Congratulations to all of our 2017 Award Winners!

Best Kansas & Emerging Filmmaker Awards

• Best Emerging Student Award Documentary: Yellow, Director Rowyn Mottershead
• Best Emerging Student Award - Narrative: Reverse, Director Andrew Kivett
• Best Kansas Short Film Award - Documentary:  Dragtivists, Director, Savannah Rodgers
• Best Kansas Short Film Award -Narrative: Rabbits, Director Patrick Clement

Golden Strands Programming Awards

• Outstanding Cinematography:  Seat 25, CInematographer Joe Kaufman
• Outstanding Screenplay: Lucky, Screenwriters Logan Sparks & Drago Sumonja
• Best Editing: 20 Weeks, Editor David Hopper
• Outstanding Film Animation: Two Trains Runnin’
• Outstanding Rising Star: Simone Baker, Gook
• Outstanding Male Actor: Christopher Marquette, I Hate the Man in the Basement
• Outstanding Female Actor: Simone Nortman, For the Birds
• Outstanding Ensemble Cast:  Badsville, Ian McLaren, Benjamin Barrett, Tamara Duarte, Emilio Rivera, Robert Knepper
• Outstanding Courage in Filmmaking: City of Joy, Director, Madeleine Gavin
• Excellence in the Art of Filmmaking: Black Cop, Director, Cory Bowles
• Venus Award for the Teddie Barlow Outstanding Female Filmmaker: Skye Borgman, Forever ‘B’
• Outstanding First Feature: Whose Streets?, Directors,  Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
• Outstanding Documentary Short Film: Edith + Eddie, Director, Laura Checkoway
• Outstanding Narrative Short Film: Real Artist, Director,  Cameo Wood
• Outstanding Documentary Feature:  For Ahkeem, Directors,  Jeremy S. Levin, Landon Van Soest
• Outstanding Narrative Feature: Gook, Director Justin Chon

 
Audience Awards

• Audience Award Winning Short ($1,000 Cash Prize): GAME, Director, Jeannie Donohoe
• Audience Award for Award Winning Feature Documentary ($2,500 Cash Prize):  BIG SONIA, Directors, Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday
• Audience Award for Award Winning Feature Narrative ($2,500 Cash Prize): BOMB CITY, Director Jameson Brooks

Check out all the photos from the 15th annual Tallgrass Film Festival here. Passholders: remember to flash your pass at any Carlos O'Kelly's for the rest of the month for $4 Patron Jumbo Marg!