Our congrats to local filmmaker Sam Lerma, who won the Best San Antonio Filmmaker prize at the San Antonio Film Festival for his short Lilia.
Here’s the complete list of jury winners:
1. SAFILM Grand Prize
Portion (2012)
Dir. Gisberg Bermúdez
2. Jury Prize Best Performance
David Diaan for Mossadegh (2012)
3. Jury Prize Best Narrative Short
Crescendo (2012)
Dir. Alonso Álvarez
4. Jury Prize Best Documentary Short
Inocente (2012)
Dir. Sean Fine, Andrea Nix
5. Jury Prize Best Animated Short
World’s Apart (2012)
Dir. Michael Zachary Huber
6. Jury Prize Best College Filmmaker
Children of the Air (2012)
Dir. Damian Horan
7. Jury Prize Best High School Filmmaker
Cardiac Arrest (2012)
Dir. Maqui Gaona
8. Jury Prize Best San Antonio Filmmaker
Sam Lerma for Lilia (2012)
9. SANTIKOS AWARD for outstanding contribution to a film
Bruno Bichir for his performance in Portion (2012)
Audience awards to be announced soon.
This article appears in Jun 20-26, 2012.