LA Indies monthly festival is sponsored by LA Indies Magazine in Hollywood. The festival was created by the committee of LA Indies Magazine in order to recognize, award and promote indie filmmakers from all over the world. The members of the jury are chosen from award winning filmmakers, artists, festival directors, critics, producers and distributors.

The festival was created with the intention of creating breakthroughs in the career of talented filmmakers in the film industry. It is important to encourage indie filmmakers to continue working on their craft and create groundbreaking indie films in these challenging times.

Our festival will provide the right tools for each official selection to create further opportunities to market, feature, screen and distribute film projects through our partners in media.

LA Indies will promote the award winners at LA Indies Magazine.

Awards & Prizes

Best Feature Narrative/Drama
Best Feature Documentary Film
Best Short Narrative Film
Best Short Documentary Film
Best Comedy
Best Science Fiction
Best Horror
Best Animation
Best Student
Best TV Series/Pilot/Web
Best Experimental
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Producer
Best Editor
Best Composer

Rules & Terms

All genres are accepted and there are no completion date requirements by LA Indies.
Shorts are considered less than 50 minutes.
Features are considered more than 50 minutes.
Filmmakers can submit their artists and nominate them in artist categories for producing, cinematography, editing etc.
The jury will not provide feedback for official selections and the nominees.
All filmmakers with a film project can submit to the LA Indies magazine category and are guaranteed to be featured by the magazine upon submission.
The festival has the right to use promotional material from the selected films and the award winners at LA Indies Magazine and on social media.

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  • Sil Brook

    Excellent film festival. Recommended to all.

    July 2021
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  • Giovanni Sanseviero

    Hats off to LA Indies for a solid running event. Thanks for everything! GS

    July 2021
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  • Charles Petrilla

    The quality and professionalism shown to me by Team LA Indies is highly commendable and I’m looking forward to a long exciting relationship with future submissions! Thank you Team LA Indies for your recognition of my work.

    July 2021
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  • Luca Machnich

    Excellent organization and very friendly and warm team

    July 2021
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  • Mark Gould

    Nice people. great festival to be part of. Nice to be an award winner! Thankyou.

    July 2021
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