Austin Film Festival announces Audience Award winners

If you've been to the Austin Film Festival, you're familiar with the little ballots they hand out after each screening. Those ballots get counted up by hand when the Festival's done, and the result is the AFF Audience Awards. (Sponsored this year by Time Warner/IFC, yo. I worked for the Festival this year so I feel obligated to shout out to the sponsors.)

I'll list them after the jump, but you can also click straight over to the AFF site to see a nice list with links to the individual film pages.

» Advance Screening: Starter for Ten
DIRECTOR: Tom Vaughan
WRITER: David Nicholls

» Narrative Feature: Chalk
DIRECTOR: Mike Akel
WRITER: Mike Akel, Chris Mass

» Narrative Short: (tie)

Kidney Thieves
DIRECTOR: Toby Wilkins
WRITER: Ben Acker

Momma’s Boy
DIRECTOR: John Bryant
WRITERS: Jason Foxworth, John Bryant

» Animated Short: One Rat Short
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Alex Weil

» Narrative Student Short: Duncan Removed
DIRECTOR: Peter Livolsi
WRITERS: Matthew Schaefer, Peter Livolsi

» Documentary Feature: The Third Monday in October
DIRECTOR: Vanessa Roth

» Documentary Short: Stringers
DIRECTOR: Don R. Lewis, John Beck