The Austin Film Festival (AFF) announced the 2017 Script Competition Winners and the Film Competition Jury Award Winners.
In Blue directed by Jaap van Heusden won the award for Best Narrative Feature, and Transformer directed by Michael Del Monte won the award for Best Documentary Feature.
In “In Blue”, a flight attendant who has successfully existed as a single independent woman for years finds herself delivering a child mid flight. This moment flips her world on its head.
Transformer tells the story of former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt Kroczaleski who was publicly outed as transgender in the summer of 2015. The reaction was universal: her sponsors abandoned her, she was disowned by her parents, and banned from competing. Now Janae, she must find her place in society, unable to lose the muscle she once so desperately gained and living one day as an alpha male and the next day as a delicate girl.
2017 Austin Film Festival Film Competition Jury Award Winners
Narrative Feature: In Blue written by Jan-Willem den Bok and Jaap van Heusden
Narrative Feature Honorable Mention: Boost written by Darren Curtis
Documentary Feature in partnership with POV: Transformer directed by Michael Del Monte
Comedy Vanguard Feature: Don’t Talk to Irene written by Pat Mills
Dark Matters Feature: Freddy/Eddy written by Tini Tüllman
Narrative Short presented by ShortsTV: Demon written by Caleb Slain
Narrative Student Short: Towards the Sun written by Elie Choufany and Monica Santis
Documentary Short: Los Comandos directed by Joshua Bennett and Juliana Schatz Preston
Animated Short: Second to None written by Vincent Gallagher
Scripted Digital Series presented by Stage 13: Cleaner Daze created by Tess Sweet and Daniel Gambelin
2017 Austin Film Festival Script Competition Winners
Drama Screenplay Award presented by the Writers Guild of America, East: Brokenhearted by Caroline Hopkins
Comedy Screenplay Award presented by Sony Pictures Animation: The Olympian by Troy Miller
Sci-Fi Screenplay Award presented by Skybound Entertainment: Every Horizon Beyond by Henry Tranton
Enderby Entertainment Award: Apacheria by Andrew Reuland & Joey Grossfield
Horror Screenplay Award: Family Photos by Chad Harris
AMC One-Hour Pilot Award: Breakfield by Caitlin Schneiderhan
Sitcom Pilot Award: The Big D by Jill Taylor
Short Screenplay Award: Ringneck by Michael Allcock
Scripted Digital Series Award presented by Stage 13: The Range by Adam Groff
One-Hour Spec Award: Black Mirror: Punchbag by Steven Snell
Sitcom Spec Award: You’re the Worst: Antiversary by Cara Brown
Playwriting Award underwritten by Sweetwood Creative: Signature Photo by Michael Bucklin
Fiction Podcast Award presented by Public Radio International: How to Build a Fire by Kat Sandler
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