Paxton Winters' sardonic road movie Crude won the Target Filmmaker Award for BestNarrative Feature at the ninth IFP Los Angeles Film Festival, which ran fromJun 11-21.

The festival jury gave the Target Documentary Award for BestDocumentary Feature to Tracy Droz Tragos' Be Good, Smile Pretty, a personal tribute to the film-maker'sfather and the 20,000 American soldiers who died in Vietnam.

Peter Mullan's award-winning drama The Magdalene Sisters, which Miramax has scheduled for limitedrelease in the US on Aug 1, claimed the Audience Award for best narrativefeature.

Laura Gabbert's Sunset Story took the Audience Award for documentaries with a look at alively friendship in a retirement home for political radicals.

In Crude,two dopey friends backpack through Europe and hatch a get-rich-quick scheme tofind and interview a Muslim terrorist. The film stars Paul Schneider, DavidConnolly and Yigit Ozsener.

Over the course of 11 days the festival screened 206 films,including 72 features and nine world premieres.

The event kicked off with Lions Gate's casino-set drama TheCooler and closed onSaturday with a screening of IFC Films' comedy musical Camp. The films are due to go on limitedrelease in the US on Nov 21 and Jul 25 respectively.

The bestnarrative short film prize went to Seith Mann for five deep breaths, the documentary short film prize to GinaLevy and Eric Johnson's Foo-Foo Dust, the animated short film prize to Celia Galan Julve's StoriesOf The Desert and theaudience award for short film to Paul Gutrecht's The Vest.