WFF2025 Awards Ceremony + Gala Red Carpet + After Party

2025 Awards Ceremony
2025 Parties

Date: February 23, 2025

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 23!
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 13th 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 hosted by Jeffrey Gurion and Aesha Waks and featuring live performances!

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, 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!

2025 Winter Film Festival Submission Judges

Justin Benz, Jonathan Burdick, Clay Cain, Ruiran Chen, Xiaoxiao Chen, Lance Courts, Anthony Falco, Zoe Fancher, Lechara Fletcher, Julie Furnas, John German, Sondra Gomez, Donte Grey, Rian Grey, Siyuan He, Dominic Hinkson, Quincy Irmiter, Veronica Kent, Asier Kintana, Zachary Kirby, Donn Lamkin, Whitney Larkins, Robert LaRue, Emilie Lorditch, Rebel Love, James Mahaney, Joseph Mauceri, Miguel Medina-carrion, Chris Meyer, Kyna Morgan, Michael Murray, Joanne Naclerio, Youlim Nam, PJ Nastasi, Martina Marie O’Boyle, Fey Okege, Nilufer Ozmekik, Yunhong Pu, David Pulson, Katy Rochelle, Joshua Segarra, Haley Simmons, Elise Smalley, Andrew Tang, Wendi Tang, Arianna Wellmoney, Lisa Wilf, Mya Wiseman and Hila Yaish