The Gotham Film Festival
Last night Norm Spizz and his Committee (Corey Bearak, Elizabeth Greenberg, Tessa Marquis, Caitlyn Ryan and Shelley Simpson) presented still another stellar Gotham Film Festival (generously sponsored by Jason Greenberg/Phoenix Public Adjusters Group, Raj and Sharon Goel, Tom Gallin, Klein Zelman Rothermel Jacobs & Schess, 5th Street Advisors, Susan Sajiun-Fitzharris, Ray Walcott, Vincent Russo, Joshua Zinder, Kelly Welles and Mike Jakob.
Gotham presents the Film Festival every other year, alternating with the Gotham Battle of the Bands.
This year we had many short film entrees (10 minutes or less), The committee pared them down to 3 in 2 categories, Documentary and Narrative.
The Festival began at 6:00 on Zoom and we viewed all 6 finalists, with a running time of 55 minutes, and then the winners were announced, after a surprise announcement by Chairman Spizz that as a consequence of Sponsorship Chair Corey Bearak’s extraordinary efforts and the generosity of our sponsors, all finalists would receive prize money. Originally the prizes were set at solely $1000 for the First Place winner in each category.
Wow!
Our esteemed Judges were Joanna Langford (mother of recently married Gothamite Greg Rose), Michael Steger and Talia Zinder (a former winner).
And the Winners are:
Documentary Category
First Prize $1000
Nacieron las Flores
Ashley Cervantes
Second Prize $500
Article 116 Beyond Citizenship
David Padrusch
Third Prize $250
Community in Quarantine
Bridget Harry
Narrative Category
First Prize $1000
Leave
Dante Simonetta
Second Prize $375
House of Horrors
Liam Weinberger
Second Prize* $375
Bloody Love
Shannon Jamieson
*Second and Third prizes were added and divided due to a tie score.
PS In addition to the generous prize money the winners have the PR benefit of heralding they are “Winner of the 2022 Gotham Film Festival”!
It all Sounds good to me :)
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And special thanks to everyone that made the event successful!
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The Gotham Film Festival has become an institution!
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