Chicago Indie Film Awards has announced the winners of its 8th edition. The festival has been growing in popularity by indie filmmakers and artists with U.S. and international productions. The festival ranks in the top 2% on FilmFreeway as an IMDb qualifying event with screening options for the award winners of the month. It is with great joy for us to share the latest winners of Chicago Indie Film Awards on June 8th, 2021.
Best Narrative Feature
Dir: Nick Rizzini
Best Feature Comedy
Frozen Stupid2: Open Water
Dir: Rich Brauer
Best Narrative Short
Speaker
Dir: Henrik Johansson Best Documentary Feature
Their Stories, Their Truths
Dir: Ratan Paul
Best Documentary short
Save me for tomorrow
Dir: Bryan Downey
Honorable Mention Documentary
Three Wise men-Parallel Lives
Dir: Sada Rajiah, Desire Prevost
Best Experimental
l'admirable profondeur, du jour à la folie
Dir: JEAN-BAPTISTE Jean-Baptiste DECAVELE
Best Animation
Coming Back
Dir: Yuxin Zhao Best Science Fiction
The Shasta Triangle
Dir: Barry W. Levy
Best Horror
GRANDPA : The Horror
Dir: Bethany Dwyer
Best Director
Invisible
Dir: Juan Lume
Best Producer
The Dunes
Producer : Martin Copping
Best Cinematography
Chris Sullivan
CONFESSION
Best Editor
CHEYENNE
Editor: Lucie Lacono
Best Actress
Anne Harris
THE MUSICIAN
Best Actor
Jörg Reichlin
Am Rande der Zeiten
Best Script
Miscalculated
Writers: Alyxandrya Prynce, Romel Xavier Moralez
Best Unproduced script
Second Best and Best
Writer: John McCloskey Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
SEED: Paradise Lost
Dir: Rob Skiba
Best Comedy
Meet The Girl
Dir: Dennis Ricks
Best Student Film
FALL
Dir: Shihao Guo
Best Music Video
Locked Up
Dir: Paul Cozens, Peter Renzullo
Best Thriller
Becoming Emma Braintree
Dir: Joshua Koske
Best Trailer
Lemonade: Making The Most of What You Have
Dir: Chelsea Cook, Brian McDaniels Best Composer
Man with Shadow
Composer; Robert Jisa Best First Time Filmmaker
Bought and Sold
Dir: Grant Troyer Best Female Filmmaker
Farmer Taste
Dir: hsing hung Lee Best Indie Film
VASECTOMIA
Dir: Marc Décosterd