Winter Film Awards Gala Red Carpet & Awards Ceremony, hosted by the beautiful Club 230Fifth,
New York’s largest outdoor Rooftop Garden and Fully enclosed Penthouse Lounge.

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2017 Festival Nominees & Winners
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8:00pm-9:00pm: Red Carpet
9:00pm-10:30pm: Awards Ceremony
10:30pm-2:00am: After Party

FREE
21+ with ID. Please dress to the occasion- no athletic wear, hats, or sneakers.

Winter Film Awards invites you to join us for the closing event of our Sixth Annual Independent Film Festival!

The Ceremony and After Party will be held in the Empire Room at renowned rooftop lounge and event space, 230 Fifth (230 Fifth Avenue at E27th Street). There is no cover charge for this event.

The Awards Ceremony begins at 9:00pm. We are giving out awards to our best and brightest filmmakers, many of whom are traveling from countries all over the world in order to join us.  Enjoy beautiful cupcakes from Satin Fine Foods, snap some pictures at our PhotoBooth courtesy of Bai Drinks and pick up some cool goodies from Peanut Butter & Co, Ex Nihilo Paris Perfume and Snapple!

Special thanks to AJA Video Systems and VMIX for providing equipment and software for the show!
Winter Film Awards beautiful artwork was designed by Viktor Koen

230 Fifth Avenue (between 27th & 28th Streets)
New York NY 10001

Special Thanks To

AJA Video Systems	Bai Drinks	David Bell
Eric Vollweiler	Fulden Kologlu Oner	Katy Quinn
Lisa Lobel and Angela Peri / Boston Casting	Michael James	Sal & John at 230Fifth
Shahrooz Shekaraubi / AFTAB Committee	Steven C Beer	The Staff at Cinema Village
Viktor Koen	vMix Software	Lydee Walters at Satin Ice

Winter Film Awards Team

Winter Film Awards is led by George Isaacs (CEO & Founder), Steffanie Finn (Executive Director), Lesley Sigall (Treasurer), Joseph Mauceri and Vaughn Murphy.

Winter Film Awards is grateful for the tireless support of our team: Mobasher Ahmed, Carly Bassen, Jennifer Bonaparte, Pete Bradt, Fernando Camacho, Paul Marengo, Dawn Mecca, Chloe Miller, Isabel Negron, Fulden Kologlu Oner, Eric Vollweiler and Neal Williams.

Thank you to Winter Film Awards staff, volunteers, screeners, judges, writers, friends and helpers! This event couldn’t happen without you!

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Presenters

Red Carpet Interviews by

Awards Handlers

Makeup Artists

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Writers

Fernando Camacho and Chloe Miller

Production Team

George Isaacs, Steffanie Finn, Fernando Camacho, Dawn Mecca, Chloe Miller, Fulden Kologlu Oner, Neal Williams and Kiechelle Black, Conray Jemima Black, Jeron Black, Kyle Alexis Boiko, May Daishi, Denise Ebanks, Ashley Fisher, Elizabeth Ashley Fry, Desi Arnaz Harmon Sr, Gerald King, Patricia Monegatto Lopes, Marc D. Lyons, Marina Cunha Martins, Wanda Papayer, Carolina Parra, Hallie Jordan Peilet, Selah Peterson, Yoselin Ricano, Rubicelia Salmeron, Taksa Satukijkul, Patrick C Seacor, Anita Seeratan, Jerome J Upchurch and Anthony Walter Wright

Thank You to Our Judges, Bloggers & Helpers

Special Thanks to our wonderful judges, bloggers and helpers: Bita Alahyan, Lianna Albrizio, Ken Anderson, Donnie Banks, Taylor Barry, Peter Bell, Sevell Benson, Shaniyah Bernabela, Urvi Bhandari, Pedro Branco, Heather Buckley, Donna Bulford, Natalie Costas, Steve De Castro, Jerry Del Priore, Maria Estevez, Brittany Fennell, Clinton Garwood, Geanice Gee, Amanda Godman, Gisele Góes, Meng Guo, Grady Hendrix, Madison Hetterly, Julie Hidalgo, Benjamin Holden, Walter Howard, Allison Jiang, Richard Jordan, Sue Kim, Beth Krakower, Eliza Lagonia, Salvatore Lagonia, Bob LaRue, Asher Lindo-Fondo, Lisa Magid, Christina Maldonado, Autumn McAlpin, Liv McConnell, Lisa Monaco, Emma Morgan, Claus Mueller, John Murphy, Jamee Natella, Edie Nugent, Rossy Olusala, Adam Payne, Louisa Percudani, Vashti Persaud, Raffi Roberts, Maria Rodriguez, Neil Rutty, Sheldon Sampson, Karl Schleider, Carolyn Schultz, Alyssa Schwartz, Meave Sheehan, Annette Smith, Wendy Sun, Troi Torain, Ilona Tuominen, Eric Vollweiler, Reggie Wade, Emma Zhang, Vashti Persaud, Walter Howard and Wendy Sun.