2021
Awards and Winners
BEST OF FEST AWARDS
Best of Fest, Best Documentary Film, Best Sustainable Agriculture Film & Audience Choice Award:
Green Nettle by Freddie Reed & Nick Lear, South Africa
Best UHCL Student Documentary Film & Best Local submission:
Glass Crushin’ at Stella Roberts Recycling Center by Dustin Konrad, USA
Best Animation Film:
Painting by Numbers by Radheya Jegatheva, Australia
Best Video Art Film:
The Earth is no Spaceship by Krista Steinke
Best Extremely Short Film:
Reborn by Peri Gandia, Greece
Best Experimental Documentary Film:
Dancing With Rainbow by Hassan Mokhtari, Iran
Best Sustainable Cities Film:
Wildlife in our Backyard by William Freund, USA
Best Social Sustainability Film:
The Sol Collector by Chris Tello & Richard M. Kates, USA
Best Resilience Film:
Alone beneath the Northern Lights by Valentin Boitel-Denyset, France
Best Sustainable Outdoor Fun Film:
Remove the Trash by Alexey Protsencko, Russian Federation
Best High School Student Film:
Beautiful Houston by Juslyn Dhingra & Harrison Boyd, Klein High School, USA
Best UHCL Student Video Art Film:
The Dream produced by Betsaida Aleman, USA
Best of Non-Film Gallery Exhibit:
Muddy Waters (Etching Print) by Sarah Gunia-Jensen
SECOND PLACES
Animation:
Tiger is Strolling Around by Anastasiia Falileieva, Ukraine
Video Art:
Such Complexity / Air & Wood by Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran, USA
Extremely Short:
Adventure of a Plastic Bottle by Siyu Huang, China
Documentary Film:
The Traditional Brazilian Family KATU by Rodrigo Sena, Brazil
Experimental Documentary Film:
Yollotl (Heart) by Fernando Colin Roque, France
Sustainable Agriculture Films:
Bad Bugs, by Bryn Wright, USA
Social Sustainability:
A Place at the Kauri Table by Helen Donnelly, New Zealand
Local Films:
Again Together: The Cumulative Impacts of Environmental Racism, by Ronald L. Jones in collaboration with One Breath Partnership
High School Student Film:
Air Pollution, by Bianca Ibarra, Galena Park High School
UHCL Student Video Art Film:
Water Down the Drain, by Laura Melancon, USA
UHCL Student Documentary Film:
Mother Nature, produced by Leslie Lenio, UHCL
Non-Film Gallery Exhibits:
Disjointed 1 & 2, Invigorate (clay) by Emma Pedraza Jimenez (series of 3)
THIRD PLACES
Animation:
Watch the Feet by Sashko Danylenko & Laura Tufariello, USA
Social Sustainability:
Let’s Talk About It by Vittorio Caratozzolo, Italy
Video Art:
Yesterday by Poramet Ariyakusonsuthi, Thailand
UHCL Student Video Art Film:
Sustainable Development Goals by Sarah Pulido
UHCL Student Documentary Film:
Dealing With My Baggage, by Miles Shellshear
Non-Film Gallery Exhibits:
Protest Painting 1 & 2 (gouache on paper) by Caroline Ryan (series of 2)
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Animation:
Egg by Li-Wei Hsu, Taiwan
Animation:
Scream for Ice by Emir Aytemür, Turkey
Video Art:
Lifeline by Krista Steinke, USA
Video Art:
I Am Water by Jim Hall, USA
UHCL Student Video Art Film:
Conceptual Video Art Project by Mackenzie Crawford
UHCL Student Documentary Film:
Buried Truth: Plastic Recycling is a Lie by Clarissa Silva
UHCL Student Film:
Issue with Tissue by Farid Asif
