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Web exclusive: IIFF Awards

 

The following are the results from this year’s Indianapolis International Film Festival audience votes:

Audience Award — Best Feature Film (TIE)
Waitress — director Adriane Shelley
Speed Dating — director Tony Herbert

Audience Award — Best Documentary
In the Shadow of the Moon — David Sington
(shattered all Audience Award records with a 5.837 average grade out of 6, with 6 being A+)

Audience Award — Best Short Film
The Substitute — Andrea Jublin

American Spectrum

Grand Jury Prize – Feature
Adrift in Manhattan — director Alfredo de Villa

Grand Jury Prize – Short
Pop Foul — director Moon Molson

Special Jury Prize for Cinematography
Disappearances — Wolfgang Held

Special Jury Prize for Comedy
Nevel is the Devil — director Peter Craig
Kidney Thieves — director Toby Wilkins

Real Visions

Grand Jury Prize – Feature
Rain in a Dry Land — director Anne Makepeace

Grand Jury Prize – Short
Angel’s Fire — director Marcelo Bukin

Special Jury Prize – Honorable Mention – Feature
Bridge Over the Wadi — director Barak & Tomer Heymann

Special Jury Prize – Honorable Mention – Short
Heavy Metal Jr. — director Chris Watt

Special Jury Prize – Outstanding Direction
McLaren’s Negatives — director Marie-Josee Saint-Pierre

World Cinema

Grand Jury Prize – Feature
Fraulein — director Andrea Staka

Grand Jury Prize – Short
Eramos Pocos — director Borja Cobeaga

Special Jury Prize – Performance
The cast of Thicker than Water

Special Jury Prize – Music
Milk & Opium — composer Deepak Castelino

The Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Prize for Outstanding Science Fiction Filmmaking to:
First on the Moon — director Aleksei Fedorchenko

The Excellence in Animation Award goes to:
Everything Will Be Okay — director Don Hurtzfeldt

The Hoosier Lens Award goes to:
Marrying God — director Duke Johnson — award to Indianapolis native, Brebu graduate and Executive Producer Erika Yancey