2023 Princess Grace Award
Nominated by: Mitch McCabe, Princess Grace Award winner (Film 2000)
Sir Roger Moore Film Honor
Philip Thompson is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2023 and a 2024 Sundance Ignite x Adobe and NYFF Artists Academy Fellow. His work examines popular media’s influence on culture, focusing on the emotional impact of media consumption and the one-sided relationship between viewers and image subjects. His latest film, Living Reality, won Best Experimental at the Oscar-qualifying Athens International Film+Video Festival. His previous short, I’m At Home, is streaming on NoBudge and was named one of its 2023 Films of the Year. His films have screened at Palm Springs, Atlanta, Indie Memphis, New Orleans, Chicago Critics, amongst others. He is also co-founder and co-programmer of the Ithaca Experimental Film Festival. He was raised by his mother, his father, and his television.
