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
  Sita Sings the Blues
  Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley , primarily using 2D computer graphics and Flash Animation.It intersperses events from the Ramayana, illustrated conversation between Indian shadow puppets,...
  
  - 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
  El Inmigrante
  El Inmigrante is a 2005 documentary directed and written by brothers David and John Eckenrode along with John Sheedy, about immigrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border...
  
  - Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature
• Binta & the Great Idea - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film
• Antonio's Breakfast
  Antonio's Breakfast
  Antonio's Breakfast is a 2005 British film that was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Short Film at the 59th British Academy Film Awards in January 2006. It has also won awards at Newport, Indianapolis, Kansas, Melbourne and Newport International Film Festivals. It is...
  
   - 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
  Murderball (documentary)
  Murderball is a 2005 American documentary film about tetraplegic athletes with partial arm function who play wheelchair rugby. It centers on the rivalry between the Canadian and U.S. teams leading up to the 2004 Paralympic Games. It was directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro, and...
  
  - Audience Award, Best Feature
• West Bank Story - Audience Award, Best Short Film
• Murderball
  Murderball (documentary)
  Murderball is a 2005 American documentary film about tetraplegic athletes with partial arm function who play wheelchair rugby. It centers on the rivalry between the Canadian and U.S. teams leading up to the 2004 Paralympic Games. It was directed by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro, and...
  
  - 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
  The Story of the Weeping Camel
  The Story of the Weeping Camel is a 2003 German docudrama distributed by ThinkFilm. It was released internationally in 2004. The movie was directed and written by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni. The plot is about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert trying to save the life of a...
  
  - 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
  Antonio's Breakfast
  Antonio's Breakfast is a 2005 British film that was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win Best Short Film at the 59th British Academy Film Awards in January 2006. It has also won awards at Newport, Indianapolis, Kansas, Melbourne and Newport International Film Festivals. It is...
  
   - Daniel Mulloy
  Daniel Mulloy
  Daniel Mulloy is a British artist and filmmaker. He is winner of The Golden Dragon, BIFA and BAFTA Awards.-Life and career:Born in Brixton , London, Mulloy moved to Carmarthen, Wales, as a teenager...
  
   - 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
  The Cole Nobody Knows
  The Cole Nobody Knows is a documentary film about musician Freddy Cole, the younger brother of Eddie Cole, Ike Cole & Nat King Cole.The film tells Mr. Cole’s story through interviews with musicians Monty Alexander, Nancy Wilson, David “Fathead” Newman, John di Martino, H Johnson and Carl Anthony...
  
   - Clay Walker
  Clay Walker (filmmaker)
  Clay Walker is an American filmmaker.In 1992, Walker produced, directed, photographed and edited the PBS documentary Post No Bills on Los Angeles "guerilla" satirical political poster artist Robbie Conal. Post No Bills received a at the 1992 Chicago International Film Festival...
  
   - 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
  My Backyard Was A Mountain
  My Backyard Was A Mountain is a 2005 multiple award winning AFI short film by Puerto Rican - American writer/director Adam Schlachter and produced by Austin Wakefield....
  
   - 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
  Toru Tokikawa
  is a Japanese-born film director based in Los Angeles. He was selected for International Finacing Forum at Toronto International Film Festival and Producer's Lab during CineMart at Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008. His projects are supported by J-Pitch, a Japanese film promoting...
  
   - 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
  Ronnie Cramer
  Ronnie Cramer is an American artist, composer and filmmaker.Born in Bismarck, North Dakota, Cramer currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado. During the 1980s he produced watercolor paintings, video installations and played guitar in several rock bands, most notably Alarming Trends, the...
  
  - 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
• Indianapolis International Film Festival at the Fargo Filmmaking Wiki Project