Thank you to everyone who took part in the 2017 Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival!
Our judges had a very difficult time selecting nominees and winners – every film in the Fest was absolutely outstanding. Here are their choices …
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| Rabbit Blood Directed by Yagmur Altan | Lila Directed by Carlos Lascano | My Life I Don’t Want Directed by Nyan Kyal Say | Tokyo Cosmo Directed by Takahiro Miyauchi |
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| Perfect Directed by Jérémie Battaglia | Noma: Forgiving Apartheid Directed by Sarah Townsend | The Challenger Mission: South Atlantic Directed by Lizette Gesuden | The Curious Life of Piter Eustaquio Rengifo Uculmana Directed by Gianfranco Annichini |
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| Laid to Rest Directed by Jennifer Valdes | The Corpse Series Directed by James Button, Kristaps Kazaks | The Light Thief Directed by Eva Daoud | Zombies Directed by Sebastian Dietsch |
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| Be Afraid Directed by Drew Gabreski | Dead Awake Directed by Phillip Guzman | Quarries Directed by Nils Taylor | |
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| Beyond the Curtain Directed by Haixu Liu | Enora Directed by Sami Khadraoui, Benoît Monney | To Dream Directed by Nicole Albarelli | Zero M2 Directed by Matthieu Landour |
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| Hands of Love Directed by Jimmie weidemann, Ronni Garner | Blinding Directed by Lonnie Lynn Iske | Home Directed by Jeremiah Kipp | In the Moog Directed by Robert Lyons, Meghan Loeb |
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| Shoot Me Nicely Directed by Elias Plagianos | Freemales Directed by Stephanie Jaclyn | Nerdvana: The Web Series Directed by Tito Guillen | The Partitioned Directed by Schyler Tillett |
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| Entropic Directed by Sebastian Savino | Beyond the Curtain Directed by Haixu Liu | Lucky 13 Directed by Louise Bartolotta | Rabbit Blood Directed by Yagmur Altan |
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| Creedmoria Directed by Alicia Slimmer | Cheerleader Directed by Irving Franco | Shoot Me Nicely Directed by Elias Plagianos | Viral Beauty Directed by David Tyson Lam |
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| Woman With Violin Directed by Mariam Bakashvili | Rainbow Party Directed by Eva Sigurdardottir | Sista in the Brotherhood Directed by Dawn Jones Redstone | The Light Thief Directed by Eva Daoud |
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| Bridge Soumitra Chatterjee | Enora Sean Biggerstaff | Shoot Me Nicely John Behlmann | Train Driver’s Diary Lazar Ristovski |
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| Cheerleader Catherine Blades | Creedmoria Stef Dawson | Fuck You Jessica Blair Jessy Danner | Soldier Bee Shauna MacDonald |
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| Train Driver’s Diary Directed by Milos Radovic | Cheerleader Directed by Irving Franco | Rain the Color Blue with a Little Red in it Directed by Christopher Kirkley | The Curious Life of Piter Eustaquio Rengifo Uculmana Directed by Gianfranco Annichini |
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| Sista in the Brotherhood Directed by Dawn Jones Redstone | Beyond the Curtain Directed by Haixu Liu | Enora Directed by Sami Khadraoui, Benoît Monney | Moral Compass Directed by Kylie Garcelon |
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| Bridge Directed by Amit Ranjan Biswas | Cheerleader Directed by Irving Franco | Heavy Objects Directed by Fletcher Crossman | Train Driver’s Diary Directed by Milos Radovic |
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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.
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