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Finn DeWitt, Filmmaker and Activist

Tige Charity, Founder of KITS

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Visitors, teachers, students, and MY HERO staff publish all kinds of stories, from inspirational essays about a close friend, to important global issues.

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Fannie Lou Hamer by Robert Shetterly

From the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series

was known as the queen of the Leica

ABOUT THE DIGITAL ART GALLERY

Our gallery features art in the theme of heroism. All artworks in our commercial free, age-appropriate Gallery are contributed by professional and student artists as well as curated from art institutions around the world.

MY HERO Project seeks unique works of art by professional and student artists that celebrate the lives and courageous acts of heroes who work to promote change by positively affecting others and their communities. Completed artwork should reflect thoughtful ideas to show how the selected hero demonstrates heroic action and creates positive social change.

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MY HERO Film Festival

2021 First Place Winners

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Best of Fest | Dan Eldon Activist Award | 1st Place Environmental

Rainforest Action

Will Parrinello | MVFG | USA

Featured Hero: Nemonte Nenquimo | Ecuador | Goldman Environmental Prize

The Goldman Environmental Prize

Global Educator Award

Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Blythe Lappé

Small Planet Institute

People's Choice Award & Overcoming Obstacles

FAITH’S WORLD [Trailer]

Faith Guilbault | BYkids | USA

Ron Kovic Peace Prize & Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award

Outswing [Trailer]

Samar Minallah Khan| Pakistan

Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Youth Award

Joan Ganz Cooney: The Unsung Hero Who Led Us All To Sesame Street

Anna Brodine | Seaman High School | USA

Dan Eldon Activist Award & Documentary

Jacob Seigel-Brielle & Isaac Seigel-Boettner | USA

Featured Hero: World Bicycle Relief

Dan Eldon Youth Activist Award & High School

Jackson Carrico | New Roads High School | USA

Dan Eldon Youth Activist Award

8 Minutes and 46 Seconds

Angel Miracle Espericueta | In-Progress | USA

Relationships First Award

I Have Four Parents

Daniel Roy | USA

WOJ Youth Reporter Award | Given by Tract - High School Creative

As An Asthmatic

Alayna DeGraef | In-Progress | USA

WOJ Youth Reporter Award | Given by Tract - High School Documentary

TRANSPARENCY: Becoming Oliver

Tessa Grace Morell | James Wood High School | USA

WOJ Youth Reporter Award | Given by Tract - Middle School Documentary

Thank a Hero: Maurice Hilleman

Jasmine Blossom Martoglio, Aurelia Sunshine Martoglio | Batchelor Middle School | USA

Emerging Artist Award

Kitty Richardson | UK

Media Arts Educator Award

Holly Carter | BYkids

Immersive Storytelling - Environmental VR

360 SEA PLASTIC

Hendrik S. Schmitt | Germany

Featured Hero: Plastic Pollution Coalition

Immersive Storytelling - Educational Volumetric VR

Landscapes for the Mind

Eric Hansen | Blueplanet VR | USA

Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award

Rise from the Cape Flats

Shamier Magmoet | S. Africa

Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Youth Activist

MABON 'The 8 year old Activist'

Jack Davies | UK

Featured Hero: Mabon

Brendan Donovan | New Zealand

Featured Hero: Live Ocean Foundation

Unsung Heroes Song Contest

Waptokwa Zawré

Arandu Arakuaa | Brasil

Unsung Heroes Song Contest - Student

Kitty Richardson | UK

For a Young Audience - Animation

Ernie Berger | USA

Staying Well with Coach West

Jessica Ordaz & Carolyn Hodge-West | USA

Featured Hero: Carolyn Hodge West

Against the Current

Daunnette Moniz-Reyome | BYkids | USA

Is the Taliban's return the end of music in Afghanistan?

Cormac Walter O'Brien | UK

Special Hero Award

Dayna Reggero | Climate Listening Project

Climate Activist Award

Wendy Jewell & Slater Jewell Kemker

Youth Unstoppable

Community Heroes

Quinn feldman, Alyse Rockett, Jordan Slaffey, Jasmine Sugar |USA

Pascal Schelbli | Germany

The Aged

Portraits of Individuals

Sparrow Society - Liziwe's Story

Freddie Reed | S. Africa

Featured Hero: Liziwe Botha

You are the Light

Earth In Their Eyes

Melahn T Atkinson, Talia Keys | USA

IXOQ

College Documentary

Dhana: The Art of Giving

Monk Bounma Buddanoy, Monk Jatuporn Simmali, Monk Surakiart Boonmatun, Glenna Stirrett | Thailand

Conversations With My Mother

College Animation

Fokion Xenos | Greece

Climate Justice

Matagi Mālohi: Strong Winds

Forest Woodward, Canyon Woodward, Aidan Haley | USA / Tuvalu

Águilas/Eagles [Trailer]

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Maite Zubiaurre | UCLA | USA

Its Still Being Written

Mélanie Gohin | France

Overcoming Obstacles

Do You See Rainbow?

Kitty Richardson | UK

The Color of COVID

Darius Simpson & Gabriel Diamond |Skoll Foundation |USA

Visual Arts Heroes

Laura P. Valtorta | USA

Featured Hero: Ginger Westray

Special Hero Award

Robert Shetterley

Featured in Truth Tellers by Robert Kane

Special Hero Award

Featured in Chase the Dream by Nick Randall

Sheltering Stories

Strangers in Boxes

Gabriel Diamond | Skoll Foundation | USA

Student Sheltering Stories

The Empty Classroom

Sofia Junco | lmsvschools | USA

Special Hero Award

Clara Meyer | USA

Relationships First Youth Award

Lucy Schacher | Australia

The Untold Story

Elisabetta Fox Piantoni | Italy

An Ocean of Tea

Grégoire Scherpe | France / Morocco

Moisés García | USA

Historic Documentary

AAPI Civil Rights Heroes - Yuri Kochiyama

Angelika Fürstler, Austin Ahlborg | France

High School Documentary

Dangers Of Vaping

Basil Paterson, Avital Mintz, Sebastian Alexandre, Miranda Bauer |Maysles Documentary Center |USA

High School Animation

Hania and Jacek

Roch Karwowski, Mia Karwowska, Franciszek Karwowski | Poland

High School Experimental

Morgen Arguelles | In-Progress | USA

Groovy Africa Song

Malina, Mia, Paia & Peyton | Santa Barbara Middle School | USA

Middle School Documentary

The Bon-Bon Bomber: Gail Halvorsen Story

Oscar Paul McDermott-Sipe, Tristan Alma Williams | Batchelor Middle School | USA

Middle School Science Heroes

Katherine Johnson: The Human Computer

Jasmine Martoglio | Batchelor Middle School | USA

Elementary School

Love Can Heal Us All

Azomali Obisakin | In-Progress | USA

CREDITS

Thank you to the Film Festival Team, Special Award Sponsors, Donors, Foundations, Partners, and Prize Sponsors. Thanks to all the MY HERO Staff who support our global learning community.

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Check out MY HERO Media Arts Education Resources and start making your HERO Films.