IndieX Film Fest is an international short film festival based in Los Angeles with monthly editions that qualify for the Annual Awards. Besides the monthly awards and the annual event, IndieX Film Fest occasionally holds special screenings and Q&As with cast and crews.
Iconic venues and audiences
From the theaters of Raleigh Studios Hollywood to Regal LA Live, IndieX has premiered in the annual events and special screenings and Q&A sessions over 450 films in annual events, special screenings, and Q&A sessions, welcoming more than 4,000 attendees from around the world.
Some of the notable IndieX award winners
Among its past honorees, IndieX is proud to have featured Academy Award winners Barney Burman and Joel Harlow, Oscar nominees including Abigail Breslin, Bill Nighy, Bruce Davison, Eric Roberts, Janet McTeer, Keisha Castle-Hughes, and Paul Giamatti, as well as Emmy winners Kyra Sedgwick, Loretta Devine, Carey Jones, and Roy H. Wagner. The lineup also includes SAG winners Donny Carrington, Hymnson Chan, and Sam Phillips, Sundance laureates Masha Ko and Bart Freundlich, AACTA winner Darren Gilshenan, and MTV Award winner Joslyn Rose Lyons. Other notable names have included Kevin Bacon, Joe Mantegna, Sosie Bacon, Danny Trejo, Karen Allen, Kevin McNally, Pixie Lott, and James Phelps, among many others.
Monthly Competitions
IndieX is looking for independent projects from all genres and all countries, especially from those traditionally underrepresented in the global film industry. With room for transgressive, eccentric or forbidden, to balance traditional narratives with high standard projects, linear or non linear, that simply “don’t fit”.
Each monthly round, all submitted projects are judged by a random team of invited experts from academia and film industry from Los Angeles area, against a high standard of merit.
From the pool of official selection, which has a very competitive acceptance rate, IndieX choses the nominees and award winners of the season. Some of the award-winning projects, selected by the programmers of IndieX, are publicly screened in Los Angeles in special Q&A sessions with cast and crews.
Annual Awards qualifying
The nominees and award winners of each round qualify for the Annual Awards. For this event in Los Angeles, the judging team of IndieX chose around 75/85 films to nominate for the best of the year (from the pool of nominees and awards winners of 12 monthly rounds).
Annual Awards event
Our annual stage, showcasing some of the best independent short films curated from around the world, provides a platform for emerging directors, writers, and actors from different countries, and attracts a diverse audience of film aficionados, passionate storytellers, and filmmaking executives of every stripe to downtown Los Angeles. Most of the films have their cast and crews at Regal LA Live.
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