From left to right: Dennis Bishop, festival director; Eric Bricker, dir. of Visual Acoustics; Andrei Zvyagintsev, dir. of The Banishment; Bobbie Wygant, honorary festival chair; Tom Copeland, Lone Star Commitment to Texas honoree; Clay Liford, dir. of My Mom Smokes Weed; Melonie Diaz, Lone Star Rising Star honoree; Alec Jhangiani, programming dir.; and John Storm, managing dir.