Indianapolis International Film Festival

Mission & General Information

Founded in 2004, the Indianapolis International Film Festival seeks to create a shared experience by championing films that entertain, challenge and expand perspectives in Indianapolis and beyond. Combining premieres of international hits and American independents, the Indianapolis International Film Festival (Indy Film Fest) presents the largest variety of films in the city of Indianapolis.

2009 Awards

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 Film
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
First on the Moon - The Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Prize for Outstanding Science Fiction Filmmaking

2008 Awards

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 Award
Lapsus - Excellence in Animation
First on the Moon - The Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Prize for Outstanding Science Fiction Filmmaking

2007 Awards

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 Prie 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

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

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

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

2006 Line-Up

Dates - April 26 - May 4, 2006

Premieres:

Be With Me...Eric Khoo...Singapore - Drama
Day Break...Hamid Rahmanian...Iran - Drama
Dead Man's Shoes...Shane Meadows...UK - Thriller
District 13...Pierre Morel (produced by Luc Besson)...France - Action
The Heart of the Game...Ward Serrill...USA - Sports Documentary
I Am Cuba (1964) (Special Presentation)...Cuba / Russia...Mikhail Kaltazov - Drama
Iron Island...Mohommad Rasoulof...Iran - Drama
Jewboy...Tony Krawitz...Australia - Drama
The King...James Marsh...USA / UK - Thriller / Drama
Kinky Boots...Julian Jerrold...UK - Comedy
Lady Vengeance...Chan-wook Park...South Korea - Action / Drama
Look Both Ways...Sarah Watt...Australia - Drama
Over the Hedge (Special Presentation)...Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick...USA - Animation
Shanghai Dreams...Xiaoshuai Wang...China - Drama
The Sun...Aleksandr Sokurov...Russia / Japan - Drama
Three Times...Hou Hsiao Hsien...Taiwan - Drama
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha...Mark Dornford May...South Africa - Musical
Water...Deepa Mehta...Canada / India - Drama

Competition Features:

Al'Leessi...An African Actress...Rahmatou Keita...Niger - Documentary
Apparition of the Eternal Church...Paul Festa...USA - Musical Documentary
As Smart as They Are: The Author Project...Joe Pacheco...USA - Musical Documentary
Borderline Lovers...Miroslav Mandic...Bosnia & Herzegovina - Documentary
Brasileirinho...Mika Kaurismaki...Brazil / Switzerland / Finland - Musical Documentary
Desire... Julie Gustafson...USA - Documentary
Everyone Their Grain of Sand...Beth Bird... USA / Mexico - Documentary
Go West ... Ahmed Imamovic - Drama
The Gold Bracelet ... Kavi Raz ... USA / India - Drama
El Inmigrante ... Dave Eckenridge, John Sheedy, & John Eckenridge... USA / Mexico - Documentary
Knocking...Joel P. Engardio & Tom Shepard - Documentary
The Land Has Eyes ... Vilsoni Hereniko ... Fiji / USA - Drama
Little Athens ... Tom Zuber ... USA - Drama
Monobloc ... Luis Ortega ... Argentina - Drama
Pirates of the Great Salt Lake ... E.R. Nelson... USA - Comedy
A Place Called Home: An Adoption Story ... Tom Gaunt ... USA (Indiana) - Documentary
A Reel Man ... Todd Lothery ... USA (Indiana) - Documentary
Self-Medicated ... Monty Lapica... USA - Drama
Sisters in Law... Florence Ayisi & Kim Longinotto ... Cameroon - Cameroon
Time Off ... Francisca Schweitzer & Pablo Solis ... Chile - Drama
The Traveler ... William Olsson ... Sweden / Germany - Drama
Wannabe ... Richard Keith ... USA - Comedy

Shorts:

Antonio's Breakfast - Daniel Mulloy - UK- 20 m- Drama
Bagelized - Matthew Bonafacio - US - 5 m - Comedy
Before I Go (Vorletzter Abscheid) - Heiko Hahn - Germany - 22 m - Drama
Binta and the Great Idea - Javier Fesser - Spain / Senegal - 30 m - Drama
Charlotte's Red - Colin McIvor - No. Ireland - 12 m - Family
The Cole Nobody Knows - Clay Walker - US - 21 m - Documentary
Common Practice - Marcos Efron - US - 10 m - Musical
Coney Island, 1945 - Jeremiah Zager - US - 5 m - Documentary
Corduroy - Dave Kendall, Bryan Falcon - US (Indiana) - 21 m - Comedy
Credo - Keith Snyder - US - 9 m - Musical
Dirty Mary - Stuart Rogers - US - 20 m - Comedy
Divorce Lemonade - Justin Hayward - US - 9 m - Drama
Ed's Trip - Timothy Greenberg - US - 7 m - Drama
Employee of the Month - John Will Clay - US - 7 m - Comedy
Enter the Dragonfly - Nir Paniry - US - 23 m - Family
The Faith of Joey Rail - Matt Robertson - US - 8 m - Family
Flying Dream - John Bacone - US (Indiana) - 1 m - Experimental
Frankenchicken - Ann-Marie Denham - Australia - 12 m - Animation
The Game - Joel Umbaugh - US (Indiana) - 9 m - Comedy
* A Half Man - Firas Momani - Canada - 7 m - Animation
Handshake - Patrick Smith - US - 5 m - Animation
Hiro - Matthew Swanson - US - 20 m - Drama
Holiday - Marcel Sawicki - Poland - 25 m - Drama
Imaginary Friend - Claire Thomas - US - 10 m - Family
Initiation - Andrew Neel - US - 4 m - Drama
Journey To Mangochi - Christopher de la Torre - Malawi - 30 m - Documentary
K-7 - Christopher Leone - US - 16 m - Comedy
Latent Sorrow - Shon Kim - US - 3 m - Experimental
Liberte Conditionelle - Constant Mentzes - Canada - 12 m - Drama
Life in Transition - John R. Dilworth - US - 4 m - Animation
The Listener - Michael Chang - Ireland - 11 m - Drama
Looking Good - Toni Powell - Australia - 7 m - Family
Lost Sole - Sanif Olek - Singapore - 15 m - Drama
The Loud Ladies of South Fork - Michael Harry, Joan Brooker - US - 28 m - Documentary
Lucky - Avie Luthra - UK / South Africa - 20 m - Drama
Lucky Man - Tamas Kemenyffy - Hungary - 25 m - Drama
The Mantis Parable - Josh Staub - US - 9 m - Animation
Messenger - Daniel Leeb - US - 18 m - Documentary
Mind Over Matter - Scott Gerow - US - 39 m - Documentary
Moosecock - Will Hartman - US (Indiana) - 7 m - Comedy
My Backyard Was A Mountain - Adam Schlachter - US / Puerto Rico - 22 m - Drama
Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night - Sonali Gulati - US / India - 27 m - Documentary
Night Falls - John Bacone - US (Indiana) - 3 m - Experimental
No Greater Love - Arthur Rasco - US (Indiana) - 16 m - Drama
Noodle Soup - Toru Tokikawa - France / UK - 9 m - Comedy
Now You See Me, Now You Don't - Atilla Szasz - Hungary - 30 m - Drama
On Air - Dave Bernstein - US - 4 m - Drama
One Sung Hero - Samantha Curtzman-Counter - US - 15 m - Comedy
Paper Willy - Seong Joon Lee - US - 6 m - Animation
Patterns - Jamie Travis - Canada - 8 m - Experimental
Pee Shy - Deb Hagan - US - 15 m - Comedy
Pillow Girl - Ronnie Cramer - US - 8 m - Experimental
Project Huxley - Simon Brown - UK - 12 m - Comedy
Pushing Up Daisies - Doug Whyte, Tom Grable - US - 30 m - Documentary
Quitters - Henry Miller - US - 11 m - Comedy
Shepherds - Florence Buchanan - US - 8 m - Drama
Single Bed - George Kavaras - Greece - 12 m - Drama / Animation
site_specific: Las Vegas 05 - Olivio Barbieri - Italy / US / Canada - 13 m - Experimental
Small Ant Syndrome - Ann-Marie Denham - Australia - 3 m - Animation
Smartcard - James Oxford - US - 16 m - Drama
Space Chase- Daniel Duncan, Jonathan Pearson - UK - 5 m - Comedy
Spin - Jamin Winans - US - 8 m - Musical
Stakeout On 10 Street - Richard Taylor - US (Indiana) - 15 m - Comedy
Stop! - Mathijs Geijskes - Netherlands - 6 m - Comedy
Sugar Mountain - Kent Smith - US (Indiana) - 29 m - Drama
Supermarket Love Song - Daniel Outram - UK - 14 m - Drama
Tells - Jack Newell - US - 2 m - Experimental
A Tragic Love for Unfaithful Nuska - Taras Tkacenko - Ukraine - 16 m - Comedy
The Tub - Vasilis Giannakakis - New Zealand - 15 m - Suspense
Tumshie McFadgen's Bid for Ultimate Bliss - Simon Hynd - Scotland - 10 m - Comedy
Up On the Rope - Paula Froehle - US - 14 m - Comedy
Us - James Blick - New Zealand - 6 m - Drama
La Vie d'un Chien - John Harden - US - 13 m - Experimental / Comedy
What's Love Doing In the Mountains? - Yunus Emre Firat - Turkey - 28 m - Drama
Why Shakespeare? - Lawrence Bridges - US - 21 m - Documentary
The Zit - Mike Blum - US - 5 m - Animation

External links

Indianapolis International Film Festival website
Indianapolis International Film Festival at MySpace

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