NOFF2023 Jury Award Winners
NOFF2023 Jury Awards
The 34th New Orleans Film Festival Jury Awards have been announced! Congratulations to all the filmmakers who joined the festival this year.
Clickable film titles will be available to stream through November 12.
The New Orleans Film Festival is one of a limited number of film festivals in the country that is Oscar®-qualifying in all three short-form Academy-accredited categories: Narrative Shorts, Documentary Shorts, and Animated Shorts. Jury Award-winning films in these categories at NOFF automatically qualify for consideration for the annual Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
Narrative Short Award (Oscar®-qualifying category)
The winning film will receive $2,500 in Kodak film stock and Academy Award® eligibility.
Jury Award Winner: A Summer Job (Un Trabajo de Verano), dir. Joie Estrella Horwitz, Sergi Castella
Special Jury Mention: Burnt Roux, dir. Keisha Johnella Davis
Documentary Short Award (Oscar®-qualifying category)
The winning film receives Academy Award® eligibility.
Jury Award Winner: Bone Black: Midwives vs. the South, dir. Imani N. Dennison
Special Jury Mention: Addresses (Direcciones), dir. María Luisa Santos, Carlo Nasisse
Helen Hill Award for Animated Short (Oscar®-qualifying category)
The winning film receives Academy Award® eligibility.
Jury Award Winner: Boat People, dir. Thao Lam, Kjell Boersma
Special Jury Mention: Aikane, dir. Daniel Sousa, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson
Special Jury Mention: Chutes, dir. Kenzie Sutton
Narrative Features Competition
The winning film receives a $15,000 Panavision camera rental package and $13,500 of Light Iron Post Production services.
Jury Award Winner: When Morning Comes, dir. Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
Special Jury Mention: Chronicles of a Wandering Saint, dir. Tomás Gómez Bustillo
Documentary Features Competition
Jury Award Winner: Q, dir. Jude Chehab
Special Jury Mention: unseen, dir. Set Hernandez
Louisiana Feature Award
The winning film receives a $15,000 Panavision camera rental package and one free screening at Light Iron’s New Orleans’ facility.
Jury Award Winner: Born to Fly, dir. Brennan Robideaux
Louisiana Short Award
The winner of this award will receive a $5,000 Storyville Post package.
Jury Award Winner: Bone Black: Midwives vs. the South, dir. Imani N. Dennison
Special Jury Mention: Benediction, dir. Zandashé Brown
Special Jury Mention: first disappearances, dir. Milan Daemgen
Reel South Award
The winning film receives a $2,000 award and public media distribution through Reel South.
Winner: For the Record, dir. Heather Courtney
John-Carlo Monti Memorial Award
This year’s recipient receives $1,000 from the John-Carlo Monti Memorial Award Fund, honoring below-the-line, on-set crew members, not traditionally recognized.
Winner: Kenneth White Jr.
South Pitch Program
The winning pitches will each receive a $10,000 cash prize.
South Pitch Documentary Winner: Resita Cox, Basketball Heaven (Feature)
South Pitch Narrative Winner: Hannah Patterson, Along the Way (Feature)
Past NOFF Jury Award Winners
See the #NOFF2022 Jury Award winners here.
See the #NOFF2021 Jury Award winners here.
See the #NOFF2020 Jury Award winners here.
