Winter Film Festival comes to a glittering close on Sunday February 23!  Dance the night away at the most beautiful club in NYC!

Winter Film Festival invites you to join us for the closing event of our 13th Annual International Film Festival! 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.

Club 230FIFTH, 230 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10001 (ENTER ON BROADWAY between 26th & 27th Streets)
FREE before 10pm 21+ with ID. Please dress to the occasion- no athletic wear, hats, or sneakers.

Schedule

5:00pm-7:00pm: Red Carpet, with GLAMOROUS SNOWFLAKE GREETERS from Aerial Acrobatic Entertainment. Get your photo taken at our cool popup photo booth, courtesy of EZPopupBooth!

7:00pm-8:00pm: Awards Ceremony hosted by Jeffrey Gurion and Aesha Waks and featuring live performances!

8:00pm-11:00pm: After Party – Dance the night away with DJ IzaBella

This event is FREE and open to the public but you must REGISTER IN ADVANCE</strong

Appearances By

Host

Jeffrey Gurian

Host

Aesha Waks

Red Carpet Greeters

Aerial Acrobat Entertainment – Glamorous Snowflake Greeters

Red Carpet Interviews

Gina Jun

Red Carpet Interviews

ChristinaMaría

Performances By

Performer

Anthony Alvarez

Performer

Tek Knowledge

Comedian

Max Carney

DJ

DJ IzaBella

Performer

Hyperdolls

Presenters

Alexandra Degner

Charlii Sebunya

Chioneso Bakr

Dawn Mecca

Doctor Dre

Gotham Sharma

Jonathan Burdick

Joseph Mauceri

Katie Trubetsky

Mike Brown

Sadithi De Zilva

Selma Ducanovic

T-Money

Awards Handlers

Jaclyn Marney

Tatiana Kurzhos

Vanessa Ly

Winter Film Awards Team

Winter Film Festival is led by George Isaacs (CEO & Founder) and Steffanie Finn (Executive Director). Thank you to our tireless team – Joseph Mauceri, Michael Joseph Murray, Lisa Wilf and Vaughn Murphy.

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

WFF2025 Awards Jury

– coming soon –

WFF2025 Submission Judges

Justin Benz, Jonathan Burdick, Clay Cain, Ruiran Chen, Xiaoxiao Chen, Lance Courts, Anthony Falco, Zoe Fancher, Lechara Fletcher, Julie Furnas, John German, Sondra Gomez, Donte Grey, Rian Grey, Siyuan He, Dominic Hinkson, Quincy Irmiter, Veronica Kent, Asier Kintana, Zachary Kirby, Donn Lamkin, Whitney Larkins, Robert LaRue, Emilie Lorditch, Rebel Love, James Mahaney, Joseph Mauceri, Miguel Medina-carrion, Chris Meyer, Kyna Morgan, Michael Murray, Joanne Naclerio, Youlim Nam, PJ Nastasi, Martina Marie O’Boyle, Fey Okege, Nilufer Ozmekik, Yunhong Pu, David Pulson, Katy Rochelle, Joshua Segarra, Haley Simmons, Elise Smalley, Andrew Tang, Wendi Tang, Arianna Wellmoney, Lisa Wilf, Mya Wiseman and Hila Yaish

WFF2025 Writers

Amanda Lou

Anyu Ching

Belton DeLaine-Facey

Cristina Slattery

Danielle Cavaliere

Despina Afentouli

Julia Sexton

Kajal Kapoor

Lianna Albrizio

Mila Grgas

Nefeli Soteriou

Whitney Larkins

WFF2025 Speakers and Panelists

Dan Gurlitz

Easmanie Michel

Ian Holt

Ian Bignell

Jalen Vasquez

Jim Thalman

Joanna Rudolph

Katie Bignell

Mike Brown

Rafael Espinal

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