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We Are Pleased to Announce the Official Selections For The
17th Annual
ReelHeART International Film And Screenplay Festival
2021

Last  Update 23:22(EST) July 01

 Best Music Video Category

• Big Yellow Taxi – Dir. Matt Mahurin, featuring Les Stroud – Canada
• How Long – Dir. Matt Mahurin, featuring Les Stroud – Canada
• Infected – Dir. Alfonso ‘Cronopio’ Moreno – Spain
• When I Was Human – Dir. Thomas Florek – United States

Best Student/Thesis Film Category

• In Loving Memory – Dir. Caroline Klepper – United States
• Promise Me – Dir. James Austen, Dir.Yujun Chen – China, United States
• Snowball – Dir. Paul Rivet – USA
• Stadt. Land. Baum – Dir. Felix Friedlein – Germany
• The Mirror – Dir. Leila Murton Poole – France, Australia
• Why We Are Unhappy In Cities (我们在城市不快乐原因分析) – Dir. Zhao Gang – China
• Why We Fly – Dir. Allie Marsh – United States
• Wild Grass – Dir. Shan Wu – Taiwan

Best Animated Film Category

• A New Vision – Dir. Michael Strauss – United States
• Kenya’s Symphony – Dir. Carlos Douglas Jr – United States

Best WebSeries, Webisode or New Media Category

• Derek And Daisy Do… – Dir. Gareth Brierley – United Kingdom
• My Boyfriend The Boogeyman – Dir. Nikhail Asnani – United States
• Next Stop – Dir. Jabbari Weekes, Dir. Tichaona Tapambwa, Dir. Phil Witmer – Canada
• Noir Brothers – Dir. Daniele Gangemi – Italy

Best Experimental Film

• MilkSkin – Dir. Sarah Derendinger – Germany
  
• Ophelia – Dir. Hadi Moussally – France
• The Mechanics Of Intimacy –  Dir. Benjamin Filinson – United States

Best LGBTQ Film

• The Acrobat (L’Acrobate) – Dir. Rodrigue Jean – Quebec, Canada
  
• A Chance – Dir. Jillie Simon, Dir. Ange Arabatzis – United States
• The Lonely Prince –  Dir. Shivin, Dir. Sunny – India

Best First Time Filmmaker

• Jiyan (La Vie) –  Dir. Otis Birdy – Switzerland, Syria
• Shellfish –  Dir. Hunter Hopewell – United States

Best Documentary Short Film Category

• 5 x 7 – Dir. Michele Citoni – Italy
• Expiration Term Of Service – Benjamin Kegan – United States

Best Documentary Feature Film Category

• A Stray Dog’s Ruff Life – Dir. Tom McPhee – United States
• Can Art Stop A Bullet: William Kelly’s Big Picture – Dir. Fiona Cochrane – Australia
• Dave Not Coming Back – Dir. Jonah Malak – Australia, Canada, South Africa
• When All That’s Left Is Love – Dir. Eric Gordon, Dir. Marilyn Gordon

Best Dance Film Category

• Birds – Dir. John Degois – France
• Between Silences – Dir. Rich Ferri, Dir. Ali Kenner Brodsky – United States
• Pandemia – Dir. Katerina Giannakopoulou – Germany
• Statu Quo – Dir. Lamia Chraibi, Dir. Marion Chuniad Lacau – Canada
• Sunglow Gecko – Dir. Kendra Epik – Canada
• Teeter – Dir. Mackenzie Carlson – United States
• The Escape (Побег) – Dir. Liudmila Komrakova – Russian Federation
• Toporzeł – Dir. Iwona Pasińska – Poland
• Triggered – Dir. Ariyan Johnson – United States
• When Snow Falls – Dir. Anthony Morigerato – United States

Best Short Film Category

• Alina – Dir. Rami Kodeih, Dir. Nora Mariana – United States
  
• Family Affairs – Dir. Chai Yee Wei – Singapore
• Hide & Sniff – Dir. Kousuke Hishinuma – Japan
• How To Fall In Love In A Brothel – Dir. Sunhui Chang – Korea
• K.A.R.E.N – Dir. Quinton Guyton – United States
• Making Peace – Dir. Judah Ray – United States
• My Dinner With Werner – Dir. Maverick Moore – United States
• One Bedroom, One Bath – Dir. Mischa Livingstone – United States
• When The Music Changes – Dir. Lakshmi Devy – United States, India

Films Below Will Also Compete For Best Feature Film Category

Best Horror/Thriller Film Category

• Companion – John Darbonne – United States

Best International Film Category

• Manhattan Odyssey (Menhetenska odiseja) – Dir. Mario Vrbancic – Croatia
• Mambo Man – Dir. Mo Fini, Dir. Edesio Alejandro – Cuba
• State Of Agitation (قلتلك خلص)  – Dir. Elie Khalife – Lebanon

Best LGBTQ Film

• The Acrobat (L’Acrobate) – Dir. Rodrigue Jean – Quebec, Canada

Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy Film

• Veneer – Maximillian Aguiar – United States

Screenplay and TV Pilot – Official Selections

Top Short Screenplays (alphabetical order)

• Monster
  Screenwriter, Kurt Choate – United States
• Things Misnamed
  Screenwriter, T.J. Barkwill – United States
• You’ll Pay for This
  Screenwriter, Shaun Ireland – United States
  

Top Feature Screenplays (alphabetical order)

• Consent
  Screenwriter, Frank J. Avella – United States
  
• Indian Summer
  Screenwriter, Madhu Powar Garg – United States
• The Man In Yellow
  Screenwriter, Conor Frank Gleeson – Canada

Top TV Pilots (alphabetical order)

• Saturn’s Return
  Screenwriter, Sam Callahan – United States
• The Crime Readers
  Screenwriter, Devin O’Neill – United States
• Wolfe Pack
  Screenwriter, Lindsay Heiman – United States

Each Official Screenplay and TV Pilot Selection will compete for
BEST SCRIPT during ReelHeART Festival Week
(July 05-12, 2021) which will be online due to Covid19. Congratulations!

We wish to also Highlight and Congratulate each of our Semi Finalists (SF) and
Finalists (F) for their Hard Work and Creativity…

Films and Documentaries – Finalists Only

• (F) The Contenders
  Director, Jean-Paul Botelho – Quebec, Canada
• (F) Get Lost In Columbia
  Directors, Melanie de Klerk, Sophie Lui, Ron Coldham – BC, Canada
• (F) Ra’s Metanoia
  Director Ram Alladi – Indie, United States
• (F) Mind Exchange Music Presents:
  Layne Marie Williams The Adventures of Ms Glitch Live Film Score
  Director, Donny Walker – United States

Short Screenplay

• (F) Deadly Valentine
  Screenwriter, Georgina Cowan-Turner – United Kingdom
• (F) Limited Freedom
  Screenwriter, Meital Cohen Navarro – United States
• (SF) D.F.W
  Screenwriter, Deirdre Patterson – United States
• (SF) Reject
  Screenwriter, Lara Amersey – Canada

Feature Screenplay

• (F) A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
  Screenwriter, Ryan ‘Mickey’ Shults – United States
• (F) Solomon’s Train
  Screenwriter, Troy Perkins – United States
• (F) Marry F Kill
  Screenwriter, Bree Wyrd – United States
• (F) Wilde West
  Screenwriters, Jennifer Winter , Joe Gayton – United States
• (SF) Stronger When She’s Broken
  Screenwriter, SherLann D. Moore – United States
• (SF) Visceral Fatherland
  Screenwriter, LeLe Park – United States