Brilliant Indie Film Awards

Brilliant Indie Film Awards (BIFA) is an international multi-genre Film Festival aiming to promote independent film to the filmmaking community, producers and distribution companies. We don't represent a particular city or state - we want to provide an equal opportunity and experience regardless of the location of participants.

Five best seasonal projects will be shared will be promoted in the form of online screening at the end of the season at our website. We will use short segments (1-2 minutes long) to promote the best works.

What can you expect from BIFA?
• Staff with experience in managing film festivals
• Active communication: maximum response time is 24 hours
• Certificates designed in cooperation with a professional graphic designer
• Promotion of your art: we will use our social media and website to get you and your project noticed. Additionally we offer an interview which will be permanently shared at our website.

𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 - 𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦
Best Short Film (under 45 minutes)
Best Feature Film (over 45 minutes)
Best Super Short Film (under 4 minutes)
Best Documentary
Best Experimental Film
Best Animation
Best Drama
Best Thriller
Best Horror
Best Student Film
Best Romance
Best Comedy
Best Science Fiction

𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 - 𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦
Best Director (Super Short Film)
Best Director (Short Film)
Best Director (Feature Film)
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Editing
Best Sound Design
Best Costume Design
Best VFX

𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 - 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦
Best European Film
Best North American Film
Best South American Film
Best Asian Film
Best Australian Film
Best African Film

𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦
Best Super Short Script
Best Short Script
Best Feature Script

𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦
Best Music Video
Best Original Song

𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗧𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗬 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦
Best Photograph
Best Poster

𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪
Submit your project into the category "Interview" and we will send you series of questions about you, your filmmaking career, inspiration and future goals. Your answers including your works will be shared permanently at our website in the interview section. The submitted project will also be included in the seasonal competition (you can choose a category in which you want to participate).