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 then nominated for the annual competition and the screening of the festival in Toronto.
The festival committee is planning to screen 250 films in September for its annual program in Toronto. The films of the annual festival are selected from the award winners of the monthly editions. It is important to recognize talented female voices and female artists from all over the world.
Here are the latest winners of the monthly edition of the festival:
Best Narrative Feature:
Pooling to Paradise
Director: Roxy Shih
Best Narrative Short:
Miranda's Marionettes
Director: Hortense Lingjaerde
Best Feature Documentary:
Right Now I Want to Scream
Director: Siobhán Wills and Cahal McLaughlin
Honorable Mention Feature Documentary:
Fisher Queen- Women vs. Nature
Director: Jeonghwa Shin
Best Short Documentary:
Daughters of Drought
Directors: Melissa Godin, William Martin
Honorable Mention Short Documentary:
Phenomxnal Womxn
Director: Alexxa Walker
Best Experimental:
QARDOUN [La Passation]
Director: Sarah El Hamed
Honorable Mention Experimental:
To Garbo and Lenin
Director: Jessica Laurén
Best Comedy:
Bits and Pieces
Director: Lindsay Stidham
Best Science Fiction:
TRANS
Director: NAERI DO
Best Horror:
PLAYDATE
Director: Nichelle S. Montgomery
Best Animation:
diminuendo
Director: Henrike Lendowski
Honorable Mention Animation:
Nailing It
Director: Kaprawi Norhayati
Best Web/TV/Pilot:
Motek
Director: Eva Lanska
Best Music Video:
Woman's Enlightenment
Director: Koutaro Ishida
Best Student Film:
The Summer Of Snakes
Director: Lara Panah-Izadi
Honorable Mention Student Film:
A MORNING, A MOTHER & A BOY
Director: Katrine Weber
Best Actress:
Hallways and Doors
Actress: Cooper Shaw
Best Female Cinematographer:
Sacrilege
Cinematographer: Sarah Smither
Best Female Scriptwriter:
Bolero in the elders house
Writer: Linda Fejzaj
Best Female Producer:
KEEP OUT! -Women Over 60 Only
Producer: Seungju Lee
Best Female Editor:
After the Facts
Editor: Karen Pearlman
Best Female Director:
Angel Mountain
Dir: Karen Schuback
Best Female Composer:
DESCENDED
Composer: Maria Finkelmeier
Best LGBTQ:
The Pageant
Director: Kasey O'Brien
Best Human Rights Film:
The Wind on your Skin
Director: Naomi Beukes, Birgit Stauber, Jana von Hase
Honorable Mention Human Rights Film:
The Least We Can Do
Director: Moira Simpson
Honorable Mention Documentary & Best Poster:
1974 1979. Le nostre ferite
Director: Monica Repetto
Best Film About Women:
Leaving to live
Director: David Rodrigues
Honorable Mention:
YAI NIN
Director: Champ Ensminger
Best Canadian Female Filmmaker:
FIREWOMAN
Director: Louise Leroux
Best Environmental Film:
SHABA
Director: Ami Vitale and David Allen
Honorable Mention Environmental:
'Your Water, My Water'
Director: Wendy Rogers
Best First Time Female Filmmaker:
A Heart Dies Twice
Director: Itziar Martinez
Honorable Mention First Time Filmmaker:
Mute
Director: Constance Hilton
Best Thriller:
Mediator
Director: Cas Sigers-Beedles
Best Unproduced Script:
Warpaint
Writer: Helen Taylor
Best Historical Film:
This Water Cuts Its Own Course
Director: Diane Fellows
Best Biographical Film:
The Iliterate poet
Director: Sonia Méndez Alonso
Best Sport Film:
Body and Soul
Director: Magali Chapelan
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