The San Antonio Film Festival provides a unique innovative environment that aims to connect like-minded creative filmmakers and provide them with engaging opportunities, where they can share ideas and promote their careers. The festival also features scores of new and original films from across the country and around the world to entertain its audiences of film enthusiasts, too. The festival presents 14 awards; A Grand Prize, Jury Prizes and Audience Awards for Best Performance, Best Narrative Short, Best Documentary Short, Best Historical Documentary, Best Animated Short, Best Music Video, Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary Feature, Best High School Filmmaker, Best San Antonio Filmmaker, Best Actress in a Leading Role and Lifetime Achievement Award.