Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival

The Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival (commonly abbreviated as "HRIFF") is a film festival with a focus on independent films held annually at L.A. Live / Staples Center and additional cinemas across Hollywood, California. HRIFF guests have included Pierce Brosnan, Hilary Duff, Harry Dean Stanton, Martin Landau, Joe Mantegna, Josh Brener, Frances Fisher and Uwe Boll and many other Hollywood film celebrities.
Official HRIFF Award of Excellence Winners include Gérard Depardieu, Peter O'Toole, and Tinto Brass. Other winners and/or attendees of note at HRIFF include Gary Cole, Ed Asner, Tyler Blackburn, Jon Polito, Danny Masterson, Laura Prepon, Mackenzie Phillips, Rick Shapiro, John Heard, Grace Zabriskie, Jon Polito, Bruce Davison, John Robinson, Dominic Purcell, and Sharon Stone. 
History.
The festival was established in 2001 with a focus on new independent films. It is a competitive event, annually screening films in competition and awarding the best films in its program in various categories during a red-carpet award show.
HRIFF has screened films produced by Ron Howard, Werner Herzog, Michael Apted, Errol Morris, and showcased films directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, Dusan Makavejev, and Bill Plympton, as well as films starring Jonathan Pryce, Zack Braff, Terri Polo, Clark Duke, Jonathan Banks, Lori Petty, Steven Weber, Jeremy Sisto, Dominique Swain, James Hong, Paul Rudd and more
Award of Excellence.
Each year, as part of its award show, the festival presents the "Award of Excellence" to multiple people whose work in film is considered highly influential, and whose work is shown in the festival.
In recent years recipients include: