The winners at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival, held in Austin, TX, (the festival actually ends tomorrow), were announced on March 14.
Jamie Babbit's Itty Bitty Titty Committee (right), about a young woman who gets involved in the radical lesbian group CIA (Clits in Action), took the best narrative feature prize. Itty Bitty Titty Committee will be screened at the opening night gala of the upcoming Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in London.
Special Jury awards went to two films: Ronald Bronstein's Frownland, "about a door-to-door coupon salesman who eats popcorn & eggs off the folded-out door of his kitchen oven" and Ry Russo-Young's Orphans, in which two estranged sisters reunite after the death of their parents only to discover they still have loads of personal issues to resolve.
Jennifer Venditti's Billy the Kid (left), a look at a quirky 15-year-old's coming-of-age in a small Maine town, was chosen best feature documentary.
Runners-up were Michael Jacobs' Audience of One and Harris Fishman's Cat Dancers.
Audience of One tells the story of a Pentecostal minister who, after receiving a vision from God, sets out to make a science-fiction movie based on the biblical tale of Joseph, while Cat Dancers shows how the lives of Ron and Joy Holiday, "the world's first exotic cat entertainers in the 1960s," were impacted when a third party — "dashing young Chuck Lizza" — joined the act.
Best bio: "Ronald Bronstein has spent the last seven years three floors below street level in the dingy projection booth of the Museum of Modern Art in nyc. There, deprived of both sunlight and fresh circulating oxygen, he has screened and watched an average of 600 movies a year. This is his first time making one."
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