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April 12-18, 2021

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KC FilmFest International Awards 2022

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
A person in white clothes holding a Chicken Banner

Best Heartland College Student Short sponsored by Java Monster

CHICKEN directed by Blake THorne

Two men sitting in the car and talking

Best Heartland Narrative Short 

SHiFT directed by Chad Crenshaw & Davis DeRock

a woman holding and looking at a walking stick

Fred G. Andrews Emerging Filmmaker Award

MILLENNIAL WITH A CANE directed by L. Tanner Smith

Wuhan Driver movie scene with a car and man on his keens

Best Narrative Short sponsored by Java Monster

WUHAN DRIVER directed by Tiger Ji

JOHNNY THE DIME Movie Lead Actor

Best Narrative Comedy Short sponsored by Java Monster

JOHNNY THE DIME directed by Joseph Blake Menzel

LOVE, BARBRA Best Heartland Documentary Short Poster

Best Heartland Documentary Short 

LOVE, BARBRA directed by Brydie O’Connor

A Boy with a Thin hair braid RAT TAIL movie secen

Best Documentary Short sponsored by Java Monster

RAT TAIL directed by Chad Sogas

a woman sitting in the garden is applying lipstick

Rick Cowan Award for Best Cinematic Heartland Film Locations

Sponsored by Kansas City Film Office 

CHICKEN AND ROSES  directed by Joni Mitchell

a man listening to songs with eyes closed

Best Heartland Documentary Feature  

HERE. IS. BETTER directed by Jack Youngleson

a band performing in a room with two men singing

Best Documentary Feature  sponsored by Java Monster

REZ METAL directed by Ashkan Soltani Stone

A movie scene with a man and woman looking at each other

Best World Cinema Feature

SWEET DISASTER directed by a Laura Lehmus

Mary Poppins Returns Film Character

Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film

Katherine Waddell  in BALLOON ANIMAL

Actor Leonard Searcy during a movie scene

Best Actor in a Documentary Feature Film

Leonard Searcy  in 39 SECONDS

a man and a woman talking to each other in a shop

Best Heartland Narrative Feature

ALMOST MAYBE SORTA 
directed by Lolo Lauren & Patrick Poe

The Big Bend Movie Poster with a Lady in the Background

Best Narrative Feature sponsored by Java Monster

THE BIG BEND directed by Brett Wagner

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