Well, we're half way done with the 2020 Indy Film Fest. To celebrate, we thought we'd share our 2020 award winners so you still had time to check them out before we close out the Festival on Sunday, August 23! Click the links below.
A heartfelt romantic comedy.
Breaking Fast is a romantic comedy that follows Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, learning to navigate life post-heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.
The Chase is an authentic LA tragicomedy that challenges the audience to tell right from wrong, hero from villain. As it sprints across back alleyways and busy streets, this short film explores white privilege, socioeconomic conflict, and of course, spousal dedication.
It's 1977 and the idealistic message of the hippie counter-culture has played a decade long game of telephone with America's youth. Still searching for freedom and community in a post Vietnam world, groups of young people took to the open roads in shag-carpeted custom vans. They called themselves "vanners" and their culture was a strange cocktail of irreverence and hedonism.
For Deon "Sonnie" Casey, life has not gone according to plan. Raised by his grandmother after the death of his parents, Deon is now a single parent himself, working over 60 hours a week. Despite setbacks, Deon is determined to provide a better life for his son. Finding strength and solace in competitive weightlifting and his work at the YMCA, Deon pushes onward in hope that things will get better.
Õie, a young accountant from a small town, accidentally stumbles into Estonia's tech scene. At a hackathon, she meets Tõnu who has gone bankrupt with every one of his companies. Inspired by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, they embark on a journey to take on the tech world by creating their own wildly successful startup. This is a fast-paced, semi-satirical story about making mistakes and bad decisions over and over and trying again and again.
A Russian immigrant couple do all they can to provide help to their daughter while facing their differences. Anna has to choose between the sweetness of ignorance and the bitterness of reality.
A powerful documentary from Director Ursula Liang, that brings the story (and history) of racial injustice and police brutality into focus through the story of Akai Gurley’s death after he was shot by an NYPD officer in 2014 .
Over the course of 60 years, the O'Briens amassed a collection of more than 1 million insects from nearly 70 countries - the largest private collection in the world with a value of $10 million dollars. This humorous and poignant film explores the Love of Nature (and the Nature of Love) and what it means to devote oneself completely to both.
The Indy Film Fest seeks to create a shared experience around film by championing movies that entertain, challenge and expand perspectives in Indianapolis and beyond.
