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Chicago Indie Film Awards

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Special Mention

Best Narrative Short

Stardust
Manahar Kumar(director/producer)

Dark Comedy

Fear, Actually

Chicago Indie Film Award

Best Actor

Winner
Kristian Repshus
Not Quite Lost
Winner
Rasheed Stephens
Between Forever
Almaz Noor
Winner
Thai Edwards
The Ice Cream Stop
Winner
Jörg Reichlin
Am Rande der Zeiten
Winner
Jon Peterson
George M Cohan Tonight!
BumptyBump Productions
Havon Baraka(actor)
Mom's Will

Best Actress

Winner
Pauline Chalamet
Adulting
Winner
Ashlynn Hideman
Until Our Last Breath
Hanchett Media
Winner
Silvia Espigado
Sin novedad
Winner
Carly Chaikin
It's All in Your Head
Anna Rust
Satiety
Constance Brenneman
Along Came Wanda

Best Animated Film

Winner
Burning Bright
7.7 (34)
Aaron Bierman
Winner
The Hairy Notion of a Green Afternoon
Susanne Deeken

Best Animated Short Film

Winner
Lifeblood
8.9 (11)
Nicholas Tory(director)
Ample Projects

Best Cinematography

Winner
Confession
Tianchu Xu(cinematographer)

Best Comedy

Winner
Snälla kriminella
4.2 (489)
Johan Wiman
Sara Young
Story One
Winner
Meet the Girl
5.6 (13)
Dennis Ricks
Ben Ave Production
Winner
Sparky
Ashley Ephraim(Director)
BrightCap Entertainment

Best Composer

Winner
Landing
Emiliano Mazzenga(Composer)
Winner
Moving Art: Whales and Dolphins
8.4 (10)
Alan Williams
Winner
Amy Andersson
Winner
Amy Andersson
Winner
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change
Nathalie Bonin
Penka Kouneva
Anne-Kathrin Dern
Sharon Farber
Lolita Ritmanis
Amy Andersson
Miriam Cutler
Starr Parodi
Close the Loop
Dario Vero(composer)
Along Came Wanda
5.7 (678)
Kanoa Wolfe-Doblin

Best Director

Winner
Luis Ismael
1618
Lightbox Filmes
Winner
Terry Weston Marsh
Rosie's Rescue
Winner
Cecilia Choi
Blinded
Blue Honu Films
Winner
Nariman Hamed(director)
Until We Meet Again
Select Studio
Winner
Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
Invisible
Go Films
Winner
Keoni Waxman
The Ravine
Winner
Carlos Butler(director)
The Chimera Effect
Common Ground Media.
Anthony Bates(director)
Mom's Will

Best Documentary Feature

Winner
The Holy Goats
Jimmy Keyrouz
Felicia Taylor
Winner
Three Wise Men: Parallel Lives
8.1 (10)
Sada Rajiah
Desire Prevost
Winner
They Survived Together
8.0 (39)
John Rokosny(director)
10th Edition
Winner
Forgotten Victory
Christopher H.K. Lee
Jae Ku(producer)
C.A.R.E. Projects
Bob Gomel: Eyewitness
8.3 (57)
David Scarbrough(director)
P.E.N.S. (Poetic Energy Needed in Society)
Carlos Wallace
Mikell Limbrick
Liz Faublas
Sol-Caritas
Welcome to Monterey
JoLo Productions
Gosia@Tomek
7.8 (5)
Christine Jezior

Best Editor

Winner
Righteous Villains
3.4 (3.4K)
Chiraag Patel(editor)
Saints and Savages
Winner
Fauna
Davide Fiore(editor)
Winner
Fisher
3.4 (417)
Brian Parks
Maelstrom Films
Cassie B Productions
Winner
Echoes
6.9 (10)
Anthony Kalmeta
Virtual Celluloid

Best Female Filmmaker

Winner
The Witch of Kings Cross
6.3 (427)
Sonia Bible
Winner
Red Sky
Katrina Y. Nelson
Winner
Whistle
Jen Araki-Playfair(filmmaker)
Winner
Between Mountains
7.4 (21)
Vineesha Arora-Sarin
Lady With a Hat Productions
Winner
Wytch Craft
Polly Pierce
Bewytching Productions
American Cherry
4.8 (167)
Marcella Cytrynowicz(director)
Hanna Griffiths(producer)
Taryn Sims(producer)
The Day When Irresponsibility Makes Life Easy
Myowook Kim
Along Came Wanda
5.7 (678)
Jan Miller Corran
Gosia@Tomek
7.8 (5)
Christine Jezior
Share House 33
Yumi Masuda
Team Caminari

Best First Time Filmmaker

Winner
Symphoria
3.9 (137)
Nancy Isaak(executive producer)
Catherine Dao(director)
Symphoria Films,
Message to Future Generations
Sorin Pavelesco(director)
Sorin Media
Close the Loop
Dario Vero(director)
Share House 33
Yumi Masuda
Team Caminari

Best Horror

Winner
The Rage
9.4 (5)
Steven DeRock
Winner
Grandpa: The Horror
7.6 (8)
Bethany Dwyer(actor)
Dana Pacheco(actor)
John Henry Richardson(actor)
Cereal Killer Productions
Umbrage
Timothy Wilde
Space Gorilla

Best Horror Short

Winner
Crude Massacre
Ven Scott
Indignant Dog Films
Red Aces Productions
Winner
Ni Aquí Ni Allá (Neither Here Nor There)
5.9 (8)
Franco Machado-Pesce

Best Indie Film

Winner
The River of Love
7.3 (6)
Pravesh Sippy
N.N. Sippy Productions
Winner
Alder
8.0 (8)
Vanda Ladeira(director)
Winner
Odota Minua
Patrick Shannon
Winner
The Decipio
8.8 (12)
Jason Gullifer
Alexander Klebanoff
Deon Williams
Cold Kill
Andrew Niblo(director)
Felix Forrest(producer)
Russell Dalgleish(executive producer)
Ecaveo Capital Partners
Mom's Will
Anthony Bates(director)
Invisible
Juan Lume(writer/director/producer)
Ignacio Verdugo(writer/producer)
Italo Spotorno(writer/actor)
Go Films
Along Came Wanda
5.7 (678)
Jan Miller Corran
Balthazar and I
Gosia@Tomek
7.8 (5)
Christine Jezior
I Want Out
Isaac Odeniran(producer)
ZOE FILMS & DRAMA

Best Narrative Feature

Winner
1618
5.8 (307)
Luis Ismael
Lightbox Filmes
Winner
Reception
8.4 (5)
Charlotte Forward
Hot 'n' Tedious Films
Winner
Framed
5.0 (308)
Nick Rizzini(director)
Winner
The Ravine
4.5 (2K)
Keoni Waxman
Robert Pascuzzi
Kelly Pascuzzi
Winner
Vasectomia
6.4 (27)
Marc Décosterd
Winner
Safe House 1618
2.8 (150)
Calvin T. Shepherd
Winner
Reception
8.4 (5)
Jackson Shipman(co-producer)
Allan Weedman(co-producer)
Alex Hrisanthopoulos(co-producer)
Andrew Ferreira(co-producer)
Charlotte Forward(producer)
Nick La Marca(co-producer)
Chase Crawford(executive producer)
Ricardo Campos(co-producer)
Four by Three Productions
Hot 'n' Tedious Films
Trade
5.8 (101)
Trae Briers
FFAM Group

Best Narrative Short

Winner
Walk a Mile
Judith Cowley
Winner
The Color Happy
Brian DeRozan(actor)
Lanett Tachel(actor)
Dale Fabrigar(director)
McColm Cephas Jr.(actor)
Christine Kellogg-Darrin(actor)
Miles Bergsma(composer)
Carrie Finn(producer)
Shirley Fan Zhang(producer)
Vishal Solanki(director of photography)
Bobby Appelbaum(production designer)
Videohead Films
Die Kugel: Im Wandel der Zeit
Ronnie Bugay
Mom's Will
Anthony Bates(director)
The Dirty Hands Man
6.2 (5)
Christian Bareford(director/producer)
Jason Winn 'J.B. Destiny' Bareford(director/producer)
Image 987
Easy said up high
Lena Stamm(Director)
Janin Stenzel(Director)
Elbee Films
Mabel Miller: Female Serial Killer
Rachel Rose Keller(writer/director)
American't
Geovanny Balderas
Patricia Chavez Pichardo
Hollywood International Talents
Huge
7.6 (8)
Danny Farber
Paloma Nozicka
Yes, Darling!
Stanislav Shelestov(director) (writer)
Alexandra Tomilina(producer)
Read or Alive
Kearsten Johansson
Trent Newton
Share House 33
Yumi Masuda
Team Caminari

Best Producer

Winner
The Dunes
5.3 (5.8K)
Martin Copping
Winner
Reflections on Dying
Patrick Seda
Winner
Akwaaba: The Awakening
Sybil D. Jatta
10th Edition
My Beautiful Performance
Lilia Le Dieu

Best Sci-Fi

Winner
Allan Ellen
7.1 (24)
Juan Ros
Eye Slice Pictures
Winner
Fantasy of Companionship between Human and Inanimate
Susan Lim(Director)
Christina Teenz Tan(Director)
Samudra Kajal Saikia(director)
Quantum Classics
Death's Wager
Alex Hurt II(director)

Best Science Fiction

Winner
Boy Scientist
Susan Lim(director)
Samudra Kajal Saikia(director)
Quantum Classics
Winner
The Shasta Triangle
3.6 (371)
Barry W. Levy
Mighty Pharaoh Films
Winner
Ni Aquí Ni Allá (Neither Here Nor There)
5.9 (8)
Franco Machado-Pesce
Winner
June
7.3 (14)
Dwayne Cameron
Dancing Mind Films

Best Script

Winner
The Great Hunger
Paul G. Andrews(writer / producer)
Thomas Keneally(writer)
Meg Keneally(writer)
Roland Joffé(writer)
GlobalWatch Films
Winner
Miscalculated
9.1 (18)
Alyxandrya Prynce
Romel Xavier Moralez
Winner
Out of My Comfort Zone
Ivy Vale
Rick Reil
Where the Sweetgrass Grows
Tommy Anderson
Susie Schaefer
Second Chances
5.8 (51)
Rick Walker

Best Sound

Winner
Fisher
3.4 (417)
Nick Bozzone

Best Student Film

Winner
Tahz
Nepal Arslan
Winner
Bury the Truth
8.2 (51)
Enriko Hamzaj
Filmsscope
Director Enriko Hamzaj is very pleased to take this award.
The table fan story
9.5 (11)
Kaushal Shah(Director, Editor, Producer)
GLS Institute of Design
Beyond Darkwave
Dana Jordan Rothschild
New Heaven
Swati Chugh
Independent Production
Crimson Midnight
Sam Petersen
Austin Cadman
DKG Productions
Bury the Truth
8.2 (51)
Enriko Hamzaj

Best Thriller

Winner
Black Heart, Red Hands
8.7 (9)
Russell Southam(producer)
Adam Spinks(producer)
Owen Elliott(consulting producer)
Little Big Film Company
Winner
De l'autre côté du mur
Tiburce(director)
Winner
De l'autre côté du mur
Tiburce
Bruno François-Boucher
Winner
The Protege' Project: Chapter 1
Lovie Johnson(Director)
SEEFilms
Winner
Chapter Two
Glenn Smith
Cláudia Bento
Daniella Gonella