Our latest Live Event took place at the LOOK cinemas from November 14th till November 17th 2024 in New York city !. It was a total success with fully sold-out screenings !!!! ๐ฝ. Thank you to all the participants and guests!๐ Check our photos above ๐ธ ๐.
Welcome to IMDb qualifying NEW YORK INDIE SHORTS AWARDS.
We enjoyed more than ๐100๐ international films, networking cocktails, panels and Q&A's.๐ฝ.
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, DeโOnna โTreeโ Young, Curry Sicong Tian, Pilar Garcia-Fernandezesma, Kristen Hwang, Murad Abu Eisheh, Simon Denda, Tribeca winning award director Peter Sluszka, Matthew Modine, Molly Ringwald and so many more.
You can submit your film to any of the Main Categories and/or to the Additional Categories and participate for Cash Prizes.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Once you submit your film, our international screeners team will watch and review your project. The highest scored films will become finalists and automatically will join the Official Selection with +90 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 Additional Categories winners chosen by our Judging Team.
Winners will receive the corresponding Certificate of Achievement and Laurel.
Moreover, we will announce the winner of the AUDIENCE AWARD who will receive a cash prize of USD 1000.
SEMIFINALISTS
In addition, 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 compete for the NY NEW WAVES GRAND AWARD, which includes a cash prize of USD 1000.
PITCH THE AUDIENCE
New York Indie Shorts Awards is introducing a new competition called
"PITCH THE AUDIENCE," where filmmakers can submit
a 2-minute video presentation for free pitching their next project. See rules and guidelines below.
If selected by our programming team, this presentation will be screened during our Live Event. Both the audience and the programming team will vote for the most compelling project, and the winner will receive USD 3500 to fund their future project!
MAIN CATEGORIES:
NARRATIVE SHORT
FOREIGN SHORT
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
ANIMATION SHORT
NEW FILMMAKERS SHORT
EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
STUDENT SHORT
HORROR SHORT
MUSIC VIDEO
COMEDY SHORT
TECHNICAL AND PERFORMANCE CATEGORIES:
FEMALE DIRECTOR
MALE DIRECTOR
STUDENT DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
ACTRESS
ACTOR
CINEMATOGRAPHY
SCREENWRITING
SCORE & SOUND DESIGN
EDITING