The Goldspire Independent Film Festival offers screenwriters and filmmakers from all around the world a platform. Filmmakers have the opportunity to advance their work at this event. We honour the very best in independent filmmaking and seek to provide creators with opportunity, joy, and relationships.

We adore making movies. We wanted to make something that would celebrate, appreciate, grow, and give opportunity to the great world of independent films and the filmmakers making them because the art of short films is sometimes disregarded in the film making industry. This festival is always being improved in order to make it the greatest and most worthwhile film event that is humanly possible.

The organization's goals are to inspire independent filmmakers with connections to Iowa to keep honing their craft, to give them a venue to specifically screen their work, to present a special cultural event to the neighborhood, and to provide networking opportunities so that filmmakers with connections to Iowa can connect with one another globally.

Films selected for the Official Selection will be nominated for an award in at least one of the following categories:

Best Feature Film
Best Documentary
Best Short Film
Best Short Documentary
Best Drama
Best Comedy
Best Music Video
Best Directing
Best Cinematography
Best Experimental Film
Best Women’s Film
Best Animation Film
Best Debut Filmmaker
Best Family/Children’s Film
Best Cinematography (Fiction & Documentary)
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Web and New Media
Best Sci-Fi Short
Best LGBT Short


★ Winners of all categories will receive Certificate and Laurel.

All movies must be submitted with English subtitles or in the language (if in a different language)..

Short movies are limited to 30 minutes in length.

Filmmakers are in charge of organizing the copyright for their own works.

By sending your film to us, you grant us permission to exhibit it in front of a live audience and, in certain situations, an online audience.

Nominations: Included in this list are all the movies that have been up for a certain award in that category. Not all of the nominated movies will be shown.

Official Selection: All of the nominated movies that have been chosen for showing will be contacted via email.