THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ITS 2023 AUDIENCE AND JURY AWARDS
This Year’s Jury Includes: Kyle MacLachlan, Uma Thurman, Ira Sachs, Christine Vachon, Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Nora Twomey (MY FATHER’S DRAGON), NYICFF Award-Winning Animator Huda Razzak, SVA Chair of BFA Animation Hsiang Chin Moe, and Kim Díaz, VP of Creative
Development for Sesame Workshop
Oscar-qualifying Jury Awards include Sarah Saidan’s Animated Short Home of the Heart and Mahnoor Euceph’s Live Action Short Eid Mubarak
The Highly Anticipated ERNEST & CELESTINE: A TRIP TO GIBBERITIA Took Home the Audience Grand Prize for Animated Feature, While Sander Burger’s Fantastical TOTEM Claimed the Audience Award for
Live Action Feature
Following the conclusion of its 26th annual NYC event, New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) is proud to announced its 2023 award winners. NYICFF is an Oscar® qualifying film festival, and winners of NYICFF’s jury awards are eligible for consideration at the Academy Awards.
The 2023 jury included Kim Díaz (VP Creative Development, Sesame Workshop), Kyle McLachlan (Emmy nominated actor, Twin Peaks), Hsiang Chin Moe (Chair of BFA Animation, School of Visual Arts), Huda Razzak (NYICFF 2022 Jury Award-winning filmmaker, The Ocean Duck), Ira Sachs (director, Passages), Uma Thurman (Oscar® nominated actor, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2), Nora Twomey (Oscar® nominated filmmaker, My Father’s Dragon), and Christine Vachon (CEO Killer Films & award-winning producer, She Came to Me, Carol, Boys Don’t Cry).
“Grow[s] a generation of movie-loving global citizens… the festival seeks not just to entertain young audiences but also to expand their worldviews.”
—The New York Times
2023
AUDIENCE AWARDS
Audience
Award winners are determined by audience voting in five age brackets and in three, all-ages Grand Prizes
Audience
Award, ages 3+ — The Smeds and the
Smoos (United Kingdom); Daniel Snaddon & Samantha Cutler,
Shorts for Tots
Audience
Award, ages 6+ — Gugu naGogo
(Australia); Taku Mbudzi, Celebrating
Black Stories
Audience
Award, ages 8+ — Architect A
(Korea); Jonghoon Lee, Short Films
Two
Audience
Award, ages 12+ — The Originals
(United States); Cristina Costantini & Alfie Koetter, Short
Films Three
Grown
Ups Award, determined by audience members ages 18 and older — More
Than Hair (Canada); Fitch Jean,
Celebrating Black Stories
Grand
Prize Short Film — Architect A
(Korea); Jonghoon Lee, Short Films
Two
Grand
Prize, Animated Feature — Ernest
& Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (France, Luxembourg); Julien Chheng
& Jean-Christophe Roger
Grand
Prize, Live Action Feature — Totem
(Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands); Sander Burger
2023
Jury Awards
Jury
Award, Animated Short — Home of
the Heart (France); Sarah Saidan,
Short Films Three
Jury
Award, Live Action Short — Eid Mubarak
(United States); Mahnoor Euceph, Short
Films Two