It is with great pleasure for us to announce the latest winners of Chicago Indie Film Awards. The monthly edition of the festival has focused on arthouse indie film projects of all genres from all over the world. The festival has created a unique structure to support, promote and recognize independent artists in various categories of each edition. Chicago is an important city when it comes to filmmaking and it is important to have an indie festival for U.S. and international filmmakers in Chicago.
Best Narrative Feature: After the Night with Valerie
Dir: Alex M. Garnett
Best Narrative Short: Rules to Rule
Dir: G.C. Montgomery
Best Documentary Feature:
Sleeping Warrior
Dir: Janet Wells, Mwaura Timothy
Best Documentary short:
The Lens and Memory
Dir: Rubén Montiel Mendoza
Best Experimental:
Melody of War
Dir: Nadia Kal
Best Animation:
King of the House
Dir: Zige Zhang
Best Science Fiction:
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate
Dir: Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Horror:
The Disturbance Call
Dir: Gregory Fisco, Lucas Lopez
Best Director:
Raúl Koler, Emiliano Sette Anacronte
Best Producer:
WAS I NEXT? THE SEAN CRIBBIN STORY
Dir: Craig Huckerby
Cinematography:
The Conservationist
Cinematographer: Blaine Dunkley
Best Editor:
Edward Moreno for THE STOOGE
Best Actress:
Ashlynn Hideman for Until Our Last Breath
Best Actor:
Rasheed Stephens for Between Forever
Best Script:
The Great Hunger
Writer: Paul G. Andrews, Thomas Keneally, Meg Keneally, Roland Joffé
Best Unproduced script:
Voices
Writer: Susan Klos
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web:
Coasters
Dir: Sam Jacks
Best Comedy:
Therapist of the dead
Dir: Aleks Alifirenko Jr
Best Student Film:
As We Are Planted
Dir: Anna Lee Ackermann
Best Music Video:
Andreas Wolff-Solo
Dir: Sion R. Joseph
Best Thriller:
The dark side of the wall
Dir: Tiburce
Best Trailer:
The Brazilian Templars Mystery
Dir: Next Anyextee, Neil Cabana
Best Composer:
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change
Composers: Nathalie Bonin, Miriam Cutler, Anne-Kathrin Dern, Isolde Fair, Sharon Farber, Penka Kouneva, Starr Parodi and Lolita Ritmanis.
Best First Time Filmmaker:
Symphoria
Dir: Catherine Dao
Best Female Filmmaker:
Losing Grace
Dir: Athena Mandis
Best Indie Film:
Odota Minua
Dir: Patrick Shannon