‘Flamin’ Hot’, ‘Mustache’, ‘The Luckiest Guy In The World’ Among SXSW Audience Award Winners
21.03.2023 - 00:05
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The Eva Longoria-directed Flamin’ Hot, Imran J. Khan’s Mustache and the upcoming ESPN bio-doc about NBA icon Bill Walton were among the audience award winners revealed Monday for the 31st SXSW Film & TV Festival.
Flamin’ Hot, which stars Jesse Garcia in the sometimes true tale of the man behind the “flamin’ hot”-branded chip revolution, was named the Audience Award winner in the festival’s Headliners section. The pic, from Searchlight Pictures, will debut June 9 on both Hulu and Disney+.
Mustache, written and directed by Khan, won the Narrative Feature Competition honor, and Julio Quintana’s The Long Game won for Narrative Spotlight. The Documentary Feature Competition winner was Dan Covert’s Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life, while Documentary Spotlight honors went to Olivia Kuan’s The Herricanes.
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The fest’s Midnighters Audience Award went to Bishal Dutta’s It Lives Inside.
The festival, which wrapped Sunday, previously revealed its juried awards. Today’s wards were handed out across 10 film lineups, three Episodic sections for TV content and six short film sidebars.
Among the TV-side winners are the upcoming Steve James-directed ESPN documentary series The Luckiest Guy in the World on NBA star-turned-analyst Walton, scoring honors in the TV Premieres category. The Season 2 premiere of Starz’s Blindspotting was tapped as best of in TV Spotlight.
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Here’s the complete list of Audience Awards winners:
HEADLINERSAudience Award Winner: Flamin’ HotDirector: Eva Longoria; Producer: DeVon Franklin; Screenwriters: Linda Yvette Chávez, Lewis Colick
NARRATIVE FEATURE