Filmmaker Elizabeth Rohrbaugh and Daniel Powell’s dramatic musical "Becks" took top honors at the L.A. Film Festival on Thursday. The film, about a Brooklyn musician (Lena Hall) who moves back to St. Louis after her crushing breakup, debuted at Film Independent's annual fest and earned the U.S. fiction award. The LA Muse Documentary prize went to Mark Hayes for "Skid Row Marathon," and the Muse fiction award went to Savannah Bloch for "And Then There Was Eve." The award for short fiction went to "A Funeral for Lightning," and the award for short documentary went to "Black America Again." "Skid Row Marathon" and "The Keeping Hours" took the audience awards for documentary feature film and fiction feature film, respectively, while "Swim" took the audience award for short film and "High & Mighty" took the audience award for Web series.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 22, 2017 20:48 UTC