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KC FilmFest International Awards  2021

Best Heartland High School Student Short 

Best Heartland College Student Short – sponsored by Java Monster

Best Heartland Narrative Feature

Best Heartland Narrative Short

Best Heartland Documentary Short

Best Narrative Short-sponsored by Java Monster

Best Documentary Short – sponsored by Java Monster

Best Documentary Feature –  sponsored by Java Monster

Best World Cinema Film

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film

Best Ensemble Award

Fred G. Andrews Emerging Filmmaker Award 

Rick Cowan Award for Best Cinematic Heartland Film Locations- Sponsored by Kansas City Film Office  

Best Narrative Feature – sponsored by Java Monster
Ruth and Nick A Confectionery Tale Banner

Best Heartland High School Student Short

Ruth & Nick: A Confectionery Tale, directed by Carter Rostron

 

Environmental Racism by Nathan Goswick Banner

Best Heartland College Student Short sponsored by Java Monster

ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, directed by Nathan Goswick

Friends of Dorothy Movie Scene, A Man With Eyes Closed

Best Heartland Documentary Short 

FRIENDS OF DOROTHY, directed by Brydie O’Connor

 

Must Love Pie Movie Scene, a Man with Bouquet

Best Heartland Narrative Short 

MUST LOVE PIE, directed by Patrick Clement

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Fred G. Andrews Emerging Filmmaker Award

ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, directed by Nathan Goswick

Bone Cage Movie Scene with two men in the boxing ring

Best Narrative Short sponsored by Java Monster

BONECRUSHER, directed by Jim Morrison IV

 

a man lifting weight and another one speaking over a phone

Best Documentary Short sponsored by Java Monster

YOU ARE ALWAYS 20, directed by Christer Wahlberg

A Car and a man outside a house at night

Rick Cowan Award for Best Cinematic Heartland Film Locations

Sponsored by Kansas City Film Office 

THE SNOOP, directed by Tom Hipp, Scott Hipp

a man looking at a woman with blue hairs

Award for Innovative Storytelling in Film

NEOLOVISMO directed by Susanna della Sala, Mike Bruce

BOBBI JO, Under the Influence Author Lisa M. Hendey

Best Heartland Documentary Feature  

BOBBI JO: Under the Influence, directed by Brent Jones

Two boys walking on the bridge

Best Documentary Feature  sponsored by Java Monster

SAPELO, directed by Nick Brandestini

An Elderly Man Talking to a Little Boy

Best World Cinema Feature

THE LION ROCK, directed by Rosario Scandura

 

Bone Cage Canadian Actor Taylor Olson

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film

Taylor Olson in BONE CAGE

A man with a backpack and another man sitting

Best Heartland Narrative Feature

FOUND WANDERING LOST, directed by Nicholaus James

A Little Girl Holding a Hand Gun

Best Narrative Feature sponsored by Java Monster

HER NAME WAS JO, directed by Joe Duca