# Harlem International Film Festival

The Harlem International Film Festival (Hi) is an annual five-day film festival in Harlem, New York. The first festival took place in 2005. Michael Franti's I Know I'm Not Alone was named Best International Documentary at the festival that year. The short film Eme Nakia was selected to be screened at the 2006 festival. Also that year, The Hip Hop Project produced by Queen Latifah and Bruce Willis was named Best Documentary Film. Nigerian film Anchor Baby was named Best Film at the 2010 festival and won another award there as well. Omoni Oboli was named Best Actress that year. Najat Jellab's short film The Projectionist premiered at the 2013 festival. The festival named Vanessa L. Williams Best Actress one year. Short film In The Field, directed by Matthew Hope, was screened at the festival one year.:)

## Harlem International Film Festival 2014 award winners

| Award | Film | Winner |
| Best Film | Kamkam | |
| Best World Film | Depois da Chuva | |
| Best Documentary | The Cooler Bandits | |
| Best World Doc | Brown Bread | |
| Best Director | Tempo Girl | Dominik Locher |
| Best Documentary Director | You have his Eyes | Christopher Wilson |
| Mira Nair Award For Rising Female Filmmaker | Redemption Trail | Britta Sjogren |
| Audience Award | Children of the Light | |
| Best Experimental Film | Duran / Circling | |
| Best Actor | Magkakabaung | Allen Dizon |
| | 101 Chodyangal | Minon |
| Best Actress | Love Me | Viktoria Spesyvtseva |
| Best Cinematography | Si-o-se Pol | Kristian Leschner |
| Best Short Documentary | The Game Changer | Indrani Kopal |
| Best Short Shorts | 18 Seconds | |
| | Berxen Kulek | |
| | La Loteria | |
| | One Question | |
| | The Devil Goes Down | |
| | The Way You Love | |
| Best Short | 0.60 MG | |
| | Battle Of Island Mound | |
| | Fleecing Led Zeppelin | |
| | Into The Silent Sea | |
| | Kasita | |
| | La Donna | |
| | The Perfect Sacrifice | |
| Best Animation | Le Gouffre | |
| | Puggums | |
| Best Youth Feature | Flying Paper | |
| Best Youth Short Documentary | A Teen's Guide to Understanding and Communicating with People with Autism | |
| Best Youth Short | Perfect Day | |
| Best Music Video | The Lion | |
| Harlem Spotlight (feature) | Know How | |
| Harlem Spotlight (documentary) | Changing Face of Harlem | |
| Winning Feature Script | The Blacktivist | |
| Winning Short Script | Brewster Commons | |

## Harlem International Film Festival 2013 award winners

| Award | Film | Winner |
| Best Film | Clutter | Diane Crespo |
| Best World Film | Tu Seras Un Homme (You’ll Be A Man) | Benoit Cohen |
| Best Documentary | Lessons of Hayti | Edward J. Harris II and Byron Hunter |
| Best World Doc | Post 9-11: Fear, Anger & Politics | Nadia Zouaoui |
| Best Director | Four of Hearts | Eric Haywood |
| Best Documentary Director | 16 Acres | Richard Hankin |
| Mira Nair Award For Rising Female Filmmaker | Bittersweet Monday | Jaime Lee |
| Audience Award | Sex, Love & Salsa | Adrian Manzano |
| Best Experimental Film | Objects Attack! | Rona Mark |
| Best Actor | Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till | Mike Wiley |
| Best Actress | Nuwebe | Barbara Miguel |
| Best Cinematography | The Passage | Alexander Douglas |
| Best Short Documentary | Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution | Matthew Vandyke |
| Best Short | Daughter | Assia Lakhlif |
| | Empty Paper Bag | Majid Sarvini |
| | Farewell Jimmy | Sanghyun Kim |
| | Kombra | Ali Kamanda |
| | Pillowcase | David Lombroso |
| | Sum-ba-kok-jil (Hide ‘n Seek) | Hanuk Lee |
| | Sweet, Sweet Country | Dehanza Rogers |
| | The Projectionist | Najat Jellab |
| Best Animation | Daddy ABC | Hamad Alawar |
| | Ed | Gabriel Garcia |
| Best Youth Short | Remain Still | Armaan Uplekar |
| Best Music Video | Sufferin’ Till You’re Straight | David Scheve |
| Harlem Spotlight (feature) | Fight, Dance Sing | Kamal Robinson |
| Harlem Spotlight (short) | Happy New Year! | Judianny Compress |
| Winning Feature Script | The Rose That Grew From Concrete: The Story of Tupac Amaru Shakur | Reginald Jackson |
| Winning Short Script | She Was Left Alone | Bela Wolf |

## Harlem International Film Festival 2012 award winners

| Award | Film | Winner |
| Best Film | True Bromance | Sebastian Doggart (UK, US) |
| Best World Film | A.L.F. | Jérôme Lescure (France) |
| Best Documentary | Herman's House (Canada, US) | Angad Bhalla |
| Best World Documentary | Not My Life (Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Italy, Romania, Senegal, US) | Robert Bilheimer |
| Best Director | The Talk Man (US) | Gene Gallerano |
| Best Documentary Director | Mas Man (Trinidad & Tobago, US) | Dalton Narine |
| Mira Nair Award for Rising Female Filmmaker | A Gran Plan (Singapore) | Sangeeta Nambiar |
| Audience Award | The Glamorous Lie (US) | |
| Best Actor | Hombre y Tierra (US) | Maurice Ripke directed by Christian Cisneros |
| Best Actress | A Gran Plan (Singapore) | Farida Jalal directed by Sangeeta Nambiar |
| Best Short Documentary | Check the Rhyme (US) | Tim Smoove |
| Top Seven Shorts (narrative) | Amos (US) | Taylor Maxwell |
| | I Can Smoke? (US) | Tony Ducret |
| | Playing Grown Up (Mexico) | Javier Solorzano Casarin |
| | Shoot the Moon | Alexander Gaeta (US) |
| | The Darkness is Close Behind (US) | Sheena Mccann |
| | The Hole (South Korea) | Joon Seong Ahn |
| | The Pilgrim & the Private Eye (US) | Joel Johnstone |
| Best Short Shorts (12 Minutes And Under) | And I on the Opposite Shore (US) | Mozell Miley-Bailey |
| | Co Raz Zostalo Zapisane (Poland) | Martin Rath |
| | Raise My Hands (Ireland) | Frank Kelly |
| | The Future (Australia) | Venetia Taylor |
| | The World Outside (US) | Zachary Kerschberg |
| Best Animation | The Hopper Alex Brüel Flagstad (Denmark) | Wolf Dog Tales Bernadine Santistevan (US) |
| Best Youth (Feature) Film | Brooklyn Bridges (Palestine, US) | Fran Tarr |
| Best Youth Short | Cross Court (US) | Rafael Cortina |
| Best Music Video | Soldier (US) | Cinque Northern |
| Harlem Spotlight | Stonefaced (US) | Vivian Ducat |
| Winning Feature Script | Eternal Spring Fist | Erik Bernard |
| Winning Short Script | The Tenth Door | Michael D. Lies |
| Screenplay Finalists | Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow | Harold Brown |
| | Resilience | Lena Slachmuijlder |
| | You Dresses, Me Shoes | S. A. Green |
| Screenplay Semi-finalists | Fall Out | Michael Gold |
| | In 2 Me U | Kimberly Fernandez & Jeanette Villafane |
| | Kingpin | R. M. Chepesiuk |
| | Undivided | Trevor and Troy Parham |