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 also selects films created by all genders from all over the world from various backgrounds, cultures and traditions dealing with women in society. Toronto Women Film Festival is a monthly and annual event.
The virtual monthly competition announces the best of the month in various categories and aims to discover, promote and award female filmmakers and artists working in media. All the monthly award winners are further considered by the programmers of the festival for the annual event.
Best Narrative Feature:
Sisters in the end of the world
Dir: Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes
Honorable Mention Narrative Feature:
Eurídice, far away
Dir: Susana Lastreto Prieto
Best Narrative Short:
Alone Together
Dir: Katie Sponseller
Honorable Mention Narrative Short:
Untitled Sam Bennett Project
Dir: Daniella Caggiano
Best Feature Documentary:
Postcard
Dir: Asmae ELMOUDIR
Honorable Mention Feature Documentary:
BROKEN VOWS: Stories of Separation
Dir: Sunnie McFadden-Curtis
Best Short Documentary:
Afghan Women
Dir: Zeynep Keçeciler
Best Experimental:
Before It Kills Us All
Dir: Margaret Lazarus
Best Comedy:
Full Service
Dir: Brandy Seymour
Best Science Fiction:
FTY: Failure to Yield
Dir: Heather Halstead
Best Horror:
Tinder Tango
Dir: Cecilia Robles
Best Animation:
Nanakorobi (Seven Falls)
Dir: Gaby Breiter
Best Web/TV/Pilot:
On A-List
Dir: Lee Foster, Tito Guillen and Nicole Simone
Best Music Video:
ANAVITÓRIA "Calendário"
Dir: Lina and Maira Fridman
Honorable Mention Music Video:
Brown Sounds
Dir: Jeremy Adonis, Raehann Bryce-Davis
Best Student Film:
Sex Work in The City
Dir: Nikita Zhang
Honorable Mention Student Film:
Ukde
Dir: Ecem Çelik
Best Actress:
Tara Erickson
Film: Prime of Your Life
Honorable Mention Best Actress:
Cassie Kramer
Film: Borne, Bottled
Best Female Cinematographer:
Outlier
Cinematographer: Isabel Machado And Joe Failla
Best Female Scriptwriter:
The Way Home
Writer: Ewa Stankiewicz
Best Female Producer:
True West, the John Scott story
Producer: VICTORIA MCFADYEN
Best Female Editor:
Jungian Archetype in Film (Part 1)
Editor: Julia Vickers
Best Female Director:
Alicia Oberle Farmer
Film: Polygamy Gone Wrong
Best Female Composer:
Glenna Burmer
Film: Nanakorobi (Seven Falls)
Best LGBTQ:
Retribution
Dir: Mel Orpen
Best Human Rights:
Delhi Dreams
Dir: Yamini Deen, Christof Schaefer
Best Poster:
The Craving
Best Films About Women:
Sister Austere
Dir: Antoine Humbert
Honorable Mention Films About Women:
Magdalena, don’t jump
Dir: Raul Nino Juarez
Best Canadian Female Filmmaker:
The Death of Winter
Dir: Latonia Hartery
Honorable Mention Canadian Female Filmmaker:
Revolution Moosehide
Dir: Lesley Johnson
Best Environmental:
VAKA
Dir: Kelly Moneymaker
Honorable Mention Environmental:
Millennials leave in peace
Dir: Louise Marie Beauchamp
Best First Time Female Filmmaker:
How I Die (Die Faehre)
Dir: Julie Le Gal
Honorable Mention First Time Female Filmmaker:
Tahi: The Human Journey
Dir: Karina J. Duffy
Best thriller:
The Craving
Dir: Russell Hopkins
Best Unproduced Script:
Look Me in The Eyes
Writer: Christa Cusack O'Neill
Best Historical Film:
The Silent Song
Dir: CAROLYN JENNIFER CORKINDALE
Best Biographical Film:
David Mirisch, The Man Behind the Golden Stars
Dir: Marcela Mariz
Honorable Mention Biographical Film:
"Behind the Name SHAKESPEARE: Power, Lust, Scorn & Scandal"
Dir: Robin Phillips
Best Sport Film:
OutSwing
Dir: Samar Minallah Khan