'The Great Invisible' Wins Best Doc At SXSW

The jury awards for the 2014 SXSW Film Festival were announced last night and we're happy to tell you that Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund alumni The Great Invisible took the Best Documentary prize. Margaret Brown's latest film takes a look at the Gulf Coast following the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.

For Brown, this was not only a social issue that needed to be explored but a personal story too, as she highlighted on our blog leading up to the premiere of the film: "One morning, I opened an e-mail from my dad to find photos of his bay house surrounded by the orange boom that BP was using to try and prevent the oil from hitting land and invading the marine estuary adjacent," she wrote. "It felt like such a personal invasion, and I think everyone who lived on the coast felt powerless as more and more of it kept coming. Making a film made me feel like I was doing something in the face of this powerlessness."

The Great Invisible will screen next at Hot Docs and Full Frame, and with this attention we're pretty confident theatrical distribution is around the corner.

Congrats Margaret and the whole Great Invisible team!