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Winter Film Awards Is New York City. Like the city itself, the organization showcases the eclectic diversity and excitement of the independent arts world. The 11th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival runs February 16-25, and includes awesome film screenings, cool discussion panels, career-building professional development workshops and super-fun parties at venues throughout NYC. The Fest celebrates the outstanding work of emerging filmmakers in all genres from around the world, with an emphasis on highlighting underrepresented and marginalized artists. The Festival’s 2023 lineup includes 73 outstanding films from 21 countries; half of the films were created by women, half were created by or about people of color.
For our 2023 program, Winter Film Awards is honored to screen an incredible collection of six Music Videos from around the world!
All screenings take place at CINEMA VILLAGE, 22 East 12th Street, New York NY 10003
Dwight is a 49 year old Uber driver who still lives at home with his mother while holding onto his 80’s metal rock dream. He is unable to handle the aftermath of his incredible one-night stand with a married lady.
The everyday magic of dance is everywhere in a Bronx neighborhood. Near the ice cream truck, under the elevated train, and at the subway station, everybody becomes part of the daily dance.
Fé (Faith) is a music video of the Brazilian artist IZA. Known for her meaningful and aesthetic pleasing music videos, IZA reflects on the human trajectory and its relationship with faith, overcoming the obstacles it presents and finding its true essence on the process of being alive. It brings a poetic and impactful to the audiovisual, using photography, body expression and contemporary dance as power to create new ways of seeing the world. It’s a sensitive film about life and death, dreams, cycles, and the connection with the divine.
The stop-motion animation video for Rachael Sage’s self-produced single REVELATION GROUND was created by Antje Duvekot, who has a two-decade career as both a touring musician and animator. Antje explains: “I wanted to reflect the gentle femininity and also the boldness and strength that the song evokes for me. The scenes are meant to reflect the process. Moving from dark and cold to light and warm, as well as finding your community. I wanted to allude to the metaphor “resilience through music and through self-expression”. The bird flying out of the typewriter and the ice breaker and the opening cocoon and the recurrence of people playing music in various settings is meant to highlight the superpowers that are music and community.
In a ghost town as if from the past, the night is suspended. The world of dreams unfolds and reveals mysterious and poetic characters. In this futuristic city where the sun never rises, revolt is near.
Two girls fall in love playing football. A visual journey towards complicity, desire and eroticism between them.
About Winter Film Awards
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. Our mission is to promote diversity, bridge the opportunity divide and provide a platform for under-represented artists and a variety of genres, viewpoints and approaches. We believe that only by seeing others’ stories can we understand each other and only via an open door can the underrepresented artist enter the room.
Winter Film Awards programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Promotional support provided by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment.
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