IndieYouth Shorts Festival

04/14/2025

Congratulations! IndieYouth Shorts announced the following awards at 33rd Arizona International Film Festival's closing ceremony last night.

We received 272 eligible submissions and programmed only 13.
One could say that all of the 2025 IndieYouth Shorts are winners!

The awards go to:
Best IndieYouth Animation 2025
- In Another Life - Renee Shi - US

Best IndieYouth Experimental 2025
- Humpty Dumptey - Salvador Romão - Portugal

Best IndieYouth Made in Arizona 2025
- The Wait - JJ Urquidez, Arthur Pedack - US

Best IndieYouth Documentary 2025
- Roots of Lil’ Green House - Adrian Turner - US

Best IndieYouth Narrative 2025
- Frequency 208.4 - Neeva Lén, Karim Mbamba - Ireland

Best IndieYouth Film 2025
- Adam - Sophia Kennedy - US

Congratulations to these filmmakers and their teams!

04/29/2024

Congratulations to the 2024 IndieYouth Shorts Festival award winners! We had a record-breaking 385 entries for a program of 14 short films this year. Thank you to everyone who entered and a special thanks to the filmmakers who attended the screening!

Best Animation
C'EST LA VIE
Tiffany Zhang, USA, 2024

Best Documentary
INSTANT GIMBAP
Eleanor Smith, United Kingdom, 2023

Best Narrative
PARADOX
Gabe Leite, USA, 2024

Best Experimental
HYMN OF THE SUNS
Ryan Nah, Hong Kong, 2024

Best Made in Arizona
THE TRANSACTION
Sebastian Crump, USA, 2023

Best of IndieYouth 2024
SAVONETTE
Quentin Pladeau, France, 2023

04/21/2024

Today’s the day!
Join us for the 3rd IndieYouth Shorts Festival this morning at 11:30AM.

Presenting 14 international short films created by filmmakers 18 and younger!

This is a free screening.

Sunday, April 21, 11:30AM
The Screening Room
127 E Congress

04/14/2024

Only one week until IndieYouth Shorts are presented on the big screen! Please join us at The Screening Room for this free event.

04/02/2024

You can help Arizona International Film Festival bring the joy of filmmaking to more Tucson area students by donating today!

Today is !
Arizona Gives Day is a wonderful 24 hour online campaign
that helps raise awareness and money for nonprofits
like the Arizona International Film Festival!

Your gift helps us bring Filmmakers from around the World and into our local classrooms.
It means a lot to the school children and our Filmmakers.

“We had an amazing experience screening our film to a high school for at risk kids, and also a community
group which works with refugee children. The reactions and feedback to the film brought tears to my eyes.
– David Feldman (Los Olvidados, USA, AzIFF 2015)

Your donation of as little as $32, in honor of our 32nd AzIFF, will help us bring more Filmmakers to Tucson.

https://www.azgives.org/index.php?section=organizations&action=newDonation_org&fwID=4895

Thank you for your support!
Arizona International Film Festival Family

And we will see you at the Fest!
32nd AzIFF April 17-28, 2024

04/29/2023

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04/24/2023

04/16/2023

2 weeks and counting until IndieYouth Shorts are presented on the big screen! Hope to see you there!

04/13/2023

Thirty feature films and 70 shorts from 20 countries will be screened at various Tucson venues as part of the Arizona International Film Festival.