Welcome to Indie Shorts Awards MIAMI
Our mission is to discover talented filmmakers from all over the world and help them promote and showcase their work.
Indie Shorts Awards Miami is a festival dedicated to international short films of all genres, aiming to find new voices and perspectives to celebrate the power of a good story. We are committed to bring the best of worldwide cinema.
Miami and its inimitable and amazing style is home to one of the largest film production and distribution centers in the world.
The film history has an immense relationship with Miami and continues to fully grow in magnificent ways.
Our professional screeners will privately review your film and the highest scored films will become part of the official selection. Then, our international jury will award the best projects among them. All of them will receive the official laurel and an achievement certificate.
We will also be awarding the Best Short of the year with a prize of USD 2500 and the Best New Filmmaker with a prize of USD 1000. (The annual prize of usd 2500 will be given once a year to the best film chosen from INDIE SHORTS AWARDS Miami, Cannes, New York, Seoul and Buenos Aires). Same as the annual prize of usd 1000 for Best New Filmmaker)
Winner announcements will be released on December 15 th through our social media to help promote your film.
CATEGORIES
We proudly announce all our Categories.
Your project might become a multi award winning film!.
In order to apply to any additional category, the film must be submitted in a MAIN category.
MAIN CATEGORIES
Best Short
Best Foreign short
Best Documentary Short
Best Animation Short
Best Experimental Short
Best Student Short
Best First Time Filmmaker Short
Best Music Video
Best Web Series
ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES
Best Producer
Best Female Director
Best Male Director
Best Female Student Director
Best Male Student Director
Best Actress
Best Actor
Best New Artist
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Sound Design
Best Original Score
Best Screenwriting