WFA 2023 Winners & Nominees

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For our 11th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival we were honored to screen 73 outstanding films from 21 countries.
We congratulate all of our filmmakers for their outstanding work!

Best Picture


Miss Viborg
— WINNER —
Miss Viborg
Marianne Blicher

Mother of Color
Mother of Color
Dawn Jones Redstone

The Fragile King
The Fragile King
Tristan Holmes

We Mightas Well be Dead
We Mightas Well be Dead
Natalia Sinelnikova

Best NYC Film


There Goes The Neighborhood
— WINNER —
There Goes The Neighborhood
Ian Phillips

A Man of His Time
A Man of His Time
Estelle Parsons

Same Old
Same Old
Lloyd Lee Choi

The Sisters Karras
The Sisters Karras
Micah Stathis

Best Director


We Mightas Well be Dead
— WINNER —
We Mightas Well be Dead
Natalia Sinelnikova

Miss Viborg
Miss Viborg
Marianne Blicher

Peacock
Peacock
Jaco Minnaar

The Fragile King
The Fragile King
Tristan Holmes

Best Documentary Feature Film


Go Through the Dark
— WINNER —
Go Through the Dark
Yunhong Pu

Black Mothers Love & Resist
Black Mothers Love & Resist
Débora Souza Silva

Finding Light
Finding Light
Paul Michael Bloodgood

Best Documentary Short Film


Inside the Beauty Bubble
— WINNER —
Inside the Beauty Bubble
Cheryl Bookout, Cheri Gaulke

Emergence
Emergence
Malcolm Randles, Ant Hoard

Studio Ukraine
Studio Ukraine
Jack Wingate

Winter FEAR Award – Best Horror Feature Film


Peacock
— WINNER —
Peacock
Jaco Minnaar

Spoonful of Sugar
Spoonful of Sugar
Mercedes Bryce Morgan

Winter FEAR Award – Best Horror Short Film


My Left Arm
— WINNER —
My Left Arm
Melissa Vitello, Christopher Sheffield

Meantime
Meantime
Guillaume Scaillet

Petunia
Petunia
Miriam Olken

Best Short Film


Censor of Dreams
— WINNER —
Censor of Dreams
Léo Berne, Raphaël Rodriguez

Keep/Delete
Keep/Delete
Kryzz Gautier

The Letter Room
The Letter Room
Elvira Lind

White Eye
White Eye
Tomer Shushan

Best Animated Film


Step Into the River
— WINNER —
Step Into the River
Weijia Ma

The Sprayer
The Sprayer
Farnoosh Abedi

Best Music Video


Revelation Ground
— WINNER —
Revelation Ground
Antje Duvekot

Abandon
Abandon
Jeff Hilliard

Fé (Faith)
Fé (Faith)
Felipe Sassi

Solaris
Solaris
Julie Joseph

Best Web Series


Four Walls
— WINNER —
Four Walls
Kgosana Monchusi, Menzi Mzimela

Mine
Mine
Luisa Dantas, Randall Dottin

Wherever You Go
Wherever You Go
Eevin Hartsough, Andrew Beguin

Yellow Lines
Yellow Lines
Megan Magee

Best Student Film


The Call of Water
— WINNER —
The Call of Water
Kaya Tone

The Guest
The Guest
Vignesh ‘Kaushik’ Vaithyanathan

We Mightas Well be Dead
We Mightas Well be Dead
Natalia Sinelnikova

IndiePix Vision Award

The IndiePix Vision Award is a unique distribution offer from IndiePix Films, including but not limited to DVD release, Virtual Cinema exhibition, and Digital placement on the IndiePix Unlimited Amazon Prime Video Channel. Films are selected by NYC-based distributor and longtime Winter Film Awards sponsor IndiePix Films, whose highly curated collection includes award-winning films from around the world and newly discovered film talents.


Peacock

Peacock
Jaco Minnaar

Miss Viborg

Miss Viborg
Marianne Blicher

Black Mothers Love & Resist

Black Mothers Love & Resist
Débora Souza Silva

Best Actor in a Feature Film


Peacock
— WINNER —
Peacock
Tarryn Wyngaard (Anna Pohl)

Miss Viborg
Miss Viborg
Ragnhild Kaasgaard (Solveg)

Spoonful of Sugar
Spoonful of Sugar
Kat Foster (Rebecca)

The Fragile King
The Fragile King
Andrew Buckland (Gerald King)

Best Actor in a Short Film


The Letter Room
— WINNER —
The Letter Room
Oscar Isaac (Richard)

Censor of Dreams
Censor of Dreams
Damien Bonnard

Seahorse
Seahorse
Rifka Lodeizen (Dana)

Synthetic Love
Synthetic Love
Françoise Miquelis (Diane)

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. This program is funded, in part, by a grant from the NYC & Company Foundation and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Festival Founder George Isaacs says “Emerging filmmakers are so often ignored in favor of big budget generic action films, and filmmakers with limited budgets and lack of connections can be easily overlooked. Diverse, exciting low budget films are created all over the world; it is critical for local film festivals to showcase them. WFA’s location in the center of the action provides our filmmakers with a dazzling chance to begin their careers in the film industry.

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