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Welcome to the 2008 SXSW Awards Presentation! With much help from unpaid Cinematintern Willy Goss, we bring you the award winners LIVE!!

6:38pm -- Will announces that there's a pigeon loose inside the building. No awards just yet.

6:42pm -- Goss has some texting issues as the shorts winners are announced. We'll get 'em up ASAP.

6:54pm -- In the documentary competition, They Killed Sister Dorothy takes the grand prize, while a special jury prize goes to Full Battle Rattle.

6:59pm -- Narrative Feature / Special Jury Prize for Cinematography: Explicit Ills. Special Jury for Ensemble: Up with Me. Narrative Grand Jury Prize: Wellness.

7:06pm -- Audience Awards!! (Emerging Visions category) In a Dream. Audience Doco Pick: They Killed Sister Dorothy.

7:10pm -- Audience Award for Narrative Feature: Explicit Ills! Congrats to Mark Webber and company!

After the jump: All the other awards!!

I recently got to have a very entertaining conversation with Super High Me star Doug Benson and producer Alex Campbell -- most of which you'll get to read later -- but for now, there's some fun news to share regarding the flick. As you may or may not know, Super High Me is (obviously) a take-off on Morgan Spurlock's very entertaining Super Size Me -- only instead of eating Big Macs for 30 days ... Doug Benson is going to smoke marijuana (all day every day) for 30 days. (But only after he stays pot-free for 30 days, of course.)

If this sounds like an entertaining idea for a documentary ... too bad. Someone already made it. Get your own idea. But here's the next best thing: If you'd like to organize a (FREE!) screening of Michael Bleiden's Super High Me for you and your pals, you can do so starting on (you guessed it) April 20. You don't even have to smoke weed while you watch it! It's funny either way! (Erik Davis' full review of Super High Me will appear on this very blog in the very near future. But here's a preview: He liked it.)

Head on over to the official b-side.com / Super High Me website to check out all the "Roll Your Own Screening" information. Over at The Hollywood Reporter, Screen Media's Suzanne Blech summed it up nicely: ""It can be difficult to get stoners off the couch ... The number of people who get stoned in America is quite a large percentage, and all we want for them is to tell their friends that they have to see this funny, funny movie." Well, speaking as a big fan of ...comedy, I can agree with Suzanne there. The only people who might not chuckle at this flick are DEA agents.

I'm not a good enough writer to explain how terrible, miserable and infuriating my most recent Thursday was. I'm well aware that airlines are pure evil and that EVERYONE gets the shaft from USAir, American, United, etc., from time to time. I'm also (obviously) aware that an airline / airport has no pull with Mother Nature, nor would I waste time blaming American Airlines for the freezing snow and/or rain. But here's the story. Well, the first half, anyway.

I got on an American Airlines flight from Philadelphia at 7:35am. My seat was in the absolute BACK of the plane, which is usually awful, but since this flight was stopping in Dallas and then quickly moving on to Austin, I wasn't too irritated about getting seat 33D. (Although, to be honest, I did request seat 10D when I booked the flight -- and said seat WAS confirmed.) The good news is that I was in a seat with no passengers in front of me; just a bulkhead wall! So my loooong legs had a little extra room to move. Things were starting out great! I nodded off a few times and awoke as we were landing in Dallas.