Indiana Youth Film Festival

Special shout out to The Hues of Ivory for making our IYFF bags as well as being one of our sponsors! We’ve been seeing the bags out on the town recently!

Huge thank you to all of our sponsors this year!! If you are interested in being an IYFF 2025 sponsor, please email us at [email protected] for more information.

The Music Video portion of IYFF was 🔥🔥🔥! If you missed it this year, make sure you catch it next year at IYFF 2025. Thank you to our special guest panelists Ayinde Rochon & Michael Herrick!

And HUGE s/o to Selah the Artist for vending her incredible art all day!

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Still reminiscing about our incredible time at this year's Indiana Youth Film Festival! The middle of our day consisted of an insightful narrative filmmaker panel and screenings of amazing movies by more young filmmakers.

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📸 Kate Angeles

Still reminiscing about our incredible time at this year’s Indiana Youth Film Festival! The middle of our day consisted of an insightful narrative filmmaker panel and screenings of amazing movies by more young filmmakers.

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📸 Kate Angeles

We had an incredible time hosting an acting workshop during IYFF, facilitated by the incomparable Deborah Asante and Clarissa Todd. To say we had fun would be an understatement!! Can you tell?

Asante Art Institute of Indianapolis
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While we are recapping the beautiful time we had at the Indiana Youth Film Festival, we’d like to pause and give a shout out to one of our sponsors! Thank you so much to JD Finish Line Foundation for your generosity in helping create something new for our state. Also, shout out to India Crawford for her hand in making this happen!

We look forward to our future partnership in creating new opportunities for young filmmakers.

Last week, we started off IYFF with the documentary filmmakers!

We’d love to send a special shoutout to our documentary panelists and the IYFF documentary filmmakers for participating in the festival. Our panelists dropped some great gems and insight on the industry and about their personal experiences!

📸 Gerald Encarnacion

Black Film Center & Archive
Jerald Harkness
Mitchell Teplitsky

The first Indiana Youth Film Festival will forever be cherished! It exceeded our expectations while creating beautiful moments, connections, and an amazing celebration of young Indiana talent.

Thank you to all filmmakers who participated and congratulations to our winners!!

Best Director
El Tesoro


Best Cinematography
The Taken


Best Original Screenplay
Room for Two


Best Acting
The Con Artist


Best Middle School Picture
High Tops


Best High School Picture
Beautiful Roots


Grand Jury Best Indiana Youth Film Prize
A Lady in Waiting


📸 Kate Angeles

4 MORE DAYS til the Indiana Youth Film Festival!!
We're excited to announce one of our vendors at the festival!

Selah is a young local painter and all around artist!

Come show her some love and buy some art work this Saturday at Kan-Kan Cinema & Restaurant. We'll see you there!!

We are less than a week away from
IYFF and we're back with another giveaway! We have 10 FREE festival tickets from the generous support of . The first 10 people on both IG and FB to comment "f" will receive a message from us with the promo code.

Don't wait! Our last ticket giveaway didn't last long at all. Get your tickets now!

Calling all actors and aspiring actors ❗️
Join us at Kan Kan during the Young Actors Workshop to be taught by some of Indiana's best instructors!

Since September 1990, Asante Art Institute (also known as the Asante Children's Threatre) has been committed to providing a creative and nurturing environment where acting, singing, dance and storytelling are used as conduits for self-discovery, personal growth, and self-expression.

Come learn by the best. We'll see you in the theatre!
Asante Art Institute of Indianapolis

📣ANNOUNCEMENTS❗️

First, we’d like to proudly announce this year’s IYFF Grand Prize winner will receive $500 from Robert’s Camera! The prize money is valid for anything in the store including cameras, lights, sound equipment, and so much more!

Our second announcement is… we have 6 FREE Tickets to the festival from our sponsorship from ! The first 6 people to dm us will receive a code for these tickets. Move quick and we’ll see you at the festival!

Our festival this year starts off with our first documentary panel! You may see some familiar faces! Come support our panelists and the young filmmakers at IYFF. Tickets are starting to sell fast!

One of our documentary panels includes two of the most incredible voices in Indiana film. Professor, author, and director of the Black Film Center Archive Dr. Novotny Lawrence will be hosting a talk back with documentary filmmaker and National Emmy Award winner, Jerald B. Harkness. Come see how conversations go when two legends come together!



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Join us at the Indiana Youth Film Festival to hear these filmmakers talk about their experiences in the industry! You won’t want to miss this panel either. Where else would you see a dope lineup like this??

The Narrative Short Film official selections blew us away! These young filmmakers did not come to play.

Join us at the Indiana Youth Film Festival by grabbing a ticket at the link in our bio!

The 50% off ticket sale ends this Friday!

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The Narrative Short Film official selections blew us away! These young filmmakers did not come to play. Join us at Indiana Youth Film Festival by grabbing a ticket at the link in our bio!

The 50% off ticket sale ends this Friday!

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Our music video panel this year will be hosted by doctoral student and filmmaker, Ayinde Rochon, with special guest music video director and producer, Michael Herrick!

We know this will be an incredible conversation that you won’t want to miss!

You don’t want to miss the Official Selections that will be featured during the MUSIC VIDEO category of the Indiana Youth Film Festival this year!

Stay tuned for more announcements!

If you’re interested in networking with like-minded individuals and getting a behind the scenes look into festivals, volunteer at the Indiana Youth Film Festival!

Volunteers will have the opportunity to assist with guest check-in, event set up and break down, and special guest support.

Join us and help make this year's festival one for the books! Email us by June 12th if you are interested!
[email protected]

It’s that time!! We’d love to present the very first class of Indiana Youth Film Festival filmmakers. Their films were officially selected and will be shown during our festival on June 22nd!

We received more films than we even expected which made the decisions by the judges very tough! Please share, show them love, and come out to support their hard work!

More info on each filmmaker, their film, and when it’ll play during the festival will be posted over the next couple of weeks. CONGRATULATIONS Filmmakers! 🎬🔥🔥

In honor of our founder, Deonna Weatherly’s birthday today 🥳 all IYFF tickets are 50% off now through June 7th with the code, “IYFFBIRTHDAY”!

We’ll be announcing our young filmmakers and official selections very soon. After viewing all of the films, we can confidently say, you DON’T want to miss it this year! These films have blown us away.

Ticket link below! 🎬🎂

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We’d like to send a huge THANK YOU to everyone who submitted to our first Indiana Youth Film Festival! We have officially entered the screening process and will be announcing the official selections towards the end of this month.

Since we have all of the filmmakers accounted for, we still have room for other filmmakers, videographers, media enthusiasts, ect. to join our tour of the production facilities! If you are interested in this opportunity, please email us at [email protected] to RSVP!

Tickets to the Indiana Youth Film Festival drop
THIS FRIDAY! 🎟️🍿👀

IYFF’s first event is in full swing tomorrow! 🎬✨

p.s. Parking in the library garage is free for this event.

We are honored to facilitate the world premiere of an incredible documentary made by local young filmmakers, presented by The Blue House Company!

The film, Palate of Belonging: Exploring Cultural Identity Through Food, will be shown during our Indiana Youth Film Festival event tomorrow! Arrive at the downtown library at 1pm to see the rest of this film and support our filmmakers 🤩