Shawn Christensen’s Before I Disappear has won (15) the 2014 SXSW narrative feature audience award, while Diana Whitten’s Vessel triumphed in the documentary section.

Diego Luna’s Cesar Chavez earned the narrative spotlight audience award and Ben Knight and Travis Rummel took the documentary prize for DamNation.

The 24 Beats Per Second category will be announced via sxsw.com on March 17 as first screenings were still remaining at time of writing on Saturday (15).

The audience awards follow the previously announced juried awards, which included grand jury winners Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers’ Fort Tilden for narrative feature and Margaret Brown’s The Great Invisible for documentary feature.

Complete 2014 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award Winners:

NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION

Audience Award Winner: Before I Disappear

Shawn Christensen

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE COMPETITION

Audience Award Winner: Vessel

Director: Diana Whitten

DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT

Audience Award Winner: DamNation

Director: Ben Knight and Travis Rummel

NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT

Audience Award Winner: Cesar Chavez

Directors: Diego Luna

VISIONS

Audience Award Winner: Yakona

Director: Anlo Sepulveda and Paul Collins

MIDNIGHTERS

Audience Award Winner: Exists

Director: Eduardo Sánchez

EPISODIC

Audience Award Winner: Silicon Valley

Director: Mike Judge

SXGLOBAL

Audience Award Winner: The Special Need

Directors: Carlo Zoratti

FESTIVAL FAVORITES

Audience Award Winner: The Case Against 8

Director: Ben Cotner and Ryan White

SXSW Film Design Awards

EXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN

Audience Award Winner: Big Significant Things

Designer: Corey Holms

EXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN

Audience Award Winner:  True Detective

Designer: Patrick Clair for Elastic


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