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