18th Route 66 Film Festival 2019
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View the 2019 Festival Program (PDF)
Award winners chosen by the judges were: Hugh Moore Best of Festival: The Obituary of Jasper James (Ryan Fenson-Hood) Best Animated Film: A Big Mission (Longyin Zhou & Yujie Chen) Best Comedy Film: This Is Cindy (Terence Miller) Best Debut Film: Chemistry Read (Norm Lang) Best "Diversity" Themed Film: My Dream Goes All the Way to Iran (Negar Mojtahedi) Best Drama Film: The Land (Stephen Wallace Pruitt) Best Experimental Film: Transit(ion) (Robert Sickels) Best Foreign Language Film: Rruga (The Path) (Besim Ugzmajli) Best Made in Illinois Film: 25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln (Ellen Brodsky) Best Student Showcase Film: Fraser Syndrome & Me (Kyle Anne Grendys)
The film voted Audience Favorite was: Inheritance (Elijah Alvarado)