Bernardo Britto—2024 Director’s Spotlight Award Recipient

Director’s Spotlight Screening and Ceremony | Sunday, June 23 @7pm

OIFF is thrilled to announce Bernardo Britto as the recipient of this year's Director's Spotlight Award. The award celebrates the voice of a director who is vitalizing independent cinema through a body of work across short films, features, animation, or documentaries. Britto's award-winning films excel in several of these forms. Among Britto's many accomplishments as a director, he is the only filmmaker to ever premiere a live action and animated piece at Sundance at the same time. OIFF attendees will have the chance to hear from Britto during the festival and to see a surprise screening of his work at the historic Wright Opera House. The Q&A for this film will be done by film critic Brian Tallerico. Tallerico is the Managing Editor of RogerEbert.com and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

Bernardo Britto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and also raised in Miami, Florida and is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Bernardo wrote on Julio Torres' highly acclaimed HBO series "Los Espookys" and was in an overall at FX where he created an animated anthology series called "The Places Where We Live" that was nominated for an Annie Award. His previous animated short films include "Yearbook," which won the Short Film Jury Prize at Sundance, and "Glove" which won a Grand Jury Award at SXSW and "Hudson Geese." Bernardo's debut narrative feature Jacqueline (Argentine) premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.