The IMDb qualifying Chicago Indie Film Awards celebrates indie U.S. and international film and script projects through its annual and bi-monthly competition. The festival is looking for fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, comedy and all genres of filmmaking which can inspire us, challenge us and make us think.
Here are the winners of the 17th edition:
Best Narrative Feature
Into the Box
Nasim Naghavi- Amir Ganjavie
Best Narrative Short
Wasted Blind
Director: Troy Burbank
Best Feature Documentary
The Vertical Border
Director: Sonja Wolf
Best Short Documentary
Merk
Director: Bernard Gray
Best Experimental
The skinning of the eel
Director Christine Comeau
Best Animation
PERCEPTION
Director: Brandon Frank Lopez
Best Sci/Fi
The Split
Director: Dario Vero
Best Short Horror
The Dark
Director: Randy Sage
Best Director
One Man Band
Director: Dekang Liu
Best Producer & Best Edit
Falconer 2 The Untold Stories
Director: Edwin E. Brochin
Best Cinematography
You Can't Be Here
Director: Zachary A Pope
Best Actress
THE RIVER YOU STEP IN
Astrid Van Wieren
Best Actor
Blueberry
Andrew McIntyre
Best Script
SOUL'S ON FIRE
Writer: Joseph Lincoln Harrison
Best Web-Series
Angel Dust
Directors: Mark Hemstock, Chrystal Snow
Best Comedy
Garage Sale
Director: Troy Burbank
Best Student Film
Althaea
Director: Karim Shawky
Best Music Video
JULIAN BROOKS - SNAKEBITE
Directors: Tim Cash, Irie Adina
Best Short Thriller
Pros and Cons
Director: Robert Vassie
Best Composer
Drown Without Water
Rachel Walker Mason
Best First Time Filmmaker & Best Indie Film
You Never Know One Day You Too Might Become A Refugee
Directors: Teo Nicholas Ormond
Best Female Filmmaker
Interpretive Dance
Director: Anne Brashier