The 2018 MY HERO International Film Festival Winners.

Complete Winners List - Click on Title to View the Film

Environmental

• 1st PlaceLast Stand - The Vanishing Caribou Rainforest (Trailer)
• 1st PlacePROTECTING THE AMAZON BY ADVANCING INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
• 2nd PlaceLiving with the Oceans
• 2nd PlacePOKO
• 3rd PlaceTani

Music Video Award

• 1st PlaceINVISIBLE
• 1st PlaceVulnerable Rally | Rise
• 2nd PlaceSo Alone
• 3rd PlaceHailstorm

Narrative

• 1st PlaceHigh Chaparral
• 2nd PlaceWalking with Reality
• 3rd PlaceA Drop in the Ocean

Arts Heroes

• 1st PlaceArt for Peace
• 2nd PlaceNico Castro: The Next American B-boy
• 3rd PlaceThe Hustle: Life of Subway Performers

High School

Save my School

Destiny Brown

Wide Angle Youth Media

College Documentary

• 1st PlaceThe Toothmans
• 2nd PlaceThreads of Hope
• 2nd PlaceSuryabata Pani - Solar Water
• 3rd PlaceThreads

College Narrative

• 1st PlaceMumpsimus and Halcyon Discord
• 2nd PlaceHideaway
• 2nd PlaceHero Complex
• 3rd PlaceLaurie's Day

Documentary

• 1st PlaceLouis’ Story: Child Soldier to Role Model
• 2nd PlaceGloria's Call
• 3rd PlaceThe Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara

Educational Heroes

• 1st PlaceCharles Ofori Anthem
• 2nd PlaceA Shot At Success
• 2nd PlaceMayan Dreams Through Education
• 3rd PlaceThe Flying Book
• 3rd PlaceGirls Education in Ghana

Elementary School

• 1st PlaceThe Wong's Wordless World
• 2nd PlaceSultana Call to Action

Experimental

• 1st PlaceStill I Rise
• 2nd PlaceIdle No More
• 3rd PlaceNative American Women

Health Heroes

• 1st PlaceA Moment of Compassion
• 2nd Placemothers2mothers: Chancy
• 3rd PlaceUnik

High School Documentary

• 1st PlaceFrom AIDS to Advice: LGBTQ+ Seniors Tell Their Stories
• 1st PlaceDreamers
• 2nd PlaceĀmrikā
• 2nd PlaceGuatemalans and their Government
• 2nd PlaceThe Fabric of America
• 3rd PlaceBelow the Surface

High School Experimental

• 1st PlacePlayas de Tijuana
• 2nd PlaceSharing Tranquility
• 3rd PlaceNature Poem

High School Narrative

• 1st PlaceThe Magic Power
• 2nd PlaceUnder Pressure
• 3rd PlaceThe Choice
• 3rd PlaceOn Hold

High School PSA

• 1st PlaceHoodies UP
• 2nd PlaceWhat Do You Reach For?
• 3rd PlaceWe're Here to Listen

Human Rights

• 1st PlaceBeyond Boko Haram
• 2nd PlaceThe Blood is at the Doorstep - Trailer
• 3rd PlaceThe Belly Dancer Donning a Beard to Protest LGBT Abuse in Egypt

Overcoming Obstacles

• 1st PlaceThe Story of Life
• 2nd PlaceWe Will Overcome
• 3rd PlaceRaakh Ko Dhua
• 3rd PlaceKim Phuc - excerpt from The Sunrise Storyteller

Animation

• 1st PlaceDrops
• 1st PlaceSADAKO's Prayer
• 2nd PlaceFæring
• 3rd PlaceBLOOM
• 3rd PlaceWings

Documentary

• 1st PlaceLouis’ Story: Child Soldier to Role Model
• 2nd PlaceGloria's Call
• 3rd PlaceThe Mauritania Railway: Backbone of the Sahara

Professional Portrait of an Individual

• 1st PlaceThe Last Straw
• 2nd PlaceLook Up
• 2nd PlaceLooking After Our Country
• 3rd PlaceThunderbird

Professional Portrait of an Organization

• 1st PlaceFreedom Education Project Puget Sound
• 2nd PlaceLaguna Beach Community Clinic - Then & Now
• 3rd PlaceThe Lakota Waldorf School

PSA

• 1st PlaceAnti-Bullying Video
• 1st PlaceThe UN Treaty Bodies
• 2nd PlaceWATERMAN

Women’s Rights

• 1st PlaceEducate Girls
• 2nd PlaceMadre e Hija
• 3rd PlaceFemale Genital Mutilation
• 3rd PlaceWomen Are Gold

Student Animation

• 1st PlaceHold the Sun in Your Hands: The Erika Jacoby Story
• 2nd PlaceBeginning of Community
• 3rd PlaceAnne Frank's Story

Student/Mentor

• 1st PlaceGray Areas
• 2nd PlaceVoid
• 3rd PlaceSincretismo
• 3rd PlaceMi Granito de Arena (My Little Grain of Sand)

Trailer

• 1st PlaceZUZANA: MUSIC IS LIFE (Trailer)
• 2nd PlaceThank You For the Rain Trailer
• 3rd PlaceUnder the Husk Trailer

Middle School

• 1st PlaceRaye Montague's Life of Breaking Barriers and Shattering Glass Ceilings
• 2nd PlaceEmpowered Women
• 3rd PlaceDistracted

Humanitarian

• 1st PlaceHigh Chaparral
• 2nd PlaceWalking with Reality
• 2nd PlaceA Drop in the Ocean

You can find all the winning films at MYHERO.com/Winners

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