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Chicago Indie Film Awards

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Special Mention

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Best Narrative Short

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    Stardust

    Manahar Kumar(director/producer)

Dark Comedy

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    Fear, Actually

Chicago Indie Film Award

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Best Actor

  • Kristian Repshus
    Winner
    • Kristian Repshus
    • Not Quite Lost
  • Rasheed Stephens
    Winner
    • Rasheed Stephens
    • Between Forever
    Almaz Noor
  • Thai Edwards
    Winner
    • Thai Edwards
    • The Ice Cream Stop
  • Jörg Reichlin
    Winner
    • Jörg Reichlin
    • Am Rande der Zeiten
  • From "The Lost City Of Tomorrow"
    Winner
    • Jon Peterson
    • George M Cohan Tonight!
    BumptyBump Productions
  • Havon Baraka
    • Havon Baraka(actor)
    • Mom's Will

Best Actress

  • Pauline Chalamet
    Winner
    • Pauline Chalamet
    • Adulting
  • Ashlynn Hideman
    Winner
    • Ashlynn Hideman
    • Until Our Last Breath
    Hanchett Media
  • Winner
    • Silvia Espigado
    • Sin novedad
  • Carly Chaikin
    Winner
    • Carly Chaikin
    • It's All in Your Head
  • Anna Rust
    • Anna Rust
    • Satiety
  • Constance Brenneman
    • Constance Brenneman
    • Along Came Wanda

Best Animated Film

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    Winner

    Burning Bright

    7.7 (34)
    Aaron Bierman
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    Winner

    The Hairy Notion of a Green Afternoon

    8.6 (5)
    Susanne Deeken

Best Animated Short Film

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    Winner

    Lifeblood

    8.9 (11)
    Nicholas Tory(director)
    Ample Projects

Best Cinematography

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    Winner

    Confession

    Tianchu Xu(cinematographer)

Best Comedy

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    Winner

    Snälla kriminella

    4.2 (495)
    Johan Wiman
    Sara Young
    Story One
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    Winner

    Meet the Girl

    5.6 (13)
    Dennis Ricks
    Ben Ave Production
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    Winner

    Sparky

    Ashley Ephraim(Director)
    BrightCap Entertainment

Best Composer

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    Winner

    Landing

    Emiliano Mazzenga(Composer)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Moving Art: Whales and Dolphins

    8.4 (10)
    Alan Williams
  • Amy Andersson
    Winner
    • Amy Andersson
  • Amy Andersson
    Winner
    • Amy Andersson
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    Winner

    Women Warriors: The Voices of Change

    Nathalie Bonin
    Penka Kouneva
    Anne-Kathrin Dern
    Sharon Farber
    Lolita Ritmanis
    Amy Andersson
    Miriam Cutler
    Starr Parodi
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    Close the Loop

    Dario Vero(composer)
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    Along Came Wanda

    5.7 (700)
    Kanoa Wolfe-Doblin

Best Director

  • Luis Ismael
    Winner
    • Luis Ismael
    • 1618
    Lightbox Filmes
  • Terry Weston Marsh
    Winner
    • Terry Weston Marsh
    • Rosie's Rescue
  • Cecilia Choi
    Winner
    • Cecilia Choi
    • Blinded
    Blue Honu Films
  • Winner
    • Nariman Hamed(director)
    • Until We Meet Again
    Select Studio
  • Juan Lume
    Winner
    • Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
    • Invisible
    Go Films
  • Alpha Code
    Winner
    • Keoni Waxman
    • The Ravine
  • Carlos Butler
    Winner
    • Carlos Butler(director)
    • The Chimera Effect
    Common Ground Media.
  • Anthony Bates
    • Anthony Bates(director)
    • Mom's Will

Best Documentary Feature

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    Winner

    The Holy Goats

    Jimmy Keyrouz
    Felicia Taylor
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    Winner

    Three Wise Men: Parallel Lives

    8.1 (11)
    Sada Rajiah
    Desire Prevost
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    They Survived Together

    8.1 (46)
    John Rokosny(director)
    10th Edition
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    Winner

    Forgotten Victory

    Christopher H.K. Lee
    Jae Ku(producer)
    C.A.R.E. Projects
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    Bob Gomel: Eyewitness

    8.3 (57)
    David Scarbrough(director)
  • [object Object]

    P.E.N.S. (Poetic Energy Needed in Society)

    Carlos Wallace
    Mikell Limbrick
    Liz Faublas
    Sol-Caritas
  • [object Object]

    Welcome to Monterey

    JoLo Productions
  • [object Object]

    Gosia@Tomek

    7.8 (5)
    Christine Jezior

Best Documentary Short

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    Winner

    Fireburn the Documentary

    Angela Golden Bryan
    Fireburn Foundation
  • [object Object]

    The Last Queen!

    Genevieve Sulway
    Kaye Tuckerman
    Jeri Nicolas
    Ben McHugh
  • [object Object]

    Hearts and Stripes

    Sorin Pavelesco(director)
    Sorin Media
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    Kaotic Drumline: Drumming with A Difference

    Aaron Steinberg
    Tamra Raven
  • [object Object]

    First Week Out

    Dugan Bridges

Best Editor

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    Winner

    Righteous Villains

    3.4 (3.4K)
    Chiraag Patel(editor)
    Saints and Savages
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Fauna

    Davide Fiore(editor)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Fisher

    3.4 (421)
    Brian Parks
    Maelstrom Films
    Cassie B Productions
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Echoes

    6.9 (10)
    Anthony Kalmeta
    Virtual Celluloid

Best Female Filmmaker

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    Winner

    The Witch of Kings Cross

    6.3 (434)
    Sonia Bible
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    Winner

    Red Sky

    Katrina Y. Nelson
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Whistle

    Jen Araki-Playfair(filmmaker)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Between Mountains

    7.5 (22)
    Vineesha Arora-Sarin
    Lady With a Hat Productions
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Wytch Craft

    Polly Pierce
    Bewytching Productions
  • [object Object]

    American Cherry

    4.8 (174)
    Marcella Cytrynowicz(director)
    Hanna Griffiths(producer)
    Taryn Sims(producer)
  • [object Object]

    The Day When Irresponsibility Makes Life Easy

    Myowook Kim
  • [object Object]

    Along Came Wanda

    5.7 (700)
    Jan Miller Corran
  • [object Object]

    Gosia@Tomek

    7.8 (5)
    Christine Jezior
  • [object Object]

    Share House 33

    Yumi Masuda
    Team Caminari

Best First Time Filmmaker

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    Winner

    Symphoria

    3.9 (140)
    Nancy Isaak(executive producer)
    Catherine Dao(director)
    Symphoria Films,
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    Message to Future Generations

    Sorin Pavelesco(director)
    Sorin Media
  • [object Object]

    Close the Loop

    Dario Vero(director)
  • [object Object]

    Share House 33

    Yumi Masuda
    Team Caminari

Best Horror

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Rage

    9.4 (5)
    Steven DeRock
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Grandpa: The Horror

    7.6 (8)
    Bethany Dwyer(actor)
    Dana Pacheco(actor)
    John Henry Richardson(actor)
    Cereal Killer Productions
  • [object Object]

    Umbrage

    Timothy Wilde
    Space Gorilla

Best Horror Short

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Crude Massacre

    Ven Scott
    Indignant Dog Films
    Red Aces Productions
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Ni Aquí Ni Allá (Neither Here Nor There)

    5.9 (8)
    Franco Machado-Pesce

Best Indie Film

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    Winner

    The River of Love

    7.3 (6)
    Pravesh Sippy
    N.N. Sippy Productions
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Alder

    8.0 (8)
    Vanda Ladeira(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Odota Minua

    Patrick Shannon
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Decipio

    8.8 (12)
    Jason Gullifer
    Alexander Klebanoff
    Deon Williams
  • [object Object]

    Cold Kill

    Andrew Niblo(director)
    Felix Forrest(producer)
    Russell Dalgleish(executive producer)
    Ecaveo Capital Partners
  • [object Object]

    Mom's Will

    Anthony Bates(director)
  • [object Object]

    Invisible

    Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
    Ignacio Verdugo(writer/producer)
    Italo Spotorno(writer/actor)
    Go Films
  • [object Object]

    Along Came Wanda

    5.7 (700)
    Jan Miller Corran
  • [object Object]

    Balthazar and I

  • [object Object]

    Gosia@Tomek

    7.8 (5)
    Christine Jezior
  • [object Object]

    I Want Out

    Isaac Odeniran(producer)
    ZOE FILMS & DRAMA

Best Music Video

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Nostalgia in Wonderland

    Courtney Nord
    Nostalgic Nuance Studios
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Philippe Funk feat. Liz Kretschmer: Love's Worst Nightmare

    Philippe Funk
  • [object Object]

    The Unity of Men in Love

    Zachary James
    Charity Wicks
    Persis Parshall Vehar
    George Klawitter
  • [object Object]

    Red Red Rose

    9.1 (11)
  • [object Object]

    Marottes - Empath

    Mike Mytnick
    Mike Zorbas
    Annika Traner
    Ben Runyan

Best Narrative Feature

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    1618

    5.7 (317)
    Luis Ismael
    Lightbox Filmes
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Reception

    8.7 (7)
    Charlotte Forward
    Hot 'n' Tedious Films
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Framed

    5.0 (308)
    Nick Rizzini(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Ravine

    4.5 (2.1K)
    Keoni Waxman
    Robert Pascuzzi
    Kelly Pascuzzi
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Vasectomia

    6.4 (27)
    Marc Décosterd
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Safe House 1618

    2.8 (153)
    Calvin T. Shepherd
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Reception

    8.7 (7)
    Jackson Shipman(co-producer)
    Allan Weedman(co-producer)
    Alex Hrisanthopoulos(co-producer)
    Andrew Ferreira(co-producer)
    Charlotte Forward(producer)
    Nick La Marca(co-producer)
    Chase Crawford(executive producer)
    Ricardo Campos(co-producer)
    Four by Three Productions
    Hot 'n' Tedious Films
  • [object Object]

    Trade

    5.8 (102)
    Trae Briers
    FFAM Group

Best Narrative Short

  • Winner

    Walk a Mile

    Judith Cowley
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Color Happy

    Brian DeRozan(actor)
    Lanett Tachel(actor)
    Dale Fabrigar(director)
    McColm Cephas Jr.(actor)
    Christine Kellogg-Darrin(actor)
    Miles Bergsma(composer)
    Carrie Finn(producer)
    Shirley Fan Zhang(producer)
    Vishal Solanki(director of photography)
    Bobby Appelbaum(production designer)
    Videohead Films
  • [object Object]

    Die Kugel: Im Wandel der Zeit

    Ronnie Bugay
  • [object Object]

    Mom's Will

    Anthony Bates(director)
  • [object Object]

    The Dirty Hands Man

    6.7 (6)
    Christian Bareford(director/producer)
    Jason Winn 'J.B. Destiny' Bareford(director/producer)
    Image 987
  • [object Object]

    Easy said up high

    Lena Stamm(Director)
    Janin Stenzel(Director)
    Elbee Films
  • [object Object]

    Mabel Miller: Female Serial Killer

    Rachel Rose Keller(writer/director)
  • [object Object]

    American't

    Geovanny Balderas
    Patricia Chavez Pichardo
    Hollywood International Talents
  • [object Object]

    Huge

    7.9 (9)
    Danny Farber
    Paloma Nozicka
  • [object Object]

    Yes, Darling!

    Stanislav Shelestov(director) (writer)
    Alexandra Tomilina(producer)
  • [object Object]

    Read or Alive

    Kearsten Johansson
    Trent Newton
  • [object Object]

    Share House 33

    Yumi Masuda
    Team Caminari

Best Producer

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Dunes

    6.5 (7.2K)
    Martin Copping
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Reflections on Dying

    Patrick Seda
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Akwaaba: The Awakening

    Sybil D. Jatta
    10th Edition
  • [object Object]

    My Beautiful Performance

    Lilia Le Dieu

Best Sci-Fi

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Allan Ellen

    6.8 (25)
    Juan Ros
    Eye Slice Pictures
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate

    Susan Lim(Director)
    Christina Teenz Tan(Director)
    Samudra Kajal Saikia(director)
    Quantum Classics
  • [object Object]

    Death's Wager

    Alex Hurt II(director)

Best Science Fiction

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Boy Scientist

    Susan Lim(director)
    Samudra Kajal Saikia(director)
    Quantum Classics
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Shasta Triangle

    3.6 (383)
    Barry W. Levy
    Mighty Pharaoh Films
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Ni Aquí Ni Allá (Neither Here Nor There)

    5.9 (8)
    Franco Machado-Pesce
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    June

    7.3 (14)
    Dwayne Cameron
    Dancing Mind Films

Best Script

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Great Hunger

    Paul G. Andrews(writer / producer)
    Thomas Keneally(writer)
    Meg Keneally(writer)
    Roland Joffé(writer)
    GlobalWatch Films
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Miscalculated

    8.3 (20)
    Alyxandrya Prynce
    Romel Xavier Moralez
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Out of My Comfort Zone

    Ivy Vale
    Rick Reil
  • [object Object]

    Where the Sweetgrass Grows

    Tommy Anderson
    Susie Schaefer
  • [object Object]

    Second Chances

    5.7 (57)
    Rick Walker

Best Sound

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Fisher

    3.4 (421)
    Nick Bozzone

Best Student Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Tahz

    Nepal Arslan
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Bury the Truth

    8.3 (52)
    Enriko Hamzaj
    Filmsscope
    Director Enriko Hamzaj is very pleased to take this award.
  • [object Object]

    The table fan story

    9.5 (11)
    Kaushal Shah(Director, Editor, Producer)
    GLS Institute of Design
  • [object Object]

    Beyond Darkwave

    Dana Jordan Rothschild
  • [object Object]

    New Heaven

    Swati Chugh
    Independent Production
  • [object Object]

    Crimson Midnight

    Sam Petersen
    Austin Cadman
    DKG Productions
  • [object Object]

    Bury the Truth

    8.3 (52)
    Enriko Hamzaj

Best TV Pilot/Series/Web

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Generation Hops

    David Sabbath
    Three Dog Films
  • Dodging Her Bullet (2021)
    Dodging Her Bullet (2021)
    • Dodging Her Bullet
    • Blame it on Igor
    Richard Meiman
    Jon Wachter
  • [object Object]

    Tale of Tails

    6.9 (753)
    Harley Wallen
    Kaiti Wallen
    Yan Birch
    Blanca Blanco
    Tevis R. Marcum
    Steve Kopera
    Richard Tyson
    Joseph Williamson
    Michael Hamilton
    Courtney Hamilton Vanloo
    Firoze Patel
    Kaizad Patel
    Allen Lynch
    Randy Lynch
    Alex Gasparetto
    Grover McCants
    Brett Stanfield
    Jovie Lyn
    Jerry Hayes
    Michael Emery
    Painted Creek Productions
  • [object Object]

    Tempa KILL

    Rick Williamson(Director)
  • [object Object]

    Pilot

    Sunny Chen

Best Thriller

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Black Heart, Red Hands

    8.9 (10)
    Russell Southam(producer)
    Adam Spinks(producer)
    Owen Elliott(consulting producer)
    Little Big Film Company
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    De l'autre côté du mur

    Tiburce(director)
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    De l'autre côté du mur

    Tiburce
    Bruno François-Boucher
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Protege' Project: Chapter 1

    Lovie Johnson(Director)
    SEEFilms
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Chapter Two

    Glenn Smith
    Cláudia Bento
    Daniella Gonella
    Jay Michaelson
    DG Productions
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Becoming Emma Braintree

    Joshua Koske
    Sebastian Chan
    Vorfreude Pictures

Best Trailer

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Ice Cream Stop

    8.3 (11)
    Raul Perez
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Jurnee's Revenge

    9.1 (13)
    Shalèt Monique
    Barrington Marson
    Blair Anthony Hall
    Jeff Hoover
    Michael D'Mitri
  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Chimera Effect

    5.5 (37)
    Carlos Butler(Director)
    Common Ground Media.

Best short Film

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    The Disturbance Call

    Gregory Fisco
    Lucas Lopez
    Unit 11 Pictures
  • [object Object]

    Honey Cycle

    Yudelka Heyer
  • [object Object]

    ANIETIÉ, and the Sky will be there

    Teymour Tehrani(director)
    AT-Vertise

Selected

  • [object Object]
    Winner

    Tesstosterone

    Erin Keefer(writer)
  • [object Object]

    Choice

    Wenchun Cheng(director)
    Haoyudi Zhang(director of photography)
    Lu Zhengyang(Producer)
    Savannah College of Art & Design

Best Experimental

  • [object Object]

    The Silent Smile

    Adan Chavez

Best Unproduced Script

  • [object Object]

    Dorisville

    Bo Svenson
    MagicQuest Entertainment
  • [object Object]

    The Red Cloth

    Bo Svenson
    MagicQuest Entertainment
  • [object Object]

    Haboob Wind

    Tommy Anderson
  • [object Object]

    The Travelling Saleswoman

    Alexandra Olivia Engelson

Semi-Finalist

  • [object Object]

    Hush

    9.2 (8)
    Jennifer Lana Harper
    Alex Merkin
    Julia Kostenevich
  • [object Object]

    Like Daughter, Like Mother

  • [object Object]

    Life...

    Mirlande Amazan(Writer, Producer, Director)
    J. Paul Campbell(Executive Producer)
    Camazan Group

December Award

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Best Documentary short

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    Winner

    End of Fear

    Pablo Flehner
    Andres Gomez
    Akira Cine

Best Composer

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    The Long Hair

    Brian Katona

Best Experimental

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    I am become Death

    Gloria Trinidad Deocón

Best First Time Filmmaker

  • [object Object]

    The Music Island

    5.7 (29)
    Cosmin P. Zaharia(director)
    Cosm'In Film Productions

October Award

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Best Science Fiction

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    Winner

    Shadows of the World

    Marios P. Papageorgiou(Director/ Screenwriter/ Editor/ Producer)
    Marcel Michalaris(co-producer)
    Ludwig Gräfe(co-producer)
    Konstantinos P. Kakarountas(co-producer)
    Weekend Films
    Dahouse Studio

Best Narrative Short Film

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    MattyBgood

February Award

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Best Actress

  • Veronika Esslinger
    • Veronika Esslinger
    • The Kill

April Award

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Best Editor

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    Winner

    Abduction of the Fourth Kind

    4.5 (46)
    Brett Wilson Sr.(Editor)
    Wilson Film Productions

Best Producer

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    Abduction of the Fourth Kind

    4.5 (46)
    James Mcshan(Executive Producer)
    Wilson Film Productions

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