Festival

Festival presentation: 

Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival focuses on the diversity of independent film, and offers an exciting mixture of film genres, viewpoints and subjects in order to give attendees the opportunity to see films they might never think to seek out. For the 2015 Festival, 76 films from 29 countries were selected for screening, including 34 by female directors and 20 student films. Works of all genres, forms, and lengths are considered for Festival screening. Much like New York City itself, the Festival brings together the kaleidoscope of personal experiences into a glorious and energetic whole.

WFA 2015 Festival Submission categories include Narrative Feature, Foreign Language, Narrative Short, Documentary, Animation, Music Video, Horror and Web Series categories. Outstanding work will be awarded for each category, along with Best Director, Best Actor/Actress, Best Original Score, Best Student Film and the PERSPECTIVES Award for best depiction of the multi-cultural experience.

Winter Film Awards (WFA) is a non-profit 501(c)3 volunteer-run and operated organization which celebrates diversity of local and international film-making. Their focus is on showcasing emerging filmmakers from every age, ethnic, racial, religious, cultural, political and geographic perspective and providing a stepping stone for all filmmakers, from students with blossoming careers to established industry veterans, to screen their work in front of a large audience and gain recognition for their achievements.

Festival Nickname: 

WFA

Edition: 

7

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Theme: 

Art-house films

Asian Films

Awards

Black Culture Films

British Films

Comedy

Crime

Digital

Documentary

Environnement/Nature

European Films

Fantasy/Science Fiction

French Films

German Films

Historical

Homosexuality

Horror films

Human Rights

Independent

International

Italian Films

Japanese Films

Jewish Films

Latin American Films

Music

Religious films

Romance

Science

Silent films

Spanish Films

Student films

Thriller

Underground

War

Western

Women

Category/Format: 

Animated Films

Documentaries

Experiment

Fiction Features

Independant

Industrial

Mixed

Music video

Short films

Student film

Video / TV

Work-In-Progress

Winter Film Awards Independent Film Festival Announces
2017 CALL FOR ENTRIES

Winter Film Awards showcases emerging filmmakers from all genres from around the world, with a special emphasis on highlighting the work of women and minority filmmakers.

New York City's Winter Film Awards (WFA) is a volunteer-run and operated celebration of the diversity of local and international film-making. Our Mission is to recognize excellence in cinema and to promote learning and artistic expression for people at all stages of their artistic careers with a focus on nurturing emerging filmmakers and helping them gain recognition and contacts to break into this difficult industry. We pride ourselves on our diverse collection of Festival selections, allowing our audience to enjoy films they normally wouldn’t think to seek out.

Now in its seventh year, the rapidly growing Festival showcases the work of emerging filmmakers from around the world. For the 2017 Festival, 88 films from 30 countries were screened, including an eclectic mix of 11 Animated films, 8 Documentaries, 11 Feature narratives, 10 Horror films, 12 Music Videos, 24 Narrative shorts and 7 Web series, including 12 student films and 33 first-time filmmakers. Filmmakers come from 30 countries; 42% of the films were created by women, 45% were created by people of color.

Works of all genres, forms, and lengths are considered for Festival screening.

Outstanding work will be awarded for each category, along with Best Director, Best Actor/Actress, Best Original Score, Outstanding Woman Director, Best Student Film and the NY PERSPECTIVES Award for best depiction of the New York multi-cultural experience.

Like many of the great film Festivals across the country and the world, WFA seeks to bring our audience compelling and unique content that inspires the viewers and honors the filmmakers. There are hundreds of film festivals in New York City; what makes us different is our intense focus on a bias-free submissions review, the variety of our films and helping new filmmakers reach what may be their first real audience.

WFA is a minority- and women-owned registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We work with all local NYC film schools, colleges, arts high schools and many cultural societies.

For more information about Winter Film Awards events and sponsors, visit www.WinterFilmAwards.com.