New York City Drone Film Festival Announces Films in Competition for 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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