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]
Year | Grand Prize for Best Narrative Feature | Grand Prize for Best Documentary Feature | Grand Prize for Best Short Film | Audience Choice Award | ||
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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 |
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]
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 |