Chicago Indie Film Awards recently announced the winners of its latest monthly edition. The festival is growing into an important indie festival for all independent filmmakers from around the world. It is never an easy task being an indie filmmaker with an original cinematic voice. While the pandemic has made it more challenging for all filmmakers and film festivals, the Chicago Indie Film Awards is continuing its monthly program with the hopes of discovering and recognizing talented indie filmmakers.
Here is the full list of the winners:

Best Narrative Feature
Pink Opaque
Directed by: Dave Ragsdale

Best Experimental Feature
Adams' Apples
Director: John Strasberg

Best First Time Filmmaker & Best Producer & Best Composer
The World Without You
Director: Damon Shalit
Producer: Suzanne Johnson Composer: Jeremy Cain Adelman

Best Experimental Short
ALEPH
Director: Joao Butoh

Best Narrative Short & Best Actor & Best Script
Meanwhile
Director: Kleber Macedo
Actor & Writer: Bernardo Felinto

Best Documentary Feature
Higher Grounds
Director: Stuart Svenson

Best Documentary Short
Swipe Left: The Age of Disposable Relationships
Director: Amber Ostergaard

Best Experimental Director
Heron – Fragrance of violence
Director: Natalie Sutinen

Best Animation
Tank Talk-2 Who Ate Carl?
Director: Mike Salva

Best Science Fiction
UNDERPASS
Director: Montana Bertoletti

Best Horror
Queen of the Dead
Director: Justin Head

Best Director
Love is not Love
Director: Stephen Keep Mills

Best Editing & Best Cinematography
Infinite Tao
Director Kai Deng

Best Actress
Alexa Morden for The Colour of Spring

Best Unproduced Script
The Mountains Are Calling
Writer: Eva Bennett

Best Series
Ruthless
Director: Michelle Snyder

Best Comedy
The Assistant
Director: Peter Calvin

Best Student Film
After You
Director: Shannon DiSalle

Best Music Video
Lost In Pantitlán
Director: Emilio Guerrero Alexander

Best Thriller
FOLLOW THE ARROW
Director: Marc SAEZ

Best Trailer
Dead Souls: Apocrypha Black
Director: Korea Black

Best Indie Film
The Colour of Spring
Directed by: Paul Andrew Kimball

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