2019 Film Updates
2019 Film Updates
Selected Screenings and Awards for Films from the 32nd Annual Columbia University Film Festival
Asi en la Tierra
Writer/Director: Joel Vazquez Cardenas
Shortlist BAFTA Student Film Awards 2020
Official Selection Shorts Mexico 2020
Official Selection Guanajuato International Film Festival 2020
Official Selection Muestra de Cine del Pacífico 2021 - Winner Best Mexican Short Film
Official Selection Miami Film Festival 2021 - Winner of the Warner Media Iberoamerican Short Film Award
Official Selection San Diego Latino Film Festival 2021
Official Selection Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro 2021 (Curtacinema)
Currently in production on a short called Estrella & writing his first feature called Rebecca, a sci-fi mystery.
Ayaan
Writer/Director: Alies Sluiter
Producer: Meng Xiong
Awarded 2019 NBR Student Grant
Awarded the Adrienne Shelly BEst Female Director Award
Leone Family Film Production Award
IFP Audience Award
Panavision Student Grant Sponsorship
2018 Screencraft Film Fund semifinalist
Balk
Writer/Director: Gabe Wilson
Co-Writer: Ben Gottlieb
Producer: Jennifer Kaiser
Winner, New England Filmmaker Award, Rhode Island International Film Festival
Nominee, Best Comedy, College Television Awards 2020
Chemistry of Mood
Director/Producer: Noah Schamus
Writer/Producer: Ryan Craver
IndieMemphis
New Orleans Film Festival - Honorable Mention: For Acting, Naian Gonzalez Norvind
Chi: The Method of Breathing
Writer/Director: Yi Liu
Producer: Ting-Ruei Su, Meng Xiong
Official Selection for the 2018 Taipei Golden Horse Festival
Official Selection for the 2019 Osaka Asian Film Festival
Official Selection for the 2019 Singapore Chinese Film Festival
Official Selection for the 2019 Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwanese Competition Special Mention)
Darling
Writer/Director: Saim Sadiq
Co-Writer: Rodney Llaverias
Producer: Mahak Jiwani
Aspen Short Fest
Arthouse Asia - Best Short Film
Flickerfest Australia
Hamptons Film Festival
Montreal Nouveau Cinema
Melbourne International Film Fest
Stockholm Film Festival
SXSW Film Festival - Jury Special Recognition
Toronto International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival - Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film
Greenhouse
Writer/Director: Xixi Wang
Vimeo Award for Best Director
IFP Audience Award
Jury Selects at Columbia University Film Festival 2019
CineCina Film Festival2019(USA) - Special Jury Award
Hello, World
Writer/Director: Nathan Hong Fischer
Official selection of the 2019 Otherworlds Film Festival in Austin
Official selection of FilmQuest 2019 and nominated for Best Sci-Fi Short Award
I Remembered It Rained
Writer/Director: Connor Simpson
Producer: Carver Diserens
Connor is currently based in Los Angeles, signed with a manager at Management 360, and working on the screenplay for my first feature about a Franciscan friar putting his waning faith to the test as he leads an expedition through the unsettled territory of 1700’s New Spain.
Inpatient (pilot)
Writer/Director: Yudho Aditya
Co-Writer: Robert Walker Jeffery
Producer: Alex Peace
Catalyst TV Fest
SeriesFest (2019) - Nominee for Best Drama Pilot
Into the Void
Writer/Director: Yossera Bouchtia
Writer/Producer: Ciara Doll
Richmond International Film Festival 2020
La Salvadora
Writer/Producer: Tom Lock
Signed North American distribution agreement with Shorts TV immediately after CUFF last year.
CUFF FIlm Festival: Won IFP Audience Award
Premiered on Shorts TV Fall 2019.
Last Call
Writer/Director: Sandra Mitrovic
National Board of Review (2019) - Winner Student Grant
Let Me Play
Writer/Director: Andrew Bell
Producer: Nicholas Santos
Co-Producer: Brittany Fauconnet
Nightmares Film Festival (2019) - Winner Best Recurring Nightmare
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy
Writer/Director: Andrew Stephen Lee
Co-Writers: Neda Jebelli, Emre Gulcan
Executive Producer: Valerie Martinez
75th Venice Film Festival - Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia (World Premiere)
32nd South by Southwest Film Festival
28th Busan International Film Festival
48th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
14th Cinema One Originals Film Festival
22nd Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
24th Geneva International Film Festival
16th Zagreb Film Festival
29th Singapore International Film Festival
16th London Short Film Festival
12th Kustendorf Film and Music Festival
14th Prague Short Film Festival
41st Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand
8th Sun Valley Film Festival
11th Short Waves Festival
19th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival
20th Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
43rd Atlanta Film Festival
31st FilmFest Dresden
13th Dallas International Film Festival
35th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
8th Montclair Film Festival
37th Center for Asian American Media Film Festival
32nd Columbia University Film Festival
1st Davey Fest
12th Festival Zukunftsvisionen
9th Snake Alley Festival of Film
25th Palm Springs International Shortfest
22nd Guanajuato International Film Festival
14th Traverse City Film Festival
5th Still Voices Short Film Festival
20th San Diego Asian Film Festival
30th New Orleans Film Festival
27th Hamptons International Film Festival
40th Denver Film Festival
33rd Leeds International Film Festival
Awards & Nominations
75th Venice Film Festival - Nominated Orrizonti Award for Best Short Film
14th Cinema One Originals Film Festival, Winner Best Short Film
20th Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Jury Honorable Mention
31st FilmFest Dresden, Winner Golden Horseman Award for Short Fiction Film - International Competition
67th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards - Nominated Best Short Film
35th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Winner Golden Reel Award for Best Narrative Short
32nd Columbia University Film Festival, Audience Award, Student Jury Selection, & Jury Honorable Mention
42nd Gawad Urian Award for Best Short Film - Nomination
25th Palm Springs International Shortfest, Winner Best U.S. Short Film
It will also premiere on Short of the Week soon!
Mizaru
Writer/Director: Sudarshan Suresh
IFP Gotham Awards - JetBlue/Focus Features Short Film Award
Telluride Film Festival
Filmmaker Magazine - 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2019
Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival (2020): Nominee Best Short Film
Palm Springs International ShortFest (2020): Winner Special Mention, Nominee Best of Fest
Tampere Film Festival (2021): Winner International Competition
Nausicaa, Burner of Ships
Writer/Director: Leonardo Campaner
Writer/Producer: Chantel Clark
Official Selection:
22nd Festival Internazionale Inventa un Film
10th Social World Film Festival
6th Ferrara Film Festival
5th Say It Loud Film Festival
3rd Refugees Welcome Film Festival
Awards: Cinemigrare Award: Festival Internazionale Inventa un Film
Only Boys
Writer/Director: Jaclyn Noel
Producer: Andrea Goocher
Now titled “The Other Side of Night”
Catalina Film Festival:
Winner of Best Actor Drama - Female
Winner of Best Director Advanced Student
Winner of Best of Fest Advanced Student
Nashville Film Festival (2020)
Nominee: Grand Jury Prize, Best Narrative Short
Palm Springs International ShortFest (2020)
Nominee: Best Studenten Film (from a US Film School) - Best Student U.S. Short
Sadak Chaap (Street Stamped)
Writer/Director: Riddhi Talreja
Producer: Apoorva Charan
Official selection LA Femme International Film Festival (2020)
Official selection South Asian Film Festival Orlando (2020)
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (2021)
Silento
Writer/Director: Esteban Garcia Vernaza
Producer: Susie Kim
Awarded 2019 NBR Student Grant
Swallow You Whole
Aviva Neuman
Official selection SAG-AFTRA Foundation New York Short Film Showcase (2020)
Official Selection Miami short Film Festival
The Catch
Writer/Director: Thais Drassinower
Producer: Camila Zavala
Nominated for "Best Student Short"
Tribeca Film Festival, April 2020
"IFP Audience Award"
Columbia University Film Showcase. May, 2019
"Richard Brick Production Award"
Columbia University Film Showcase. May, 2019
"Katharina Otto-Bernstein Production Grant"
Columbia University Film Showcase May, 2018
"Bertha Tamayo Production Grant "
Columbia University Film Showcase. May, 2018
Official Selections & Screenings
Austin Film Festival, October 24th, 2020
InFocus: Latinx & Hispanic Cinema hosted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and Newfilmmakers LA, September 26th, 2020
Tribeca Film Festival
World Premiere 2020, screening in the 2021 Edition due to COVID-19
There Isn’t Even a Korean Barbecue in This Neighborhood
Writer/Director: Paul Carpenter
Producer: Noé Dodson, Elie Aufseesser
Played at Regensburg Short Film Week 2020
Three Corner House
Writer/Director: Patrick Clement
Co-Writer: David Mar Stefansson
Producer: Catherine Kosiba
Three Corner House was an official selection at Bolton(UK) International Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, Rose Filmdagen Amsterdam LGBTQ Festival and more. Ty Baumann (as Thomas Alban) won ‘Best Actor’ at the Tallgrass Film Festival.
To Sonny
Director: Federico Spiazzi, Maggie Briggs
Writer/Producer: Maggie Briggs
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, 2020
Champs-Élysées Film Festival, American Short Film Competition, 2020
Still Voices Film Festival, International Competition, 2020, Winner: Best International Film
Lille International Short Film Festival, International Competition, 2020
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, Drama Competition, 2020
BOGOShorts Film Festival, Collection Competition, 2020
Minimalen Short Film Festival, International Competition, 2020
NewFilmmakers New York, 2021
Busan International Film Festival, International Competition, 2021
Petit Plan: Americana, 2021
Pendance Film Festival, International Competition, 2021