Very proud of the KCFF Local Shorts Award Winners, WINSOM, Director: Braden Dragomir and LONELY COUNTRY, Director: James Perry.

Best Local Short – Let’s Get Local

Finalists

WINSOM (Winner, pictured above on the left)
Director: Braden Dragomir

BIRD HOSTAGE
Director: Lauren Andrews

EMPTY NEST
Director: Chris Deacon

Jury

Ava Brown-Mantha, former KCFF programmer and former Executive Assistant at the Indigenous Screen Office

Peter Hendra, reporter and entertainment writer at the Kingston Whig Standard

Pat Mullen, publisher at POV Magazine

Best Local Short – The Local Motion

Finalists

I KEEP BUMPING INTO CANDY MALDONADO
Director: Luke Black

MY CONVERSATION WITH ELLE
Director: Nicholas Patrick Afchain

LONELY COUNTRY (Winner, picuted above right)
Director: James Perry

Jury

Victoria Pike, Director of Business Affairs at Blue Ant Media

Nicola Luksic, senior producer of Ideas at CBC Radio

Rachel Ho, film critic and co-founder of The Asian Cut