FRiFF at the Roxie Theater
About the 2016 Festival

What Is FRiFF?

The Flying Robot international Film Festival is the world's premier open competitive film festival focused on aerial cinema created from the perspective of drones.

Submissions for the 2017 festival will open in June 2017. Festival participation is open to anyone around the globe with an Internet connection. Entry fees are low.

The world premiere of the 2nd annual 2016 Flying Robot international Film Festival took place November 17, 2016 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

In 2016, FRiFF attracted 180 submissions spanning 40 countries across 8 categories. 25 final selections, as determined by the FRiFF jury, were screened on November 19th, 2016 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.

Our panel of esteemed judges from the worlds of aerial cinema, feature filmmaking, robotics, artificial intelligence, media, and drone sports will critically assess this year's submitted films across eight categories: Cinematic Narrative, Epic Landscape, Drones for Good, FPV/Aerial Sports, WTF LOL, Promotional, I Made That! and Student Films. Best of Show and People's Choice awards will also be chosen.

Final selected films were screened November 17, 2016 in San Francisco. A short awards ceremony followed announcing winners in each of the 8 categories, as well as "Best of Show" winner. The "Audience Choice" award was voted for on Twitter and announced the next day.

Read what WIRED, CNBC, Variety, FastCompany and Make: had to say about our inaugural festival.

FRiFF was founded by Eddie Codel, a San Francisco based live video producer, aerial filmmaker and drone nerd. He resides online at Eddie.com.

WINNERS

2016 Award Winning Films

The second annual Flying Robot international Film Festival world premiere took place November 17, 2016 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. FRiFF 2016 received 180 submissions representing 40 countries across 8 categories. 25 were selected for inclusion and nominated for awards in each of 8 categories.

This is the complete list of award winning films as chosen by the FRiFF jury.



Best in Show

Moon Line, Frédéric Rousseau [France]

Cinematic Narrative

The Drone, Jordan Rubin [USA]

Epic Landscape

Drone Poem: Always Take The Window Seat, Alexander Hotz [USA]

Drones For Good

Zipline in Rwanda, Jimmy Collins [UK]

WTF LOL

Moon Line, Frédéric Rousseau [France]

Student Film

This is Chapman, Kevin Wolf [USA]

FPV / Aerial Sports

The First Racing Drone In Chernobyl, Steele Davis [USA]

I Made That!

Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme, Kurtis Sensenig

Promotional

Digitized 2016 - Opening Titles, Athanasia Lykoudi & Nestoras Kechagias [Greece]

Audience Choice

Drone Poem: Always Take The Window Seat, Alexander Hotz [USA]

Judges

2016 FRiFF Jury

The FRiFF jury will critically assess your creative submissions. Qualities that judges look for include: a good story, visually epic footage, uniqueness and a sense of whimsy. Judges will make final selections after the close of the submissions period.
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