Spotlight On Films From Asia At NYC's Winter Film Awards

Winter Film Awards Is New York City. Like the city itself, the organization showcases the eclectic diversity and excitement of the independent arts world. The 8th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival runs February 14-23 2019, and includes awesome film screenings, cool discussion panels, career-building professional development workshops and super-fun parties at venues throughout NYC.

The event concludes on February 23rd with a glittering awards ceremony and hot red carpet gala at NYC's premier nightclub. The Fest celebrates the outstanding work of emerging filmmakers in all genres from around the world, with an emphasis on highlighting underrepresented and marginalized artists. For our 2019 Festival, we proudly present 89 films from 32 countries, half directed by women and 53% by or about people of color.

For our 2019 program, Winter Film Awards is honored to screen an incredible collection of eight films from Asia. All screenings take place at CINEMA VILLAGE, 22 East 12th Street, New York NY 10003

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Dhrma - Ciaxxo - , directed by Kotaro Saito (Music Video / 3 mins / Japan / US Premiere). Screening Tuesday Feb 19, Block 15: 7:45pm-10:45pm. This is a music video that seamlessly expresses the ambiguity of human senses, the mind and space perception.

Fill and Moo - , directed by Toshiko Hata (Animated / 8 mins / Japan / ). Screening Saturday Feb 16, Block 5: 6:30pm -9:00pm. Fill is a film fairy who lives alone in ruins. She looks lonely. One day, a projector shows up in front of her, and suddenly old films appear among the sound of rolling film. Fill is roped into the screen by a film SEED named Moo, and THE JOURNEY of Fill and Moo begins. Fill and Moo is a short clay animation made for children around the world.

In The Life of Music, directed by Caylee So & Sok Visal (Feature / 91 mins / Cambodia / NYC Premiere). Screening Monday Feb 18, Block 11: 12:00pm - 2:30pm. In the Life of Music, a story told in three chapters, tells the story of how one song 'Champa Battambang,' a song made famous by Sinn Sisamuth (the King of Khmer Music), plays a role in the lives of three different generations.

Its Winter Now -, directed by Lin Qi (Short / 14 mins / China / World Premiere). Screening Saturday Feb 16, Block 4: 3:45pm - 6:15pm. Due to the different understanding between the two generations on the inheritance of the Beijing Opera, father and son turned against each other many years ago. They never gave in to each other and the misunderstanding became deeper and deeper. They would rather die than surrender, but love each other; perhaps the most Chinese feelings.

Seventy -, directed by Jiage Tong (Short / 14 mins / China / ). Screening Monday Feb 18, Block 12: 2:45pm - 5:15pm. Wang Shun is an seventy-year-old single man, who lives for collecting SCRAPS in a backward village; nobody cares about him at all. After his old dog dies, Wang Shun plans to spend all of his saving to hold a magnificent funeral for himself in advance of his death to ensure he leaves evidence of his existence in the village memory. The funeral for a living man makes Wang Shun a local celebrity.

Shakespeare in Tokyo , directed by Genevieve Clay-Smith (Short / 21 mins / Japan / NYC Premiere). Screening Saturday Feb 16, Block 5: 6:30pm -9:00pm. An Australian Shakespeare fan with Down Syndrome, sets off on a solo adventure to discover Tokyo in order to get away from his over-bearing older brother. Along the way he uses his knowledge of the Bard, his sketchbook and his wits to win the hearts of the people he meets.

The Gift Of Love , directed by Gyu-min Gim (Feature / 88 mins / Korea / NYC Premiere). Screening Saturday Feb 16, Block 4: 3:45pm - 6:15pm. The Gift of Love is a dramatization of a real life event that happened in North Hwanghae Province in North Korea. Lee Sojung has done her best to deal with her husband's illness and feed her family but has run out of options. As reality closes in, she resorts to telling a big lie.

Tokyo Lovers, directed by Mayumi Yoshida & Nach Dudsdeemaytha (Short / 19 mins / Japan / NYC Premiere). Screening Sunday Feb 17, Block 10: 9:15pm -12:00am. Hopeless romantic Paul travels across the world for his perfect Christmas vacation in Tokyo with his dream girl, Sachiko. However tragedy strikes and Sachiko disappears. Paul decides to make the best out of his trip with Sachiko's cynical room mate Aki and their odd friendship helps them regain their dignity in big city Tokyo.

Winter Film Awards is an all volunteer, minority and women-owned registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2011 in New York City by a group of filmmakers and enthusiasts. This program is funded, in part, by a grant from the NYC & Company Foundation. Winter Film Awards is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Winter Film Awards is proudly one of the Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals on FilmFreeway.

Festival Founder George Isaacs says "Emerging filmmakers are so often ignored in favor of big budget generic action films, and filmmakers with limited budgets and lack of connections can be easily overlooked. Diverse, exciting low budget films are created all over the world; it is critical for local film festivals to showcase them. WFA's location in the center of the action provides our filmmakers with a dazzling chance to begin their careers in the film industry."

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