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...

The 11th Annual International Family Film Festival is a Wrap! The Festival officially closed for the year on October 1, 2005 at the Valencia Hyatt Hotel where over 150 atendees honored Henry Selick with the Friz Award and Lou Florimonte with the Film Excellence Award. The Award Show crowd also celebrated the Finalist Films and the Winning Films in each of the Festival's categories. This award-winning group of films were selected from the 84 films in competition. The Finalists and the Winners ...