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Celebration of Female Voices in Cinema

Toronto Women Film Festival celebrates female talents and artists from all over the world. The festival committee has created a great platform with a seasonal competition and annual festival dedicated to female voices who have dedicated their lives to independent filmmaking and the cinematic language. The winners of the seasonal festival are further forwarded to the annual programmers of the year which will select films to screen for the annual program through the live events in Toronto. It is our pleasure to announce the seasonal winners of the Toronto Women Film Festival.





Best Narrative Feature

Movie Girls

Director: Maria Loiter


Best Narrative Short

The Silent Canary

Director: Vera Graziadei


Best Feature Documentary

Teach me if you can

Director: Emilie Thérond


Honorable Mention Documentary

One Thousand Women

Director: Mojghan Ilanlou


Best Short Documentary

Time for caring

Director: Stephanie Brewster Ramírez


Honorable Mention Documentary

I Was One of Them...

Director: Carol Ciancutti


Best Experimental

Dislocations

Directors: Josèfa Ntjam, Sean Hart and Nicolas Pirus


Best Comedy

The Other V Word

Director: Kristin Goodman


Best Science Fiction

Out Of The Grey

Director: Marta Baidek


Best Horror

Look what you have done!

Director: Monica De Almeida




Best Animation

Dancing Amid Fire, Rising Above Ruins

Director: Essmat Sophie




Honorable Mention Animation

The Market

Director: Lulu (Jung) Chen




Best Web/TV/Pilot

The Interview/The Inquest (“The Coroner’s Assistant” S1E1)

Director: Angeline Walsh


Best Music Video

Here: Memories of a soul

Director: Julia Delbourg


Best Student Film

Second Chance

Director: Viktoriia Lapushkina


Best Actress

Nadezhda Ivanova

Movie Girls


Best Cinematographer

Jemma Cholawo

Borderlines


Best Scriptwriter

Writer: Helise Nancy Stamos

STANTON & ANTHONY


Best Producer

Rebecca Pruzan and Kim Magnusson

IVALU


Best Editor

Brenda Morrissey

Clodagh


Best Director

Mary Christine Russell

The Otherkind


Best Composer

Jennifer Thomas

Etude For the Dreamer


Best LGBTQ

Vegas

Director: Anna Wheeler


Best Human Rights

I am Kanaka

Director: Genevieve Sulway


Best Film About Women

Loud Enough

Director: Hilary Klotz Steinman


Best Canadian Filmmaker

Director: Suzanne Friesen

Tu


Best Environmental

Tears of Extinction

Director: Jon Parker


Best First-Time Filmmaker

Aneta Elżbieta Novitzka

The Coal and Daughter



Best thriller

Kept

Director: Jenny Kleiman



Best Unproduced Script

The F.B.I.

Writer: Heidi Ann Dudgeon



Best Historical Film

Betty Skelton: Boundless

Director: Pam A Miller




Best Biographical Film

UNVEILED: Joyce Tenneson & the Heroine's Journey

Director: Rebecca Dreyfus, David Wright, Randy Gebhardt


Best Sport Film

Dreama Team

Director: Chad Weber, Steve Vanderheide


Best Youth Artist

Sylvester Birk Rumle Pedersen

The Cry of a Sparrow

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