California Indies is based in Santa Monica. The festival is dedicated to indie filmmaking and arthouse cinema. The festival promotes and awards U.S. and international productions. The online festival brings together emerging talents with some of the most well known artists working in cinema.
The festival announced the winners of the third edition of the festival today on July 5th and it is our pleasure to announce the winners in LA Indies.
Winners
Third Edition
Best U.S. Narrative Fragile Director: Manolo Campos
Best International Narrative Heinz 1945 Directors: Martin Beek, Karel Hamm
Best U.S. Documentary Pleasers Directors: Aja Corynn, Alexandra Casillas-Boggs
Best International Documentary DECODING SHANKAR Director: DEEPTI PILLAY SIVAN
Best Short Film Director Heinz 1945 Director: Martin Beek, Karel Hamm
Best Short Film Producer The Great Artist
Producer: Sunny Vachher
Best Short Film Cinematographer Heinz 1945 Dop: Martin Beek
Best Short Film Editor Becoming Emma Braintree Editor: Luke Patterson
Best Short Film Composer Mila Composer : Flavio Gargano
Best Short Film Poster The Boy's Gone
Director: Sarah Polhaus
Best Short Film Actor Eric Weigand Aquamarine
Best Short Film Actress Isabel Pask Aquamarine
Best Animation Justin and the Werloobee Director: Ken Yoffe & Ellen Weisberg, John Vo
Best Horror The Eve Director: Luca Machnich
Best Science Fiction The Aspirant Director: Adam Orton
Best Student Film Heaven stranded Director: yao songting
Best Comedy Third Date Director: Michael Kellman
Best Thriller Becoming Emma Braintree Director: Joshua Koske
Best Web-Series-Pilot Back Home Director: Christian A Oliveira
Best Independent Short Noisy Director: Cedric Hill
Best Music Video Ready to Roll
Best LGBTQ SURPRISE! Director: Nicole Picard
Best First Time Filmmaker 16 WORDS OR LESS Director: Meghan Finn
Best Female Filmmaker The Great Artist Director: Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Best Black and white photography Eternal Rest
Best Unproduced Script Beautiful Lines in the Night Sky Part II Writer: Tyler Schultz
Best Produced Script Cold Service Director: Peter Strupp
Best Musician O Sweet Woods Director: Jessica Gould