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Julie Dash Headlines Queens World Film Festival (released Tuesday, March 7, 2017) By Kimberly Burke The Queens World Film Festival will open Tuesday, March 14, 2017. The opening night program includes a wine and cheese reception, Museum of Moving Image Executive Director Carl Goodman, QWFF Directors Don and Katha Cato, 2017 Spirit of Queens Honoree Julie Dash, and a sampler of films themed Old is New Again. The TBA opening party will conclude the evening. Julie Dash, born in New York, is recognized as the first female African American to have a feature length film attain theatrical release with Daughters of the Dust in 1992. The film was later added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2004. Dash will be presented the Spirit of Queens Award on opening night. Her film Daughters of the Dust will screen on Wednesday, March 15 at MOMI. The festival is the 7th annual and will run through March 19, 2017. Two screening rooms at MOMI, the Redstone and Bartos Theatres will be venues as well as the Zukor screening room at Kaufman Astoria Studios. The following is a list of films in competition at this year's QWFF as published on the festival's website www.queensworldfilmfestival.com: 2017 NOMINEES BEST ANIMATION AYNY MY SECOND EYE by Ahmad Saleh CHIKA, DIE HÜNDIN IM GHETTO (CHIKA, THE DOG FROM THE GHETTO) by Sandra Schießl BLACK BARBIE by Comfort Arthur MATUD NILA by John Day BEST FAMILY FRIENDLY EXCERPTS OF 4 LITTLE GIRLS: A DANCE FILM by Kerri Edge DILLZILLA: TITAN OF TERROR! by Elizabeth Pasieczny MATUD NILA by John Day BEST LGBTQ MARIPOSAS ( BUTTERFLIES) by Angel Villaverde TO HAVE YOU HERE by Jen Ackerman PISCINA (POOL) by Leandro Goddinho ERICA by Iselin Saga JUST FOR ONE DAY by Francis Legge BEST FEMALE ACTOR NARRATIVE SHORT Deborah Green in STITCHED Ana Caroline Rosalino in HAPPY HERE IN NEW YORK Julie Kline in THE GIRL ON THE MAT Aphrodite Nikolovski in THE GIRL ON THE MAT Ute Zehlen in KIRSCHKUCHEN Tangara Jones in ME TOO, YOU Ine Marie Wilmann in ERICA Jenny Kirlin in THE SEVEN MEN OF HANUKKAH BEST FEMALE ACTOR NARRATIVE FEATURE Ai Ai delas Alas in AREA Karin Hanczewsk in LOTTE Amy Redford in HATE CRIME Dorothea Hagena in MANN IM SPAGAT - PACE, COWBOY, PACE BEST MALE ACTOR NARRATIVE SHORT Thaddeus Schneider in WORKING POOR Harry Wolff in KIRSCHKUCHEN Christopher Dylan Whites in WAYS Eugene Boateng in BOAT PEOPLE Paolo Graziosi in AMORE GRANDE (A BIG LOVE) BEST MALE ACTOR NARRATIVE FEATURE Pierre Walters in THE RED EFFECT Eddy Rimada in CHILDREN OF HIP HOP Andre Araujo in TARDE EN EL ABISMO (AFTERNOON AT THE ABYSS) Shavo Dorjee in PAWO Brian Smolensky in SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE BEST ENSEMBLE NARRATIVE FEATURE THE RED EFFECT by Jordan Miller CHILDREN OF HIP HOP by Antonio De La Cruz ADAM GREEN’S ALADDIN by Adam Green SCUMBAG by Mars Roberge SOMEONE ELSE by Nelson Kim BEST ENSEMBLE NARRATIVE SHORT WAYS by Alex Lora FATA MORGANA by Jon Keng THE GUY CAME ON HORSEBACK by Hosein Rabiei Dastjerdi BRIAN MICKLER by Michael Taylor Jackson INTENT by Murat Engiz CAKE by Anne Hu BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY NARRATIVE SHORT Jordan Berger for THE SURFACE Andrea C. Vannucci for IO NON DEVO Jim Dandee for THE SUITOR Camelia Azar for CAROUSEL Jonaitz Urrutxi for ÚLTIMOS DÍAS (LAST DAYS) Jon Keng for FATA MORGANA Yorgos Karvelas for LIMBO Vahid Buoteh for BUILDING NO. 13 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY NARRATIVE FEATURE Dominik Friebel for MANN IM SPAGAT - PACE, COWBOY, PACE Amin Oussar for PAWO Aaron Keene for PANOPTICON Jon Philion for HATE CRIME David McElfresh for A LONG TIME FOR LOVERS EMERGING FILMMAKER Pat Campo for SWISS CHEEZ BRAIN Ahmad Saleh for AYNY MY SECOND EYE Amelie Wen for FATA MORGANA Farraz Khan for ENHANCED INTERROGATION BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY DOCUMENTARY SHORT Ben Cotgrove for THE DROVER'S BOY Doug Leconte for FIRE OF THE FINAL DAYS BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Gerardo Puglia for THE BULLISH FARMER Luise Schröder for VALENTINA Miodrag Trajkovic for THE PROMISE Andy Lehmann for HERR VON BOHLEN Tracey Anarella for NOT BLACK ENOUGH BEST SCREENPLAY NARRATIVE SHORT Samuel Laskey for THE SUITOR Robert Joseph Butler & Lucie Gillipsie for THE GIRL ON THE MAT Mark Datuin for FORGIVE ME FATHER Debra Markowitz for BY BLOOD Bryce McLeay for ROOM SERVICE BEST SCREENPLAY NARRATIVE FEATURE Brian Smolensky for SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE Josh Folan (story & screenplay) - Seanie Sugrue (story) for CATCH 22: BASED ON THE UNWRITTEN STORY BY SEANIE SUGRUE Julius Schultheiß for LOTTE Jordan Miller, Stuart Evans, Larry Brown for THE RED EFFECT Jonah Tapper for HATE CRIME BEST DIRECTOR DOCUMENTARY SHORT THE DROVER’S BOY by Margaret McHugh FIRE OF THE FINAL DAYS by Doug Leconte A WALK TO FREEDOM by Dan Pearson THE MARGARET LAMBERT STORY by Nina Horowitz DUTEE by Vanessa Hudson BEST DIRECTOR DOCUMENTARY FEATURE NOT BLACK ENOUGH BY Tracey Anarella THE BULLISH FARMER by Ken Marsolais VALENTINA by Maximilian Feldmann BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS by Seth Fein UNDOCUMENTED by Patricia Shih BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT THE DROVER’S BOY by Margaret McHugh FIRE OF THE FINAL DAYS by Doug Leconte A WALK TO FREEDOM by Dan Pearson THE MARGARET LAMBERT STORY by Nina Horowitz DUTEE by Vanessa Hudson BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE NOT BLACK ENOUGH by Tracey Anarella CHILDREN BEHIND THE WALL by Marisol Gonzalez THE BULLISH FARMER by Ken Marsolais NO HUMAN INVOLVED by Pj Starr VALENTINA by Maximilian Feldmann BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS by Seth Fein UNDOCUMENTED by Patricia Shih BEST DIRECTOR NARRATIVE SHORT ARTS AND CRAFT by Nina Gielen THE SUITOR by Alvaro Congosto FATA MORGANA by Amelie Wen AMORE GRANDE (A BIG LOVE) by Max Chicco THE GIRL ON THE MAT by Robert Joseph Butler ENHANCED INTERROGATION by Farraz Khan IO NON DEVO by Cecchi Vannucci BEST DIRECTOR NARRATIVE FEATURE SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE by Joseph Matarrese LOTTE by Julius Schultheiß TARDE EN EL ABISMO (AFTERNOON AT THE ABYSS) by Pedro Oswald Padilha ADAM GREEN’S ALADDIN by Adam Green AREA by Louie Ignacio SCUMBAG by Mars Roberge BEST NARRATIVE SHORT SHORT THE LAST TIP by Patrick Chen BLACK BARBIE by Comfort Arthur MANUEL by Roger Grau & Maria Medinilla STITCHED by Heather Taylor BINARY ELEVATION by Eli Turk BEST NARRATIVE SHORT LIMBO by Konstantina Kotzamani THE GIRL ON THE MAT by Robert Joseph Butler RABIE CHETW (WINTERY SPRING) by Mohamed Kamel WAYS by Alex Lora THE SUITOR - Alvaro Congosto TIGHT-PANTS – by and/or AFTER SCHOOL by Alec Tibaldi ENHANCED INTERROGATION by Farraz Khan AMORE GRANDE (A BIG LOVE) by Max Chicco IO NON DEVO by Cecchi Vannucci THE SURFACE by Jordan Berger THIRST FOR LIFE by Michael Siebert BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE TARDE EN EL ABISMO (AFTERNOON AT THE ABYSS) by Pedro Oswald Padilha ADAM GREEN’S ALADDIN by Adam Green SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE Joseph Matarrese PAWO by Marvin Litwak & Sonam Tseten THE RED EFFECT by Jordan Miller

Julie Dash Headlines Queens World Film Festival
(released Tuesday, March 7, 2017)
By Kimberly Burke

The Queens World Film Festival will open Tuesday, March 14, 2017. The opening night program includes a wine and cheese reception, Museum of Moving Image Executive Director Carl Goodman, QWFF Directors Don and Katha Cato, 2017 Spirit of Queens Honoree Julie Dash, and a sampler of films themed Old is New Again. The TBA opening party will conclude the evening.

Julie Dash, born in New York, is recognized as the first female African American to have a feature length film attain theatrical release with Daughters of the Dust in 1992. The film was later added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2004. Dash will be presented the Spirit of Queens Award on opening night. Her film Daughters of the Dust will screen on Wednesday, March 15 at MOMI.

The festival is the 7th annual and will run through March 19, 2017. Two screening rooms at MOMI, the Redstone and Bartos Theatres will be venues as well as the Zukor screening room at Kaufman Astoria Studios.

The following is a list of films in competition at this year's QWFF as published on the festival's website www.queensworldfilmfestival.com:

2017 NOMINEES
BEST ANIMATION
AYNY MY SECOND EYE by Ahmad Saleh
CHIKA, DIE HÜNDIN IM GHETTO (CHIKA, THE DOG FROM THE GHETTO) by Sandra Schießl
BLACK BARBIE by Comfort Arthur
MATUD NILA by John Day

BEST FAMILY FRIENDLY
EXCERPTS OF 4 LITTLE GIRLS: A DANCE FILM by Kerri Edge
DILLZILLA: TITAN OF TERROR! by Elizabeth Pasieczny
MATUD NILA by John Day

BEST LGBTQ
MARIPOSAS ( BUTTERFLIES) by Angel Villaverde
TO HAVE YOU HERE by Jen Ackerman
PISCINA (POOL) by Leandro Goddinho
ERICA by Iselin Saga
JUST FOR ONE DAY by Francis Legge

BEST FEMALE ACTOR NARRATIVE SHORT
Deborah Green in STITCHED
Ana Caroline Rosalino in HAPPY HERE IN NEW YORK
Julie Kline in THE GIRL ON THE MAT
Aphrodite Nikolovski in THE GIRL ON THE MAT
Ute Zehlen in KIRSCHKUCHEN
Tangara Jones in ME TOO, YOU
Ine Marie Wilmann in ERICA
Jenny Kirlin in THE SEVEN MEN OF HANUKKAH

BEST FEMALE ACTOR NARRATIVE FEATURE
Ai Ai delas Alas in AREA
Karin Hanczewsk in LOTTE
Amy Redford in HATE CRIME
Dorothea Hagena in MANN IM SPAGAT - PACE, COWBOY, PACE

BEST MALE ACTOR NARRATIVE SHORT
Thaddeus Schneider in WORKING POOR
Harry Wolff in KIRSCHKUCHEN
Christopher Dylan Whites in WAYS
Eugene Boateng in BOAT PEOPLE
Paolo Graziosi in AMORE GRANDE (A BIG LOVE)

BEST MALE ACTOR NARRATIVE FEATURE
Pierre Walters in THE RED EFFECT
Eddy Rimada in CHILDREN OF HIP HOP
Andre Araujo in TARDE EN EL ABISMO (AFTERNOON AT THE ABYSS)
Shavo Dorjee in PAWO
Brian Smolensky in SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE

BEST ENSEMBLE NARRATIVE FEATURE
THE RED EFFECT by Jordan Miller
CHILDREN OF HIP HOP by Antonio De La Cruz
ADAM GREEN’S ALADDIN by Adam Green
SCUMBAG by Mars Roberge
SOMEONE ELSE by Nelson Kim

BEST ENSEMBLE NARRATIVE SHORT
WAYS by Alex Lora
FATA MORGANA by Jon Keng
THE GUY CAME ON HORSEBACK by Hosein Rabiei Dastjerdi
BRIAN MICKLER by Michael Taylor Jackson
INTENT by Murat Engiz
CAKE by Anne Hu

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY NARRATIVE SHORT
Jordan Berger for THE SURFACE
Andrea C. Vannucci for IO NON DEVO
Jim Dandee for THE SUITOR
Camelia Azar for CAROUSEL
Jonaitz Urrutxi for ÚLTIMOS DÍAS (LAST DAYS)
Jon Keng for FATA MORGANA
Yorgos Karvelas for LIMBO
Vahid Buoteh for BUILDING NO. 13

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY NARRATIVE FEATURE
Dominik Friebel for MANN IM SPAGAT - PACE, COWBOY, PACE
Amin Oussar for PAWO
Aaron Keene for PANOPTICON
Jon Philion for HATE CRIME
David McElfresh for A LONG TIME FOR LOVERS

EMERGING FILMMAKER
Pat Campo for SWISS CHEEZ BRAIN
Ahmad Saleh for AYNY MY SECOND EYE
Amelie Wen for FATA MORGANA
Farraz Khan for ENHANCED INTERROGATION

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Ben Cotgrove for THE DROVER'S BOY
Doug Leconte for FIRE OF THE FINAL DAYS

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Gerardo Puglia for THE BULLISH FARMER
Luise Schröder for VALENTINA
Miodrag Trajkovic for THE PROMISE
Andy Lehmann for HERR VON BOHLEN
Tracey Anarella for NOT BLACK ENOUGH

BEST SCREENPLAY NARRATIVE SHORT
Samuel Laskey for THE SUITOR
Robert Joseph Butler & Lucie Gillipsie for THE GIRL ON THE MAT
Mark Datuin for FORGIVE ME FATHER
Debra Markowitz for BY BLOOD
Bryce McLeay for ROOM SERVICE

BEST SCREENPLAY NARRATIVE FEATURE
Brian Smolensky for SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE
Josh Folan (story & screenplay) - Seanie Sugrue (story) for CATCH 22: BASED ON THE UNWRITTEN STORY BY SEANIE SUGRUE
Julius Schultheiß for LOTTE
Jordan Miller, Stuart Evans, Larry Brown for THE RED EFFECT
Jonah Tapper for HATE CRIME

BEST DIRECTOR DOCUMENTARY SHORT
THE DROVER’S BOY by Margaret McHugh
FIRE OF THE FINAL DAYS by Doug Leconte
A WALK TO FREEDOM by Dan Pearson
THE MARGARET LAMBERT STORY by Nina Horowitz
DUTEE by Vanessa Hudson

BEST DIRECTOR DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
NOT BLACK ENOUGH BY Tracey Anarella
THE BULLISH FARMER by Ken Marsolais
VALENTINA by Maximilian Feldmann
BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS by Seth Fein
UNDOCUMENTED by Patricia Shih

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
THE DROVER’S BOY by Margaret McHugh
FIRE OF THE FINAL DAYS by Doug Leconte
A WALK TO FREEDOM by Dan Pearson
THE MARGARET LAMBERT STORY by Nina Horowitz
DUTEE by Vanessa Hudson

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
NOT BLACK ENOUGH by Tracey Anarella
CHILDREN BEHIND THE WALL by Marisol Gonzalez
THE BULLISH FARMER by Ken Marsolais
NO HUMAN INVOLVED by Pj Starr
VALENTINA by Maximilian Feldmann
BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS by Seth Fein
UNDOCUMENTED by Patricia Shih

BEST DIRECTOR NARRATIVE SHORT
ARTS AND CRAFT by Nina Gielen
THE SUITOR by Alvaro Congosto
FATA MORGANA by Amelie Wen
AMORE GRANDE (A BIG LOVE) by Max Chicco
THE GIRL ON THE MAT by Robert Joseph Butler
ENHANCED INTERROGATION by Farraz Khan
IO NON DEVO by Cecchi Vannucci

BEST DIRECTOR NARRATIVE FEATURE
SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE by Joseph Matarrese
LOTTE by Julius Schultheiß
TARDE EN EL ABISMO (AFTERNOON AT THE ABYSS) by Pedro Oswald Padilha
ADAM GREEN’S ALADDIN by Adam Green
AREA by Louie Ignacio
SCUMBAG by Mars Roberge

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT SHORT
THE LAST TIP by Patrick Chen
BLACK BARBIE by Comfort Arthur
MANUEL by Roger Grau & Maria Medinilla
STITCHED by Heather Taylor
BINARY ELEVATION by Eli Turk

BEST NARRATIVE SHORT
LIMBO by Konstantina Kotzamani
THE GIRL ON THE MAT by Robert Joseph Butler
RABIE CHETW (WINTERY SPRING) by Mohamed Kamel
WAYS by Alex Lora
THE SUITOR - Alvaro Congosto
TIGHT-PANTS – by and/or
AFTER SCHOOL by Alec Tibaldi
ENHANCED INTERROGATION by Farraz Khan
AMORE GRANDE (A BIG LOVE) by Max Chicco
IO NON DEVO by Cecchi Vannucci
THE SURFACE by Jordan Berger
THIRST FOR LIFE by Michael Siebert

BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
TARDE EN EL ABISMO (AFTERNOON AT THE ABYSS) by Pedro Oswald Padilha
ADAM GREEN’S ALADDIN by Adam Green
SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE Joseph Matarrese
PAWO by Marvin Litwak & Sonam Tseten
THE RED EFFECT by Jordan Miller