MIAMI INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
First Edition
Best Narrative Feature:
Kaali Maati
Director: Hemantkumar Mahale
Best Director:
Kaali Maati
Director: Hemantkumar Mahale
Best Narrative Short:
Servus Karl
Director: Thomas Bischof
Best Documentary Feature:
AULCIE
Director: DANI MENKIN
Best Documentary short:
The Child Murderess of Vesene
Director: Carl Eneroth
Best Experimental:
To A God Unknown
Director: Samantha Cassella
Best Cinematography:
Servus Karl
Cinematographer: Judith Stehlik
Best Editor:
AULCIE
Editor: Drew Lahat
Best Actress:
Angel Katherine Taormina
Best Actor:
Shifting Sands
Pat Nolan
Best Unproduced script:
Holiday Help
Writer: Karl Ryan Erikson
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web:
PT: Pain & Torture
Director: Ashley Winters
Best Student Film:
Everything's Fine
Director: Audre Smikle
Best Music Video:
Straight Into The Ocean
Director: Carolyn Laws
Best Trailer:
My Sister Hali
Director Paul Sheriff
Best Horror:
Tom and his Zombie Wife
Director kevin short
Best Thriller:
Symphoria
Director Catherine Dao
Best Trailer & Best First Time Filmmaker:
Climb
Director: Neil Myers
Best Female Filmmaker:
The Saints of the Rue Scribe
Director: Angel Katherine Taorm
Best Independent Film:
The Saints of the Rue Scribe
Director: Angel Katherine Taorm
Second Edition
Best Narrative Feature & Director & Producer & Best Thriller:
The Dunes
Director: Martin Copping
Best Narrative Short:
Abeba
Director: Zelalem Woldemariam
Best Documentary Feature:
Global Warning
Director: Mathew Embry
Best Documentary short:
Kalliope’s From Fear to Freedom
Director: Kalliope Barlis
Best Experimental:
...l'admirable profondeur, du jour à la folie;
Director: JEAN-BAPTISTE Jean-Baptiste DECAVELE
Best Cinematography:
The Dunes
DOP: Chris Ekstein, Shaun Hart, Ben Nicholas
Best Editor:
The Dunes
Editor: Freddy Noriega
Best Actress:
Lori Carr
for: The Missing Dildo
Best Actor:
Martin Copping
For: The Dunes
Best Comedy:
The Missing Dildo
Directors: Vseant Nath, Robert Pralgo
Best Unproduced script:
Delta
Written by Daniel Corey
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web:
BEDLAM (1:05)
Directors: Eric Tucker
Best Student Film:
Growing Peace in the Middle East
Directors: Steven Hoffen
Best Animation
Coming Back
Directors: Yuxin Zhao
Best Music Video:
When I see you
Best Composer
O Sweet Woods
Best First Time Filmmaker:
Kalliope’s From Fear to Freedom
Director: Kalliope Barlis
Best Female Filmmaker:
The Pasha
Director: Josie Maynard
Best Independent Film:
Amazon Queen
Director: Marlin Darrah
Third Edition
Best Narrative Feature
Best Comedy
Brighton
Dir: Stephen Cookson
Best Narrative Short
Preservation
Dir: Benjamin L. Connell
Best Documentary short
Women Take on Nepal
Dir: Tania Verbeeck
Best Director
Tale of Tarot
Dirs: Alexander Hammett, Angel Taylor-Carr
Best Actress
Shalom Omo-Osagie
For: Tale of Tarot
Best Actor
John Henry Richardson
For: GRANDPA: The Horror
Best Unproduced script
Voices
Writer: Susan Klos
Best Experimental
Dinner in the Round
Dir: Howell Cole Kickliter
Best Animation
Ozzie helps his parents
Dir: Marie Leiner
Best Female Filmmaker
Best Horror
Best Script
GRANDPA: The Horror
Writer & Director: Bethany Dwyer
Best Cinematography
GRANDPA: The Horror
DOP: Dean Fisher
Best Composer
Brighton
Music: Gary Yershon
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
My Life as a Doormat (Pilot)
Dir: Anthony Robert Grasso
Best Student Film
Go For Glory
Dir: Wang Shengnan
Best Music Video
Deeper
Dir: Levi Wise Catoe Jr.
Best First Time Filmmaker
Visa Issues
Dir: Sujil Jakhwal
Fourth Edition
Best Narrative Feature
Best Female Filmmaker
MEDUSA
Dir: SOPHIE LEVY
Best Documentary Feature
Ian Cognito: A Life And A Death Onstage
Dirs: Joe Bor, Danny Ward
Best Narrative Short
Best Director
Cocaine
Dir: Samuel Leburu
Best Documentary short
DC Shoes: Cuba Skate
Dirs: Clayton Gabor, Martin Fobes
Best First Time Filmmaker
To Be MELO
Dir: June Mock
Best Experimental
Maenad Fever
Dir: Tamara Cook
Best Animation
Run Little Boy
Dir: Dominick A.D. Bedasse
Best Science Fiction
Hedy
Dir: Andy B Clarke
Best Producer
To Be MELO
Dir: June Mock
Best Cinematography
The Vow
DOP: Xiaolei Gong
Best Editor
MEDUSA
Editors: SOPHIE LEVY, Sanabel Cherqaoui
Best Composer
Cocaine
Music: Kagiso Moreki
Best Actress
Nomazizi Nonqane
For: Cocaine
Best Actor
ARNAUD VALOIS
For: MEDUSA
Best Script
The Six Sides of Truth
Writer: Janet Walker
Best Unproduced script
Dirty Girl From Hell
Writer: Jordan Rockwell
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Dentists
Dir: Paradox Delilah
Best Comedy
Mr. Right?
Dir: Tari Kristine Robinson
Best Music Video
CHANGE CAN START WITH ME
Dir: Cherish Alexander
Best Thriller
FRAGOR
Dir: Jorge Alejandro González Ley
Best Trailer
To Be MELO
Best Indie Film
#MyCorona
Dir: Phil Gorn
Fifth Edition
Best Narrative Feature
13 Miles
Directors: Helena Thom, Anthony Epp
Best Documentary Feature
ELLES DANSENT
Director: ALEXANDRE MESSINA
Best Narrative Short
Faded
Director: Zung La
Best Documentary short
Surviving torture - Syria's Imprisoned women
Director: Alexandra Pauliat
Best Experimental
La Transazione (The Transaction)
Director: Lora Lee Ecobelli
Best Animation
Snack Attacks
Director: Christian Gallardo
Best Science Fiction
Best Script
The Station Caretaker
Writer and Director: Vladislav Emelin
Best Director
The Wind Phone
Director: Kristen Gerweck
Best Cinematography
The Wind Phone
DOP: Jon Keng
Best Actress
Jovanna Burke
For: 13 Miles
and
Thuc Anh Le
For: Faded
Best Actor
Gleb Kopysov
For: The Station Caretaker
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
PARADOX
Director: vasileios billy blioumis
Best Comedy
Love Affair in the Afternoon
Director: Katsuhide Yamago
Best Student Film
Cordelia
Director: Shelby Zhang
Best Music Video
ELEVATOR
Director: Joe Chilcott
Best Thriller
Gus and Chloe
Director: Christopher Bates
Best Composer
Man with Shadow
Music: Robert Jisa
Best First Time Filmmaker
Embers
Director: Tom Ganley
Best Female Filmmaker
Next Generation
Directors: Niya Aleksandrova, Ayelet Heller
Best Indie Film
Mirage
Director: beaucourt christophe
Best Unproduced script
Killing the Second Dog
Writer: JERZY KOWYNIA
6th Edition/March, 2022
Best Documentary Feature & Best Female Filmmaker
AUTISM ACROSS THE GLOBE
Director: Rima Joseph Irani
Best Documentary short
Music and Mental Health Episode 9 of 9
Director: Tina Rix
Best Science Fiction & Best Narrative Feature
DESTINATION MARFA
Director: Andy Stapp
Best Narrative Short
90 miles
Director: Leslie Lluvet
Best Director
Permission
Director: Abhishek Satham
Best Editor
Beat Lingo
Editor: Jose Navas
Best Cinematography
I Wish for You
DOP: Dan Holland
Best Experimental
Deoch Dance
Director: Orlagh Heverin
Best Animation
Nightlink
Director: Aidan O'Sullivan
Best Producer
Mountain
Producers: SHENSHUAI TANG, JIARUI GUO, FENG CAO
Best Actress
Alison Stover
For: The Four Walls of Charlotte Moreland
Best Actor
Corvonte Davis
For: Beat Lingo
Best Script
The Four Walls of Charlotte Moreland
Writers: Joe Benedetto, Alison Stover
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Lola Does Manhattan
Director: Rob Margolies
Best Unproduced script
First Comes Death
Writer: Christopher Goodenough
Best Comedy
Parking lot
Director: Josh Bursky
Best Student Film
Wonderland
Director: Dilara Avgen
Best Music Video
Entitled Space Sheep
Director: Gad Zigdon
Best Thriller
Blinded
Directors: Jim Morton, Jesse James
Best First Time Filmmaker
Traders
Director: Olivia Gropp
7th Edition/May 2022
Best Narrative Feature & Best Producer
8 years
Dir: Jose David Alcázar
Producer: Miguel Ángel Poveda Criado, Carlos Mestanza
Best Narrative Short
Best Director
Riley
Dir: Ben McHugh
Best Documentary Feature
TRUE BEAUTY 2020's
Dir: Paul G Roberts
Best Documentary short
Following the Thread
Dir: Kathy Brew
Best First Time Filmmaker
Waking up
Dir: Dion Costelloe
Best Experimental
The Model
Dir: Shira Cohen Elias
Best Animation
The Eye
Dir: John Chang
Best Student Film
Unsaid Words
Dir: Stark Zhao
Best Actress
Eva Habermann
For: THE UGLY TRUTH
Best Actor
Jeffrey Kelley
For: The Pugilist
Best Indie Film
Best Cinematography
Never Alone
Dirs: paul francis bunch, albert Soratorio
Dop: Brian Nguyen
Best Thriller
There's No Hell Like Home
Dir: Russell Southam
Best Female Filmmaker
On the Road to Dallas
Dir: Mathilde Marinet
Best Composer
Hot Bath An' A Stiff Drink
Music: Geoff Levin
Best Comedy
SMASHED
Dir: Dawn Spinella
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Don't care to share
Dir: Dekel Aizen
Best Script
THE UGLY TRUTH
Writers: Krisha Ashu Bhati, Eva Habermann
Best Unproduced script
BLOOD TATTOO
Writer: Bruce Hickey
Best Trailer
Idling in the Fog
8th Edition/July 2022
Best Narrative Short - Best Director
《Wall of Air》
Directed by: 于 耀
Best Documentary Feature - Best Female Filmmaker
Call Me Madame Maestro
Directed by: Christina Olofson
Best Documentary short
Louie (KR.ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ
Directed by: Eirini Alligiannis
Best Experimental
THE IBERIANS
Directed by: CANDY LOPESINO
Best Animation
The Sea of Hope
Directed by: Walid Salhab
Best Science Fiction
Swarms of Shades
Directed by: Nasim Ganjani
Best Editor
PIT
Directed by: Min Kim
Best Actress
Under Tension
Actress: Mireille Fiévet
Best Script / Unproduced script
Dust and Fog
Written by: Daniel Corey
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
AAAMC Speaks: Teresa Hairston: The Unstoppable Game-Changer
Directed by: Ethan Gill, Haley Semian
Best Comedy
You've Matched
Directed by: Justin Poage
Best Music Video
Sinner
Directed by: John Danz
Best First Time Filmmaker
The Good Skates
Directed by: Chris Coffman
9th Edition
Best Narrative Feature
Somebody to Love
Director: Christopher Frentzel
Best Narrative Short - Best Director
Luna
Director: Jazelle Cheong
Best Documentary Feature
Hudson, America
Directors: Zuzka Kurtz, Geoffrey Hug
Best Documentary short
Unflinching Grace
Director: Bill Frakes
Best Experimental
The Island of Saints
Director: Eric Daniel Fraad
Best Animation
HUNGER
Directors: Enrique Pilozo-Liuxander Ricardo Silva
Best Science Fiction
Beyond Above
Director: Sally Silver
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
13TH STEPPING
Director: Emily Ruhl
Best Cinematography
Luna
DOP: Benjamin Lam
Best Actress
Olivia Berris
For: BLUE MOON
Best Script
THE CANDY NOTES - ANTHOLOGY
Writer :Juliano Angeliano
Best Unproduced script
The Fox
Writer: Marc Castaldo
Best Trailer
The Dj Documentary Story
Best First Time Filmmaker
Eyes Upon Waking
Director: Timothy Zwica
Best Female Filmmaker
Through your eyes
Director: Sonia Guggisberg
10th Edition/Nov 2022
Best Documentary Feature
The truth about La Dolce Vita
Director: Giuseppe Pedersoli
Best Narrative Short & Best Director
Probaho (The flow of life)
Director: Promita Bhowmik
Best Experimental
A Dollhouse 2041- Evangelium Vitae Moderne
Director: Melanie Ekholdt Huynh
Best Unproduced script
Why She Did It
Writer: L. Andrew Cooper
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
The Story of Art in America, S.2
Director: Christelle Bois
Best Documentary short
Twilight of Tolerance
Director: Zara Faraji
Best Female Filmmaker
A man who loves me
Director: Frederique Barraja
Best Animation
A Polar Bear Story
Director: Vanessa Nilsson
Best First Time Filmmaker
The Island Ahead
Director: Xiwen Zheng
Best Music Video
Off to College
Directors: susan mey lee Lim, Christina Teenz Tan, Samudra Kajal Saikia
Best Actor
Richard Clements
For: Affirmation
Best Indie Film
BlackBeast
Director: Hamin Hwang
Best Composer
Starlight
Composer: Igor Evard
11th Edition/2023
Best Documentary Feature
The Captain's Heart
Dir: Simon Bang
Best Editor
The Gift
Editor: Ray Shaw
Best Cinematography
Manhattan Moments
Photographer: Chuck Fishbein
Best Actress
Kayden Brenna Tokarski
For: I Miss Her, Too
Best Actor
Alireza Dehghani
For: Actors of God
Best Unproduced script
The Grizzly
Writer: SID KRAMER
Best Thriller
Echoes
Dir: Ash Gray
Best composer
Bicyclist
Music: Brett Tanz
Best Narrative Short
Seahorse
Dir: Zara Faraji
Best First Time Filmmaker
Last Chance
Dir: George Jac
Best Indie Film
Actors
Dir: Adam Jones
12th Edition/2023
Best Narrative Short
In The Between
Director: Mark Koetsier
Best Actress
In The Between
Gina Vitori
Best Animation
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate
Directors: Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Documentary Feature
The Thunder and the Wind
Director: Jorge A Solino
Best Documentary short
Twilight of Tolerance
Director: Peter Hongtai
Best Experimental
Pangolia
Director: Kay Adshead
Best Indie
A poet
Director: Aslan Borhani
Best Unproduced script
LOSING GLORIA
Writer: Madeleine Wynn
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Heroes
Director: Roberto Sanchez
Best Comedy
The Namessime
Director: Xavier Bélony Mussel
13th edition
Best Narrative Feature & Best Director & Best Producer
Dying to Sleep
Dir: Paris Dylan
Producer: Mike Hermosa, SarahLydia Sophia, Paris Dylan
Best Documentary Feature
Millstone
Dir: Nasser Aldhaheri
Best Narrative Short
Who Reported Me
Dir: Jinhuan Bai
Best Documentary short
The Fight For Rhinoceros Conservation
Dirs: Max Lévine, Flo Lemonnier
Best Experimental
Libby and I
Dir: Inbar Caspi
Best Thriller
Half Samurai
Dir: Rashad Haughton
Best Animation
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate
Dirs: Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saikia, Christina Teenz Tan
Best Actor
Christoph Hulsen
For: The Red Ribbon
Best Actress
SarahLydia Sophia
For: Dying to Sleep
Best Cinematography
Dying to Sleep
DOP: Muneeb Rehman
Best Music Video
I've Become
Dirs: Lynette Aleman, JoJo Dancer
Best Editor
Bicycle
Editor: Ray Shaw
Best Script/Unproduced script
Hell's End
Writer: Walter Hochbrueckner
Best Student Film
Promised Land
Dir: Sidi Zhang
Best Trailer
Parkway
Best Composer
Poison Shrimp
Music: Karen Handoon
Best First Time Filmmaker
Julia
Dir: Víctor Muñoz
Best Indie Film
LOVE ME,STUPID
Dir: BUVANA RAM