With a slate of close to 100 narrative features, documentaries, shorts, music videos and animated films, the 10th annual On Location: Memphis International Film Fest continues today through Sunday in all four auditoriums at the Malco Ridgeway Four, 5853 Ridgeway Center Pkwy.

Johnny Kevorkian's horror-thriller "The Disappeared" won the Best Narrative Feature Award. It screens Saturday and Sunday nights.

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Filmmakers from Berlin and Nigeria as well as from the Mid-South are scheduled to attend, to introduce their work and to mingle with moviegoers.

A Saturday morning showcase includes free movies for kids, while today is "Cinema for Seniors" day -- $5 admission for movies before 5 p.m. for those 55 and older.

The festival opened Thursday night with "Prom Night in Mississippi" and a party at Downtown's Ground Zero Blues Club, where winners of the festival's film awards were announced. The judges -- including national and local filmmakers and film festival organizers, as well as On Location board members -- picked the winners in advance, so festgoers would have a better chance to see the honored films.

The Best Narrative Feature Award went to director Johnny Kevorkian's psychological horror-thriller from Britain, "The Disappeared," about a man haunted by visions of his missing younger brother. The movie screens at 9:30 p.m. Saturday -- an evening designated as "Fright Night with On Location: Memphis," due to a focus on scary cinema -- and encores at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

James Duke's Minnesota-made "Turnipseed" was named Best Short. The 25-minute film screens during a program of five shorts at 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

The Best Documentary Award went to "Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio," which screens at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and again at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Directed by Chris Fox Gilson and Carolyn Travis, the film examines the impact of rock-and-roll radio on American culture, from the heyday of such celebrity wax-stackers as Alan Freed, Casey Kasem and Wolfman Jack, to the anti-Top 40 "counterculture" FM deejays of the 1970s, to the discordant notes sounded by the payola scandal and various FCC clampdowns.

The Music Video Award went to "Segue Debris," directed by Clayton Hurley and starring local postpunk band Arma Secreta. The video -- a musical "thrill ride, with striking imagery and cutting-edge animation," according to On Location -- screens during a 10 p.m. Saturday program of 11 music videos.

Tickets to individual film programs are $8.50 each, and are available at the box office or at malco.com.

A festival pass is $75. For a complete schedule and more information about all the films, parties and other festival events, visit onlocationmemphis.org.