicide Theory, Michael J. Kospiah
• Comedy Vanguard Feature: Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero, Maz Jobrani & Amir Ohebsion
• Narrative Short: Mimi & Me, Marly Reed
• Documentary Short: Albert, Daniel Jaffe
• Animated Short: TIE The Dam Keeper, Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi | The Last Resort, Gillian Park
• Student Short: Luke, Conor Hamill
• Heart of Film: Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West, Mike Thompson, Jerry Thompson, & Gregory Popovich
• Stories From Abroad: Taking it Back, Andreas Schmied
• Texas Independents: Flutter, Eric Hueber
• Marquee Feature: Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, James Keach

About Austin Film Festival

Austin Film Festival is funded and supported in part by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts, City of Austin Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office/Cultural Arts Division.