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| 2015 HONORARY MAVERICK AWARD RECIPIENT | ||||||
With fifteen feature films and related projects, Atom Egoyan has won numerous prizes at international film festivals, including the Grand Prix and International Critics Awards from the Cannes Film Festival, two Academy Award® nominations, and numerous other honors. His films have won twenty-five Genies - including three Best Film Awards – and a prize for Best International Film Adaptation from The Frankfurt Book Fair. Egoyan’s films have been presented in numerous retrospectives across the world, including a complete career overview at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, followed by similar events at the Filmoteca Espagnol in Madrid, the Museum of The Moving Image in New York, and the Royal CINEMATEK in Brussels. He was recently presented with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award and the 2015 Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. His body of work – which includes theatre, music, and art installations – delves into issues of memory, displacement, and the impact of technology and media in modern life. Among his films are the groundbreaking Exotica, the multi award winning The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia’s Journey (starring Bob Hoskins), Where the Truth Lies (with Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth), Devil’s Knot (with Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth), and the opening night film for the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival, Remember,starring Christopher Plummer. |
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| 2015 FIERCELY INDEPENDENT AWARD | ||||||
Guy Maddin is an installation and internet artist, lecturer at Harvard, writer and filmmaker, the director of eleven feature-length movies, including innumerable shorts, My Winnipeg (2007), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), and the closing night film for the 2015 Woodstock Film Festival, The Forbidden Room (2015). He has also mounted around the world over seventy performances of his films featuring live elements - orchestra, sound effects, singing and narration. |
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| TANGERINE ENTERTAINMENT JUICE AWARD FOR BEST FEMALE FEATURE DIRECTOR | ||||||
WFF was thrilled to announce that the 3rd Annual Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award was presented to THERE SHOULD BE RULES, directed by Linda-Maria Birbeck. The Tangerine Entertainment Juice Fund is a donation-based initiative focused on changing the landscape for women filmmakers. In keeping with Tangerine's committment to outreach, the Juice Fund provides an opportunity for community involvement in directly supporting women directors and outlets for their films. The Juice Fund is created and sustained entirely by individuals and companies wishing to help increase the number of women feature film directors and the frequency with which they work. The Juice Fund will be used to instigate concrete change in three ways; rewarding, mentoring, and building community. Recipient received a cash prize from Tangerine Entertainment and a handcrafted trophy designed by Steve Heller |
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| ULTRA INDIE AWARD | ||||||
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Winner LAMB Directed by Ross Partridge  Honorable Mention BOB AND THE TREES Directed by Diego Ongaro |
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| GIGANTIC PICTURES FEATURE NARRATIVE AWARD | ||||||
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| WORLD CINEMA AWARD | ||||||
New in 2015, the World Cinema Award recognized the jury’s choice for best foreign language film made by a director outside the U.S. JURY MEMBERS included
Claude Dal Farra and
Lucy Barzun-Donnelly |
Winner MEET ME IN VENICE directed by Eddy Terstall  |
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| CARPE DIEM ANDRETTA AWARD | ||||||
The Carpe Diem Andretta Award will honor longtime area resident Vincent “Jay” Andretta III, who passed away in December 2014. The Glenford resident will be remembered as a successful businessman, a driven, avid athlete and a loving, dedicated husband, father, son and great friend to many including the Woodstock Film Festival. Jay’s favorite quote was Carpe Diem (Seize the Day). His life was a testament to the phrase. The Carpe Diem Andretta Award will be presented to a film that best exemplifies living life to the fullest through character and story development in a full length narrative or documentary film. Winner received a $500 cash prize from the Vincent Jay Andretta Memorial Fund set up by the Woodstock Film Festival. |
Winner WAFFLE STREET directed by Eshom Nelms and Ian Nelms  |
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| MAVERICK DOCUMENTARY AWARD | ||||||
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| "This remarkable film [INCORRUPTIBLE] traces a journey from idealism to corruption in one of Africa's oldest democracies, asking the question - is power an inherently corrupting influence? What the leaders of the country do not count on is that -- in the end -- it is the people of Senegal who turn out to be incorruptible. Through unprecedented access to all the players, filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi weaves a complex and thrilling picture of a country at the precipice." - 2015 WFF Jury "A lyrical, poetic portrait of an unknown group of women in a forgotten land. THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL live mostly alone, in the shadow of the world's largest nuclear meltdown, surrounded by huge amounts of invisible radiation contamination. Strong and independent, their indelible ties to their homes trumps any health risk to which they might be exposed. A beautifully crafted documentary, this film does what documentaries do best - transport us to an unknown world and introduce us to extraordinary people we might never meet." - 2015 WFF Jury |
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| Marketek.com Award for BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY | ||||||
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| Marketek.com Award for BEST STUDENT SHORT | ||||||
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| HASKELL WEXLER AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY | ||||||
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| James Lyons Editing Award for NARRATIVE FEATURE | ||||||
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| James Lyons Editing Award for DOCUMENTARY FEATURE | ||||||
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