Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol, a profile of Mark Hogencamp, an upstate New York man who, after suffering brain damage in a barroom brawl, transforms his trauma into creativity, in the form of doll-scale World War II-era town in his backyard, earned the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at SXSW. LA Weekly film critic--and Documentary Feature juror--Karina Longworth had this to say about the film: "Marwencol stood out from the competition pack for a number of reasons, but for me the most refreshing thing about it was that it seems to fuse several different strands of contemporary nonfiction filmmaking that rarely seem to coexist within the same film. It's a film about social issues (mental disability, alcoholism, sexual identity) that presents itself in an extraordinarily personal way, with Hogencamp's story unfolding so organically that it seems as though the subject is talking directly to the viewer, slowly revealing more of himself as one would with a strander-turned confidante, as they slowly earn our trust. It's both ‘relevant' and ‘personal'--two buzz words that are often bandied about, but Marwencol earns them."

The runner-up for the Grand Jury Prize went to lawyer-turned-filmmaker Rebecca Richman Cohen's War Don Don, about a trial of an accused warlord in Sierra Leone. Here's an interview with Cohen that appeared in IndieWIRE.

For the Audience Awards, the Documentary Feature award went to Jim Bigham and Mark Moormann's For Once in My Life, which chronicles the members of the Spirit of Goodwill Band, a group of 28 musicians and singers, all with a wide range of severe mental and physical disabilities. Amy Grappell's Quadrangle took the Documentary Short prize; the film tells the story of two couples, one of whom is Grappell's parents, who swapped partners and lived together in a group marriage in the 1970s.  The Runner-up for the Documentary Short Prize went to Travis Senger's White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug, about a celebrated DJ from the early days of hip-hop who lived a double life as a drug dealer.

SXSW's Audience Awards for the Spotlight Premieres, Emerging Visions, 24 Beats Per Second, Lone Star States and Midnighters sections will be announced on Monday.