The 21st annual Tallgrass Film Festival set for October 5-8, in downtown Wichita showcases more than 184 films.
The Judgment (2023)
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The People’s Joker Opens 21st Tallgrass Film Festival Lineup of 180+ Films
The People’s Joker
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A WAR, LANDFILL HARMONIC, SONITA Voted Audience Award Winners at Portland International Film Festival
The Audience Award winners have been revealed for the 2016 Portland International Film Festival. Earning top audience accolades for Best Narrative Feature is A WAR (Denmark) directed by Tobias Lindholm. (pictured above)
SONITA (Iran) directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami and LANDFILL HARMONIC (United States) directed by Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley tied for the Best Documentary Feature award.
LIZA THE FOX-FAIRY (Hungary) director Károly Ujj Mészáros takes home the audience award for Best New Director Award. (pictured above)
This year’s Best Short Film Award goes to director Dawn Jones Redstone for her film SISTA IN THE BROTHERHOOD (Portland). Redstone’s film is also the recipient of the Oregon Short Film Award.
Narrative Features
1. A WAR / Denmark / Tobias Lindholm *best narrative feature
2. THE FENCER / Finland / Klaus Härö
3. LIZA THE FOX-FAIRY / Hungary / Károly Ujj Mészáros
4. RAMS / Iceland / Grímur Hákonarson
5. THE JUDGMENT / Bulgaria / Stephan Komandorev
6. LET THEM COME / Algeria / Salem Brahimi
7. LAST CAB TO DARWIN / Australia / Jeremy Sims
8. THE THIN YELLOW LINE / Mexico / Celso García
9. DHEEPAN / France / Jacques Audiard
10. MARSHLAND / Spain / Alberto Rodríguez
Documentary Features
1. SONITA / Iran / Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami
(tied with) LANDFILL HARMONIC / United States / Brad Allgood and Graham Townsley *best documentary feature
2. A GOOD AMERICAN / Austria, US / Friedrich Moser
2. OPEN YOUR EYES / Portland / Irene Taylor Brodsky
4. ROBERT BLY: A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY / US / Haydn Reiss
5. 50 FEET FROM SYRIA / Portland / Skye Fitzgerald
6. FOR GRACE / US / Kevin Pang and Mark Helenowski
7. THE PEARL BUTTON / Chile / Patricio Guzmán
8. IRAQI ODYSSEY / Switzerland / Samir
9. THRU YOU PRINCESS / Israel / Ido Haar
Best New Directors
1. LIZA THE FOX-FAIRY / Hungary / Károly Ujj Mészáros *best new director
2. THE THIN YELLOW LINE / Mexico / Celso García
3. FOR GRACE / US / Kevin Pang and Mark Helenowski
Shorts
1. SISTA IN THE BROTHERHOOD / Portland / Dawn Jones Redstone *best short film
2. HOW I DIDN’T BECOME A PIANO PLAYER / UK / Tommaso Pitta
3. ROAD TRIP / Germany / Xaver Xylophon
Oregon Shorts
1. SISTA IN THE BROTHERHOOD / Portland / Dawn Jones Redstone *best Oregon short film
2. ONE WEEK / Portland / Rollyn Stafford
3. PEACE IN THE VALLEY / Portland / Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri
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THE JUDGEMENT Bulgarian Oscar Entry Wins Best Film at 2015 Heartland Film Festival
The 2015 Heartland Film Festival which ran October 16 to 25, 2015, announced its full slate of winners. “The Judgment” (pictured above) Bulgarian entry in the foreign-language film category of the 2016 Academy Awards® wins $45,000 Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature. “Romeo is Bleeding” wins $45,000 Grand Prize for Best Documentary Feature, “The Way of Tea” wins $5,000 Grand Prize for Best Narrative Short and “The 100 Years Show” wins $5,000 Grand Prize for Best Documentary Short.
The Heartland Film Festival has earned the special designation of being a qualifying festival for the Annual Academy Awards® within the Short Films category. This means that the winner of the Grand Prize for Best Narrative Short Film, “The Way of Tea,” directed by Marc Fouchard, will qualify for consideration in the Live Action Short Subject category of the Annual Academy Awards®.
The 2015 Heartland Film Festival winners include:
$45,000 Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature
“The Judgment,” directed by Stephan Komandarev (Bulgaria)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCAYsrl37s
$45,000 Grand Prize for Best Documentary Feature
“Romeo is Bleeding,” directed by Jason Zeldes (USA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjdh-TmRQCQ
$5,000 Grand Prize for Best Narrative Short
Underwritten by Heartland Film Endowment’s Sparks Vision Award
“The Way of Tea,” directed by Marc Fouchard (France)
$5,000 Grand Prize for Best Documentary Short
Underwritten by Heartland Film Endowment’s Sparks Vision Award
“The 100 Years Show,” directed by Alison Klayman (USA)
$5,000 Best Premiere for Narrative Feature
“Borderless,” directed by Amir Hossein Asgari (Iran)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVF7DtgDDG4
$5,000 Best Premiere for Documentary Feature
“Big Voice,” directed by Varda Bar-Kar (USA)
$5,000 Indiana Spotlight Winner
“Citizen Teklit,” directed by Tim Taylor (USA)
$3,000 Summer White Lynch Memorial Award Winner – High School Film Competition Grand Prize
Underwritten by Gary D. & Marlene Cohen
“This Home Is Not Empty,” directed by Carol Nguyen (Canada)
$2,000 prizes for the Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart Awards
“The Heart Thief,” directed by Ella Rubeli (Australia)
“Leidi,” directed by Simon Mesa Soto (Columbia, UK)
Audience Choice Award Winner, Narrative Feature
“Marie’s Story,” directed by Jean-Pierre Améris (France)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5qJv_I7K6M
Audience Choice Award Winner, Documentary Feature
“dream/killer,” directed by Andrew Jenks (USA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU1hl5rgAI4
Audience Choice Award Winner, Narrative Short
“Moving On,” directed by Marcia Fields and Mike Spear (USA)
Audience Choice Award Winner, Documentary Short
“Teen Press,” directed by T.C. Johnstone (USA)
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Complete List of Films + Trailers for 81 Countries in Competition for 2015 Foreign Language Film Oscar
Eighty-one countries have submitted films for consideration in the 2015 Foreign Language Film Oscar category for the 88th Academy Awards.
