Anna Melikyan's Mermaid won an unrestricted $25,000 cash prize for the Target Ten Filmmaker Award for Best Narrative Feature as the AFI Dallas International Film festival came to a close at the weekend.

The Russian film was previously shown in the US at the Sundance Film Festival and then at the Berlin film festival, where it won FIPRESCI's Panorama award.

Daniel Junge's and Siatta Scott Johnson's Iron Ladies Of Liberia won the unrestricted $25,000 cash prize for the Target Ten Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary.

Josh Tickell's Fields Of Fuel won the $10,000 cash prize for the inaugural Current Energy Earth Friendly Award, while the MPS Studios Texas Filmmaker Award and $20,000 in cash, goods and services went to David Pomes' Cook County.

Jason Wulfsohn's Tracing Cowboys won the $10,000 HDNet Award for best feature shot in HD and John Magary's The Second Line won the award for best short, while the award for best student short went to Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt's The Vulnerable Ones (Les Vulnerables).

Best animated short was awarded to Trevor Jimenez' Key Lime Pie.

Richie Mehta's Amal won the audience award for best narrative, while Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' The Black List won best documentary and Rajeev Dassani's A Day's Work took the Audience Award for best short.