2023 Atticus Award Winners
Sleepwalking by Nirvan and Aylin Parham, Sweden (Student/Elementary)
Five-year-old Aylin investigates if Santa is real or it was his dad all these years playing Santa.
Indifferent by Saskia Filoteia Yland-Noaghiul, USA (Student/College Undergraduate)
Portrait of a man forced to abandon his passion and a musical career in Seoul, Korea to support his children’s education in New York.
For Roy by Vivian Cheung, Canada - Best Short Film
Inspired by true events, an imaginative Asian-Canadian girl attempts to fold 1,000 origami cranes as she learns to lose her father during his final days in hospice care.
Liaos Draws Inspiration by Juntog Liao, USA (Student/High School)
Inspiration between father and daughter, both finding original art language through each other.
Everybody Get On Board by Justin Roberts, USA - Inaugural Roy R. Neuberger Prize for Best Dad-Created Film
A dad envisions a world of diversity and acceptance for his son. "It doesn’t matter what clothes you wear. It doesn’t matter how you do your hair. It doesn’t matter who you’re here to love, we’re all standing under the stars above..."
Dancing DADS by Oliver Oertel, USA - Best Feature Film
Facing the reality that their daughters are growing up and away, these loving dads step outside their comfort zones to show how much they still care and want to be involved in their girls' lives.
Other D3F 2023 Finalists
Student Films
The Sister Sister Jinx by Sophia McDonald, USA
Pipe Dreams by Asiana Lee, USA
Dying Breed by Samantha Palmatier, USA
Team Meryland by Gabriel Gaurano, USA
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Dad/Dad Figure-Created Films
299.00 (F84.0) by Víctor Augusto Mendívil, Peru
Daddy’s Assessment by Aaron Scully, Australia
Bygones by Theo Shakes, New Zealand
Love, Daddy by Kevin Bauer, USA
Indie Short Films
Those Were the Good Days by Rachel Scribner, USA
Wait by Haris Latif, Pakistan
Do You Love Me? by Teresa Takaki Matsushima, USA
D.A.D. by James A. Sims, USA
Turning Epochs by Ahmad Seyedkeshmiri, Iran
PANAAH by Suhaas Sitaram Karnekar, India
Half Soul by Trabelsi Marwen, Tunisia
The Daddy Shift by Katherine Roselli, USA
Cry Harder by Ian Tan, Canada
