GONE | Award Winning Short Documentary

In Pflugerville, Texas, a community is faced with the challenge of unprecedented devolvement. As housing developers and commercial companies start to inch closer and closer to the farmland, the farmers are forced to wonder how long it will be until their way of life will disappear. Most of the farmers are left with land that has been used for farming over multiple generations. To them, the thought that a housing community would be built on the land they have farmed makes them despondent. Once the land is built on, there is no getting it back. It is gone forever.

Awards:
YoungArts Film Honorable Mention 2023
Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards Gold Key
UIL Documentary Film State Champion
Teen Short Film Competition Best Documentary - Boulder International Film Festival
High School Audience Choice Award - Indy Shorts International Film Festival
Best San Antonio High School Filmmaker Award - San Antonio Film Festival
Best Emerging Student Documentary - Tallgrass Film Festival
Best Student Award - Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival
Best High School Student Film - Lake Travis Film Festival
Best Documentary - NESA Outsiders Film Festival
Best Cinematography - NESA Outsiders Film Festival


Official Selections:
SXSW
Heartland International Film Festival - Special Presentation
The Western Film Festival
Hill Country Film Festival
Breckenridge Film Festival
GTX Film Festival
All American High School Film Festival
SCAD Savannah Film Festival
Naples International Film Festival
Rockport Film Festival
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles
American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival
deadCenter Film Festival

Submitted to:
New York University - Waitlisted
University of Southern California - Rejected
Ithaca University - Accepted
University of Texas - Accepted
Southern Methodist University - Accepted
University of Colorado Boulder - Accepted

Directed By: Kyle Ward
Talent: Hees Farms
Art: John Vigil
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