Best Film — Short
Award Winners
Every winning film from the Indiana Independent Film Festival, season by season — with official certificates.
Season Seven
Best Director — Short
The Black Pearl
CertificateBest Actor — Short
Together / Doug Jones
CertificateBest Actress — Short
Behind A Smile / Anuska Martínez
CertificateBest Script — Short
Bubbles
CertificateBest Script (Unproduced) — Short
The Extraction
CertificateBest Narrative — Short
Ostrich
CertificateBest Documentary — Short
Tide And Table
CertificateBest Experimental — Short
Incurable
CertificateBest Animated — Short
The Last Advice
CertificateBest Thriller — Short
Child
CertificateBest Comedy — Short
Another Biscuit
CertificateBest Drama — Short
Dear Hope
CertificateBest Horror — Short
Filters
CertificateBest Screenplay — Short
Dor
CertificateBest Cinematography — Short
Old Birdie
CertificateBest Producer — Short
Stupid Shoes
CertificateBest Film — Feature
This October Is Not Pink
CertificateBest Director — Feature
This October Is Not Pink
CertificateBest Script (Unproduced) — Feature
Archivist
CertificateBest Documentary — Feature
The River
CertificateBest Experimental — Feature
The Circle
CertificateBest Sci-Fi or Fantasy — Feature
Drone Runners
CertificateBest Screenplay — Feature
Memory Hunters
CertificateBest First-Time Filmmaker
In Cammino
CertificateBest LGBTQ+ Film
Once Upon A Dream
CertificateBest AI Film
2nd Chances: Rebirth
CertificateBest Music Video
Electric Car
CertificateBest Web Series / Pilot Episode
Big Trouble In Little Paradise
CertificateBest Student Film
Archives
CertificateSeason Six
Best Film — Short
Memento Mori
CertificateBest Director — Short
Our Monsters
CertificateBest Actress — Short
Moments From Motherhood / Krystyn Sayre
CertificateBest Script — Short
Shelf Life
CertificateBest Narrative — Short
Bus No. 9
CertificateBest Documentary — Short
Dionysos Avignon In Flesh And Shadow
CertificateBest Experimental — Short
Michel Steiner 64 Agendas
CertificateBest Sci-Fi Or Fantasy — Short
Limited Slip
CertificateBest Thriller — Short
Wolf At The Crossroads
CertificateBest Comedy — Short
The Master Puppeteer
CertificateBest Drama — Short
Faithless
CertificateBest Horror — Short
The Collector
CertificateBest Ultra-Short (Under 3 Minutes)
Words From The Midnight Monster
CertificateBest Screenplay — Short
Ex Parte Crow Dog
CertificateBest Cinematography — Short
The Harpies
CertificateBest Film — Feature
First String 2: The Greenwood 20: Quest For The Great Dante
Best Script (Unproduced) — Feature
Crustaceus
CertificateBest Documentary — Feature
Together For Water
CertificateBest Experimental — Feature
Our Brilliant Destruction
CertificateBest Screenplay — Feature
Major Minor Details
CertificateBest Comedy — Feature
60 Days
CertificateBest Drama — Feature
First String 2: The Greenwood 20: Quest For The Great Dante
Best Cinematography — Feature
Colombano & La 21Esima Fetta
CertificateBest First-Time Filmmaker
The Dandelion Girl
CertificateBest Music Video
Sexy City Lights
CertificateBest Web Series / Pilot Episode
The Killers Journalist
CertificateBest Student Film
The Cowgirl
CertificateBest Dance Film
Schumann: A Love Story
CertificateBest Producer — Short
Music In The Air
CertificateSeason Five
Best Film — Short
Different Than Yesterday
CertificateBest Director — Short
The Ghost Of Summers Past
CertificateBest Actor — Short
Real Mother / Case Walker
CertificateBest Actress — Short
Cool Headed Girl / Rose Jones
CertificateBest Script — Short
The Veil Of Silence
CertificateBest Script (Unproduced) — Short
The Rockette
CertificateBest Documentary — Short
Between The Great Plains
CertificateBest Experimental — Short
Moisture
CertificateBest Animated — Short
Out In The West
CertificateBest Sci-Fi Or Fantasy — Short
Memoria Obscura
CertificateBest Thriller — Short
Perturbed
CertificateBest Comedy — Short
Shut Up And Suffer
CertificateBest Drama — Short
The Cow
CertificateBest Horror — Short
Bugaboo
CertificateBest Ultra-Short (Under 3 Minutes)
The Recreation
CertificateBest Screenplay — Short
The Veil Of Silence
CertificateBest Cinematography — Short
Alone Together
CertificateBest Script (Unproduced) — Feature
Sweet Child's Nemesis
CertificateBest Documentary — Feature
Morgan Wood "Everything Always Happens So Much"
CertificateBest Sci-Fi Or Fantasy — Feature
Journey
CertificateBest First-Time Filmmaker
Fangs
CertificateBest LGBTQ+ Film
Period
CertificateBest AI-Generated Or AI-Themed Film
The Old Bench In New York
CertificateBest Music Video
Grandpa's Got A Brand New Pill
CertificateBest Web Series / Pilot Episode
Dark Corners
CertificateBest Student Film
The Waywarede
CertificateBest Micro-Budget Film
A Lady's Love
CertificateSeason Four
Best Short Film
July 4th, East New York
CertificateBest International Narrative
Old Well
CertificateBest Experimental
Dynamics
CertificateBest Documentary
Inherited Shame
CertificateBest Animation
Rose Petals
CertificateBest Student
The New Immigrants - Hong Kongers
CertificateBest Director
Artold Bernice's Cheek
CertificateBest Screenplay
Artold Bernice's Cheek
CertificateBest Script
Jump
CertificateBest Unproduced Script
Crustaceus
CertificateBest Short Short
The Mud Hole
CertificateBest First-Time Director
The Mud Hole
CertificateBest Cinematography
Survival Instinct
CertificateBest Editing
Survival Instinct
CertificateBest Sci-Fi
Jump
CertificateSeason Three
Best Short Film
a Friend in the Night
CertificateBest Experimental
The Volcano and the Baby
CertificateBest Documentary
The Mirror Parajanov
CertificateBest Animation
Making Emmie Smile
CertificateBest Student
The Great Golden Carrot Caper
CertificateBest Director & Sci-Fi
The Days of Knight: Chapter 1
CertificateBest Screenplay
Single At Christmas
CertificateBest Unproduced Script
Want Love-the Film
CertificateBest Short Short
Treasure Imagination
CertificateBest Web Series & First-Time Director
Kaleb & Ms.Kelsey
CertificateBest TV Pilot
Cafe Romeo
CertificateBest Actress
Carissa Tells It All / Caitlin Burt
CertificateBest Actor
Law's World : Lipstick Bandit / Law Artis
CertificateBest LGBTQ
Identity
CertificateSeason Two
Best Film
Antarctica Land for All
CertificateBest Experimental
Pink City Film
CertificateBest Animation
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
CertificateBest Student
Quirk
CertificateBest Director
Toby
CertificateBest Screenplay
Abnormal Fixation
Best Unproduced Script
Revelation
CertificateBest Short Short
Feu-Follet
CertificateBest First-Time Director
The Days of Knight
CertificateBest Composer
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CertificateBest Music Video
Jungle Out There
CertificateBest TV Pilot
Cariddi's Graveyard: Tales of Mare Nostrum
CertificateBest Actress
Pink City Film / Mirijam Verena Jeremic
Best Editing
Albuquerque Mosaic
CertificateBest Web Series
Abnormal Fixation
Best Documentary
Anacostia Portraits
Best International Narrative
Quirk
Best Cinematography
TutuTango
CertificateSeason One
Best Film
Dojo
CertificateBest Experimental
Burning Love
CertificateBest Animation
The Forest of the Honey Bees
CertificateBest Student
Meat the One
CertificateBest Director
The Scalpel
CertificateBest Screenplay
Escape
CertificateBest Script
Vanités
CertificateBest Unproduced Script
My Town
CertificateBest Short Short
Edge of Invisibility
CertificateBest First-Time Director
Lines of a Woman
CertificateBest Composer
Lines of a Woman
CertificateBest Music Video
The Girl Who Faded Away
CertificateBest TV Pilot
Tescbury's Tales
CertificateBest Actor
Dojo / Jon Paul
CertificateBest Actress
Impossible Secret / Sofia Sotiria Mavrou
CertificateBest Editing
ÀSAKA
CertificateBest LGBTQ
BERGAMOT
CertificateBest Sci-Fi
Drone Runner II
CertificateBest Cinematography