WFA 2019 Nominees & Winners

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For our 2019 Festival, Winter Film Awards was honored to screen 89 incredible films from around the world and we congratulate all of our filmmakers for their outstanding work. Narrowing this spectacular collection down to nominees and winners was an incredibly difficult task – one juror said “This was one of the most challenging yet exhilarating experiences I’ve ever had in my nearly a decade of viewing and judging films. What an outstanding crop of films!”

Best Picture

— WINNER —
In The Life of Music
Feature Film by Caylee So, Sok Visal (Cambodia)

Pop-Pop is Dead
Feature Film by Catherine Dee Holly, Fray Forde (United States)

Return of the Thumb
Feature Film by Florian Convey (Austria)

Wonderlus
Feature Film by Johan Cronje (South Africa)

NY Perspectives Award

— WINNER —
The Language of Ball
Short Film by Ramón Rodríguez (United States)

Ebb Tide
Documentary Film by Vivian Rivas (United States)

New York Scherzo
Documentary Film by Shaan Couture (United States)

Swiped to Death
Web Film by Kabir Chopra (United States)

Outstanding Woman Filmmaker

— WINNER —
Back to Berlin
Documentary Film by Catherine Lurie (United Kingdom)

a land shaped by women
Documentary Film by Anne Flore Marxer (France)

Puppet Master
Horror Film by Hanna Bergholm (Finland)

Yellow
Short Film by Sarah Deakins (Canada)

Best Director

— WINNER —
Yellow
Short Film by Sarah Deakins (Canada)

A Scientists Guide to Living and Dying
Feature Film by Nitzan Mager, Shachar Langlev (United States)

To Tokyo
Horror Film by Caspar Seale-Jones (United Kingdom)

Wonderlus
Feature Film by Johan Cronje (South Africa)

Best Documentary

— WINNER —
New York Scherzo
Documentary Film by Shaan Couture (United States)

All I See is the Future
Documentary Film by Nancy Dionne (United States)

Back to Berlin
Documentary Film by Catherine Lurie (United Kingdom)

The Witch Hunt
Documentary Film by Marek K?osowicz (Papua New Guinea)

Winter FEAR Award – Best Horror Feature

— WINNER —
To Tokyo
Horror Film by Caspar Seale-Jones (United Kingdom)

Dachra
Horror Film by Abdelhamid Bouchnak (Tunisia)

Winter FEAR Award – Best Horror Short

— WINNER —
Lucys Tale
Horror Film by Chelsea Lupkin (United States)

Catcalls
Horror Film by Kate Dolan (Ireland)

Puppet Master
Horror Film by Hanna Bergholm (Finland)

The Hobbyist
Horror Film by George Vatistas (United States)

Best Short Film

— WINNER —
Sac de Merde
Short Film by Greg Chwerchak (United States)

Baby Wont You Please Come Home
Short Film by Christopher Piazza (United States)

Nine Knots
Short Film by Lorena Colmenares (Venezuela)

Shakespeare in Tokyo
Short Film by Genevieve Clay-Smith (Japan)

Gotham Sound Award for Best Sound

— WINNER —
Baby Wont You Please Come Home
Short Film by Christopher Piazza (United States)

In The Life of Music
Feature Film by Caylee So, Sok Visal (Cambodia)

New York Scherzo
Documentary Film by Shaan Couture (United States)

Together
Feature Film by Paul Duddridge (United Kingdom)

Wonderlus
Feature Film by Johan Cronje (South Africa)

Best Animated Film

— WINNER —
The Burden
Animated Film by Niki Lindroth Von Bahr (Sweden)

Nocturne
Animated Film by Anne Breymann (Germany)

The Myth of Haftvad Worm
Animated Film by Asghar Safar, Abbas Jalali Yekta (Iran)

Why Must the Sun Go Down?
Animated Film by Iris Moore (Canada)

Best Music Video

— WINNER —
Dance Dance
Music Video by Andrew Hachem (Lebanon)

Entitas
Music Video by Hugo Diego Garcia (France)

No Going Back
Music Video by Matias Vellutini (Brazil)

Suffering In Silence
Music Video by Adam Williams (Canada)

Best Web Series

— WINNER —
The Vault
Web Series by Sara Martins (Canada)

Frank & Lamar | Balling Out of Control
Web Series by Fred Soligan (United States)

Gold From the Sky
Web Series by Jason De Ford (United States)

Technically Single
Web Series by Sebastian Stojetz (Germany)

Best Student Film

— WINNER —
I Loaf You
Animated Film by YenJuen Lee (United States)

Dont Think of a Pink Elephant
Animated Film by Suraya Raja (United Kingdom)

Ebb Tide
Documentary Film by Vivian Rivas (United States)

Pacgirl
Short Film by Jaime Pena (Mexico)

Best Actor

— WINNER —
Justin Andrew Davis – You Look Great
Short Film by Justin Andrew Davis (United States)

Gerard O’Dwyer – Shakespeare in Tokyo
Short Film by Genevieve Clay-Smith (Japan)

Paul Michael Polsinelli  – Swiped to Death
Web Film by Kabir Chopra (United States)

Peter Bowles – Together
Feature Film by Paul Duddridge (United Kingdom)

Best Actress

— WINNER —
Michelle Hurst – Baby Wont You Please Come Home
Short Film by Christopher Piazza (United States)

Nitzan Mager  – A Scientists Guide to Living and Dying
Feature Film by Nitzan Mager, Shachar Langlev (United States)

Melanie Nicholls-King – Baby Wont You Please Come Home
Short Film by Christopher Piazza (United States)

Lea Vivier – Wonderlus
Feature Film by Johan Cronje (South Africa)

About Winter Film Awards

New York City’s 8th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival runs February 14-23-2019. Check out a jam-packed lineup of 89 fantastic films in all genres from 32 countries, including shorts, features, Animation, Drama, Comedy, Thriller, Horror, Documentary and Music Video. Hollywood might ignore women and people of color, but Winter Film Awards celebrates everyone!

Winter Film Awards is an all volunteer, minority- and women-owned registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2011 in New York City by a group of filmmakers and enthusiasts. The program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the NY State Council on the Arts.