April 11-14, 2024
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KC FilmFest International Awards 2020

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
Potluck banner with a bowl of almonds

Best Heartland High School Student Short

POTLUCK directed by Olivia Squires, Jared Goudsmit

a woman checking her car in the windmill area

Best Heartland College Student Short sponsored by Java Monster

POPCORN directed by James Slaven

A woman wearing glasses talking to a man

Best Heartland Narrative Short 

MILDRED’S CRIME SHOW directed by Joshua Leonard

Because One Day Movie Scene, A man in the garden

Best Heartland Documentary Short 

WILBUR NIEWALD directed by Elizabeth Stehling, Steve Snell

How to Fall in Love in a Brothel Movie Scene

Best Narrative Short sponsored by Java Monster

A TIE

PAY PHONE directed by Yurugu Matsumoto

A girl carrying boy on the radio flyer wagon stroller

Best Narrative Short sponsored by Java Monster

A TIE

GOING STEADY directed by Brydie O’Connor

Betye Saar, Taking Care Of Business Actoress

Best Documentary Short sponsored by Java Monster

BETYE SAAR: Taking Care of Business directed by Christine Turner

a person wearing a hat and flowers in his hands

Rick Cowan Award for Best Cinematic Heartland Film Locations

Sponsored by Kansas City Film Office 

FLOOR 22 directed by Connor Simpson

A man shouting at another man

Best Ensemble

MY DINNER WITH WERNER directed by Maverick Moore

A man holding a poster of Free Them

Best Documentary Feature  sponsored by Java Monster

WITNESS AT TORNILLO directed by Shane Franklin

Two soldiers talking to each other

Best World Cinema Feature

UNTIMELY directed by Pouya Eshtehardi

a man looking at a woman with her hands up

Best Actor in a Narrative Feature Film

SARAH ROSE HARPER  in The Last Days of Capitalism

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Best Heartland Narrative Feature

WRETCH directed by Matthew Dunehoo

Best Narrative Feature sponsored by Java Monster

THE BLACK EMPEROR OF BROADWAY directed by Arthur Egeli