I recently found a short anime film made by an animation student and felt i should share it
Fumiko no Kokuhaku* Ishida Hiroyasu directed, animated, edited, and recorded the whole thing. It was awarded the second YouTube Video Award Japan for animation in 2009.
A short, independent 143-second anime featuring a schoolgirl named Fumiko, who just confessed love to the boy she likes. She gets turned down, because he wants to concentrate on baseball training and runs off crying, running downhill through the small town, she gains more and more momentum.
Do you know of any other independent works out there?