To better reflect its mission to recognize films with impactful and uplifting messages, the Heartland Film Festival® has created a newly minted parent organization – Heartland Truly Moving PicturesTM. The name change, announced by President and CEO Jeffrey L. Sparks, highlights the organization’s industry award and watermark, the Heartland Truly Moving Picture Award, while at the same time re-defining its commitment to filmmakers, studios and distributors whose projects address challenging ...
Heartland Film Festival® is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2006 Festival poster design competition is Kyle Ragsdale of Indianapolis. Ragsdale’s watercolor piece, “Magical Movies,” will be unveiled along with this year’s Festival film and event lineup on September 7. “Heartland Film Festival would like to thank the many artists who submitted work into this year’s competition,” said Jeffrey L. Sparks, president of Heartland Film Festival. “There were many creative an...
The 14th annual Heartland Film Festival® concluded its nine-day run on Friday, October 21 with the announcement of the inaugural Audience Award winners and a sold-out screening of “Duma” with the film’s director and Academy Award® nominee Carroll Ballard (“The Black Stallion,” “Fly Away Home”). The 2005 Festival was a great success and brought another increase in attendance, despite a decrease in box office sales nationwide. An estimated 18,000 celebrated some of the year’s bes...
For the 14th consecutive year, Heartland Film Festival® celebrated and honored some of the world’s brightest and most ambitious filmmakers at the annual Crystal Heart Awards Ceremony at Conseco Fieldhouse on Saturday. Awards and more than $100,000 in cash prizes were presented to a record 24 Truly Moving PicturesSM. Heartland announced “End of the Spear” as the $50,000 grand prize winner for best dramatic feature and presented the award and cash prize to Producer Bill Ewing, Actor Louie L...
Heartland Is Off to the Races with Opening EventOne of the hottest actors in Hollywood will help kick off the 2005 Heartland Film Festival®, October 13-21 in Indianapolis. Award-winning actor Dakota Fanning along with director/screenwriter John Gatins will attend the Festival’s opening night premiere of DreamWorks’ “Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story.” Indianapolis is one of a few select stops on a cross-country tour to promote the film. Besides the Toronto International Film Festival, H...
14th Annual Fest Offers Nine Days of National & International Film Screenings, Events and Special GuestsFrom October 13-21, 2005 the 14th annual Heartland Film Festival® will again showcase the best Truly Moving Pictures in cinema from around the world. Heartland President Jeffrey L. Sparks announced the winning films and event lineup at the annual Crystal Heart Awards Announcement Celebration on Thursday. A record 23 films were selected as award winners from 558 submissions for best meeting He...
14th Annual Heartland Film Festival honors films that celebrate the best aspects of the human journey. For more than a decade, the goal of Heartland has remained the same: to make a positive impact on American culture through film and to encourage moviegoers to see life differently. Heartland Film Festival, a non-profit organization, was established in 1991 to recognize and honor filmmakers whose work explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values ...
