IMI Fest 2025: Wrapped
- Amanda Archer
- 11 minutes ago
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The third annual IMI Fest is behind us, and we're so grateful to everyone who made it such a special event. Every year this community grows, and we're honored to bring these incredible people together.
We wanted to start our festival recap with a huge congratulations to the 2025 IMI Award Winners: Gawx, Yowei Shaw, Grady Hillhouse, Evan Ratliff, Joel Haver, and Poppy!
You can watch all of the award speeches now on our YouTube channel.
We were delighted to announce the 2025 winners of the Sloan Science Prizes for YouTube. Congratulations to Jeremy Fielding and Toby Hendy!
Jeremy Fielding won the $100,000 Documentary Prize for “The Engineering of a Photograph.”
Toby Hendy won the $50,000 Narrative Fiction Prize for "A Guide to Making Friends in the Fourth Dimension.”
Congratulations to the prize winners, and we are so excited to see your projects come to life!
IMI Fest was full of conversations that sparked ideas and connected creators. Here are the panels that shaped this year’s festival.
If you couldn't make it to Austin, you can watch all of the panels and conversations now on our YouTube channel.
This year’s Creator’s Studio brought together a collection of projects from makers across the community.
Jaime Sunwoo
Jeremy Fielding
Henry Segerman
Chronova Engineering
Engineezy
Finally, a big shoutout to the sponsors who helped bring this year’s festival to life. Thank you for making this possible!
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