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New York World Film Festival 2020
Due to covid-19 pandemic NYWFF 2020 took place online from June 3rd to June 8th, 2020.
NYWFF Award Winners 2020
Best Narrative Film - PANDA, dir. Jacob Fangel Løgstrup
Best Experimental Film - HOMO DEUS Slave to the Rhythm of Medicine, dir. Wolfgang Schmiedt
Best Student Film - When Summer Comes, dir. Jiwon Uhm
Best Young Director's Film - MANUEL, dir. Javier Robles Álvarez
Special Mention - Weston Snider (Dichrome)
Best Micro Short Film - ArchiPaper, dir. Rafal Barnas
*documentary category doesn't have a winner this year
NYWFF Nominations 2020
Narrative Short
Who Wants to Live with Barney Johnson Anyway - Sylvie Kittel
AMERICAN MARRIAGE - Giorgio Arcelli Fontana
PANDA - Jacob Fangel Løgstrup
TrainFish - Christian Ewald
UMAMA - Talia Smith
Bruised Fruit - Christopher Jarvis
Dragonfly - Nicholas Marchetti
Experimental Short
O - chloe dupeyrat
HOMO DEUS Slave to the Rhythm of Medicine - Wolfgang Schmiedt
At the Time - Nathan Johnson
Iowa - Carlos Dengler
Student Short
Mutual Aid Association - Feng Linzhe
When Summer Comes - Jiwon Uhm
Benson's Playground - Jad Jacob
Moving Day - Regev Berkovitz
Documentary Short
Asheng - Mohammad Sadeq Esmaeili
For the Record- Stuart Acker Holt
Because They Were Hurt - Chun Gee Hong
Warriors of Education - Karen Sarah Watson
Gifts of Life: Profiles in Courage From the Transplant Community - Michael David Drucker
Stanley Stellar: Here for This Reason - Eric Leven
Micro Short
Marysia’s Majątek - Jane and Gil Korman
Rendez-vous - Jimmy Boutry, Thibaud Chaufourier
Go back 3 spaces - Stefano Schiavone
Self-Portrait - Elana Emer
Peer - Shayna Strype , Ada Defriez
ArchiPaper - Rafal Barnas
Young Directors
(18 y.o. and Under)
Durian - Caitlyn Phu
Unforgettable - Luke Mullen
Rita - Will Nordstrom
(dis)connected - Brynn Dickman
Stronger than Steel - Jacob Pincus
Dichrome - Weston Snider
MANUEL - Javier Robles Álvarez
NYWFF Official Selections 2020
Narrative Short
The Bathroom - Yektacan ÖZÇİFT
Little French Fish - Eva Lanska
RSVP - Asia Levtov, Evgeny Ruman
Red Necks - Patrick Seda
Lizzy's Plan - Joshua Lang
Unstately - Paul Cuoco
The absences - Hansel Porras Garcia
First & Last - Brendan Beachman
Hometown Hero - Nevin George, Fabio Rothlin
The Miracle Twerker - Nicolas Minas
Bus Stop - Tomas Uhliarik
CHEYENNE - Gerard Corporon
Ghost of a Chance - Manes Duerr
Happy Birthday - Al Sutton
Crazy For The Blonde - Mark Clauburg
Dorris 85 - Grace Philips
Another Round - Brandon Regina
RUBY BABY - Lee Mcqueen
That Good Night - Robert Rosenbaum
Documentary Short
The Next Stop - Jonathan Pearson
Inspired | The Story of NIMANY - Auctus Productions
Little Rink - Lisa Melmed
Street Heroines: Magrela - Alexandra M Henry
FENICE | Running for Life - Carolina Di Lazzaro, Giorgio Ghiotto
Holistic Health Community: an emerging healthcare model based on the Economics of Generosity - Flicker Filmworks
Stacy - Phil Garrison
The Golden State Journey - KC Deane
The Unsung - Sarah Thomas
Los Espartanos - Elliot Morgan Constable
LOVE ME - Mathieu Lee
One:One Ratio - Jay Gunning
Triple Cantilevers: Grinding to a Halt - Lisa Donneson
ThanksGiving Back - Dustin Wolfe
Living with the rarest of rare diseases - Shako Liu
The Fourth Kingdom - Alex Lora-Cercos, Adan Aliaga
The Ravenite - Dennis Mohr, Morgan Schmidt-Feng
1st Little Ladies - April Gatling
Experimental Short
Studies at Huningue / Basel or the tree to sleep - Lutz P. Kayser
SADS - Jamie McRae
Lamentation - Marissa J. WIlliams
Le Vice - Joue Rouge
Micro Short
THE WORLD IS (Y)OURS - Tanya Noushka
Brighten Up Her Day - Jose Andres Cortes
O Rage ! - Florent Sabatier
A Man Called Imafuku - Michael Wallach
Love Always Prevails - Jacob Watson, CliffCo and Operation Smile
Peach Cobbler - Andrew Huggins
cruel world - Hansel Porras Garcia
Nonunion Girl Ep 1: THAT
Girl at auditions - Darby Puckett
Crackers in Bed - Alison Loeb
Escape - Julián Garnik
Shorty - Juliana Mora
Student Short
Atonement - Veronika Kozlowska
Evasion - Yunbing Li
Room - Rinchen Drogha
All Night Long - Mike Klubeck
Sixth Grade - Yuzhuo Wang
Circular - Ali J. Dalloul
The Eighth - Siyun Liu
One Night - Kari Ulfsson
Soccer Dreams - Åsa Welande
《Childhood died in Summer》 - 刘渝杉
Young Directors
(18 y.o. and Under)
MY RED BALL - Esabella Strickland
Obolus - Caitlyn L. Palermo
HELP - Maggie Ding
For Your Memory - Katrina Kwok
Tabula Rasa US - Sarah Carmen MARLIN
CyberMom - Britney Bautista
Faces - Wesley Wang
The Vase - Wesley Wang, Dev Mitra
When Darkness Falls - Emilie Kroyer
Koppel
True Colors of Society - Samu Gabor
Home: Joselyn's Story - Susana Torres, Griselda Martinez, Isabel Lozano, Leonie Sarath, Nattaly Gomez
Senior Sisters, Never Too Grey - Ahtziri Gonzalez, Jennifer Cordova, Ana Navarro
Amy - Srija Jami
My Unfunny Valentine - Nussy Andrews
Heart of Bill - A Ace Swann
Light - Martin Chichovski
NYWFF Jury 2020
Nawaf Al Janahi
Nawaf Al Janahi is an actor and a film director who was born in Abu Dhabi (UAE) on 7 February 1977 to an Egyptian mother and an Emirati father. He started acting at 7, and at the age of 19 he moved to California (USA) to study the arts of cinema.
His first feature length film “The Circle” was described by film critics as “a major turning point in Emirati and Gulf cinema”. Al Janahi’s second feature film “Sea Shadow” was released in cinemas across the Arabian Gulf in 2011 and reached in the 1st week the 2nd place in the top 5 movies in UAE, the biggest cinema market in the Arab world. Later, the film went on a global tour to 27 countries, the most remarkable tour for an Emirati feature film to date.
Beside making films, Nawaf Al Janahi is also the founder of a number of initiatives such as the Emirati Cinema Campaign and Black Box Cinema.
Jessica Damouni
Jessica Damouni is an Australian-American actress and writer based in Los Angeles.
She was nominated for Best Actress for her work in the short film Choke directed by Rolla Selbak which premiered at Outfest in 2018. Her TV/Film credits include: God Friended Me (CBS), Crashing (HBO), the Oscar qualifying film Like Salt and Salam (Tribeca 2018).
She was a writer/performer on the sketch comedy group ToS Comedy and produced/acted in a workshop of her play Our House which is now in further development.
Andrew K. Li
Andrew K. Li is a Chinese filmmaker based in New York. A graduate of the MFA Film Program from Columbia University, his student film was shortlisted for a BAFTA nomination, his films have screened at festivals around the world including official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, ND/NF, SXSW and Toronto IFF.
He and his work have received fellowships from Producers Guild of America and IFP. Li has worked with actors like Michael C. Hall, Zazie Beetz, and Martin Sheen.
Currently, he is producing a feature and developing co-production projects.
Christine Solomon
Award-wining actress Christine Solomon's work has been exhibited, showcased, and displayed to millions of viewers in Egypt, Canada, and around the world
on major television networks and movie studios such as HBO Canada, The Movie Network, Rotana Group (the Arab World's largest entertainment company
owned by the Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talat), Ubisoft, as well as in print, online, and other advertising media.
Solomon has received a nationally-recognized Madbakh Awards for her work as an actress; she is also an important contributor for the award-winning productions in which she played a leading or critical role (HELIOPOLIS, BASRA, and BAFTA nominated RAINBOW SIX: SIEGE).
On the other side of the camera, Christine has served on the 25TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS TELEVISION NOMINATING COMMITTEE and has been an official juror at various prestigious film festivals across the country.