NASSAU FILM FESTIVAL 2023 

Best of Festival Winners AND PRINCETON TIGER AWARD RECIPIENTS

Best of Festival (BOF) Award - judges award for excellence in filmmaking

Princeton Tiger (PT) Award - audience award as judged by festival goers

Awards listed by Director and Country

ANIMATION

BOF - The Ribbon - Polla Kozina, Australia

BOF - Painting By Numbers - Radhaya Jegatheva, Australia

PTA - In Your Dreams - Mike Krohn, USA

PTA - The Thread of Remembrance, Stephanie El Khoury, Lebanon

EPISODIC

BOF - Pearly Gates - Loring Murtha , USA

PT - Insomnia Theatre - Mark Starks, USA

PT - Mama Rosalina - Janine Camille Verduci, USA

MUSIC VIDEOS

BOF - That’s What I’m Gonna Do - Michael Theus, Nicolai Tchetchelachvili, Switzerland

PT - Jen Ash Home Is On The Way - Eddie Rieds, USA

STUDENT FILMS

BOF - Birthday Cake - Garvin Kim, South Korea

BOF - The Plight and Desertion Of Arthur Leigh Hazelwood - Edgardo Luis Gonzalez, USA

PT - Return To Sender - Francesca Giannola, USA

PT - Mission Documentary - Gabrielle Rose O’Neill, USA

PT - Pinged - Aahana Ardey, USA

PT - Office Life - Lance Drake, USA

HORROR

BOF - Teacher’s Day - Oleksii Pasichnyk, Ukraine

BOF - Mansplaining - Manolo Castro, Mexico

PT - Birdie - Andrew Edison, USA

PT - The Washerwoman - Obi Ejikeme, United Kingdom

DOCUMENTARY 

BOF - Outside In - Mark O’Toole, Ireland

BOF - Marsh Clouds: The Oysters of Harris Neck - Kevin Mannens, USA

BOF - Ivy Grace - Allie Delury, Mariah Harkey, USA

PT - The Great Connector - Thomas Bentey, USA

PT - The Witherspoon-Jackson Neighborhood - Nick Kochmann, Patrick McDonald, USA

PT - We Deserve Better; The Kids Are All Right - Rebecca Pack Burr, USA

PT - Joseph Bonaparte - Sharyn A. Murray, USA

PT - Attila - Omid Shenavar, Iran 

FICTION

BOF - The Jogger - Daryl Denner, USA

BOF - Hedgehog - D. Mitry, USA

BOF - The Egg - Vinny A. Arizzo, USA

BOF - Burn Your Bridges - Ignacio Rodo, Spain

BOF - Mystic Minnie - Barry Smyth, Ireland

PT - Milton - Kevin Machate, USA

PT - Good Session - Larry Rosen, USA

PT - Pressed - Michele Elise Harding, Scott Knowlton, USA

PT - Therapy - Neil Crittenden, United Kingdom