Heartland International Film Festival

The Heartland International Film Festival (HIFF) is an Academy Award qualifying film festival held each October in Indianapolis, Indiana, hosted by the nonprofit organization Heartland Film, Inc.^[1][2] The festival was first held in 1992, with the goal to "inspire filmmakers and audiences through the transformative power of film".^[3] HIFF accepts entries of feature-length films at least 40 minutes long, including student submissions.^[4] Shorter films are accepted through Heartland Films' spinoff "Indy Shorts International Film Festival", also an Academy Award qualifying festival.^[5][6][7]

Grand Prize and Audience Choice Award-winning films

Year	Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature	Grand Prize for Best Documentary Feature	Grand Prize for Best Short Film	Audience Choice Award
				Narrative Feature	Documentary Feature	Short Film
1999	Wayward Son	–
2000 ^[8]	The Rising Place	–
2001 ^[9]	The War Bride	–
2002 ^[10]	To End All Wars	–
2003 ^[11]	Saints and Soldiers	–
2004 ^[12]	Love's Brother	–
2005 ^[13]	End of the Spear	–	A Kiss on the Nose	Innocent Voices	Earthling	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
2006 ^[14]^[15]	Shooting Dogs	The Hip Hop Project	Shade	Shooting Dogs	A Man Named Pearl	I Want to Be a Pilot
2007 ^[16]^[17]	Bella	Hear and Now	Validation	Man in the Chair	Hear and Now	Validation
2008 ^[18]	Captain Abu Raed	Pray the Devil Back to Hell	Victoria	Captain Abu Raed	Ripple of Hope	Go
2009^[19]	Welcome	P-Star Rising	Bicycle (Jitensha)	Like Dandelion Dust, A Shine of Rainbows (tie)	After the Storm	Grande Drip
2010	The Space Between	Freedom Riders^[20]	The Butterfly Circus	Ways to Live Forever	Once In My Life	The Butterfly Circus
2011^[21]^[22]	Red Dog	Crime After Crime	Thief	Red Dog	Crime After Crime	Sun City Picture House
2012^[23]^[24]	Cairo 678	Rising from Ashes	Head Over Heels	A Bottle in the Gaza Sea	Stuck, Rising from Ashes (tie)	It Ain't Over
2013^[25]	Hide Your Smiling Faces	The Network	The Amber Amulet (Narrative Short), Wrinkles of the City: La Havna (Documentary Short)	23 Blast	Life According to Sam, Blood Brother (tie)	The Amber Amulet (Narrative Short), Running Blind (Documentary Short)
2014^[26]^[27]	Siddharth	Happiness	Record (Narrative Short), Showfolk (Documentary Short)	Where Hope Grows	Becoming Bulletproof	Till Then (Narrative Short), Showfolk (Documentary Short)
2015^[28]	The Judgement	Romeo Is Bleeding	The Way of Tea (Narrative Short), The 100 Years Show (Documentary Short)	Marie's Story	dream/killer	Moving ON (Narrative Short), Teen Press (Documentary Short)
2016^[29]	Home Care	Night School	The Ravens (Narrative Short), Mining Poems or Odes (Documentary Short)	Te Ata	Night School	Good Business (Narrative Short), Violet (Documentary Short)
2017^[30]	Red Dog: True Blue	Liyana	The Cage (Narrative Short), Edges (Documentary Short)	The Bachelors & Mum's List (tie)	I'll Push You	Me and My Father (Narrative Short), Refugee (Documentary Short)
2018^[31]	The Elephant and the Butterfly	On Her Shoulders	Shorts moved to Indy Shorts International Film Fest	Indivisible	Emanuel	Shorts moved to Indy Shorts International Film Fest
2019^[32]	House of Hummingbird	Sama	–	Feast of the Seven Fishes	Jump Shot	–
2020^[33]	There Is No Evil	76 Days	–	Not awarded due to COVID-19 pandemic	Not awarded due to COVID-19 pandemic	–
2021^[34]	Americanish	All These Sons	–	Peace By Chcolate	For The Left hand	–
2022^[35]	Our Father, The Devil	Hidden Letters	Shorts moved to Indy Shorts International Film Fest	Rally Caps	Butterfly In The Sky	Shorts moved to Indy Shorts International Film Fest
2023^[36]	Simón	We Dare To Dream	Shorts moved to Indy Shorts International Film Fest	Sight	UnBroken	Shorts moved to Indy Shorts International Film Fest

References

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36. Heartland Film (2023-10-30). "32nd Heartland International Film Festival Announces Winners & Presents $60,000 in cash prizes". Retrieved 2023-11-17.

External links

• Official website
• Heartland Film