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‘The Great Invisible’ is SXSW Grand Jury Award Winning Doc
The Great Invisible is SXSW Grand Jury Award Winning Doc
SXSW 2014: ‘Fort Tilden,’ ‘Great Invisible’ win top jury awards
By Mark Olsen
March 11, 2014, 7:45 p.m.
The South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival announced its jury awards on Tuesday night in a ceremony at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas.
“Fort Tilden” won the grand jury prize in the narrative competition. Written and directed by Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, the comedy stars Bridey Elliott and Clare McNulty as a pair of hapless Brooklyn roommates on an epic journey to the beach.
On the documentary side, the grand jury prize went to “The Great Invisible.” Directed by Margaret Brown, the film tells the story of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
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