DADDYING FILM FESTIVAL & FORUM (D3F) ANNOUNCES
2023 DAD-CREATED & INDIE OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
30+ Films Chosen from Among Broad Diversity of Filmmaker Submissions Representing 21 Countries Worldwide
CHEVY CHASE, MD – Thursday, May 11, 2023 – The Daddying Film Festival & Forum (D3F) announced today its official selections of dad/dad figure- and indie filmmaker-created films/videos that will screen during the 2nd annual virtual event, which will run June 4-11. FREE tickets for the virtual festival, hosted on the Sparq platform, are available via the D3F website's homepage or directly on Sparq HERE. The 2023 D3F’s dad and indie filmmaker "Official Selections" are:
Dad-created Film Selections
Daddy’s Assessment and Secret Santa by Aaron Scully, Australia
Bygones by Theo Shakes, New Zealand
Letter to My Dad by Simon Ball, United Kingdom
299.00 (F84.0) by Víctor Augusto Mendívil, Peru
Soccer Dad by Brian Peet, USA
Don’t Forget by Ben King, USA
Love Grows Here by Matthew Krekeler, USA
Love, Daddy by Kevin Bauer, USA
Everybody Get On Board by Justin Roberts, USA
In Celebration of My Super Stepdad… by Todd Feltman, USA
Evil Dad by Nathaniel Port, USA
Indie Filmmaker Selections
Dancing DADS by Oliver Oertel, USA
BENNY: Our Musical Lineage by Dave Garcia, USA
For Roy by Vivian Cheung, Canada
Those Were the Good Days by Rachel Scribner, USA
Do You Love Me? by Teresa Takaki Matsushima, USA
A Father by Christophe Olivier Predari, Belgium
PANAAH by Suhaas Sitaram Karnekar, India
Fever by Alejandro Gerber Bicecci, Mexico
A Piece of Ranch by Jiayang Liu, USA
Half Soul by Trabelsi Marwen, Tunisia
D.A.D. by James A. Sims, USA
Turning Epochs by Ahmad Seyedkeshmiri, Iran
Misery by Omid Sadegh, Iran
The Daddy Shift by Katherine Roselli, USA
Cry Harder by Ian Tan, Canada
Gramps, Not Grumps by Ellen Barth, USA
Together for Fathers by Baruch Campos, USA
In addition to the dad- and indie filmmaker-created “Official Selections” listed above, D3F also will screen finalist films selected from submissions by 1st-grade through undergraduate student filmmakers (TBA). Finalists in the Dad and Indie filmmaker categories will be selected by D3F's panel of VIP judges. Festival attendees will be able to vote online, June 4-10, for their favorite dad, student, and indie finalist films.
The Best Dad-Created Film earns a special Atticus Award, the Roy R. Neuberger Prize, and $500 to use toward an activity or project with their child(ren). All student finalists earn $250, and student winners earn an Atticus Award plus an additional $250 for use toward an activity or project to enjoy with their dad/dad figure.
ABOUT D3F
The Daddying Film Festival & Forum (D3F), is not your ordinary film fest. It is the world's first and only film festival focused exclusively on promoting the importance of positive dad involvement for kids and families. D3F was created by the DADvocacy Consulting Group’s Daddy Appleseed Fund (DAF) to offer children and youth a stage to express through film/video how they feel about the relationship they have or wish they had with their dads. D3F has expanded in 2023 to also encourage dad filmmakers to submit their own films for consideration. To more directly improve the daddying experience for children and dads alike, D3F 2023 also includes a stand-alone, “live” Daddying Film Forum in New Mexico (Saturday, 6/24, in Albuquerque and Sunday, 6/25, in Santa Fe) that will bring children/youth together with their dads/father figures to examine thoughts, feelings, and insights in response to a particular screened film and to express them through discussion and other creative means.
