November 15, 2013 - 10:45 AMT
"The Rocket" Australia's Oscar entry wins AFI Fest audience award

AFI Fest announced the winners for the audience and jury awards on Wednesday, November 14, The Hollywood Reporter said.

The Rocket, Australia's foreign film Oscar submission; The Selfish Giant, made in the U.K.; We Gotta Get Out of This Place, an American indie film directed by Zeke Hawkins and Simon Hawkins; and B for Boy, a Nigerian film, received audience awards.

Grand jury awards were presented to Butter Lamp in the live-action short category, and The Places Where We Lived in the animated short category.

Special jury award winners were Balcony and Syndromeda.

Some of the award-winning films will screen again Wednesday at the Chinese 6 Theatres.

"This year, some extraordinary new artists have burst onto the scene, and we hope that these awards from the audience and the jury will enable their films to reach a wider audience," said festival director Jacqueline Lyanga in a statement. "We hope that the enthusiasm and excitement that our audiences have had for all of the films that we've shown this past week – foreign, American, Independent, experimental, short and documentary – continues and spreads."