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Welcome to IMDb qualifying NEW YORK INDIE SHORTS AWARDS, TOP 30 most popular and 100 best reviewed festivals.
Our main goal is to find talented filmmakers from all around the world who stand out for having something to communicate through art and help them promote their work.
Some of our former contestants include Iggy Pop, Pauline Chalamet, Julie Pacino, Kevin Bacon, Oscar nominees Jude Law, Brenda Blethyn, Golden Globe winner Kyra Sedgwick and a new wave of talented directors like Student Academy Award Winners Akanksha Cruczynski, De’Onna “Tree” Young, Curry Sicong Tian, Pilar Garcia-Fernandezesma, Kristen Hwang, Murad Abu Eisheh, Simon Denda, Tribeca winning award director Peter Sluszka and so many more.
You can submit your film in any of the Main Competitions and automatically your film will be considered for all Technical & Performance Categories with no extra cost and participate for Cash Prizes up to USD 6000 per year.
You don’t need to pay any additional category fee! Just submit your film in any of the Main Competitions where you feel your project fits better.
Once you submit your film, our international screeners team will watch and review your project. Quarterly, the highest scored films will become finalists and automatically will join the Official Selection with +100 films to be screened at our live event.
The entire Official Selection films will receive the festival laurel. At the end of the live event we will announce all Main Competitions and Technical & Performance winners chosen by our industry jury.
Winners will receive the corresponding Certificate of Achievement and Laurel.
Moreover, we will announce the winner of the AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD who will receive a cash prize.
SEMIFINALISTS
In addition, each quarter the festival will distinguish a selection of films as semifinalists. All semifinalist projects will be invited to be part of our online event and will receive the corresponding laurel.
All films at our Online Event will participate for cash prizes and 3 Wild Card Invitations to the Live Event at the Cinema Village, NY.
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet”
NARRATIVE SHORT
FOREIGN SHORTS
DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
ANIMATION SHORTS
NEW FILMMAKERS SHORTS
EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
STUDENT SHORTS
HORROR SHORTS
MUSIC VIDEOS
COMEDY SHORTS
By submitting in any of our 10 MAIN COMPETITIONS, your film will be considered for all TECHNICAL & PERFORMANCE CATEGORIES at no extra cost.
Best Producer
Best Female Director
Best Male Director
Best Female Student Director
Best Male Student Director
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best New Actress/Actor
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Sound Design
Best Original Score
Best Screenwriting
All these categories are complimentary. When you submit a film in a MAIN COMPETITION, it is automatically considered in all Technical & Performance Categories. Tick all the free categories you want to be considered and add the names of the artists for that specific category in the Custom Form.
Your film will be reviewed by our Screeners Team and the highest scored ones will be selected as Official Selection receiving the corresponding Laurels. Then our international jury made up by artists from different areas of the film industry like Actors, Directors, Art directors, Sound Designers, Producers, Editors, and Cinematographers from all over the world including United States, France, Austria, Canada, Argentina and Sweden, will choose the winners in each category and they will receive the Official Laurels and Certificates of Achievement.
“Already when I was very young, I was a “fabulador”. I loved to give my own version of stories that everybody already knew”
