The Lone Star International Film Festival announced the 2008 award winners with Igor Volshin’s Nirvana named as recipient of the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature Competition. The Special Jury Prize went to Tom Quinn’s The New Year Parade.

Eric Bricker’s Visual Acoustics – The Modernism of Julius Shulman took
the Documentary Grand Jury Prize. Andrei Zvyagintsev’s The Banishment was named Best Foreign Language film. The Shorts Jury Prize went to Clay Liford’s My Mom Smokes Weed. Special Jury prize went to Alex Beh’s Sugar.

The awards ceremony also featured the presentation of the Lone Star Rising Star Award to
Melonie Diaz. LSIFF’s Life Achievement Award to Sidney Lumet. Due to illness, Lumet was unable to attend the ceremony to personally accept the award or attend the LSIFF screenings of his classic films, 12 Angry Men and Network as part of their salute to his work.

The Lone Star Commitment to Texas Award went to Tom Copeland, recognizing his career spanning more than twenty years working with the Texas Film Commission.

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