Norheimsund, written and directed by Grad Film MFA candidate Ana A. Alpizar, produced by MFA candidate Madeline Finkel, and cinematography by MFA candidate Yuqian Zhang, won the Student Category at the 2026 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards.
Logline: A girl’s long-distance romance with an older Norwegian man promises to pull her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba, but her dreams are shaken when she realizes he isn’t as idyllic as he seems.
Ana A. Alpizar is a Cuban filmmaker based in New York. She has worked across television, commercials, and independent film. Her work as a director, screenwriter, producer, and editor has been featured at major international festivals, including Sundance, Venice, Clermont-Ferrand, and Cannes. In 2025, she was named a BAFTA Diversity New York Scholar. She is currently an MFA candidate in the Graduate Film Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she has been awarded the Martin Scorsese Scholarship and the WTC Johnson Scholarship.
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