New York Film & Cinematography Awards

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"𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥. 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥." Eileen Grubba, American award-winning actress

"𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐀𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠." Tom Lop, american director

🎥 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊 & 𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒 - 𝐈𝐌𝐃𝐛 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 is an online film festival that arouses the interest of filmmakers, film distributors and film enthusiasts with its wide base of screened and award-winning films. Are you a filmmaker who really wants to break into the film industry? In that case, you are on the right track, because our film festival offers opportunities to make your project visible.

Why can an online film festival be a better place than a real film festival? Have you experienced the feeling that you were at a smaller film festival and the audience was less than the number of people in the crew of your film? If so, that's why we decided to organize the festival online. Online, we can present your film to a larger number of people, and instead of 20 viewers, we can attract up to a thousand viewers during the LIVE STREAM.

The organization under which we organize this festival is known for having already presented projects that were streamed on 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐱, 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐌𝐔𝐁𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐁𝐂. Among the winners were films that were 𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐀 𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐎𝐘𝐀 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬. Your film can also be part of the festival, where such high-quality films were presented, which is why our festival is an excellent choice for you.

We ourselves are filmmakers, producers and entrepreneurs. We know how difficult it is to show the world that someone appreciates your work. That's why we came up with a unique project in which we involved several jurors from around the world and created a new opportunity to show your film to the world. Our festival support the dissemination of independent filmmakers.

With over 5000 filmmakers from 120 different countries already trusting us, we understand the challenges and costs associated with finishing a film project. We have been filmmakers ourselves and have experienced the limitations of traditional festivals that offer little in terms of industry connections. But at NYFCA, we go beyond just showcasing your film – we connect you with the film industry.

The festival is seasonal - 4 seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter. At the end of each year, we will have a screening.

In the evaluation, we focus on the technical design of the film, the idea of ​​the film, dramatic gradation, the tone of the film, the script, the conflict, the reality of the action, the acting performances and we attention to the details on which your film is composed.

We ourselves are filmmakers, producers and entrepreneurs. We know how difficult it is to show the world that someone appreciates your work. That's why we came up with a unique project in which we involved several jurors from around the world and created a new opportunity to show your film to the world. Our mission is to recognize talent and passion and to award the best film project.

Previous winners of our festival are well-know directors such as 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 (United States), 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 (United Kingdom), 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨 𝐆𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢 (Italy), 𝐅𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 (Honduras), 𝐉ö𝐫𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐧 (Switzerland), 𝐒𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐛𝐛𝐚𝐬 (India), 𝐃𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐝 (Egypt), 𝐑𝐚ú𝐥 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐫 (Argentina) and others.

Promoting independent film means finding talent and budding filmmakers looking for a job in the 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓.

📑 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍 𝟕𝟐 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 + 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 + 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒: Don't you want to wait a few months to find out the results of the festival? We offer you a unique opportunity! Submit your film in this category, which guarantees you maximum value from the festival. You will receive an answer within 72 hours whether your project is in the Official Selection or not. If he is in the Official Selection, it means that he will be able to compete in all categories. And you'll get a 100-word review.

OUR JURY TEAM

SIMONE TERRANOVA
Jury Member for New York Film and Cinematography Awards
Simone Terranova is an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter working across film, television, and international productions. He is the founder of CineSociaLab, a creative training space focused on actor development, and he also works as an acting coach and mentor. Alongside his teaching, he develops original film projects, including Between Left and Right, produced in collaboration with JTC Films Chicago. His work has received international festival recognition for both acting and directing, often exploring themes of identity, family, and contemporary social tensions. Learn more: IMDB

CHRIS DELAPORTE
Chris Delaporte is a French director who began his career as a street artist and was among the pioneers of the movement in Europe in the 1980s. He wrote and directed Kaena: The Prophecy, the first full CG animated feature produced in Europe, which was nominated for the Golden Reel Award and featured the voices of Richard Harris, Anjelica Huston, and Kirsten Dunst. He later moved into live-action, directing music videos, short films, and commercials for international brands including Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Canal+
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ABEL ERNEST TEMBO
Jury Member for New York and Cinematography Awards
Abel Ernest Tembo (born 1978) is a filmmaker whose work spans short and feature films, with an early background in film criticism, editing, and visual effects. His debut feature, CCDE Chassé-croisé dynamique à l’élastique (2010), was followed by Moloss (2020), co-directed with Abdelkrim Qissi and selected for the 2022 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival after a preview at the Grand Rex. He later directed the short film Funayurei and is set to release his third feature, Suspect, in 2025. Learn more: IMDB

CHRIS LAMBERT
Jury Member for New York and Cinematography Awards
My name is Chris lambert I have been a professional commercial photographer most of my working life, shooting major advertising campaigns.
I was born in New Zealand and was brought up on a dairy farm milking cows.
Later in life I decided to for full my real passion in life and that was making movies. Learn more IMDB

GUSTAV TIMLON
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
I'm a director from Sweden and have just made my first short film, Dim, which won Best Super Short Film at New York Film & Cinematography Awards in august last year and had its premiere at Stockholm City Film Festival in Sweden. I'm currently working on my next short film which I'm also the director and screenwriter for and will be shot this summer." Learn more: IMDB

PALMER DURR
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
Palmer Durr is from Bluffton, Indiana USA. He is a film director and cinematographer who has worked in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico, Brazil, China, and Europe. He has invested over a decade with the Kayapó Indigenous Community of the Amazon Rainforest, where he directed the film "Kukràdjà" and taught film-craft to help preserve cultural tradition.
Learn more: PORTFOLIO | INSTAGRAM

WILLIAM MURPHY
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
William Alexander Murphy, born on September 18, 1962, grew up across several regions of the United States before eventually settling in the West. His early life was shaped by personal loss and a wide range of experiences as both a student and a teacher, as well as an athlete and coach.

An actor and lifelong artist, Murphy has brought his creative voice to the stage and to storytelling. He considers himself both an artist and a poet, dedicated to a life shaped by creativity, discipline, and personal growth. With more than four decades shared with his wife and over a decade of sobriety, he continues to pursue his artistic work with focus and resilience.

EDMUND TETTEH AGORHOM
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
Edmund Tetteh Agorhom is a Ghanaian writer, director, producer, and editor whose work combines visual artistry with a strong focus on social themes and ethical storytelling. His films often center on marginalized communities and explore resilience, memory, and life at the margins. His recent documentary, The City of God Beneath the River, reflects his poetic yet grounded approach to the human condition. He holds an MFA in Film and Television from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and brings a global perspective to stories that prioritize empathy and authenticity.

S.N. WATTS
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
S.N. Watts is an Australian award-winning filmmaker and the founder of S.N. Watts Productions. His films have screened globally, earning multiple awards and industry recognition. Shannon's work draws from diverse influences and cultural perspectives, pushing the boundaries of art and cinema while challenging and captivating audiences.

CHIH-LI
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
Chih-Li Chang, Living Hsinchu City, known as Taiwan’s Silicon Valley, used to be an Engineer on space science and auto-guided vehicles, has turned into the Film Festival and audience assessment coordinator for the 67 episodes of the “Go Go Giwas” animation series and over 100 other videos which intersperse entertainment, popular science, and the culture of Taiwan's 16 indigenous people.

RUSSELL DE ROZARIO
Jury Member for New York and Cinematography Awards
Russell de Rozario has been a production designer in the film industry for over 35 years. His credits include Hitman’s Bodyguard, Kick- Ass, Jolt, Argyll, Angel has fallen, and Xmen to name a few. His recent short film, This Damnation has which he wrote and directed, has won many awards and received much critical
acclaim. He lives in London, UK.

JULIA LIND DOBROVOLSKA
Jury Member for New York and Cinematography Awards
Julia Lind Dobrovolska is a Ukrainian refugee filmmaker living in the UK. MA in Screen and Film Production with Screen and Film School (MetFilm School) Brighton. Works on mainstream fiction and documentary projects and makes short films as a writer, director and producer. Took part in several documentary film projects about the war in Ukraine.
Learn more INSTAGRAM | LINKEDIN

KRIS BART
Jury Member for New York and Cinematography Awards
Kris Bart is an Italian screenwriter and director whose work blends poetic realism with political and human themes. His pilot The Sound of Ruins, part of The Sound of Apocalypse, has received 42 international awards within seven months. He has recently completed the feature project The Ninth Nail, a reimagining of the final days of Jesus from the perspective of a former rebel.

FRANÇOIS-RÉGIS JEANNE
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
François-Régis Jeanne is a director and screenwriter and a UCLA alumnus whose work explores myth, identity, and the subconscious through what he calls “infernal cinema,” developed primarily through his production company Stranger Films. His credits include the Netflix France Top 10 title Demi-Sœurs, the urban drama Break, and the documentary Fucking Kassovitz. His award-winning film The Wolf of Tancarville has received ten international awards, and he currently serves as a jury member for the New York Film & Cinematography Awards. Learn more: IMDB

KÉVIN MACEDOT
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
Born in 1991, Kévin Macedot is a director from the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. After studying audiovisual production in France, he worked in Paris before returning to Guadeloupe, where he taught in the audiovisual BTS program and collaborated on music videos and projects for the national broadcaster Guadeloupe La Première. His first self-produced short film, Je ne suis pas Elle, je suis l’Autre, reflects his background as a cinematographer and his broad technical experience.

FABRICE DROCCO
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
Fabrice Drocco is 35 and comes from Geneva, Switzerland. He is a writer, director, and editor, and has been making short films since the age of 11. He studied filmmaking in New York at Sarah Lawrence College and in Quebec at the ECTQ. In 2025, he made the short film Lullaby for Clémence, which won Best Cinematography at the Membrana Film Festival in Manchester, and he also directed the dance video Paysages de Passages. He is currently writing his next short film. Learn more: IMDB | WEBSITE | INSTAGRAM

MATÍAS PIMSTEIN
Jury Member for New York Film & Cinematography Awards
Matías Pimstein is a Chilean filmmaker with a background in entertainment and IP law. A Law graduate from the University of Chile and a postgraduate alumnus of ESCAC in Film Directing, he began his career advising film productions before moving into writing and directing. His short films Félix (Or Incogruent Fragments About A Not-So-Scary Ghost)and The Metaphysical Odyssey of a Pizza Delivery Guy have screened at international festivals, and he is currently developing his debut feature film.
Learn more: IMDB | INSTAGRAM

BILL MURPHY
William Alexander Murphy, born in 1962, grew up in the United States after losing his mother at a young age. He has lived across the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, and later settled in the West. Over the years, he has been both a student and a teacher, an athlete and a coach, and has worked on stage as an actor. He identifies as an artist and poet, has shared a partnership with the same woman for over forty years, and has maintained sobriety for nearly twelve years.

JEAN DE MEURON
After attending the New York Film Academy (NYFA), USC’s School of Cinematic Arts Summer Program in Los Angeles, CA and receiving the UCLA Extension Business & Management of Entertainment Certificate (Earned with Distinction), Jean de Meuron graduated with a Bachelor’s degree (Film & Media Studies) from The New School in New York, NY. He was honored with Outstanding Academic Achievement for his consistency on the Dean’s List.
Jean was an Executive for internationally renowned director Roland Emmerich at his production company Centropolis Entertainment in Los Angeles, CA. There, he worked on TIDES/THE COLONY (2021) from OSCAR® and Golden Globe® Award nominated filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum and the epic sci-fi disaster film MOONFALL (2022), which was theatrically released globally in February 2022. Upon its streaming release on Netflix, TIDES/THE COLONY was the #1 Movie in the U.S., claiming the top spot in the Top 10 ranking of the most watched films.
Jean’s professional directorial debut, the critically acclaimed EDGE OF SPACE (2024), made the 97TH OSCARS® Shortlist – Live Action Short Film and the 2025 Shortlist Young Director Award (Cannes Lions). Furthermore, he and his team won a total of 6 Telly Awards, honoring excellence in video and television across all screens since 1979, for EDGE OF SPACE at the 46TH Annual Telly Awards, including Gold for Craft-Directing. Since 2019, Jean has been a Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the Short Films Branch.

Can your film succeed in the New York Film & Cinematography Award competition? Submit your film in one or more categories and maybe your film will become a WINNER. The chance of success is high!

If you win, you can register your project on our IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0024787/2025/1/