Tuesday night marked the formal end of the South by Southwest Film Festival, but with movie screenings continuing on until Saturday, it's "closing night" only in name.

But it is the night that jury and audience prizes are handed out: The grand jury prize for narrative filmmaking went to Judi Krant for her debut film, Made in China, a tale of a can-do inventor who travels to China with dreams of making it big with his new novelty item, "a humorous domestic hygiene product." 

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