2026 Festival – our 14th – is completed.
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2025 Festival – our 13th – is completed.
2 great nights held in 2025 – 280 people attended. The Winners for 2025 are
Jury Prize, People’s Choice for Friday & Saturday – A Guide to Dining out in Nairobi directed by Hugh Mitton
Emerging Filmmaker – The Mediator directed by Roman Anastasios
2024 Festival – our 12th.
The 12th annual Heathcote Short Film Festival was held over the weekend of 13-14th September, 2024 with over 230 people attending across the 2 nights.
We are pleased to announce the below winners of the Jury Prize, Emerging Film Maker and the 2 People’s Choice Awards.
The 2024 Jury Prize was awarded to La Banyera (the Bathtub) a film by Sergi Marti Maltas
The Inaugural Emerging Filmmaker Prize was awarded to: Ablaze a film by Danni Fenech
Attendees at each night were given the ability to vote for their favourite film. The People’s Choice voting was fierce with only 1 vote determining the winner on the Friday night – it was that close!
The winners are: Friday – La Banyera (the Bathtub) a film by Sergi Marti Maltas and Saturday – La Cena (The Dinner) by Jesús Martínez “Nota”
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