THE 2011 FILM WINNERS:

IIFF Best of Fest
Virgin Alexander

The Illinois Auteur Award
Robert Alaniz for
D.I.N.K.S. (Double Income No Kids)

Aspiring Filmmaker Award
Elliott's Wood

Best Dramatic Feature
Amber Rose

Best Dramatic Short
The Catastrophe

Best International Dramatic Short
Mish Mush (Apricots)

Best Comedy Feature
Garage Hoppers

Best Comedy Short
Not Necessary

Best International Comedy Short
Bill Please!

Best Documentary Feature
A Mind in Quicksand

Best Documentary Short
Kindred

Best Family Feature
Paper Airplane

Best Family Short
An American Boy

Best Experimental Feature
Innocent

Best Experimental Short
A Finger Two Dots Then Me

Best Musical Short Narrative
Just For Us

Best Musical Short Video
The Pauses – Hands Up

Best Student Feature
The Alumni Chapter

Best Sci-Fi Short
The Small Assassin

Best Horror Short
Ad Noctum

Best Thriller Short
CUTEeGRL

Best Animated Short
Winged Little Bunny Rabbit

IIFF 2011 Screenplay Winners:

Dad's Behaving Badly By Tracy Ryan
Three Dads with conflicting personalities take their teens on an outward bound trip in remote Arizona to bond and get more than they signed up for when they cross paths with a Mexican drug cartel.

Friends of Jim By John Buckley
Friends of Jim is set in the modern day United States with one major modification. Social Security funds are given to young people to enjoy retirement in their twenties. Due to the system average Americans are left with no choice except to work well beyond age sixty-five.
Jim Flynn missed his window of youthful retirement, and decides he needs to find a way out. A self-supported retirement is out of the question, so Jim fakes a disease until he is declared unfit to work.
After leaving his only friend in the world behind, Jim struggles to find purpose in a nursing home. A young orderly befriends him, and together the two men attempt to rediscover life through a series of adventures.

The Terrible Turk By Emine Dursun
In 1890's, the time of ending eastern empires and conquering western civilization, New York was a strange culture and strange vision for the Ottoman wrestler who defeated all his rivals in Europe and the United States. Yusuf wrestles in shadow of virtue, beliefs and love. He struggles between cultures as his fame carries him to the top of the wrestling history.
Inspired by the true story of a man with superhuman strenght known by the world as The Terrible Turk.

The Trees By Tom Tucker
Set in the future, a brave law man puts his life on the line to expose a cover-up by a corrupt corporation that is responsible for having created a revolutionary technology.

IIFF 2011 Schedule

Friday:

1:30pm
The World of Film Festivals - Comedy Short
Moon-Dawg - Dramatic Short
The Pauses – Hands Up - Musical Short

1:45pm
Innocent - Experimental Feature
Fruit Flies - Experimental Short

3:15pm
3 Tasks for the Tele Kinetic in Training - Comedy Short
Bill, Please! - Comedy Short
Extinction II-Squaring of the Circles - Comedy Short
The Miss - Comedy Short
#omgimtrending - Comedy Short
Monster Flu - Comedy Short
The Goose - Comedy Short

4:30pm
Priorities - Documentary
Sons of War - Dramatic Short
Odysseus Gambit - Documentary

5:00pm
Consolation Prize - Dramatic Short
Ad Noctum - Horror Short
Mr. Goodbye - Dramatic Short
Nobody but Her - Horror Short
Keycards - Dramatic Short
Homework - Horror Short

6:00pm
Mish Mush (Apricots) - Dramatic Short
The Man Who Loved Flowers - Horror Short
Left Alone - Dramatic Short
El Hecho Imposible - Dramatic Short

7:00pm
2 Tonne Hands - Dramatic Short
Submerge - Horror Short

8:10pm
Garage Hoppers - Comedy Feature

Live Music 10pm - Larry

Saturday:

9:30am
Made of Steel - Family Short
Amber Rose - Dramatic Feature
Cornfed Tiger - Dramatic Short

11:30am
Passion - Experimental Short
Teddy Bear - Dramatic Short
The Last City in the East - Experimental Short
The Small Assassin - Sci-Fi Short
S.W.I.M. - Experimental Short
8 Second Dance - Animated Short
Lines in the Sand Ties - Sci-Fi Short
A Finger Two Dots Then Me - Experimental Short
The Birds Upstairs - Animated Short
The Four Immeasurables - Experimental Short

1:00pm
D.I.N.K.S. (Double Income No Kids) - Comedy Feature

3:00pm
Mashed Media - Documentary
The Catastrophe - Dramatic Short
Getting Inked - Documentary
Kindred - Documentary

5:00pm
Not Necessary - Comedy Short
Slow Elevator - Comedy Short
James vs. Reality - Comedy Short
Ranger Rob: The Movie - Comedy Short
Here Goes Nothing - Comedy Short
Winged Little Bunny Rabbit - Animated Short

7:00pm
Virgin Alexander - Comedy Feature

8:30pm
Drunk Dial - Comedy Short
S.O.L. - Comedy Feature

Live Music 10pm - New Deal Crew

Sunday:

9:30am
March April - Dramatic Short
Elliott’s Wood - Family Short
Blue Bike - Family Short
An American Boy - Family Short

11:00am
Libby Girl: Online!- Family Short
Made in China - Family Short
Blank Canvas - Experimental Short
Connect - Comedy Short
Just For Us - Musical Short

11:45am
Paper Airplane - Family Feature

12:50pm
A Mind in Quicksand (Sneak Preview) - Documentary
After Party Dramatic Short

2:00pm
Verbatim - Dramatic Short
Format - Experimental Short
CUTEeGRL - Thriller Short

2:30pm
The Alumni Chapter - Student Feature (Dramedy)

4:30
Awards Ceremony

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