Krisha, a film about an alcoholic woman trying to make amends with her family over the course of a catastrophic Thanksgiving weekend, has won the grand jury prize for narrative features at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
The film, which was shot in nine days by director Trey Edward Shults, stars various members of his family, including his aunt in the title role.
The documentary prize went to Peace Officer, about a former sheriff who established his state’s first Swat team, a unit which went on to kill his son-in-law in a standoff 30 years later.
Other winners included Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti, who won a directors’ award for A Woman Like Me, and the black and white dystopian drama Creative Control, which took an award for visual excellence.
The awards on Tuesday night were hosted by Vanessa Bayer, whose film Trainwreck screened at the festival as a work in progress. Variety reports that her opening speech ended: “If hosting an awards show where you don’t know understand what most of the awards are is wrong, I don’t want to be right.”
