The star of Looking for Lurch.

Winner of the Inaugural Oxford American Best Southern Film Award with a $10,000 cash prize at the Little Rock Film Festival was the documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story, about controversial comedian Bill Hicks, who died in 1994.

The five-day Little Rock Film Festival announced award winners Sunday (June 6) at the Closing Night Gala and Awards Ceremony at the Clinton Presidential Center, then closed with a sold-out screening of ReGeneration at the Clinton School of Public Service.

The Audience Choice Award went to Looking for Lurch, directed by Tim Jackson. The documentary, filmed in Arkansas, follows an African Watusi steer named Lurch --  the Guinness Record holder for the largest circumference of horns of any animal in the world -- along with the other animals at Rocky Ridge Refuge in Gassville.

Winter's Bone won the Golden Rock Award for Best Narrative Feature. The festival's opening night drama, directed by Debra Granik, is about a 17-year-old girl who sets out to track down her father after he puts the family house up for his bail bond then disappears.

The Golden Rock Award for Best Documentary went to Restrepo, a documentary chronicling the deployment of a platoon in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley directed by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hertherington.

The Best Short Film was awarded to The Greims, directed by Peter Bolte and starring Arkansas native Wes Bentley.

The LRFF Youth! Award was presented to Outside the Lines from Fayetteville High School. The LRFF Youth! Spirit Award went to Will Sondheim.

The Charles B. Pierce award for Best Film Made in Arkansas was awarded to Antiquities, directed by Daniel Campbell.

Best Arkansas Music Video was awarded to directors David Scholtz and Bryan Stafford for Bryan Frazier’s Angeline and the Alpha Ray.

The 2010 LRFF screened over 100 films and welcomed around 25,000 guests, exceeding 2009 attendance of 20,000. 

For more information on LRFF, founded in 2006 by Arkansas natives Owen Brainard, documentary filmmakers Brent and Craig Renaud, and Jamie Moses, click here.