NEW YORK CITY DRONE FILM FESTIVAL
ANNOUNCES FILMS IN COMPETITION
WINNERS TO RECEIVE HIGH QUALITY CINEMA DRONES COURTESY OF DJI
DJI, NEW ERA AND ADOBE AMONG 2015 SPONSORS
Winners To Be Announced at March 7th World-Class Event
At the Directors Guild of America Theater
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NEW YORK, NY, Jan. 28, 2015 – The films selected for competition in the 1st Annual New York City Drone Film Festival (NYCDFF) have been announced. For the 2015 festival, 35 films were selected out of 152 eligible films.
“The films selected for competition represent the best of the best in drone filmmaking and aerial cinematography,” said Randy Scott Slavin, the Founder and Director of the Festival. “The New York City Drone Film Festival has quickly evolved into a world-class event at the forefront of the emerging culture that surrounds this exciting new art form.” A complete list of films can be found below.
The NYCDFF is also announcing distinguished sponsors for the event. They include DJI, the world leader in cinema drones, which will provide their highest quality drones as prizes for winners in select categories and to be raffled to the Festival audience.
Also joining as sponsors are aerial cinematography company Yeah Drones; New Era baseball caps; drone manufacturer Blade; Paralinx, offering wireless HD video transmitting solutions for filmmakers; elite casemakers Go Professional Cases; the leader in radio control airplanes, cars and quads Horizon Hobby; creative software giant Adobe; film stock emulator Film Convert; high quality filter maker Snake River Prototyping; the peer-to-peer camera lending community Camera Lends; the premier creative music company Jingle Punks; the humanitarian UAV network UAviators; peer-sharing drone site Dronestagram; color correction software company Red Giant; drone magazine Rotor Drone; community organization NYC Drone User Group; drone analysis site Unmanned Aerial; Air Vid, a web-based service that connects aerial pilots with the public; and The Art Directors Club.
The NYCDFF will be held on Saturday, March 7th, 2015 at the Directors Guild of America Theater located at 110 West 57th Street in New York.
For more information visit www.NYCDRONEFILMFESTIVAL.com.
2015 Films in Competition
ARCHITECTURE
Tiny Boston
Federico Creatini
Mont St. Michel, France
Mike Gisselere
Graffiti City
Isabelle Vallee
The Fallout
Jeffrey Brink
NARRATIVE
Noway I missed “R”
Lukas Sygula
Our Drone Future
Alex Cornell
Superman with a GoPro
Corridor Digital
Himalayan Aerials
Jonathan Miller
DRONIE
Columbia River Gorge
Dirk Dallas
Blocking
Michael Kugler
Floating
Michael Kugler
Stranded
Michael Kugler
Spooning in the Spoon
Michael Welsh
Mt. Bromo
Laudrick Samuel Parulian
Porsuit
Capitaine Citron
FPV/PROXIMITY/TECHNICAL FLYING
FPV – Balinese
Justin Welander
Opening Sequence for a Feature Film
Ben Tewaag
Soothing Madness
Carlos Puertolas
MMMMMMM/Santa Monica Airlines
Robert McIntosh
TRAVEL/LANDSCAPE
Cathedral Cove, Coromandel, New Zealand
Brendon Dixon
Jinxi Welcomes Yo
Pierre Haberer
Adriatic
Mike Gisselere
Above and Below Galapagos
Michael Kugler
African Flight
Kevin Maor
Koh Yao Noi
Philip Bloom
SHOWREEL
Effektfabriken Aerials
Per Von Koch
Cinedrones are Awesome
Daniell Ashby
Showreel 2014
Mike Gisselere
Skynamic Reel
Julian Glockner
X-FACTOR
Pipeline Winter
Eric Sterman
DJI Phantom Flies Into Volcano
Shaun O’Callaghan
The Ridge
Danny Macaskill Cut Media Stu Thomson
Mexico City International Airport From Above
Tarsicio Sanudo
100% Extremely Drone
Allison Hunter
I Won’t Let You Down
OK GO
About the New York City Drone Film Festival
The world’s first film festival dedicated exclusively to drone cinema, NYCDFF is enthusiastic about showing the world the amazing creative capabilities of drones.
NYCDFF is a one-of-a-kind, world-class event showcasing world premieres alongside drone films never before seen on the big screen.
NYCDFF supports and celebrates the creative expression of aerial filmmakers from around the world. The Festival will host a screening of short films, curated conversation and an awards ceremony.
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