All selected entries will be considered for the 2024 New Cinema Awards, which celebrates some of the most distinctive works of new cinema being made around the world today. Since 2020 the prize has been equally shared rather than a single winner, with all filmmakers receiving an award of £400.
Previous winners:
2023: Graeme Arnfield, Luis Arnías, Marwa Arsanios, Meriem Bennani, Jenny Brady, Eitan Brutmann Efrat & Sirah Foighel, Jamie Crewe, Luke Fowler, Anya Tsyrlina & Sid Iandovka, Huw Lemmey & Onyeka Igwe, Soda Jerk, Basim Magdy, Lucrecia Martel, Fox Maxy, Éiméar McClay & Cat McClay, Sophio Medoidze, Angelo Minax Madsen, Holly Márie Parnell, Sorayos Prapapan, Manuel Muñoz Rivas, Anhar Salem, Deborah Stratman, Rea Tajiri, Cláudia Varejão, Ariadine Zampaulo.
2021: Sophia Al-Maria, Ane Hjort Guttu, Salad Hilowle, Adam Lewis Jacob, Tim Leyendekker, Jordan Lord, Fox Maxy, Iméar McClay, Cat McClay, Abdessamad El Montassir, Carlos Maria Romero, Suneil Sanzgiri, Fern Silva, Camara Taylor, Amalia Ulman, Rehana Zaman.
2020: Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Maria Anastassiou, Yu Araki, Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela, Luis Lopez Carrasco, Rhea Dillon, Jessica Dunn Rovinelli, Mouaad el Salem, Maria Clara Escobar, Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky, Luke Fowler, Sky Hopinka, Nelson Makengo, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Phạm Ngọc Lân, Stefan Ramirez Perez, Lisa Spilliaert.
2019: Onyeka Igwe • he names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered • UK • 2018
2018: Callum Hill • Crowtrap • UK • 2018
2017: Sky Hopinka • Dislocation Blues • US • 2017
2016: Camilo Restrepo • Cilaos • France • 2015