Indy Film Fest
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| Location | Indianapolis, United States |
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| Founded | March 5, 2004 (as Indianapolis International Film Festival) |
| Artistic director | Craig Mince |
| Website | indyfilmfest |
Indy Film Fest, formerly known as the Indianapolis International Film Festival,[1] is an annual film festival held in Indianapolis, United States.[2] The festival champions films that entertain, challenge, and expand perspectives in Indianapolis and beyond. Its inaugural edition took place in 2004, featuring Lars von Trier's Dogville as the closing film.[3]
Awards
[edit]2024 Awards
[edit]Winners:[4]
- No Right Way - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- No Right Way - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- L'incidente - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Film is Dead. Long Live Film! - Best Documentary Feature
- The Girl in The Yellow Scarf - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- Darla in Space - Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature
- The Girl in The Yellow Scarf - Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
2023 Awards
[edit]- In a Good Way - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- In a Good Way - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Derrapada - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- The Bright Path: The Johnny Bright Story - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- Not Just A Picky Eater - Best Documentary Feature
- Hundreds of Beavers - Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature
- Greener Pasture - Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
2022 Awards
[edit]- The Mirror Game - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- The Mirror Game - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- The Noise of Engines - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Dear Audrey - Best Documentary Feature
- It Happened One Weekend - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- It Happened One Weekend - Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature
- The B1g Story: George Taliaferro - Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
2021 Awards
[edit]- The Catch - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- The Catch - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Schwarze Milk - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Belly of the Beast - Best Documentary Feature
- Welcome to Monterrey - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- Workhorse Queen - Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature
- El Rey de la Fiesta - Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature
2020 Awards
[edit]Winners:[11]
- Breaking Fast - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Chasing Unicorns - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Down a Dark Stairwell - Best Documentary Feature
- Sleeze Lake: Vanlife at its Lowest & Best - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
2019 Awards
[edit]Winners:[12]
- Sumergida - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- Frances Ferguson - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- El Testigo - Best Documentary Feature
- Sumergida - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Qualified - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- Good Feels on Wheels - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
2018 Awards
[edit]Winners:[13]
- Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- In the Wake of Ire - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Uma Vida Sublime - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- When We Grow Up - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- Pieced Together - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
- Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win - Best Documentary Feature
2017 Awards
[edit]Winners:[14]
- Pawo - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- Signature Move - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Pawo - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Mark Twain's Journey to Jerusalem: Dreamland - Best Documentary Feature
- Signature Move - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- King Rat - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
2016 Awards
[edit]Winners:[15]
- West Coast - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- Reparation - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Do Not Resist - Best Documentary Feature
- West Coast - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Under The Bridge: The Criminalization Of Homelessness - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- The Invisible Patients - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
2015 Awards
[edit]Winners:[16]
- Chorus - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- For Grace - Matter of Fact, Best Feature Film
- Chorus - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Night Owls - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Morphine Journey of Dreams - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
2014 Awards
[edit]Winners:[17]
- Bluebird - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- Bluebird - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Confusion Through Sand - American Spectrum, Best Short Film
- Beyond All Boundaries - Matter of Fact, Best Feature Film
- Tarzan & Arab - Matter of Fact, Best Short Film
- You’ll Be A Man - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Grand Canal - World Cinema, Best Short Film
- Beyond All Boundaries - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
- Good Story - Audience Award, Best Short Film
2013 Awards
[edit]Winners:[18]
- Medora - Grand Jury, Best Feature Film
- Detroit Unleaded - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Mr. Bellpond - American Spectrum, Best Short Film
- Medora - Matter of Fact, Best Feature Film
- Slomo - Matter of Fact, Best Short Film
- Dream Team 1935 - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- More Than Two Hours - World Cinema, Best Short Film
- Medora - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
- Slomo - Audience Award, Best Short Film
2012 Awards
[edit]Winners:[19]
- Somebody Up There Likes Me - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Narcocorrido - American Spectrum, Best Short Film
- Detropia - Matter of Fact, Best Feature Film
- Cutting Loose - Matter of Fact, Best Short Film
- Patang - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- The Maker - World Cinema, Best Short Film
- Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
- Mondays at Racine - Audience Award, Best Short Film
2011 Awards
[edit]Winners:[20]
- Type A - Best Matter Of Fact, Short Film
- The Green Wave - Best Matter Of Fact, Feature Film
- Direk Ask - World Cinema, Best Short Film
- Small Town Murder Songs - World Cinema, Best Feature Film
- Something Left, Something Taken - American Spectrum, Best Short Film
- Natural Selection - American Spectrum, Best Feature Film
- Jess + Moss - The Ima Culturally Adventurous Award
- The Green Wave - Audience Award, Best Feature Film
- The Secret Friend - Audience Award, Best Short Film
2010 Awards
[edit]Winners:[21]
- A Little Help - American Spectrum, Best Feature
- God of Love - American Spectrum, Best Short
- Ballhawks - Best Documentary Feature
- The Poodle Trainer - Best Documentary Short
- Twisted Roots - World Cinema, Best Feature
- Encuentro - World Cinema, Best Short
- LaPorte, Indiana - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
- Dynamic Tom - Hoosier Lens, Best Short
2009 Awards
[edit]Winners:[22]
- Racing Dreams - Audience Award, Best Feature
- Weathered - Audience Award, Best Short Film
- Sita Sings the Blues - American Spectrum, Best Feature
- True Beauty This Night - American Spectrum, Best Short Film
- A Ripple of Hope - Hoosier Lens Award, Best Feature
- Chicken Cowboy - Hoosier Lens Award, Best Short
- Frankie 13 vs The World - Best Documentary Short Film
- Best Worst Movie - Best Documentary Feature
- Sinnerman - Black Expressions
- Gone Fishing - World Cinema, Best Short Film
- The Vanished Empire - World Cinema, Best Feature
- The Way We Get By - Eric Parker Social Justice Award
- Lapsus - Excellence in Animation
2008 Awards
[edit]Winners:
- Mongol - Audience Award, Best Feature
- Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon - Audience Award, Best Documentary
- Spider - Audience Award, Best Short Film
- Pop Skull - American Spectrum, Best Feature
- Bitch - American Spectrum, Best Short Film
- Der Ostwind - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Technical achievement to Kohl Gass
- Beyond Belief - Real Visions, Best Feature
- kids + money - Real Visions, Best Short Film
- The Life and Times of Robert F. Kennedy Starring Gary Cooper - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Experimental Film to Aaron Valdez
- Cargo 200 - World Cinema, Best Feature
- Ten to Two - World Cinema, Best Short Film
- Burn the Bridges - World Cinema, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance to Irene Azuela
- Karl Rove, I Love You - Hoosier Lens, Best Feature
2007 Awards
[edit]Winners:[23]
- Speed Dating - Audience Award, Best Feature (Tie)
- Waitress - Audience Award, Best Feature (Tie)
- In the Shadow of the Moon - Audience Award, Best Documentary
- The Substitute (Il Supplente) - Audience Award, Best Short Film
- Adrift in Manhattan - American Spectrum, Best Feature
- Pop Foul - American Spectrum, Best Short Film
- Disappearances - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Cinematography
- Nevel Is the Devil - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Comedy
- Kidney Thieves - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Comedy
- Rain in a Dry Land - Real Visions, Best Feature
- Angel's Fire - Real Visions, Best Short Film
- Heavy Metal Jr. - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for Direction
- McLaren's Negatives - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for Direction to Marie-Josee Sainte-Pierre
- Fraulein - World Cinema, Best Feature
- Eramos Pocos - World Cinema, Best Short Film
- Thicker Than Water - World Cinema, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance
- Milk and Opium - World Cinema, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Score
- Marrying God - Hoosier Lens Award
- Everything Will be OK - Excellence in Animation
- First on the Moon - The Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Prize for Outstanding Science Fiction Filmmaking
2006 Awards
[edit]Winners:
- A Place Called Home: An Adoption Story - Audience Award, Best Feature
- Sugar Mountain - Audience Award, Best Short Film
- El Inmigrante - Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature
- Binta & the Great Idea - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film
- Antonio's Breakfast - Grand Jury Prize, Best European Short Film
- Knocking - Audience Award, Best Non-Fiction Film
- Over the Hedge - Audience Award, Best Family Film
- Kinky Boots - Audience Award, Best Comedy
- A Place Called Home: An Adoption Story - Hoosier Lens Award for Best Indiana Film
- Before I Go - Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance to Heidy Forster and Horst Sachtleben
- Life in Transition - Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Animation
- Dirty Mary - Special Jury Prize for Achievement in Comedy to Daniele Ferraro for Writing, Producing, and Acting
- Monobloc - Special Jury Prize for Direction to Luis Ortega
- Desire - Special Jury Prize - Honorable Mention for Documentary Filmmaking to Julie Gustafson & the New Orleans Teenage Girls Documentary Project
- Binta & the Great Idea - Markey's Humanitarian Award
- Apparition of the Eternal Church - Best North American Independent Feature Film
2005 Awards
[edit]Winners:
- Murderball - Audience Award, Best Feature
- West Bank Story - Audience Award, Best Short Film
- Murderball - Audience Award, Best Non-Fiction Film
- NOVEM - Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature
- Solo un Cargador - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film (tie)
- Tama Tu - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film (tie)
- The Innocent - Grand Jury Prize, Best Non-Fiction Film
- Pearl Diver - Grand Jury Prize, Hoosier Lens Award for Best Indiana Film
- Tropical Malady - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Direction to Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- NOVEM - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to the entire cast
- Brothers - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to Connie Nielsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Ulrich Thomsen
- 9 - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Animation
2004 Awards
[edit]Winners:[24]
- The Story of the Weeping Camel - Audience Award, Best Feature
- The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja - Audience Award, Best Short Film (tie)
- Hairless - Audience Award, Best Short Film (tie)
- The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film
- Between the White Lines - Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature Film
- Dogville - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to the entire cast
- A Slipping Down Life - Outstanding Performance to Lily Taylor & Sara Rue
- Disconcerting Symphony - Outstanding Performance to the entire cast
- Stuff That Bear! - Outstanding Cinematography to Oleg Mutu
- Everyone and Their Mother Wants to Write and Direct - Outstanding Writing
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ Hunt, Stacey Wilson (2011-07-14). "Indie Spirit Meets Indy". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-12-19.
- ^ "2004 Indianapolis International Film Festival". Indy Film Fest. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "2024 Indy Film Fest". 2024.indyfilmfest.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ Lloyd, Christopher (2023-04-25). "Indy Film Fest winners announced". Film Yap. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "2023 Indy Film Fest". 2023.indyfilmfest.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "2022 Indy Film Fest". 2022.indyfilmfest.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "2022 Award Winners". Indy Film Fest. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- ^ "2021 Indy Film Fest". 2021.indyfilmfest.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "Best of the Fest 2021". Indy Film Fest. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "2020 Indy Film Fest". 2020.indyfilmfest.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "2019 Indy Film Fest". Indy Film Fest. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "2018 Indy Film Fest". Indy Film Fest. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
- ^ "Awards | 2017 Indy Film Fest". schedule.indyfilmfest.org. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
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- ^ "Indy Film Fest 2015: Awards Night & After Party". The Obsessive Viewer. 2015-07-19. Retrieved 2024-12-08.
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