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Crystal Heart
Award Winners

Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait; Producer/Director/Writer: Patrick Donohew

Growing up in Appalachia, seven strong willed and colorful women endure personal hardships while building the bonds that hold their family together. 2001 Crystal Heart Award winner

Heartland Extras
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Love in the Ruins; Producers: Marie Burnett, Scott Derrickson; Director: Scott Derrickson; Writer: Scott Derrickson

Love in the Ruins, is a surreal tale of mystery and evil. Two demons participate in unfolding events at an L.A. gas station. With songs by Led Zeppelin, this film explores the lives of several people who must test their own courage. 1996 Official Selection

Crystal Heart
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A Place Called Home: An Adoption Story; Producer/Director/Writer: Thomas Gaunt

The Gaunt family’s struggle to adopt nine siblings in the face of overwhelming odds is the focus of this Indianapolis-based documentary. 2004 Crystal Heart Award winner

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Nellie: A Life Worth Living; Producer: Jeff Martin; Director: Michael McNamara

John “Nellie” Nelson is disabled by arthrogryposis, yet he inspires hundreds of young people on one of the most successful Division III football programs in the nation. 2004 Crystal Heart Award winner

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Wednesday; Producer: Joel Nassan; Director: Joel Nassan; Writer: Kyle Ferris

Wednesday is as good as any other day to be lonely in Los Angeles. Share in this sweet and inspiring “day-in-the-life” of Roger as he photographs his every move for a mysterious purpose. 2006 Crystal Heart Award winner

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Winter/En Hiver; Producer: Andy Collen; Director: Andy Collen; Writers: Amy Blumenstein-Collen, Andy Collen

This stunning animated film is about a young girl who endures life in the face of anticipatory loss. Her story reminds us that even during hardship, human nature will rise to the occasion and give us the strength we need. 2005 Crystal Heart Award winner

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Breakfast With Mary & Chet; Producer/Director: Jerry Whitworth

With dry wit and down-home charm, Mary and Chet reflect on their life, love, marriage and faith after 60 years together. 2004 Crystal Heart Award winner

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Diary of a City Priest; Producers: Ed Givnish, Eugene Martin, Lisa Rosenstein, Cate Wilson; Director/Writer: Eugene Martin

Diary of a City Priest is an inside look at the emotional and spiritual struggles and joys of an extraordinary priest serving one of Philadelphia’s toughest neighborhoods. 2001 Crystal Heart Award winner

Crystal Heart
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A Mind of Her Own; Producer/Director/Writer: Owen Carey Jones

Sophie dreams of attaining world-class achievement in gymnastics and becoming a doctor. When injury prevents her from pursuing the first goal, she learns just how much it will take to succeed at the second. 2005 Crystal Heart Award winner

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Window; Producers: Ryan Berg, Drew Rothmund; Director: Varda Hardy; Writers: Patrick S. Bennett, Varda Hardy

Ailing veteran Ralph (Academy Award® winner Louis Gossett, Jr.), once a commanding officer, is stuck in a hospital room and will do anything to get the bed by the window. 2006 Crystal Heart Award winner

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Award Winners

Casanova at Fifty; Producers: Bre Hamilton, Jody Thompson; Director/Writer: Bruce Marchfelder

Morris Casanova is faced with the decision of his life—whether or not to confess his love to a waitress at the local diner. 2004 Crystal Heart Award winner

Crystal Heart
Award Winners

Full Circle; Producers: Ross McDonnell, Karol Sadleir; Director/Writer: Simon Fitzmaurice

Set in Ireland, Full Circle tells the intertwining stories of a woman and a man who work across the street from one another. 2004 Crystal Heart Award winner

Heartland Extras

2006 Pieces of Crystal

Each year, the Crystal Heart Awards Gala begins with a look at past and present Crystal Heart Award winners. Get a glimpse of the cinematic moments that create some of the most moving, inspiring moments from Festival history. Created by Innovative

Heartland Extras

Promo Video - Heartland Film Festival

Learn what drives Heartland and what the Festival brings to the growing list of attendees. Most importantly, discover how Heartland's desire to truly impact filmmaking for the better is making a difference. Produced by Covenant Productions, Anderson, IN

Heartland Extras

2006 Crystal Heart Awards Gala

Carlos Diaz (Extra Correspondent) serves as emcee for the 2006 Crystal Heart Awards ceremony as filmmakers and guests from around the world gather to honor the visionaries and films at the 2006 Festival.

Heartland Extras

Trailers - Truly Moving Pictures

Movie trailers from Heartland's list of Truly Moving Pictures, which recognizes and honors filmmakers whose work explores the human journey by expressing hope and emphasizing the best of the human spirit.

2007 Film Festival

Bella

Sooner or later everyone of us will face an irreversible moment that will change our lives forever. Bella is a true love story about how one day in New York City changed the lives of three people - a cook, a waitress and a child - forever.

2007 Film Festival

Man In the Chair

Cameron, a troubled teenager, convinces an 85-year old man from the Motion Picture Retirement Home to help him make a student film. The unlikely pair forms an amazing friendship as Cameron learns what filmmaking is about from masters of old Hollywood.

2007 Film Festival

Lars and the Real Girl

Ryan Gosling stars as the loveable introvert, Lars, in this heartfelt comedy. After years of near solitude, Lars invites his internet friend, Bianca, to visit. But his family and friends are stunned because Bianca is actually a life-size doll.

2007 Film Festival

Doubletime

Featuring astounding acrobatics, lightning speed and international competition, Doubletime follows two disparate competitive jump roping teams - one suburban and one inner-city - as they train to compete against each other for the very first time.

2007 Film Festival

Still Life

A celebrated international photo-journalist returns to the US after a harrowing assignment in Iraq to find that the job has taken its toll on both his mental state and family. This story is of one man's search for redemption on the moral battlefield.

2007 Film Festival

The Little Gorilla

In the shadows of looming New York City skyscrapers, a little boy must unchain the King Kong within and overcome his fears of a tall and scary jungle gym. Producer/Director/Writer: Harry Kellerman

2007 Film Festival

August Rush

A charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) have an encounter one night above New York’s Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, orphaned by circumstance.

Crystal Heart
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Tackle Box; Producer/Director/Writer Matthew Mebane

An elderly couple has fished the low country waters for decades. When they are separated by death, the story turns on the lingering effects of the old women's passion for fishing, a love some powerful that leads a group of losers to a peculiar redemption.

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Burying the Past: Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre; Producer/Director/Writer: Brian Patrick

On September 11, 1857, 120 men, women and children from Arkansas were massacred under a white flag by Utah Mormons. Through the testimony of a little girl who survived the tragedy and the accidental discovery and forensic investigation of the victims’ bones, descendants struggle with religious intolerance, vengeance and forgiveness.