Key West Film Festival announced the winners of the 8th edition of the festival which ran November 20-24, 2019. Waves directed by Trey Edward Shults which closed the festival was voted winner of the Audience Award. After Parkland by Emily Taguchi & Jake Lefferman won for Best Documentary Feature, A Name Without A Place by Kenny Riches won for Best Florida Feature and Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Celine Sciamma won for Best LGBT Feature.
Other winners include Bacurau by Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles won for Best Foreign Feature and Atlantics by Mati Diop won the Critics Award.
During the festival Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce and actor Tom Skerritt receive the prestigious Golden Key Awards.
2019 Key West Film Festival Winners
WORLD Narrative Short & Documentary Short
Always Remember Me
Nell Teare
Underwater Senses
Leonardo Sergiani
WORLD STUDENT Narrative Short & Documentary Short
Where’s the Fire
Yonca Talu
Deaf Reach: Hope for Pakistan
John Quatroche
FLORIDA STUDENT Narrative Short & Documentary Short
Freewheel
Hollis Rosenkranz
In Human Kind
Juancho Rodriguez
FLORIDA Narrative Short & Documentary Short
The Things they Left Behind
Sara Werner
Phil & Grace | The World’s Oldest Scuba Diving Couple
Sonny DePasquale
FLORIDA SCREENPLAY Short & Feature
SHORT: Violette Hayes: A True Story
By Giancarlo Fusi
FEATURE: Hearts of Key West
By Billy Nahn and David Fleer
FOREIGN Feature
FEATURE: Bacurau
By Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles
DOCUMENTARY Feature
FEATURE: After Parkland
By Emily Taguchi & Jake Lefferman
FLORIDA Feature
FEATURE: A Name Without A Place
By Kenny Riches
LGBT Feature
FEATURE: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
By Celine Sciamma
CRITICS AWARD
FEATURE: Atlantics
By Mati Diop
AUDIENCE AWARD
FEATURE: Waves
By Trey Edward Shults