WFA2018 News

Matiss Kaza's feature-length documentary One Ticket Please was honored at New York City's 7th annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival, taking home the prestigious New York Perspectives Award. This award celebrates the festival film that best showcases the creativity and excitement of New York City - the most New York film at the most New York festival in the greatest city in the world! ...

Iara Lee's feature-length documentary film "Burkinabè Rising: The Art of Resistance In Burkina Faso" was honored at New York City's 7th annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival, taking home the award for Best Documentary Film and nominations for Best Original Score and Outstanding Woman Director ...

Adrian Goiginger's semi-autobiographical debut feature film The Best of All Worlds (Die beste aller Welten) was honored at New York City's 7th annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival, taking home awards for Best Director and Best Actor (child actor Jeremy Miliker) and nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Score ...

At a glittering ceremony Saturday March 3 at the legendary Copacabana Nightclub in NYC, Winter Film Awards was proud to recognize the outstanding achievement of 15 films, and honored Carl Goodman, Executive Director of the Museum of the Moving Image as the 2018 Patron of the Cinema ...

Congratulations to #WFA2018 InternationalFilm Festival Nominees & Winners! #WFASoDiverse #CelebrateDiversity ...

Winter Film Awards is proud to continue our partnership with Cyberlink for our 7th Annual International Film Festival! Each of our fest award winners will receive a copy of Cyberlink's PowerDirector Suite 5! #WFA2018 #CyberlinkSupportsDiversity ...

A racially-charged short film about finding hope in a divided country — in Ben and Oliver Samuels 'Attila', America is at war in 1864 as Union Major General William T. Sherman plans his brutal March to the Sea through his beloved South and is confronted by the moral convictions of an escaped slave and contraband soldier. See the World Premiere of 'Attila' on February 25 as part of New York City's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

"The Guardian of the Ice (Il Guardiano Del Ghiaccio") is nothing short of a roller coaster through the experience of an intuitive schizophrenic woman and the star-searching genius who loves her. Director Salvatore Metastasio gives us an enchanted and dangerous love story while exploring the balance of rationality and creativity in humans’ cerebral pursuit of intellectual curiosities. See the US Premiere of the feature film 'The Guardian of the Ice' on March 1, 2018 @7:45pm at Cinema Village (22 East ...

Madness goes live stream! Director and writer Marc Martínez Jordán uses the internet to describe what could happen when the wrong people catch viral fever in his horror film 'Framed'. See the NYC Premiere on Feb 26 @7:45pm at Cinema Village as part of "Bloody Monday" at New York City's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

Fake news! Attack on Science! Subversion of the Legal System! Julie Marron's documentary, "Four Games in Fall" explores the highly topical issues of media manipulation, science for hire, and perversion of the legal system … all through the lens of the Deflategate scandal. See the World Premiere on Feb 25 @3:45pm at Cinema Village as part of NYC's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

Xiana Yago's debut feature documentary, Let Women Choose, attempts to break taboos concerning abortion and sexual violence in Ecuador. See the US Premiere of 'Let Women Choose' on February 24, 2018 @6:30pm at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street) as part of New York City's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

Love, heartbreak and poetry are universal. In Tamara Ruppart's beautiful short film "Path of Dreams", a gallant suitor must write poetry for his beloved for 99 nights with her promise that they will create a love more beautiful than poetry. See the World Premiere as part of NYC's Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

In the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-1945), many forces joined together to repel the invading Japanese Imperial Army, but none more so than the “Wolf Troops”, the lengendary Zhuang minority fighters. See the North American Premiere of ‘A Roar of Wolf Troops’ on February 25, 2018 @1:00pm at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street) as part of New York City’s 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

Film maker Paul Michael Bloodgood chronicles the dynamic exploits of 1980's Christian heavy metal band Bloodgood in this fascinating music documentary. See the NYC Premiere on March 1, 2018 as part New York City's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

Built in the DIY Spirit, Brooklyn Fire Proof Stages is a full-service film, television, and photography soundstage and movie studio in New York City. Winter Film Awards is proud to partner with them for our 7th Annual International Film Festival! One of our outstanding festival winners will receive an awesome full day of studio time compliments of the best full service production facility in town ...

Fon (Rain), is a story of a secret love between middle school students, through a nostalgic atmosphere in southern Thailand. Their sexual curiousity brings them together on one rainy day. See the US Premiere of 'Fon (Rain)' on February 25 2018 @6:30pm at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street) as part of New York City's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

How the Brontë sisters, Salvador Dali, and Christianity helped inspire David Shao's newest heart-pounding tale of love and redemption, "The Revenge of Phantom Knight". See the North American Premiere of the film on February 26, 2018 @7:45pm at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street) as part of New York City's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival. Winter Film Awards Jenn Tsouras-Shadd had some burning questions for David, and his responses did not disappoint! ...

Mmmmm cookies! Goodie Girl cookies make for a sweet WFA2018! Gluten-free cookies do not have to be, uh, less than satisfying. They can be awesome! Winter Film Awards is proud to partner with Goodie Girl Cookies for our 7th Annual International Film Festival ...

William González' "She,The Sergeant Matacho (La Sargento Matacho)" tells the story of a woman trapped in the spiral of violence in Colombia. Matacho embodies both love and hatred, a desire for revenge and peace, life and death, warped in the heat of the fratricidal war that continues to shock the country. See the NYC Premiere on February 25, 2018 @6:30pm at Cinema Village at New York City's 7th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival ...

“The Girl Who Invented Kissing” is a poignant triumph of individuality amid the sadness of everyday life. Despite how a shallow mind may perceive the value of a mentally handicapped timid man or a destitute, drug-taking drifter, through Director Tom Sierchio’s eyes, there’s so much more to them than the biased judgments of ordinary people. See the NYC Premiere of 'The Girl Who Invented Kissing' on February 24, 2018 @9:15 pm at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street) as part ...