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<a data-cke-saved-href="https://mailchi.mp/78061830 KEY WEST FILM FEST 2019 WINNERS

Key West Film Festival has 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 Best LGBT Feature.

Other winners include: Bacurau by Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles for Best Foreign Feature and  Atlantics by Mati Diop won the Critics Award.

During the festival Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce and legendary actor Tom Skerritt (Alien) received prestigious Golden Key Awards.

Arianne Phillips received the Golden Key Award for Costume Design.


*****KWFF 2019 AWARDS******

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
 

ABOUT THE KEY WEST FILM FESTIVAL 2019

The Key West Film Festival — where passion meets paradise — is an annual celebration of contemporary cinema in a historically rich, artistically vibrant, and culturally diverse island community. 

KWFF strives to showcase the best of Florida filmmaking talent, while highlighting visiting filmmakers and industry leaders through discussions and workshops, with access to some of the biggest names in the film business. The festival also looks to support the next generation of local student filmmakers with scholarships and other key awards.

The Festival’s Critics Focus program, enhanced with the juried Critics’ Prize, together with the Costume Design Focus, marks the Key West Film Festival as a vital stop on the awards season’s fall festival circuit, with programs designed to support film criticism and craft while giving audiences greater context and perspective through public conversations guided by expert voices. Key publications represented in KWFF Critic’s Focus program and Critic’s Prize at the festival include: Los Angeles Times, Vulture.com, Rolling Stone, Indiewire, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, TimeOut NY, RogerEbert.com and more.

Past guests have included: Burt Reynolds, John Waters, Mariel Hemingway, Harmony Korine, Marisa Tomei, Paul Haggis, Alan Cumming, Sebastian Junger, Tom Berenger, Paul Verhoeven, Billy Corben, Terry George, Corey Glover, Steven Bauer, Anson Mount, Celia Weston, Angus MacLachlan, Judy Blume, Ondi Timoner, Bob Wisdom, Val Lauren, Anne O’Shea, Lois Smith, Mark Bridges and many more.

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