San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF IndieFest) is pleased to announce the Audience Awards for the 26th anniversary of the festival, which came to an end Sunday, February 18. The festival was presented both in-person at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco and virtually on-demand from February 8-18, 2024.

A list of the awards for this year’s festival are as follows:

Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature 
TO DIE ALONE (Dir. Austin Smagalski)

Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
MATTER OF MIND: MY PARKINSON’S (Dirs. Laura Green, Anna Moot-Levin)

Audience Award for Best Narrative Short
CRICKETS (Dir. Macie Rose O’Neil)

Audience Award for Best Documentary Short
WAY OF THE SHEPHERD (Dir. Matthew Boyd)

Audience Award for Best Animation  
THE GRAND BOOK (Dir. Arjan Brentjes)

Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature
I THINK I’M SICK (Dir. Danny Gevirtz)

Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature
NO ONE ASKED YOU (Dir. Ruth Leitman)

Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short Film
STALKING THE BOGEYMAN (Dirs. Markus Potter, Jack Dorfman)

Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short Film
SHAHZIA SIKANDER: MELTING BOUNDARIES (Dir. Andrea Yu-Chieh Chung)

Feature Screenplay Award Winner  
DISINHERIT, Fred Salmon, Jeremy Pion-Berlin, Adam Linkenhelt, $1000 prize

Short Screenplay Award Winner
THE ALFRED WALTZ, Alexander Yew, $500 prize

This year’s Fest included 59 shorts and 35 features from 14 countries, with 19 films local to the Bay Area. For the 30 in-person events at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco, 89 filmmaker guests attended their screening, with some coming from as far away as Japan.

Next up, SF IndieFest presents the 23rd San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, which will run June TK, 2024. The festival will be presented in-person at the Roxie Theater and virtually on-demand. SF IndieFest plans to announce the complete lineup for SF DocFest by mid-May.

Following that, the annual San Francisco Green Film Festival and San Francisco Short Film Festival will return October TK, 2024.

About SF IndieFest
In 1998 Jeff Ross realized there was no avenue available for his friend Rand Alexander to show his film, CAGED, even though it had played the prestigious Slamdance Film Festival that same year. Ross took to the streets and put on a four-day event, welcomed by an audience of over 3,000 people. Now, 26 years later, SF IndieFest continues to support and celebrate maverick filmmakers and their work.