The 2025 winners 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

The 2024 winners are:
La Banyera (the Bathtub) a film by Sergi Marti Maltas and Saturday – La Cena (The Dinner) by Jesús Martínez “Nota”
The Inaugural Emerging Filmmaker Prize was awarded to: Ablaze a film by Danni Fenech

The Bathtub
The dinner
Ablaze

Our 2023 festival was a huge success with over 200 people attending and we are pleased to announce the below winners of the Jury Prize and the 2 People’s Choice Awards. People’s Choice voting was fierce with 3 films equally tied for second place on Friday night and only 1 vote determined the winner – it was that close!

The 2023 Jury Prize was awarded to Yellow a film by Elham Ehsas.

The 2023 People’s Choice winners are:
Friday – Yellow by Elham Ehsas
Saturday – A Simple F*cking Gesture by Jesse Shamata

People’s choice Friday
People’s choice Saturday

Some of our past winners and films are shown below.

People’s choice – 2023
Jury Prize 2023
2022 winning film
2019 Jasper Hill Jury prize - Brendan Pinches - "Be You T.Fool"
2019 Jasper Hill Jury prize – Brendan Pinches – “Be You T.Fool”
Dan Agdag, maker of "Lost Property Office"
2019 filmmaker Dan Agdag – “Lost Property Office”
2019 film
John Sheedy's "Mrs McCutcheon" won both the Jury Prize and the Peoples' Choice Award
2018 John Sheedy – “Mrs McCutcheon” – won both the Jury Prize and the Peoples’ Choice Award
2016 Jury prize – Bec Peniston-Bird – Goodnight Sweetheart
2015 Grey Bull Peoples choice Winner – Eddy Bell
2015 Peoples Choice Grey Bull
2014 Jury Prize winners Miranda Edmonds and the crew – Tango Underpants
2014 Tango Underpants
2014 Makeover
Love at 1st sight
2013 Jury prize winner – Love at 1st sight
2013 Peoples Choice – Lemonade Stand
Past winners of the Heathcote Film Festivals from 2019, 2018 & beyond
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