BIFF 2025 AWARDS WINNERS
Congratulations to all of the filmmakers who participated in the 23rd Annual Boston International Film Festival. We gathered filmmakers from around the world, who offered both global and local messages, and we celebrated them for their outstanding achievements. Here are the winners for this year’s festival. For anymore information, please contact us at info@bifilmfestival.com.
We wish all the filmmakers the best of luck in their future endeavors.
FEATURE FILM AWARDS
Indie Spirit Best Picture Award
Linda Yellen & Todd Traina for ONE STUPID THING
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Indie Spirit Award of Excellence in Filmmaking
Wade Wofford for URBAN ED
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Indie Spirit Best Story Line Award
Marjorie David for READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
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Indie Spirit Best Original Screenplay
Emily Abt for THIRSTY
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Indie Spirit Best Director Award
Linda Yellen for ONE STUPID THING
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD For a Feature Film
URBAN ED Directed by Wade Wofford
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SHORT FILM AWARDS
Indie Soul Best Picture Award
Michael Tejada for BAILANDO
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Indie Soul Best Director Award
Matthew Macomber & Scott Brawn for THE LOCALS
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Indie Soul Best Story Line Award
Robert Greim for OUT OF REACH
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Indie Soul Best Original Screenplay Award
Smahi Anand for SILENT CYCLE
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Indie Soul Special Recognition Award
Brad Courtemanche for TRUMPET GUMBO
Chelsea Ray Gilson for SPECIAL WILL
Logan Keefe for TO MINUTES TO SHOWTIME
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD For a short Film
THE INVITE Directed by: Nicholson Thibault
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DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
Indie Spec Best Documentary Award
Yuri Vaysgant & David Bank for NAPOLEON WALLACE & THE RECONSTRUCTION OF BLACK WEALTH
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Indie Spec Best Content Award
Stephanie Briones for THE SUMMER DANCE INSTITUTE By Jean Appolon
April 15, 2024
BIFF 2024 Awards Winners
Congratulations to all of the filmmakers who participated in the 22nd Anniversary of the Boston International Film Festival. We gathered filmmakers from around the world, who offered both global and local messages, and we celebrated them for their outstanding achievements. Here are the winners for this year’s festival. For anymore information, please contact us at info@bifilmfestival.com.
We wish all the filmmakers the best of luck in their future endeavors.
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FEATURE FILM AWARDS
Indie Spirit Best Picture Award
Julian Lowenthal for MONEY GAME
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Indie Spirit Award of Excellence in Filmmaking
Emilio Mauro for ANOTHER DAY IN AMERICA
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Indie Spirit Best Story Line Award
Arthur Bjorn Egeli for ART THIEF
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Indie Spirit Best Original Screenplay
Julian Lowenthal for MONEY GAME
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Indie Spirit Best Director Award
Nicholas Gyeney THE ACTIVATED MAN
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Indie Soul Special Recognition Award
Xianhe Lei for A MAN OF THE PEOPLE
Lauren Musgrove for UGLY SWEATER
Mo Faisal for POP THE PICKEL
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SHORT FILM AWARDS
Indie Soul Best Picture Award
Ryan Doris for WHO’S THERE?
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Indie Soul Best Director Award
Mikel Cravatta for WATCHFUL EYE
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Indie Soul Best Story Line Award
Dawn Natalia for FLUSH
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Indie Soul Best Original Screenplay Award
Soona Nam for BIRTH
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Indie Soul Special Recognition Award
Matt Kerr for SAY YOUR NAME
Santhosh Ram for WEAVE OF CULTURE
Joseph Anthony Marcello for THE HIT
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DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
Indie Spec Best Documentary Award
Joy Sela for ‘THE OTHER’
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Indie Spec Best Content Award
John Jurko II, Matt Lindenberg and Daniel Roberts for RHINO MAN
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April 17, 2023
BIFF 2023 Awards Winners
Congratulations to all of the filmmakers who participated in the 21st Anniversary of the Boston International Film Festival. We gathered filmmakers from around the world, who offered both global and local messages, and we celebrated them for their outstanding achievements. Here are the winners for this year’s festival. For anymore information, please contact us at info@bifilmfestival.com. We wish all the filmmakers the best of luck in their future endeavors.
FEATURE FILM AWARDS
Indie Spirit Best Picture Award.
Alexander Khachatryan for IT’S SPRING...
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Indie Spirit Award of Excellence in Filmmaking
Ruben Islas for FINAL VOW
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Indie Spirit Best Story Line Award
Yongho Hong for HAVANA
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Indie Spirit Best Director Award
Katy Dore, Jack Kohler for GIFT OF FEAR
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Indie Spirit Best Actress Award
Siobhan Fallon Hogan for SHELTER IN SOLITUDE
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Indie Spirit Best Original Screenplay
Harout Ghukassian for IT’S SPRING
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Indie Spirit Best Cinematography Award
Matthias Schubert for SHELTER IN SOLITUDE
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Indie Spirit Special Recognition Award
Tamika Miller for HONOR STUDENT
Edith Hagigi for BLEECKER
Dawn M. Natalia and Lawrence Natalia for BY THE WATER’S EDGE
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SHORT FILM AWARDS
Indie Soul Best Picture Award
Jessica Rookeward and Tamiah Bantum for SAVAGE DAWN
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Indie Soul Best Director Award
Layla O'Shea for A PARTICULAR MINUTE
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Indie Soul Best Story Line Award
Timothy Blackwood for INFRACTION
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Indie Soul Best Original Screenplay Award
Jake Haddock & Finnegan Haid for LINEAGE
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Indie Soul Best Cinematography Award
Nicholas Bupp for THE CHOSEN ONE
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April 18, 2022
BIFF 2022 Awards Winners
Congratulations to all of the filmmakers who participated in the 20th Anniversary of the Boston International Film Festival. We gathered filmmakers from around the world, who offered both global and local messages, and we celebrated them for their outstanding achievements. Here are the winners for this year’s festival. For anymore information, please contact us at info@bifilmfestival.com. We wish all the filmmakers the best of luck in their future endeavors.
FEATURE FILM AWARDS
Indie Spirit Best Picture Award.
Daniel Adams for THE WALK
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Indie Spirit Award of Excellence in Filmmaking
Nathan Buck for UNDER SPANISH SKIES
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Indie Spirit Best Story Line Award
Benjamin Lopez for MIXTAPE
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Indie Spirit Best Director Award
Jonathan Salemi for THE LAST DEAL
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Indie Spirit Best Actress Award
Lijo Mol Jose for JAI BHIM
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Indie Spirit Best Original Screenplay
Daniel Adams and George Powell for THE WALK
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Indie Spirit Best Cinematography Award
S. R. Kathir for Jai Bhim
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Indie Spirit Special Recognition Award
Andrew Zuckerman for UNDERGRADS
Christian Carroll for OUT OF BREATH
Stew Replogle for THE FAMILIES FEUD
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SHORT FILM AWARDS
Indie Soul Best Picture Award
Chris Goodwin for DERRICK & BOYD
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Indie Soul Best Director Award
Rick Page for SNOW GLOBE & THE CAT
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Indie Soul Best Story Line Award
John Gray for THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY
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Indie Soul Best Original Screenplay Award
Rick Page & James Madio for SNOW GLOBE & THE CAT
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Indie Soul Best Cinematography Award
Siyu Chen for BREATHLESS
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Indie Soul Special Recognition Award
Gregory Bergeron for MRS OSBOURNE
Jason Delane Lee for LIFELINE
Patrick A Riviere for JUST A BROADWAY BABY: MARY ELLEN ASHLEY
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DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
Indie Spec Best Documentary Award
Aviva Kempner & Ben West for IMAGINING THE INDIAN
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Indie Spec Best Cinematography Award
Casey G. Williams & Ian S. Willliams for AMERICA BOXED IN
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Indie Spec Best Content Award
Alison Gilkey and Eric Neudel for THE WAKE UP CALL
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Indie Spec Special Recognition Award
Evangeline M. Mitchell for BECOMING BLACK LAWYERS
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Indie Spec Special Recognition Award
Beret E Strong & Zayd Atkinson for THIS IS NOT [NOT] WHO WE ARE
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March 18, 2022
For Immediate Release
Contact: Mark Cripps / Public Relations
info@bifilmfestival.com
THE BOSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL April 14 - 20, 2022
Thursday, April 14, is the Opening Night for the 20th Anniversary of the Boston International Film Festival.
The Red Carpet Event begins at 4:00 pm at the W- Hotel located at 100 Stuart Street, Boston MA 02216. The festival staff will be on hand to greet the participants as they walk down the red carpet. Photographers will be available to take pictures, and representatives of the press will be holding interviews.
Our opening night feature presentation is The Walk, starring Justin Chatwin, Jeremy Piven, Malcolm McDowell and Terrence Howard, directed by Daniel Adams a fact-based biopic centered upon Boston’s ‘Busing Crisis’ of 1974. An Irish Boston cop is assigned to protect Black students attending all-White South Boston High School. Surrounded by turmoil on all sides, he somewhat reluctantly discovers much about the student’s culture (as well as realizing the fallacy of his own beliefs). This thought-provoking cinematic experience will bring the viewer back to earliest days of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Other highlights of the festival include;
"The Way To Happiness" from Luxembourg is a brilliant story of resilience, and redemption that is clearly ripped from today’s headlines. A man whose childhood was decimated by war finds himself forced to come to terms with his painful history; only to learn that the past is truly with us forever. This love story for the ages will warm viewers hearts.
"Imagining The Indian" is a documentary based in the European settlers treatment of indigenous Americans (and how stereotypes are still pervasive more than 600 years after Christopher Columbus first arrived in North America). A brilliant film, one that focuses upon how the Native American population is still being culturally subjugated to this day.
"Jai Bhim" from India is an Indian-Tamil language film based upon true events. This legal drama focuses upon social prejudices in 1990’s India, and how the concept of ‘Justice for All’ is something that must be constantly fought for. This brilliant (and timeless) tale illustrates how love truly can conquer all.
"Mixtape" from Puerto Rico is set in the 90s, and paying homage to the 80s. In 1999, and on the verge of the oncoming new millennium, an adolescent who was orphaned by a tragic automobile accident discovers a ‘mixtape’ made by her parents. Although she comes to learn much about the parents she never really knew, she learns more about herself. A wonderful, heartwarming film about love, devotion, and music.
"The Wake-Up Call" is a documentary that featured Dave Evans, who was a renowned prosthetics, humanitarian and peace activist. A double amputee himself, he dedicated his post- military career to transforming lives shattered by these seemingly never-ending, interchangeable wars. From Syrian refugees in a prosthetics clinic in Amman, Jordan, to the fallout of war in places like Iraq, Dave chose a life of service to others.
There will be a number of celebrities in attendance on the opening night red carpet, available for photographs and interviews. These will include our special guests director of the Opening Night film “THE WALK” Daniel Adams with many of the starring cast and many more.
The Opening Night Gala Party immediately follows the screening, beginning at around 8:30pm. Opening and Closing night Screening and Party passes are available for $75.00 for Opening Night and $45.00 for closing night. The price for an Individual Session Screening is $15.00 All Screening Pass, which allows entry into all of the 24 screening sessions, costs $125.00 and an All Access VIP Pass for $250.00 that give entry to all events at BIFF. A limited number of press passes are available.
The Boston International Film Festival is a celebration of the art of filmmaking. It encourages and supports independent filmmakers from around the world, bringing to Boston a dazzling array of both short and feature length films from a select group of directors. The festival strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures by displaying the passions and unique visions of these filmmakers, and promises to both entertain and educate the viewers.
This year we will be screening around 70 short and feature films from 30 countries. Highlights of the festival include Opening and Closing night Gala Parties, Red Carpet events, and special parties for individual films. The winners of this year’s awards are announced at the Closing Party on Monday April 18, 2022
Tickets will soon be available for purchase, either on our website, or at the Theatres. For more information on ticket sales and schedules, please visit our website www.bifilmfestival.com
We look forward to seeing you at the festival.
Mark Cripps
Marketing and Promotions
www.bifilmfestival.com
March 15, 2020
BOSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
For Immediate Release
Contact: Mark Cripps / Public Relations
info@bifilmfestival.com
In the year 2002 the Boston International Film Festival began presenting works by ‘up & coming’ filmmakers from across the globe.
In the past eighteen (18) years we have gone from presenting a few grouping’s of films in sessions to over 100 films and becoming one of the most highly recognized festivals in the world.
At a time that the staff of the festival should be furiously preparing for what promises to be our best festival to date, we are announcing that the event (previously slated for April 16th-April 21st) has been cancelled in response to the pandemic that is currently dominating our daily lives.
It would be highly impractical for the festival to set a date for the 2020 schedule of presentations at this time due to the uncertainty of this unprecedented state of affairs. Due to the rapidly evolving nature that this pandemic (COVID-19) has caused, we do not currently have an estimate of when that will be.
In the meantime we are working upon regrouping, meeting with new venues, and further determining how best to go forward with future festivals (including the potential of exploring the use of advancements in entertainment technology).
While it is with mixed emotions that we are being proactive in attempting to safeguard the health and welfare of our patrons, we look forward to seeing you as soon as possible.
Thank you for your understanding.
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BIFF 2019 Awards Winners
Congratulations to all of the filmmakers who participated in the 17th Annual Boston International Film Festival. We gathered filmmakers from around the world, who offered both global and local messages, and we celebrated them for their outstanding achievements. Here are the winners for this year’s festival. For anymore information, please contact us at info@bifilmfestival.com. We wish all the filmmakers the best of luck in their future endeavors.
FEATURE FILM AWARDS
Indie Spirit Best Picture Award
Renjilal Damodaran for NAWAL THE JEWEL
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Indie Spirit Best Story Line Award
Louyi Tang for MY GOOD CHINESE COUNTRYMEN
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Indie Spirit Best Director Award
Nick Richey for LOW LOW
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Indie Spirit Best Actress Award
Reem Kadem for NAWAL THE JEWEL
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Indie Spirit Best Original Screenplay
Kamlesh Kunti Singh, Brahmanand S Siingh and Tanvi Jain
for JHALKI; Tale of Tireless Sparrow
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Indie Spirit Best Cinematography Award
Zoltan Devenyi for CURTIZ
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Indie Spirit Special Recognition Award
Maryam Zahirimehr for ENDLESS?
Paul Starkman for WHEELS
Mohammad Faisal for THE CLOCKMAKER
Michael Olmos for WINDOWS ON THE WORLD
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SHORT FILM AWARDS
Indie Soul Best Picture Award
Xavier Garcia for A BLOOD THRONE
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Indie Soul Best Story Line Award
Hogo Sanz for YESTERDAY OR THE DAY BEFORE
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Indie Soul Best Original Screenplay Award
Huihui Zhang & Christiana Chang for PINKY PROMISE
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Indie Soul Best Cinematography Award
Sum Chung & Doh Lee for MOON THREAD
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Indie Soul Best Cinematography Award
Frank Prinzi for IT’S A MESS
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Indie Soul Best Director Award
Carlo Essagian for LOVE THONGS
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Indie Soul Special Recognition Award
Steve Blackwood for MEET THE AUTHOR
Eppo Eerkes for THE CHILD SOLDIER
Chris Esper for IMPOSTER
Jon Perry for ODD MEN OUT
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DOCUMENTARY AWARDS
Indie Spec Best Documentary Award
Giselle Portenier for IN THE NAME OF YOUR DAUGHTER
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Indie Spec Best Cinematography Award
Robert Fritz for THE UGANDA PROJECT
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Indie Spec Best Content Award
Noube Rateau and William Medero for
PROTECT, SERVE AND CARE
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Indie Spec Special Recognition Award
Farad Roberson for JAMMING IN THE VILLE
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ANIMATION AWARD
Best Animation Award
Elliot Washor for NAVIGATING OUR WAY
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EXPERIMENTAL FILM AWARDS
Best Experimental Picture Award
Stephanie Lamontagne for THALASSIC