Toronto Women Film Festival focuses on female driven stories, independent female directors, producers, writers, actresses, cinematographers, editors, and all female artists contributing to the language of cinema as women in film. The festival believes in the power of female filmmakers and screenwriters working in media. The festival sees a bright future for female talents working in the film industry. All the monthly winners are further nominated for the annual festival. The finalists of the annual event will be screened and will be further promoted and awarded with prizes and promotions.
The virtual competition announces the best of the month in various categories and aims to discover, promote and award female filmmakers and artists from all over the world. All the monthly award winners are further considered by the programmers of the festival for the annual awards and screenings. It is with great pleasure for us to announce the latest winners of the Toronto Women Film Festival.
Narrative Feature:
The Way That I Am
Dir: Kaleigh Fitzgerald
Narrative Short:
500
Dir: RACHEL KADEN
Honorable Mention Narrative Short:
Heel
Dir: Maggie Levin
Feature Documentary:
He's My Brother
Dir: Cille Hannibal
Honorable Mention Feature Documentary:
The Self Portrait
Dir: Katja Hogset, Margreth Olin and Espen Wallin
Best Short Documentary:
Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years
Dir: Filiz Efe McKinney
Best Experimental:
A Man Waiting For The Leaves To Fall Dir: Judee Tan
Best Comedy:
Closeted
Dir: Magali Perra
Best Horror:
Hangry
Dir: Bola Ogun
Best Animation:
Beautiful journey
Dir: Aurora Wang
Best Web/TV/Pilot:
Selma & Clarice
Dir: Yennis Cheung, Nicky Cook
Best Music Video:
AvA "ORAGE"
Dir: Eva Ménard, Zoé Cavaro
Best Student Film:
OLIMPIA
Dir: Sharon Attias
Honorable Mention Student Film:
Toxic Shock
Dir: Jamie Norrie
Best Actress:
Martha Bronstein
For A Stormy Night
Best Female Cinematographer:
Allie Schultz
For I Just Wish You Told Me
Best Female Scriptwriter:
Naomi Lisner
For The Imbalance
Best Female Producer:
For Stricken Beirut
Producers: Rawaa Auge and Sabine Younes
Best Female Editor:
Ruth Geva
For Gathering Fragments
&
Elizabeth Kopetka
For Box of Rain
Best Female Director:
Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
For The Great Artist
Best Female Composer:
Chia-Hui Lu For Butterfly Orchid
Best LGBTQ:
It's Just Our Family
Dir: Ameya
Best Human Rights:
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change
Dir: Amy Andersson
Best Poster:
A Stormy Night
Films About Women:
Recipiphany
Dir: Eric Cloughley
Best Canadian Female Filmmaker:
A CRADLE FALLS
Dir: Nicole Benoit
Best Environmental:
Axis Mundi
Dir: Csilla Toldy
Honorable Mention Environmental:
Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly
Dir: Kim Smith
Best First Time Female Filmmaker:
Thirty Minutes
Dir: Claire Elizabeth Terry
Best thriller:
$700+
Dir: Tom Aspy
Best Unproduced Script:
Aimo
Writer: Maggie Craig
Best Historical Film:
The Brazilian Templars Mystery
Dir: Next Anyextee, Neil Cabana
Best Biographical Film:
When the Camera Stopped Rolling
Dir: Jane Castle
Best Sport Film:
Dubliner
Dir: Linda Rosenfeld
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