# Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Short Film

This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Independent Short Film. This award is given to the directors and was first awarded during the 2010 ceremony. Notable winners and nominees includes Spike Lee, Gabourey Sidibe, Matthew A. Cherry & Ryan Coogler.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | (Mis)leading Man | Morocco Omari |
| 2010 | Life on Earth | Jeffrey Keith |
| 2010 | The Roe Effect | Kiel Adrian Scott |
| 2011 | | |
| 2011 | Katrina's Son | Ya'Ke Smith |
| 2011 | Stag & Doe | Daniel Patterson |
| 2011 | Cred | Sherman Payne |
| 2012 | | |
| 2012 | Wake | Bree Newsome |
| 2012 | The Abyss Boys | Jan-Hendrik Beetge |
| 2012 | Fig | Ryan Coogler |
| 2012 | The Tombs | Jerry Lamothe |
| 2012 | Wolf Call | Rob Underhill |
| 2013 | | |
| 2013 | The Bluest Note | Maruqes Green |
| 2013 | Crossover | Tina Mabry |
| 2013 | Last/First Kiss | Andrea Ashton |
| 2013 | Record/Play | Jesse Atlas |
| 2013 | White Space | Maya Washington |
| 2014 | | |
| 2014 | Black Girl in Paris | Kiandra Parks |
| 2014 | A Different Tree | Steven Caple Jr. |
| 2014 | African Cowboy | Rodney Charles |
| 2014 | Sweet Honey Chile | Talibah Newman |
| 2014 | They Die by the Dawn | Jeymes Samuel |
| 2015 | | |
| 2015 | #AmeriCan | Nate Parker |
| 2015 | Muted | Rachel Goldberg |
| 2015 | The Voodoo | Steven Alexander |
| 2016 | | |
| 2016 | Addiction | Danny Dzhurayev |
| 2016 | David's Reviere | Neil Creque Williams |
| 2016 | Sacred Heart | Sol Aponte and Jennia Fredrique |
| 2017 | | |
| 2017 | $15 Kicks | Jenn Shaw |
| 2017 | #Whereisbeauty | Angela McCrae |
| 2017 | 2 Fists Up | Spike Lee |
| 2017 | 86-32 | Randy Wilkins |
| 2017 | Black Card | Pete Chatmon |
| 2018 | | |
| 2018 | Oscar Micheaux | JD Walker |
| 2018 | 90 Days | Jennia Fredrique & Nathan Hale Williams |
| 2018 | Amelia's Closet | Halima Lucas |
| 2018 | GEMA | Kendrick Price |
| 2018 | See You Yesterday | Stefon Bristol |
| 2019 | | |
| 2019 | The Tale of Four | Gabourey Sidibe |
| 2019 | Funk Force | Desmond Levi Jackson |
| 2019 | Hair Wolf | Mariama Diallo |
| 2019 | Jump | Kofi Siriboe |
| 2019 | WTFIMH: What the Fuck is Mental Health | Kofi Siriboe |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry |
| 2020 | America | Garrett Bradley |
| 2020 | It's Not About Jimmy Keene | Caleb Jaffe |
| 2020 | Suicide by Sunlight | Nikyatu Jusu |
| 2020 | Zahra and the Oil Man | Yucef Mayes |
| 2021 | | |
| 2021 | Canvas | Frank E. Abney III |
| 2021 | Brother | Ya'Ke Smith |
| 2021 | The Cypher | Letia Solomon |
| 2021 | Grab My Hand: A Letter to My Dad | Camrus Johnson |
| 2021 | The Pandemic Chronicles | Ya'Ke Smith |
| 2022 | | |
| 2022 | Coffee | Jordan Pitt |
| 2022 | 54 Years Late | Michele Wise Wright |
| 2022 | The Door of Return | Kokutekeleza Musebeni & Anna Zhukovets |
| 2022 | Junior | Jehnovah Carlisle |
| 2022 | The Snakes | Michelle Beck |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | North Star | P.J. Palmer |
| 2023 | Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison | Cinque Northern |
| 2023 | Elegy: My Two Months in Harlem | Andre Lambertson |
| 2023 | Fannie | Christine Swanson |
| 2023 | New Moon | Jeremie Balais, Raúl Domingo and Jeffig Le Bars |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games | Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson |
| 2024 | The Last Repair Shop | Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers |
| 2024 | ALIVE IN BRONZE: Huey P. Newton | A.K. Sandhu |
| 2024 | Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney | Nazenet Habtezghi |
| 2024 | The Dads | Luchina Fisher |
| 2025 |
| 2025 | Chocolate with Sprinkles | Huriyyah Muhammad |
| 2025 | Mosiah | Jirard |
| 2025 | On a Sunday at Eleven | Alicia K. Harris |
| 2025 | Self | Searit Kahsay Huluf |
| 2025 | Will I See You Again? | Michael Perez-Lindsey |