It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the seventh edition of Toronto Women FIlm Festival. The festival is dedicated to female cinema, discovering and bringing together female talents from all over the globe. The virtual festival has been growing in popularity and is sponsored and supported by various media outlets and film companies associated with various cinemas, festivals, magazines and film production companies based in Toronto. The festival is planning to have its annual event as a hybrid event in order to screen the best films of the year at the TIFF Bell Lightbox every year. The award winners of each edition can also request online screening through Toronto Film Channel. The emerging international event is proud to announce the winners of its seventh edition.
Best Narrative Feature:
IRON WARRIORESSES
Dir: Jelena Mila
Best Narrative Short:
Tawny eyes
Dir: Irene Salvador
Best Feature Documentary:
Dance Me to The End of Time
Dir: Melanie Chait
Honorable Mention Feature Documentary:
Woodgirls - A Duet For a Dream
Dir: Azadeh Bizargiti
Best Short Documentary:
Women Take on Nepal
Dir: Tania Verbeeck
Best Experimental:
Projections
Dir: Nicole Close
Honorable Mention Best Experimental:
MONICA VITTI/ERINN RUTH
Dir: Christine Giorgio
Best Comedy:
TIPS
Dir: Mercedes Papalia
Best Science Fiction:
MOM PREP
Dir: MELISSA BALINT
Best Horror:
Into The Darkness
Dir: Susan Bohl
Best Animation:
Winter Colours
Dir: Adrianna Wieczorek
Best Web/TV/Pilot:
Love in 2020
Dir: Eirinn Disbrow
Best Music Video:
Way Down Below- A Lament for our Times
Dir: Yantra de Vilder
Best Student Film:
Quiet On Set
Dir: Jessica Teixeira, Natasha Luttjeboer
Honorable Mention Student Film:
The Family Key
Dir: Sydney Richardson
Best Actress:
AIMEE BARUAH
Film: SEMKHOR
Best Female Cinematographer:
Bianka Fórmanowska
Film: I Walk On
Best Female Scriptwriter:
Melissa Tantaquidgeon
Film: Flying Bird's Diary
Best Female Producer:
Kelly Pascuzzi
Film: The Ravine
Best Female Editor:
Dorota Fórmanowska
Film: I Walk On
Best Female Director:
Jan Miller Corran
Film: Along Came Wanda
Best Female Composer:
HWAJUNG SUNG
Film: The Show Must Go On!
Best LGBTQ:
BLUE MOON
Dir: Emily Ruhl
Best Human Rights:
Wild is the Spring
Dir: adla massoud
Best Film About Women:
Cold Service
Dir: Peter Strupp
Best Canadian Female Filmmaker:
Dancing Through
Dir: Anika Syskakis, Madelaine McCallum
Best Environmental:
HATUN PHAQCHA, THE HEALING LAND
Dir: Delia Ackerman
Best First Time Female Filmmaker:
Kalliope’s From Fear to Freedom
Dir: Kalliope Barlis
Best Unproduced Script:
The Dark Days of Cassidy Krystian
Writer: Emily Troedson
Best Historical Film:
I, Dido
Dir: Penelope Shales-Slyne
Best Biographical Film:
Rosemary's Way
Dir: Ros Horin
Best Sport Film:
Round & Round
Dir: Talia Pasqua, Simeon Pratt
Best Poster: Quiet On Set