{"id":60,"date":"2024-08-21T15:55:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest2026\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:17:46","slug":"prizes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.saic.edu\/blackharvestfest\/home\/prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 PRIZES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Congratulations to the 2025 Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Black Harvest Film Festival Prize winners! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feature Film Winner: SEEDS \u2014 Brittany Shyne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorable Mention: THE INQUISITOR \u2014 Angela Lynn Tucker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short Film Winner: VIS-\u00c0-VIS \u2014 Mamadou Yattassaye<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorable Mention: WI CYAH STAY \u2014 Nordia Hunt\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year marks the eighth year that a $1,000 prize was awarded to a short film, and the fifth year a $2,500 prize honored a feature film.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2025 Jurors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Jheanelle Brown<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jheanelle Brown is a film curator, educator, and writer in Los Angeles, whose curatorial practice creates frameworks to explore the boundlessness of Black life in experimental and nonfiction film and video. She is on faculty at California Institute of the Arts, curates the Film at REDCAT program, and is a Los Angeles Filmforum programmer. At this moment, she is dreaming about cosmic marronage whilst trying to remember her terrestrial obligations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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David Fortune<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

David Fortune is an Atlanta-based writer and director whose debut feature, COLOR BOOK, premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Festival and went on to win jury and audience awards at Austin, Deauville, Denver, Chicago\u2019s Black Harvest Film Festival, and numerous others. The film earned him Variety\u2019s<\/em> \u201c10 Directors to Watch\u201d distinction and a 2025 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Breakthrough Creative<\/em>. Fortune\u2019s earlier works include US  (Netflix Content Creator Program) and SHOEBOX (Indeed\u2013Hillman Grad\u2019s Rising Voices, acquired by Amazon Studios). A graduate of Morehouse College and Loyola Marymount University, he has held directing fellowships with Netflix, Paramount, and Village Roadshow, among others. His storytelling foregrounds humanity and depth within cinematic worlds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Darol Olu Kae<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Darol Olu Kae is an award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His films have screened internationally at Locarno, Sundance, South By Southwest (SXSW), Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Film at Lincoln Center, New York City\u2019s The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. In 2022, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazine\u2019s<\/em> \u201c25 New Faces of Independent Film.\u201d His work, spanning experimental and narrative forms, often meditates on memory, family, and Black life. Kae is a recipient of a Creative Capital grant and is currently developing his debut feature, WITHOUT A SONG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to the 2025 Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Black Harvest Film Festival Prize winners!  Feature Film Winner: SEEDS \u2014 Brittany Shyne Honorable Mention: THE INQUISITOR \u2014 Angela Lynn Tucker […]<\/p>\n

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