The Heartland Film Festival (HFF) is a film festival held each October in Indianapolis, Indiana, hosted by the nonprofit organization Heartland Film, Inc. The festival was first held in 1992, with the goal to "inspire filmmakers and audiences through the transformative power of film." HFF accepts entries of feature-length films at least 40 minutes long, including student submissions.
Shorter films are accepted through Heartland Film's spinoff, the Indy Shorts Film Festival, which runs every July. Indy Shorts is a qualifying festival for the BAFTAs, Goya Awards, and the short film categories at the Academy Awards, with the festival's Animated, Documentary, and Narrative Grand Prize winners respectively eligible for the Animated, Documentary, and Live Action Oscars.
Grand Prize and Audience Choice Award-winning films YearGrand Prize for Best Narrative FeatureGrand Prize for Best Documentary FeatureGrand Prize for Best Short FilmAudience Choice AwardNarrative FeatureDocumentary FeatureShort Film 1999 Wayward Son – 2000 The Rising Place – 2001 The War Bride – 2002 To End All Wars – 2003 Saints and Soldiers – 2004 Love's Brother – 2005 End of the Spear – A Kiss on the Nose Innocent Voices Earthling The Man Who Walked Between the Towers 2006 Shooting Dogs The Hip Hop Project Shade Shooting Dogs A Man Named Pearl I Want to Be a Pilot 2007 Bella Hear and Now Validation Man in the Chair Hear and Now Validation 2008 Captain Abu Raed Pray the Devil Back to Hell Victoria Captain Abu Raed Ripple of Hope Go 2009 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 The Butterfly Circus Ways to Live Forever Once In My Life The Butterfly Circus 2011 Red Dog Crime After Crime Thief Red Dog Crime After Crime Sun City Picture House 2012 Cairo 678 Rising from Ashes Head Over Heels A Bottle in the Gaza Sea Stuck, Rising from Ashes (tie) It Ain't Over 2013 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 Siddharth Happiness Record (Narrative Short), Showfolk (Documentary Short) Where Hope Grows Becoming Bulletproof Till Then (Narrative Short), Showfolk (Documentary Short) 2015 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 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 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 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 Fest2019House of HummingbirdSama–Feast of the Seven FishesJump Shot–2020There Is No Evil76 Days–Not awarded due to COVID-19 pandemic–2021AmericanishAll These Sons–Peace By ChocolateFor The Left hand– 2022 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 Simón We Dare To Dream Shorts moved to Indy Shorts International Film Fest Sight The Body Politic Shorts moved to Indy Shorts International Film Fest
See also List of attractions and events in Indianapolis
References
External links Official website Heartland Film