2025 SXSW Film & The TV festival has revealed its sought after winners of audience prize.
After indieview announced The festival’s jury AwardsWith Amy Wang’s “Slanted” which takes the Top Narrative Feature Award, the Audience Awards have overall. “The auditor 2“In the lead role Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal have Won the Headliner sectionwith “Fantasy Life” who gets the vote of the story. (Amanda Peet also won the previous Special Jury Award for her performance in “Fantasy Life.”)
Jay Duplass’ “The Baltimorons” received the audience award for the Narrative Spotlight section. Documentaries “Remaining natives” and “Luv Ya, Bum!” was also recognized in the documentary function competition and documentary Spotlight categories respectively. Rodney Ascher’s “Ghost Boy” Also be a winner in the visions category.
Winners of the Audience Prize were certified by Maxwell Locke & Ritter LLP.
“Our deepest thank you to the filmmakers, the audience and volunteers who made this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival exceptionally,” said Claudette Godfrey, VP Film & TV. “We gathered another star program that puts independently told, documentaries, TV series and XR experiences on the same stage as studio films and TV programs. The magic of shared viewing experiences and a sense of society continued to define our festival, and we are pleased that all this year’s projects would reach even wider audience in addition to SXSW! ”
SXSW Film & TV Festival presented 114 features including 93 World Premieres, 3 International Premieres, 3 North American Premieres, 4 US Premieres, 11 Texas Premieres + 57 short films and 19 music videos. The TV program contains 17 TV projects, with 6 TV premieres, 4 TV spotlight and 7 independent TV pilots. There are 31 projects in the XR Experience program, including 15 in XR Experience competition and 16 in XR Experience Spotlight.
Check out the full list of winners of SXSW Film & TV Festival Award winner below.
Feature film program
Headliner
Presented by epidemic sound
Winner of Audience Award: “The Accountant 2”
Director: Gavin O’Connor, producers: Ben Affleck, Lynette Howell Taylor, Mark Williams, screenwriter: Bill Dubuque
Narrative function competition
Presented by Kickstarter
Winner of Audience Award: “Fantasy life”
Director/screenwriter: Matthew Shear, producers: Charlie Alderman, Chris Dodds, Phil Keefe, Amanda Peet, Emily McCann Lesser, David Bernon, Sam Slater
Documentary function competition
Winner of Audience Award: “Remaining natives”
Director: Paige Bethmann, producers: Jessica Epstein, Paige Bethmann, Judd Ehrlich
Narrative headlights
Winner of Audience Award: “Baltimorons”
Director: Jay Duplass, producers: Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, Mel Eslyn, Shuli Harel, David Bonnett Jr., Michael Strassner, Drew Langer, screenwriter: Jay Duplass, Michael Strassner
Documentary Spotlight
Winner of Audience Award: “Luv ya, bum!”
Directors: Sam Wainwright Douglas, David Hartstein, producers: Paul Jensen, Vance Howard, screenwriter: Andrew Miller
Midnighter
Winner of Audience Award: “Nirvanna The Band the Show the Movie”
Director: Matt Johnson, producers: Matthew Miller, Matt Greyson, screenwriter: Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol
Visions
Winner of Audience Award: “Ghost Boy”
Director: Rodney Ascher, producers: Elika Portnoy, Ryan Bartecki, Gary Levinsohn, Billy Hines
GLOBAL
Presented by Mubi
Winner of Audience Award: “Corina”
Director: Urzula Barba Hopfner, producers: Carlos Hernández, Iván López-Barba, Urzula Barba, screenwriter: Urzula Barba Hopfner, Samuel Sosa
24 beats per second
Winner of Audience Award: “Selena and the dinos”
Director: Isabel Castro, producers: Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, J. Daniel Torres, David Blackman, Simran A. Singh
Festival
Winner of Audience Award: “Deaf president now!”
Directors: Nyle Dimarco, Davis Guggenheim, producers: Nyle Dimarco, Davis Guggenheim, Amanda Rohlke, Jonathan King, Michael Harte
Short film program presented by Vimeo
Narrative short competition
Winner of Audience Award: “Ben’s Sister”
Director/screenwriter: Emma Weinswig, producers: Will Noyce, Emma Weinswig, Shane Bagwell, Chelsea Eisen
Documentary short competition
Winner of Audience Award: “Armed only with a camera: Brent Renaud’s life and death”
Directors: Brent Renaud, Craig Renaud, producers: Juan Arredondo, Jon Alpert, Christof Putzel, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Hales, Tina Nyen, Jeff Newton, Mami Kuwano Renaud, Naomi Mizoguchi, Tami Alpert
Animated short competition
Winner of Audience Award: “Pension plan”
Director: John Kelly, screenwriter: John Kelly, Tara Lawall, producers: Julie Murnaghan, Andrew Freedman
Midnight short competition
Winner of Audience Award: “Hide”
Directors: Mairin Hart, Josh Wallace Kerrigan, screenwriter: Josh Wallace Kerrigan, producers: Mairin Hart, Josh Wallace Kerrigan, Devin Das, Greg Cohen, John Nodorft
Texas short competition
Winner of Audience Award: “Sweetbriar”
Director/screenwriter: Danny Rivera, producer: MK Goss
Music video competition
Winner of Audience Award: A $ AP ROCKY – ‘Tailor Swif’
Directors/screenwriters: Vania Heymann, Gal Muggia
TV program
TV premiere
Winner of Audience Award: “Spy High”
Director: Jody McVeigh-Schultz, producers: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Archie Plaster, Aliza Rosen, Jody McVeigh-Schultz, David Wendell
TV headlights
Winner of Audience Award: “Mix Tape”
Director: Lucy Gaffy, producers: Aoife O’Sullivan, Tristan Orpen Lynch, Angie Fielder, Polly Staniford, screenwriter: Jo Spain
Independent TV pilot competition
Winner of Audience Award: “Bulldozer”
Showrunner/screenwriter: Joanna Leeds, Director: Andrew Leeds, Producers: Joanna Leeds, Andrew Leeds, Rhett Reese, Caleb Reese, Michael Day
XR experience
XR Experience competition
Winner of Audience Award: “Facial jumping”
Directors: Danny Cannizzaro, Samantha Gorman, producers: Yuxin Gao, J Noland, screenwriter: Samantha Gorman
XR Experience Spotlight
Winner of Audience Award: “Resolution: A CinePhonic Rhapsody for the soul”
Directors: Scott Berman, Ryan Hartsell, producer/screenwriter: Scott Berman
