SHORT TERM 12 won the audience award for the Best Narrative Feature, and BIG EASY EXPRESS won the audience award for the Best Documentary Feature at the American Film Festival (AFF) in Wrocław, Poland, the first event in Eastern and Central Europe focused entirely on independent American cinema, which ran October 22 to 27, 2013.
The audience award for the Best Narrative Feature ($10,000) went to Destin Cretton for SHORT TERM 12, while the audience award for the Best Documentary Feature ($5,000) went to Emmett Malloy for BIG EASY EXPRESS.
US in Progress Wrocław took place during the 4th American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland on October 23 to 25, 2013. US in Progress Wrocław presents independent US films in final production stages to European buyers, post-production houses and festivals in order to help them achieve completion and to foster the circulation and distribution of American indie films in Europe.
The main awards went to SUN BELT EXPRESS by Evan Wolf Buxbaum and LAKE LOS ANGELES by Mike Ott (produced by Athina Rachel Tsangari). Other awarded films were: SUMMER OF BLOOD by director-producer Onur Tukel; WILD CANARIES by Lawrence Michael Levine; HAPPY BABY by Stephen Elliott and SOME BEASTS by Cameron Nelson.
