“Hooligans” and “Cowboy del Amor” Sweep Top SXSW ’05 Prizes

Indiewire.com
March 16, 2005
by Eugene Hernandez

Lexi Alexander’s “Hooligans,” starring Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire
Forlani, Marc Warren, and Leo Gregory won both the narrative feature
audience award and the narrative jury prize at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival,
while Michele Ohayon’s “Cowboy del Amor” was the winner of both the
documentary audience award and the doc jury prize. At the SXSW film awards
in Austin, TX Tuesday night, festival and conference producer Matt Dentler
said that it was the first time that films won both jury and audience
awards.

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s “The Boys of Baraka” was won the special jury
prize from the documentary jury and was the runner-up in doc audience award
balloting. Ian Gamazon and Neill Della Luna’s “Cavite” won the special jury
award from the narrative jury and Ben Rekhi’s “Waterborne” was the runner-up
for the narrative audience prize.

Jay and Mark Duplass’ “The Puffy Chair” was the winner of the audience award
in the festival’s Emerging Visions section, while Marion Lipschutz and Rose
Rosenblatt’s “The Education of Shelby Knox” won the audience prize in the
Lone Star States section of the festival. Arin Crumley and Susan Buice’s
“Four Eyed Monsters” and Ellen Spiro’s “Troop 1500” were second in voting in
each category respectively.

In the Reel Shorts competition, jurors awarded the top prize to Keith
Bearden’s “The Raftman’s Razor,” while the special jury prize in the
category went to Katja Straub’s “All White People Are French.” In the
animated short category, Hathan Jurevicius’ “Orpheus & the Underworld” won
and Nadine Takvorian’s “Elegy” received the special jury notice. Monkmus won
the music video award for the video for “Year of the Rat” by Badly Drawn Boy
and the special jury award winner was Ton Petrossian for the “Vermillion”
video by Slipknot.

In Texas prizes, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra won the Texas Shorts award for
“Termination” and Spencer Parsons won the special jury award for “Once and
Future Asshole.” David McGinnis won the Texas High School competition award
for “Comic Y” and the special jury award went to David Vass for “Life of a
Pencil.”