WFF2026 Awards Ceremony + Gala Red Carpet + After Party

2026 Awards Ceremony
2026 Parties

Date: February 22, 2026

Time: 5:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Cost: FREE

Location:

The Empire Room @Club 230FIFTH

230 Fifth Avenue / Enter Club at 1150 Broadway

New York, New York 10001

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Winter Film Festival comes to a glittering close on Sunday February 22!
Dance the night away at the most beautiful club in NYC!

Winter Film Festival invites you to join us for the closing event of our 14th Annual International Film Festival! We are giving out awards to our best and brightest filmmakers, many of whom are traveling from countries all over the world in order to join us.

Club 230FIFTH, 230 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10001 (ENTER ON BROADWAY between 26th & 27th Streets)
FREE before 10pm 21+ with ID. Please dress to the occasion- no athletic wear, hats, or sneakers.

Schedule

5:00pm-7:00pm: Red Carpet, with GLAMOROUS SNOWFLAKE GREETERS from Aerial Acrobatic Entertainment.
Get your photo taken at our cool popup photo booth, courtesy of EZPopupBooth!

7:00pm-8:00pm: Awards Ceremony featuring live performances by Rudy Rush, Nico Rocks and solos!

8:00pm-11:00pm: After Party – Dance the night away with DJ IzaBella

This event is FREE and open to the public but you must REGISTER IN ADVANCE

Awards Ceremony Cast

Host

Vanessa Ly

Winter Film Festival Team

Winter Film Festival is led by George Isaacs (CEO & Founder) and Steffanie Finn (Executive Director). Thank you to our tireless team – Joseph Mauceri, David Bell, Michael Joseph Murray, Lisa Wilf and Vaughn Murphy.

Thank you to Winter Film Festival staff, volunteers, screeners, judges, writers, panelists, friends and helpers! This event couldn’t happen without you!

2026 Winter Film Festival Submission Judges

THANK YOU to Hari Bhaskar, Jelena Boskovic, John Brind’Amour, Jonathan Burdick, Katy Rochelle Cacolice, Aadil Cheema, Ruiran Chen, Xiao Xiao Chen, SungChul Choi, Khadijah Davis, Toon de Melker, Kady Edwards-Campbell, Zoe Fancher, Lechara Fletcher, Rhonda Fletcher, Steph France, John German, Carlos Glick, Sondra Gomez, Donte Grey, Junior Griggs, Alexis Hall, Kiana Hamel, Siyuan He, Quincy Irmiter, Ryan Keenan, Veronica Kent, Asier Kintana, Elias Kushner, Donn Lamkin, Whitney Larkins, Robert LaRue, Yanjun Long, Rebel Love, Paul Marengo, Joseph Mauceri, Miguel Medina-carrion, Oakley Mertes, Christopher Meyer, Christian Moore, Joanne Naclerio, Michael Nagle, Youlim Nam, Martina Marie O’Boyle, Nilufer Yenidogan Ozmekik, Allie Palazzo, Maya Parkoff, Alana Phillips, Yunhong Pu, David Pulson, Roseanne Robertson, Andrea Rodriguez, Clément Roux, Mauricio Salazar, John Silvey, Elise Smalley, Ana Valentin, Nyhle Wilson, Katharine Winters, Simone Yael and Valentin Zuza.