site.btaBulgarian Director Stephan Komandarev Wins Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature at Heartland Film Festival

Bulgarian Director Stephan Komandarev's "The Judgment" Wins Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature
at 24th annual Heartland Film Festival

Indianapolis, October 25 (BTA) - "The Judgment" of Bulgarian film director Stephan Komandarev won the Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the 24th annual Heartland Film Festival held here in October 16-25, the website of the festival said. The award carries a cash prize of 45,000 U.S. dollars.

The film has been entered in the foreign feature category for the 2015 Academy Awards in the United States.

"Romeo is Bleeding" of director Jason Zeldes (USA) won the Grand Prize for Best Documentary Feature, while the Audience Choice Award for Narrative Feature went to "Marie's Story," directed by Jean-Pierre Ameris (France).

"These Grand Prize winners tackle current, topical subjects in profound ways, and tell their important stories with masterful filmmaking," said Heartland Film Artistic Director Tim Irwin. "We are excited to support these filmmakers, and hopefully inspire them to continue to tell stories that need to be told," Irwin said, quoted in the website.