Canceled SXSW Festival Moving Ahead With Awards, Expands Online Screenings
The canceled SXSW Movie Competition will nonetheless hand out awards by permitting jurors to see the competition’s competitors movies.
SXSW director of movie Janet Pierson made the announcement on Friday, which might have been the opening day of the competition. The occasion was canceled on March 6 as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
“This was going to [be] a transformative occasion, and with the cancellation, the filmmakers have been left stranded and scrambling,” she mentioned. “We had a number of Particular Awards juries already in place through hyperlinks, and since we aren’t capable of current the occasion, we determined to proceed and broaden to all of the juried competitions, if nearly all of the filmmakers opted in and juries have been accessible. We all know it’s no substitute for the reside SXSW occasion with its distinctive and implausible viewers, however a minimum of it’s some strategy to get consideration for these great movies.”
She additionally mentioned the competition will proceed to function an official qualifying competition for the Movie Impartial Spirit Awards and the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences awards.
The SXSW awards can be introduced on March 24. Pierson mentioned the competition has organized for filmmakers to opt-in to its Shift72 safe on-line screening library with choices to make accessible for press, consumers, business or mixtures of those audiences.
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“Now we have been heartened by the efforts of so many within the movie business and wider movie group to return along with affords to assist SXSW initiatives by providing screening rooms, payment waivers, and so some ways,” Pierson mentioned. “We’re persevering with to discover different methods to assist the paths of the SXSW 2020 Official Choice movies and filmmakers on this new surroundings.”
SXSW will give out awards within the following classes:
Juried AwardsNARRATIVE FEATURE: Grand Jury AwardDOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Grand Jury AwardDOCUMENTARY SHORTS: Jury AwardNARRATIVE SHORTS: Jury AwardANIMATED SHORTS: Jury AwardEPISODIC PILOT COMPETITION: Jury AwardMIDNIGHT SHORTS: Jury AwardMUSIC VIDEOS: Jury AwardTEXAS SHORTS: Jury AwardTEXAS HIGH SCHOOL SHORTS Jury AwardEXCELLENCE IN POSTER DESIGN Jury AwardEXCELLENCE IN TITLE DESIGN Jury Award
Particular AwardsADOBE EDITING AWARDADAM YAUCH HÖRNBLOWÉR AWARDFINAL DRAFT SCREENWRITERS AWARDLOUIS BLACK “LONE STAR” AWARDVIMEO STAFF PICK AWARDZEISS CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD
