7TH ANNUAL
NY DOG FILM FESTIVAL 2022-23
Monday, April 17th
at 7:00 PM
Members $10 | Public
$15
This was the most competitive year ever, with 64 submissions
of films from all over the world - Australia, China, France, Germany, India,
Iran Islamic Republic, Israel, Italy, Mexico,Russian Federation, Singapore,
Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey. (99min.)
MY ONE BEST FRIEND [3 min] 64-year-old Robert Short, Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey.
A music video celebrating the love, loyalty and trust
between dogs and their humans.
DOGS OF 2020 [1 min] Director Manav Menon from India
A tribute to canines who supported humans during the
pandemic.
KIMO & JAZZ [9 min] from Mutual Rescue
A documentary about Jazz, a shy shelter dog who helps Kimo
in his struggle to come out as gay in a conservative Mormon family, and
supports him through taking care of his father in his final illness.
ANDY [7 min] 58-year-old
director James Wheless from Petaluma, California
The animated story of a puppy raised to be a service dog who
had to overcome a series of personal challenges to find his purpose in life.
LEFT BEHIND [11 min] 25-year-old director Andrea B. Millan in La Paz, Mexico
A documentary about a refuge for abandoned dogs in La Paz,
Mexico, the dedicated volunteers who care for them, and the happy endings for
two of the hard-to-adopt resident dogs.
MY INVISIBLE FRIEND [4 min] Student director Shelly Rosner from Israel
An animated story about a dog who brings social justice to
his master, who is a janitor the dog follows to work every day on the
bus.
THE WALKERS - [8 min] 29-year-old co-directors Giulia Dussollier & Clara Benoit-Jacoby
from Paris, France
A quirky documentary following the relationships between a
few women and their dogs, seen only from the canine perspective.
MY HOMELESS DOG [3 min] Young Swedish director Ebba Yttermyr
A documentary about an Irish puppy who was left at a dog
pound in Cork, Ireland. A year later, his new owner in Sweden ponders how he
found his way to her family.
THE MEET UP [2 min] 76-years-young
writer/director Donna Guthrie
An animated version of Boy Meets Girl story with the help of
his best friend, his Dachshund.
KOPEKCI [11 min] 36-year-old director Hayrettin Alan from Turkey
A haunting documentary about a brave soul who makes rounds
in his truck to deliver food to the packs of glorious stray dogs who scrabble
to survive outside the town of Van, Turkey.
GONE FOR GOOD [4 min] 27-year-old director Deepanjali from Brooklyn, New York.
An animated story about how Whiskey, a pug, feels when his
mistress leaves home for college.
ADAM [13 min] 45-year-old writer/director Hope Elizabeth Martinez from El Paso,
Texas.
Introducing a glorious young actress, this narrative film
follows a lonely teenage girl, whose single mother is always away on business
and whose only friend is her aging dog Adam.
SUPER PUP [2 min] 14-year-old director Nathaly Orrego from West Jordan, Utah
A young girl challenges misconceptions about Pit Bulls as
she shares her positive experience living with Cocoa, an adopted Staffordshire
Bull Terrier.
UNDERDOGS [15 min] 26-year-old director Alex Estrella
Documentary about the dog training program at the California
Men's Colony in Central California, where a special connection forms between
dogs and their inmate handlers, as the prisoners lovingly train them to be
service dogs.
PRIME SUSPECT [2 min] 22-year-old director Gail Albright from Coppell, Texas
An animated saga about a cat detective in Mew York - where
all the steaks have been eaten by someone they are calling the “Sirloin
Snatcher” and a guilty-looking canine tries to avoid suspicion by masquerading
as a cat- but will his façade hold up?
MAX THE DOG-UMENTARY [3 min] 22-year-old director Brandon Sanchez from
Downey California.
A sweet documentary about a rural town of Southern
California where the “elected” mayor is a Golden Retriever named Max, a beacon
of positivity to the citizens of Idyllwild.
DESPERADO DINGOES [1 min] 22-year-old director Phair Elizabeth Hardin from New Milford,
Connecticut.
An animated tale of two cowboy dogs who get into an
altercation in a saloon after one accuses the other of taking his bone.