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1 6 SXS W O R L D | M A R C H 1 5 , 2 0 1 8 | SXSW.COM 21st Annual SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Presented by KPMG The 2018 SXSW Film Festival Awards FEATURE FILM GRAND JURY AWARDS Narrative Feature Competition Thunder Road, directed by Jim Cummings Special Jury Recognition For First Feature The New Romantic, directed by Carly Stone Special Jury Recognition for Writing Jinn Director/Screenwriter: Niljla Mu'min Documentary Feature Competition People's Republic of Desire Directors: Hao Wu Special Jury Recognition for Best Cast This One's For The Ladies, directed by Gene Graham Special Jury Recognition for Best Feminist Reconsideration of a Male Artist Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer SHORT FILM GRAND JURY AWARDS Presented by Vimeo Narrative Shorts Emergency directed by Carey Williams Special Jury Recognition for Acting Shirley Chen from Krista Documentary Shorts My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes, directed by Charlie Tyrell Midnight Shorts Milk, directed by Santiago Menghini Animated Shorts Agua Viva, directed by Alexa Lim Haas Special Jury Recognition JEOM, directed by Kangmin Kim Music Videos "Second Hand Lovers" – Oren Lavie, directed by Oren Lavie Special Jury Recognition for Acting "Territory" – The Blaze, directed by The Blaze Texas Shorts An Uncertain Future, directed by Iliana Sosa & Chelsea Hernandez Texas High School Shorts Winner: The Night I Lost My Favorite Jacket, directed by Jenna Krumerman Special Jury Recognition CCISD Strong, directed by Sofia Rasmussen Independent Episodics Winner: Beast, directed by Ben Strang Special Jury Recognition She's the Ticket, directed by Nadia Hallgren SXSW FILM DESIGN AWARDS Excellence in Poster Design The Gospel of Eureka Designer: Matt Taylor Special Jury Recognition A Little Wisdom Designer: Adam Zhu Excellence in Title Design Counterpart, directed by Karin Fong Special Jury Recognition Godless, directed by John Likens SXSW SPECIAL AWARDS SXSW LUNA® Gamechanger Award – Narrative First Match, directed by Olivia Newman Special Jury Recognition Unlovable, directed by Suzi Yoonessi SXSW LUNA® Chicken & Egg Award –Documentary On Her Shoulders, directed by Alexandria Bombach Special Jury Recognition ¡Las Sandinistas!, directed by Jenny Murray Louis Black "Lone Star" Award Daughters of the Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, directed by Dana Adam Shapiro SXSW Adam Yauch Hörnblowér Award Presented to: Prospect Directors: Zeek Earl & Chris Caldwell Vimeo Staff Picks Award Presented to: Krista, directed by Danny Madden Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship Presented to: Kristin Bye WINNERS AI & Machine Learning Swarm AI by Unanimous AI (San Francisco, CA) Health, Med & Biotech MasSpec Pen by the Eberlin Lab at The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX) Innovation in Connecting People Read To Me by The Electric Factory (Montevideo, Uruguay) Music & Audio Innovation Hands-Free Music Project by Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA) New Economy Autonomous Operations Platform for Selfdriving Fleets by Ridecell (San Francisco, CA) Privacy & Security Ghostery Privacy Ad Blocker by Ghostery (New York, NY) Responsive Design The Coca-Cola Times Square Billboard SciFi No Longer The Dermal Abyss: When Tattoos meet Biotechnology by MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA), Harvard Medical School (Cambridge, MA) and UC Davis (Davis, CA) Smart Cities Jacques-Cartier Bridge Interactive Illumination Concept by Moment Factory, with: Réalisations Montréal Inc., Ambiances Design Productions, ATOMIC3, Éclairage Public / Ombrages, Lucion Média and UDO Design. Project directed by Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Inc., (Montreal, QC) Student Innovation Facebook Messenger Blood Type Bots by Ryan Leckie and Jakub Straka, Miami Ad School Europe (Hamburg, Germany) Visual Media Experience LEGO House Fish Designer by LEGO House / Trigger Global (Los Angeles, CA) VR & AR Maestro: Empowering VR Storytelling Through Social Collaboration by Penrose Studios (San Francisco, CA) Wearable Tech JacquardTM by Google (Mountain View, CA) SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS David Carr Prize Amanda Gail Meme of the Year Savage Prince George Breakout Trend of the Event Globally Connected: we're in this together Speaker of the Event Esther Perel Hall of Fame Eli Pariser People's Choice Award The World's First AI Financial Advisor by Pefin (New York, NY) Best of Show Swarm AI by Unanimous AI

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