Piotr Stasik’s Film For Aliens was a two-time winner at the 12th edition of Brooklyn’s Greenpoint Film Festival taking home the Best Narrative Feature award as well as the festival’s Grand Jury Award. Thaddeus D. Matula’s Into The Spotlight won Best Documentary Feature.
Additional winners included Anne Hu’s Lunchbox (Best Narrative Short Film), Alex Ramsey’s Limbo (Best Documentary Short Film), and Chen Sing Yap’s Feeling The Apocalypse (Best Animation Film). Honorable mentions went to Lorena Russi’s A History of Sitting in Waiting Rooms, Manal Fadlala’s Achromatism, Sam Motamedi’s Repentance, Noam Argov’s Sulam, and Simon Schneider’s Zeitpunkt X.
The Greenpoint Film Festival also announced the films/filmmakers selected for their coveted R2W2 Accelerator and Mentorship Prizes. Maegan A. Houang won the GFF23 Short to Feature Accelerator Prize for her “audaciously original and promisingly groundbreaking work” in Astonishing Little Feet, and Alex Spott won the GFF23 Talent Mentorship Prize for the “clarity of vision and creativity” showcased in her film No Other Gods But Me. The Short to Feature Accelerator Prize consists of in-kind consultation services in development, financing, production to distribution that will lay the groundwork to propel the short film into the production of the feature film version of it, while the Talent Mentorship Prize consists of coaching the winning talent to help best position themselves in the market and to lay the groundwork for having a sustainable talent career.
Greenpoint Film Festival Creative Director Ricardo Vilar, said, “This was a wonderful edition of the film festival, highlighted by a coming together of filmmakers both local and as far away as Europe and Asia to share their films with us and connect with each other, here in North Brooklyn. It was exciting to hear audience members and their fellow filmmakers give feedback with conversations inspired by the thought provoking subjects and entertaining cinema they had just watched. Presenting these awards was a perfect way to wrap up a fantastic event celebrating truly independent film.”
2023 Greenpoint Film Festival Filmmaker Awards
Grand Jury Award
Film For Aliens
Director: Piotr Stasik
Best Narrative Feature Film
Film For Aliens
Director: Piotr Stasik
Best Documentary Feature Film
Into The Spotlight
Director: Thaddeus D. Matula
R2W2 Short to Feature Accelerator Prize
Astonishing Little Feet
Director: Maegan A. Houang
R2W2 Talent Mentorship Prize
No Other Gods But Me
Director: Alex Spott
Best Narrative Short Film
Lunchbox
Director: Anne Hu
Best Documentary Short Film
Limbo
Director: Alex Ramsey
Best Animation Film
Feeling The Apocalypse
Director: Chen Sing Yap
Honorable Mentions
A History of Sitting in Waiting Rooms
Director: Lorena Russi
Achromatism
Director: Manal Fadlala
Repentance
Director: Sam Motamedi
Sulam
Director: Noam Argov
Zeitpunkt X
Director: Simon Schneider