The Independent Spirit Awards (originally known as the FINDIE or Friends of Independents Awards), founded in 1984, are awards dedicated to independent filmmakers. Winners were typically presented with acrylic glass pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. In 1986, the event was renamed the Independent Spirit Awards. The Independent Spirit Awards are presented by Film Independent, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent film and independent filmmakers.Since 2006, winners have received a trophy depicting a bird sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole.
The awards show was previously held inside a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, California, usually on the day before the Academy Awards (since 1999; originally the Saturday before). Since 1994, the show has been broadcast on the Bravo and Independent Film Channel, as well as Hollywood Suite in Canada.
I'll do as you do, do it through me.
And then I'll know that it's for real.
And alive is how I feel when you're inside of me.
I'm sorry for what i did and didn't do
and now I can't believe that it's all coming true.
Letting go has started over starting now it's done.
I can't stop the race, it's already done
and now it's time to start again
a new race has begun in me
you tried to show me how you tried to show me why
but I just closed my ears and eyes to you