Termination wins Best Texas Short at SXSW

On Saturday I had the privilege of premiering my short film Termination at SXSW, and last night was very pleasantly surprised to be awarded Best Texas Short. I actually almost missed the awards due to a screening of the (quite wonderful) Chilean comedy Promedio Rojo, but luckily found an amazing parking space, walked in just in time to hear my name being surreally called, then headed straight to the podium and hopefully said something coherent.

Anyway, I've had the very great pleasure of attending this fine festival every year since it started, so it meant a lot to be able to make my debut as a filmmaker here, and this award is icing on the cake. I'm really proud of my entire cast (including Anika Kunik and Bob Richardson, above) and crew (who will all soon be saluted on IMDb), but I am particularly grateful for writer/actor Michael Conway and cinematographer/editor Jen White.

If you haven't had the chance to see Termination yet, it's screening twice more in the Texas Shorts program at 11:15am Thu. 3/17 and 11:30am Sat. 3/19 at my new favorite theatre, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on South Lamar.