Anytown, USA won the Emerging Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival. The film was edited by Edit Center alum Sandy Patch (with co-editor Robert Greene), who took the six-week course in March of 2004. The Minnesota Daily wrote that, "Making its world premiere Saturday at the Lagoon Cinema, the hilarious and endlessly quirky Anytown, USA should have a strong, popular future ahead of it. Indeed, directed by Kristian Fraga and produced by John Sikes, Anytown, USA mixes the humor of the best Christopher Guest films with both the scrutiny and pathos of a political satire based in the woeful, all-too-real world."