The film festival of South by Southwest wrapped up Saturday night, marking the end to another spectacular run of cutting edge cinema for the year.
A few of the big titles like "Stop Loss" and "21" are potential blockbusters that we'll see in theaters soon.
But many of the films are low budget wonders still hoping to find an audience.
These are a few of the independent gems that earned some of the biggest buzz at SXSW.
"Explicit Ills" is an impressive debut for actor turned director Mark Webber.
His directorial debut earned both the audience award for best narrative feature and a Special Jury Award for Cinematography. The drama weaves a Philadelphia story of young love, drugs, and poverty. A cast including Paul Dano and Rosario Dawson brings established star power to an indie spectacle.
Winning the Audience Award in the Emerging Visions category was "In A Dream." It's a collection of raw personal stories surrounding Isaiah Zager, a mosaic artist, who spent 30 years covering more than 40,000 square feet of Philadelphia with tile, mirror, paint, and concrete.
The documentary darling of the festival turned out to be "They Killed Sister Dorothy," which swept both the Audience Award and Grand Jury award for Best Documentary. This powerful and tragic movie investigates the events and people behind the murder of an American nun in the Amazon.
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 Yet another year of SXSW films came to an end Saturday night.



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Another super indie film earning acclaim is "Wellness." It won the Jury award for best narrative feature this year. The low bug drama follows a salesman who loses his life savings in a multi level marketing scam.
And finally "Nights and Weekends" scored the biggest prize of all earning a distribution deal with IFC Entertainment. Director Joe Swanberg scored big with another talkie entry to the filmmaking movement labeled mumblecore. This relationship drama should pop up in a few theaters in the near future.