Dumbo Film Festival

The Dumbo Film Festival (DFF) is a live screening event occurring in DUMBO, Brooklyn every year. Before the live event, a number of annual official selections for each category is chosen during preselection competitions (no screenings) throughout the year. On FilmFreeway you can find information about the current preselection competition (deadlines and fees). The 4th Dumbo Film Festival live event will occur after all the preselection competitions are closed and the whole lineup to screen is chosen, on October 14-18, 2022. All the officially selected films will be screened in Brooklyn, New York during the annual live screening event, and a final ceremony will be held to award projects that have been judged the very best over the past year. This structure allows the festival to collect funds for the organization of the annual live event. As a nonprofit organization, the Dumbo Film Festival is totally independent and the budget to allocate on every year's live event is built out of the submission fees and donations. This structure is also meant to give everyone a chance throughout the year and highlight both affirmed and emergent filmmakers by launching promising artists into the world film stage. Main missions of the nonprofit Dumbo Film Festival Inc. are: • highlighting the young and artistic heart of Dumbo district by making it an appealing destination for both emergent and affirmed filmmakers to share their talent and sensitivity; • becoming a den for cinema lovers by organizing competitions, screenings, galas and related activities; • building a bridge among the many different cultures that can be experienced under the wing of independent cinema (thus contributing to raising tolerance and familiarity towards different ways of life, traditions and new points of view). By the end of the Seventies, a prosperous renewal has brought the district of Dumbo to a new life, and it is now considered to be one of New York’s most glamorous districts and a thriving destination for artists to meet and share their thoughts. On this background of revival within the New York panorama, the Dumbo Film Festival aims to establish itself among the most important independent festivals in the world. Producers and directors from around the world can meet each other here, encounter new ideas, and begin working toward prestigious goals. Many of our award-winning films are official selections or winners from Cannes, Berlinale, Raindance, Sundance, Tribeca, the Goya Awards, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the American Academy Awards (Oscar®), and so on. Many have been distributed on major televisions and international platforms such as HBO, Netflix, Amazon, PBS, BBC. The DFF awards six categories: -Feature Narrative -Short Narrative -Feature Documentary -Short Documentary -Animation -Experimental. The official selections which will be screened in Brooklyn will compete to win the Best in Category award and the Grand Bridge award. Feel free to visit our official website dumbofilmfestival.com for further details about the trophies, past editions and winners.