past festival award winners
2009 Heartland Film Festival
$100,000 Grand Prize Award (Dramatic Feature)
Welcome
$25,000 Award (Documentary Feature)
P-Star Rising
$10,000 Vision Award (Short)
Bicycle (Jitensha)
Pioneering Spirit Award
Dr. Ed Catmull, Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and President of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios
Crystal Heart Award winners
Acholiland, After The Storm, Bicycle, Big John, The Eagle Hunter’s Son, Entre Nos, The Final Inch, For My Father, Kavi, Marbles With Thoreau, P-Star Rising, Rough Aunties, Sergio, Seven Minutes in Heaven, Side by Side, Small Collection, Welcome
Audience Choice Award winners
Like Dandelion Dust and A Shine of Rainbows (Dramatic Feature), After the Storm (Documentary Feature), Grande Drip (Short Film)
2008 Heartland Film Festival
$100,000 Grand Prize Award (Dramatic Feature)
Captain Abu Raed
$25,000 Award (Documentary Feature)Pray the Devil Back to Hell
$10,000 Vision Award (Short)
Victoria
Pioneering Spirit Award Bob Berney, Marketing and Distribution Executive
Crystal Heart Award winners15-40, Amal, As We Forgive, Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, Captain Abu Raed, Gaining Ground, Karla’s World, Montaña de Luz, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Second Hand Wedding, Slow, Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains, Terra, Victoria, The Wall, War Child, The Watchmaker’s Son
Audience Choice Award winnersCaptain Abu Raed (Dramatic Feature), A Ripple of Hope (Documentary Feature), Go (Short Film)
2007 Heartland Film Festival
$100,000 Grand Prize Award (Dramatic Feature)
Bella
$25,000 Award (Documentary Feature)
Hear and Now
$10,000 Vision Award (Short)
Validation
Pioneering Spirt Award
Filmmakers Bobby Bailey, Laren Poole and Jason Russell
Invisible Children; Rough Cut
Crystal Heart Award Winners
Bella, Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, Doubletime, Hear and Now, Lars and the Real Girl, The Little Gorilla, Man in the Chair, Mia Sarah, Monsoon, Nanking, New Year Baby, Owl and the Sparrow, Still Life, Validation, War/Dance, The Windfisherman
Audience Choice Awards
Man in the Chair (Dramatic Feature), Hear and Now (Documentary), Validation (Short)
2006 Heartland Film Festival
$100,000 Grand Prize Award (Dramatic Feature)
Beyond the Gates (formerly Shooting Dogs)
$25,000 Award (Documentary Feature)
The Hip Hop Project
$10,000 Vision Award (Short)
Shade
Pioneering Spirit Award
Debra Martin Chase, Martin Chase Productions
Crystal Heart Award winners
Beyond the Gates, The Cross and the Towers, Emily’s Song, Forgiving Dr. Mengele, The Hip Hop Project, Ithuteng {never stop learning}, I Want to Be a Pilot, A Man Named Pearl , Mother of Mine, Outlaw Trail, Queen of Cactus Cove, Secret of the Cave, Shade, Sirah, The Ultimate Gift, Wednesday, Window
Audience Choice Award winners
Beyond the Gates (Dramatic Feature), A Man Named Pearl (Documentary Feature), I Want to Be a Pilot (Short)