Congrats 2022 Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2022 Deep in the Heart Film Festival Award Winners

Genre Awards

  • Best Drama Short: Kalamiti

  • Best Horror/Thriller Short: Cutter

  • Best Documentary Short: Riding the Shadow

  • Best Fantasy/Sci-Fi Short:  Telos

  • Best Family Short:  Nickels

  • Best Comedy Short:  We All Die Alone

  • Best Music Video: Bones

 

Craft Awards

  • Best Director - Short: Vaishali Naik - 7 Star Dinosor Entertainment

  • Best Editing - Short: Dream Carriers

  • Best Cinematography - Short: Specter of Weeping Hill

  • Best Comedic Performance - Short: Joe Grisaffi - Joe Returns a Video

  • Best Performance - Dramatic Short: Rhona Rees - FREYA

  • Best Screenplay - Short: Cruise

  • Screenplay Contest - Best Script: The Audition

  • Screenplay Contest - Honorable Mention:  Blood Spattered Pearls

 

Festival Awards

  • Best Texas - Short: First Impressions

  • Best United States - Short: Out of Tune

  • Best Student - Short: Saving Salvador

  • Best Foreign - Short: Kafkas

  • Special Jury Award: Ill Fated

  • Special Jury Award: Jettison 

  • Special Jury Award: Man Seeking Man 

  • Special Jury Award: Where the Winds Die

  • Best Short Film: Bainne

  • Audience Award - Short Film: The Tale of the Daughter

 

Feature Film Awards

  • Best Director: Micah Stathis - The Sisters Karras

  • Best Performance: Juliet Landau - A Place Among the Dead

  • Best Documentary Feature: One Pint at a Time

  • Best Feature Film: One Pint at a Time

  • Audience Award: One Pint at a Time

Nominations

Shorts Genre Award Nominees


Shorts Craft award Nominees


Shorts Festival award Nominees


Feature Festival Award Nominees

Awards Brunch

VIP Pass holders and Filmmakers are invited to join us at the Waco Heart of Texas Awards Brunch. We’ll celebrate the end of the festival with free Breakfast Tacos and we will announce the winners of these awards. Details available here.

 

Please note ALL OFFICIAL SELECTIONS are also in consideration for the festival Special Jury Awards AND the Audience Award.