2022
Our sixth year; we were on Zoom due to the pandemic one more time. Hopefully we will be in person next year. Short thirty-second clips were screened and awards announced.
| Animation | |||||
| Gold Medal Winner | Helianthus |
Noah Taylor |
Woodstock Day School |
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| Comedy | |||||
| Gold Medal Winner | Power Bunny |
Jonah Gleeman |
Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
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| Silver Medal Winner | The Hot Girl Hotline |
Giselle Meskin |
The Masters School |
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| Bronze Medal Winner | Aires |
Ava Dilorenzo |
The Masters School |
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| Documentary | |||||
| Gold Medal Winner | Art Saves the Soul; Bowl |
Madeleine Birnbaum |
Woodstock Day School |
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| Silver Medal Winner | A Story Less Known |
Fin Wrazej |
Grace Church School |
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| Bronze Medal Winner | Lucas Kurzweil |
Sean Robertson, Charlotte Reidy, Mellanie Salazar |
Packer Collegiate Institute |
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| Drama | |||||
| Gold Medal Winner | Cherie Je T'aime |
Eli Berliner |
Saint Ann's School |
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| Silver Medal Winner | Lucid |
Marlin Lofaro |
Woodstock Day School |
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| Bronze Medal Winner | After August |
Olivia Siegel |
Woodstock Day School |
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| Experimental | |||||
| Gold Medal Winner | Restless |
Eli Berliner |
Saint Ann's School |
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| Silver Medal Winner | A Day in The Life |
Kyler Warren |
The Hewitt School |
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| Bronze Medal Winner | Canvas |
Mackarthy Grimes |
The Masters School |
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| Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy | |||||
| Gold Medal Winner | A Proper Guest |
Cody Victor |
Woodstock Day School |
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| Silver Medal Winner | Running Back in Time |
Conan Y Chang |
Saddle River Day School |
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| Bronze Medal Winner | The Play |
Aerin Atinksy |
The Hewitt School |
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| Mixed Genre | |||||
| Gold Medal Winner | Now Hiring |
Olive Milford |
Woodstock Day School |
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| Silver Medal Winner | A Hymn to Love |
Eil Berliner |
Saint Ann's School |
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| Bronze Medal Winner | A Chicken Tweets |
Rowan Walter |
The Masters School |
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| Public Service Announcement | |||||
| Gold Medal Winner | High School |
Jared Perlmutter |
Rye Country Day School |
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| Special Awards | |||||
Best Screenwriting |
Bookstore Blues & Collide |
Marisa Hirschfield & Alex Brooks |
Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
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Best Female Filmmakers |
Diet Coke |
Najah Diaz & Chloe Wise |
Rye Country Day School |
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Social Justice Award |
Helianthus |
Noah Taylor |
Woodstock Day School |
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COVID Award |
Hello Again |
Rylee Landau & Dylan Jackson |
Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
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Best LGBTQA+ Film |
The Stonewall Inn |
Tamyrha Dunac |
Grace Church School |
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Best in Show |
The Painted Beast |
Cody Victor |
Woodstock Day School |
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2021
Our fifth year; we were on Zoom due to the pandemic. Short thirty-second clips were screened and awards announced.
| Animation | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | History of Animation | Collin Bogert | Woodstock Day School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Visual Pleasure Cruise | Max Comora | Rye Country Day School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | A Warm place to Rest | Devon Crew | Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School |
| Documentary | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Unequal Access | Jake H. Srebnick | Packer Collegiate Institute |
| Silver Medal Winner | Shsat and Segregation | Micah Hervey | Reel Works |
| Bronze Medal Winner | FOMO | Jack Hillyer | LREI |
| Experimental | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | The Applicant | Jayden Siegel | Horace Mann School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Cross Currants | Eli Berliner | Saint Ann's School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Dandelion Daydreams | Jake Srebnick | Packer Collegiate Institute |
| Drama | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Dinner Date | Eli Berliner | Saint Ann's School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Perscription | Giselle Meskin | Masters School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Hereafter | Eli Berliner & Will Parker | Saint Ann's School |
| Comedy | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Tomorrow I Leave, He Said Again | Ollie Milford | Woodstock Day School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Impersonation | Lara Berliner | Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Hook Line and Sinker | Hudson Price | Woodstock Day School |
| Mixed Genre | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Hampton Bagels & Road to Ruin | Jesse Smolan | Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School |
| Silver Medal Winner | A Journey Chasing Cheese | Aden Soroca | Horace Mann School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | A Day in the Life | Aerin Atinsky | Hewitt School |
| Music Video | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | The End of Disease | Theo Perl | Ethical Culture |
| Silver Medal Winner | Love Delivered | Rylee Landau | Ethical Culture |
| Bronze Medal Winner | The Swap | Aidan Frank, Nathaniel Garelik, Matteo Stewart, Braden Queen, Stella Shah, Patrick Stinebaugh, Ethan Waggoner, Madison Xu | Horace Mann |
| Special Awards | |||
| Best in Show | Tomorrow I Leave, He Said Again | Ollie Milford | Woodstock Day School |
| Special Award - Social Justice | On The Other Side | Pastel Villalba | Reel Works |
| Special Award - Best Female Director | Writer's Block | Lara Berliner | Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School |
| Best Cinematography | Growing Up Downtown | Naaz Valvani | Grace Church School |
| Best Mental Health Film | Scribbled | Olivia Siegal | Woodstock Day School |
| Best Editing | Faceshopping | Aidan La Poche | Ethical Culture School |
| Best COVID Film | Growing Up COVID | Rylee Landau | Ethical Culture School |
2020
The New York Alliance Film Festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019
Our fourth year; we returned to Westchester to Rye Country Day School. We had a brisk 90-minute video screening followed by a short awards presentation.
| Animation | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Interrupted | Sean Glass | Grace Church School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Taking the Temple | Otto Landesman and Henry Pallesen | Grace Church School |
| Comedy | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Hudson Price | It’s GIF | Woodstock School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Ra Ra Girls | Jake H. Srebnick | Packer Collegiate Institute |
| Bronze Medal Winner | The Rainy Minute | Abby Gewirtz | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Honorable Mention | Is This Seat Taken? | Farrah Shikara | Friends Academy |
| Documentary | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | True Administration of Justice | Esmé Fox | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Silver Medal Winner | Women in STEM | Alexia Hartogensis | Rye Country Day School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Danny Cole | Max Cole | LREI |
| Honorable Mention | Fieldston Protest Doc | Mia McCoobery | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Drama | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Same Blood | Malcolm Grover | Woodstock School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Daydream | Meadow Magee | LREI |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Audio Waves | Jake H. Srebnick | Packer Collegiate Institute |
| Honorable Mention | Delusions of Introversion | Max Reilly | LREI |
| Experimental | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | The Mechanism of… | Sam Klein | Loyola School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Crushed | Oliver Milford | Woodstock School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Trawl | Gega Ugulava | The Ross School |
| Honorable Mention | L'Initiative Orange | Liv Solomon | Grace Church School |
| Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | The Magician's Granddaugher | Alexia Hartogensis | Rye Country Day School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Pop goes the Weasel | Evalise Melgar | Rye Country Day School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | The Fear of… | Juliann Zhou | Loyola School |
| Honorable Mention | Little Box of Horrors | Juliana Casale | Rye Country Day School |
| Mixed Genre | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | The Piano | Ethan Stuart | Rye Country Day School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Lovely | Evelyn Ward | Grace Church School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | baked. | Abby Gewirtz and Kasey Wilner | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Honorable Mention | Paperboy | Theo Perl | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Special Awards | |||
| Best in Show | Same Blood | Malcolm Grover | Woodstock School |
| Special Award - Social Justice | Fieldston Protest Doc | Mia McCoobery | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Special Award - Best Female Director | Women in STEM | Alexia Hartogensis | Rye Country Day School |
2018
Our third year saw the introduction of special categories based on judges preferences. We had a very long screening hosted by Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
| Animation | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | T.S.A. | Henry Wolf | Trevor Day School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Stress | Reed Leibowitz | SAR High School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Another Hero | Myles Dunlop | LREI |
| Comedy | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Perfect Little Angel | Arabella Walley | St. Ann’s School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Ra Ra Girls | Annabelle Lesser | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Reset Button | Pong Tulyathan | The Ross School |
| Honorable Mention | Is This Seat Taken? | Rachel Horowitz & Gabe Merke | St. Ann’s School |
| Documentary | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Taking Back the Bronx | Ben Ginsburg | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Silver Medal Winner | Ladies of Liberty | Rebecca Auburn | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Under the Blanket | Jemima Alabi | Grace Church School |
| Honorable Mention | Redefining Judaism | Melissa Ibrahim | The Ross School |
| Drama | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Strangers | Benjamin Kaiser | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Silver Medal Winner | Fool’s Paradise | Eli Kramer | St. Ann’s School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Behind Her Words | Mia McCoobery | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Honorable Mention | Sedona | Graham Hall | Packer Collegiate Institute |
| Experimental | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | A Loss of Innocence | Christian Miller | The Ross School |
| Silver Medal Winner | A+A | Nina Sielski Elizalde | United Nations International School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Where’d All Time Go? | Theo Matza | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Honorable Mention | Perception | Sunny Guo | The Ross School |
| Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | What’s In The House? | Joseph Zanchelli & Kai Parcher-Charles | The Ross School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Spellbound | Rachel Nachman | St. Ann’s School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Nøkk | Olivia Belluck | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Honorable Mention | The Butcher | Kenyon Bruha, Melchior Delpech, Arthur Christory | Lycée Français de New York |
| Mixed Genre | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | The Crank Call Criminal | Henry Wolf | Trevor Day School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Neon | Kai Parcher-Charles | The Ross School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | A Culinary Romance | Christopher Agger | St. Ann’s School |
| Honorable Mention | Identite | Sofia Rao | United Nations International School |
| Music Video | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | People of the Night | Will Simotas | Grace Church School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Black Power Movements | Kai Williams & Summer Green | Grace Church School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Smile | Margot Sarkozy | Lycée Français de New York |
| Special Awards | |||
| Best in Show | A Loss of Innocence | Christian Miller | The Ross School |
| Special LGBTQ Award | A+A | Nina Sielski Elizalde | United Nations International School |
| Special Award - Best Female Director | Ladies of Liberty | Rebecca Auburn | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
| Special Award - Social Justice | Taking Back the Bronx | Ben Ginsburg | Ethical Culture Fieldston |
2017
In our second year, seventy-eight productions from over thirty schools made a very difficult judging process. This year, we screened four films - “Gold”; “Silver”; “Bronze”; and “Honorable Mention”.
| Animation | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | The Shadow | Pier Paolo Piccoli | Lycée Français de New York |
| Silver Medal Winner | Multiplicity: A Day of a DID Patient | Mingwei Gao | Ross School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Antarcticology | James Karasyov | Grace Church School |
| Honorable Mention | Fractions of Time | Will Waddell | Rye Country Day School |
| Documentary | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Off Season | Alex Lawson | Ross School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Union Square, September 2016 | Milena Krondl | United Nations International School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | The Sculptor | Ben Ginsburg | Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
| Honorable Mention | The First Time Race Mattered | Kalli Jackson | LREI |
| Experimental | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Fiji | Jonas Linnman Feuerring | Ross School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Growth & Discovery | Will Waddell | Rye Country Day School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Relax | Jason Zuriff, Alex Lopez, & George Maguire | Trevor Day School |
| Honorable Mention | The Roots | Jemima Alabi | Grace Church School |
| Narrative Fiction, Over 6 Minutes | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Tub Adjacent* | Jefferson Randall | Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
| Silver Medal Winner | Cover Up | Theo Matza | Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Better Than Here | Lucia Robinson | Ross School |
| Honorable Mention | 127 Minutes | Sam Gallen | Riverdale Country Day School |
| Narrative Fiction, Under 6 Minutes | |||
| Gold Medal Winner | Vacuum | Skylar Jennings | United Nations International School |
| Silver Medal Winner | No New Messages | Olivia Weseley | Packer Collegiate Institute |
| Bronze Medal Winner | Hiccups | Sam Nedelma | Ethical Culture Fieldston School |
| Honorable Mention | Fishing | Zenona Darrow | Woodstock Country Day School |
| Best in Show | |||
| Tub Adjacent* | Jefferson Randall | Ethical Culture Fieldston School | |
| * Tub Adjacent contains mature themes. | |||
2016
It was a very competitive first year for the 2016 New York Alliance Film Festival.Seventy-five productions from over twenty-five schools made a very difficult judging process. If your film wasn't selected, it wasn't because it wasn't well done. These semi-finalists represent the best New York State independent schools have to offer. Semi-Finalists are listed in alphabetical order. Winners in Bold.
| Animation | ||
| “Guts” | Misuzu Shibano | The Ross School |
| The Moon's Letter | Pier Paolo Piccoli | Lycee Francais de New York |
| Documentary | ||
| The Ebola Project | Noah Cosimano-White | The Park School of Buffalo |
| Unfound Justice* | Labeebah Subair & Ellana Lawrence | LREI |
| Experimental | ||
| GIRL$ | Stella Gatti, Kit Keenan & Zoe Pratt | Grace Church School |
| Leftovers | Harrison O'Clair & Emma Pittelman | Woodstock Day School |
| Narrative Fiction, Over 6 Minutes | ||
| Baby Face | Fernanda Amis, Romilly Newman & Eliza Price | Saint Ann's School |
| Modern Love | Evariste Gindrey & Harry Traenkle | Lycee Francais de New York |
| Narrative Fiction, Under 6 Minutes | ||
| Delusions of Noir | Myles Dunlop, Harry Kassen, Ella Corn, Bennett Mark | LREI |
| Dropped Call | Dorothea Fox-Dichter | Packer Collegiate Institute |
| Special Achievement | ||
| Lang “Mark” Cheng | The Ross School | |
| * Unfound Justice contains scenes of people dying and curse words. Parents with younger children may wish to preapre their children. | ||