The New York City Drone Film Festival is the world's first event exclusively dedicated to celebrating the art of drone cinematography. The festival offers an international platform for filmmakers from every corner of the globe to exhibit their work in front of industry professionals and the drone community. The 5th annual New York City Drone Film Festival took place March 1st & 2nd 2019.
"At Liberty Science Center, in Jersey City, I attended a Day of Drones one Sunday in early March, 2016, and had to cruise the lot for a long while to find a parking space. Kids of many ages and ethnicities packed the exhibitions of drone battles (not much contact, but plenty of crashes), drone races (more crashes, but some actual racing, on a course set up on the museum grounds), and, in the imax theatre, the winning movies from the New York City Drone Film Festival. Kids in high excitement swarmed all over, some of them carrying their own drones." - Ian Frazier, The New Yorker
"Drone camerawork has already attained new realms of astonishment. What’s so cool about the New York City Drone Film Festival is that it culls the best of that brilliance, and presents to the world the best of the best. I thought I’d seen it all—I was wrong." -David Pogue, Founder, Yahoo Tech
"The best drone film festival in the world" - Oliver Kmia, F Stoppers
"Going to a drone film festival is like watching the future happen in real time" - Jason Koebler, Editor in Chief, Motherboard
NYCDFF V INCLUDES:
MARCH 1 @ LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER
4:45pm DOORS OPEN
5 pm - LEGAL & POLICY PANEL w/Fox Rothschild & IATSE Local 600
7:30pm - NEW YORK CITY DRONE FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING
10:30 - Midnight - AFTERPARTY with DJ HESTA PRYNN
MARCH 2nd “DAY OF DRONES” @ LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER
DRONE EXPO
MICRO DRONE RACING
FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION CAGE
SKYDIO R1 DEMOS ALL DAY LONG
BEGINNER DRONE SCHOOL
FREESTYLE FPV COMPETITION
CLASSES AND PANELS - TOPICS RELATED TO DRONES, FILMMAKING, INDUSTRIAL USE AND POLICY
ADDITIONAL SCREENINGS OF NYCDFF V WINNERS
AUTEL ROBOTICS FLIGHT DEMO CAGE
3:30pm SCREENING OF JORDAN RUBIN’S THE DRONE and CRAIG HICKERSON’S SOME KIND OF DRONE.
There will be a Q&A with the film directors post screening
2019 PRIZE POOL
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