{"id":2336696,"date":"2026-03-19T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2336696"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:14:17","slug":"sxsw-2026-awards-wishful-thinking-and-summer-2000-the-x-cetra-story-take-top-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sxsw-2026-awards-wishful-thinking-and-summer-2000-the-x-cetra-story-take-top-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"SXSW 2026 Awards: \u2018Wishful Thinking\u2019 and \u2018Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story\u2019 Take Top Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival winds down, the annual Austin, Texas-based event took a pause on Wednesday night to hand out its annual juried awards. Among the top winners: Graham Parkes\u2019 Lewis Pullman<\/a>– and Maya Hawke<\/a>-starring dramedy \u201cWishful Thinking<\/a>,\u201d which won the narrative jury competition, and actress-turned-filmmaker Ayden Mayeri<\/a>\u2019s \u201cSummer 2000: The X-Cetra Story<\/a>,\u201d which won its documentary equivalent.<\/p>\n

Also of note: the narrative feature jury handed out a special jury award for performance to \u201cThe Snake<\/a>\u201d star Susan Kent<\/a> and a special jury award for screenwriting to Robb Boardman<\/a>, Cory Loykasek<\/a>, Donny Divianian, and Frankie Quinones<\/a> for \u201cPlantman & Blondie: A Dress Up Gang Film<\/a>.\u201d The doc jury also bestowed a pair of special jury prizes to Matty Wishnow<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Last Critic<\/a>\u201d and Miko Lim<\/a>\u2019s \u201cStormbound<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2026 SXSW juried prize winners are listed below, and the audience awards will be announced later this week.<\/p>\n

See full article at Indiewire Television<\/svg><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival winds down, the annual Austin, Texas-based event took a pause on Wednesday night to hand out its annual juried awards. Among the top winners: Graham Parkes\u2019 Lewis Pullman– and Maya Hawke-starring dramedy \u201cWishful Thinking,\u201d which won the narrative jury competition, and actress-turned-filmmaker Ayden Mayeri\u2019s \u201cSummer 2000: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2336697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2336696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SXSW-2026-Awards-\u2018Wishful-Thinking-and-\u2018Summer-2000-The-X-Cetra.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336698,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336696\/revisions\/2336698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2336697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}