AFI Fest Announces Audience And Jury Award Winners; ‘Jockey’ Receives Top Honor
from Sony Pictures Classics and the Tommy Oliver-directed Juice Wrld taking the narrative and documentary Audience Awards, respectively.
The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action and Animated Short will be eligible for the Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short Oscars. “Bringing filmmakers and movie fans together to celebrate the moving image is at the heart of AFI FEST. The excitement of all festival goers to be together in the theaters, once again, was electric,” said Sarah Harris, Director of Programming, AFI Festivals. “This year’s festival has truly shown everyone the power of the art form to lift our spirits when it’s needed the most.
The AFI Fest jury was composed of film curator and writer Kiva Reardon; Amanda Salazar, head of programming and acquisitions at Argo; and writer-director Angel Kristi Williams. The complete AFI FEST program included 118 titles of which 51% were directed by women, 39% were directed by BIPOC and 13% were directed by LGBTQ+. This year’s program represented 53 countries and included seven world premieres.Audience Award – Documentary FeatureLove, Dad “For its melding of form and content that makes for a deeply vulnerable and personal viewing experience, the Jury would like to award LOVE, DAD as Best Animated Short.
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