SXSW 2021 Online is officially over and new dates for the 2022 live festival and conference have been announced. This year was SXSW’s first online experience, as most know the festival and conference for the past 25 years has been live. For five magical days, March 16th through the 20th, SXSW attendees got to experience the Film, Music and Comedy festivals remotely. On Sunday, March 21st, attendees had the opportunity to vote for all films, except Special Events, that were eligible for the SXSW Film Festival Audience Awards. Below are the SXSW 2021 Audience Award Winners.
Headliners
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
Director: Mary Wharton
Narrative Feature Competition
The Fallout
Director: Megan Park
Documentary Feature Competition
Not Going Quietly
Director: Nicholas Bruckman
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
24 Beats Per Second
Soy Cubana
Directors: Jeremy Ungar and Ivaylo Getov
Festival Favorites
In The Same Breath
Director: Nanfu Wang
2020 Spotlight
We Are The Thousand
Director: Anita Rivaroli
Narrative Shorts Competition
Play It Safe
Director: Mitch Kalisa
Documentary Shorts Competition
Joe Buffalo
Director: Amar Chebib
Animated Shorts Competition
Opera
Director: Erick Oh
Midnight Shorts Competition
Stuffed
Director: Theo Rhys
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 Premieres
Them
Showrunner: Little Marvin
Episodic Pilot Competition
4 Feet High
Directors: Maria Belen Poncio and Rosario Perazolo Masjoan
Virtual Cinema Competition
Biolum
Director: Abel Kohen
Virtual Cinema Spotlight
Finding Pandora X
Director: Kiira Benzing
Excellence in Title Design
Birds Of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn Title Sequence
Creative Director and Illustrator: Michael Riley
The dates for SXSW 2022 have been confirmed for March 11th through the 20th throughout Austin, Texas. Fingers crossed that next year will be the live festival and conference we enjoy attending annually in Austin! For more information about SXSW please visit www.sxsw.com.
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Source: SXSW
