CONGRATULATIONS to OUR WINNERS
Winter Film Awards 48-Hour Film Challenge 2012
What Can YOU Do In Just 48 Hours?

WINTER FILM AWARDS, a new independent Film Festival in NYC, is pleased to congratulate our winners for our first annual 48-Hour Film Challenge!

Winter Film Awards challenged the local community to create a 5-7 minute film from start to finish in just a single weekend. The WFA 48-Hour Film Challenge got under way on Friday, November 30 at 8pm. Each team was provided with one of eight possible Film Genres, and all films were required to include the line "You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time." (Chuck Palahniuk) and a required prop - a big bright snowflake sugar cookie. Final films were due by 9pm on Sunday, December 2. Thirty teams registered for the challenge, but only 13 succeeded!

All winning entries will be screened at our 2nd Annual Winter Film Awards Festival on February 28 2013 – March 2 2013. To view our best entries, please visit us on YouTube www.youtube.com/user/winterfilmawards. For more information about the Winter Film Awards, please visit us at www.WinterFilmAwards.com . Special thanks to our Sponsors, JetBlue Airlines, FootageFirm and VideoBlocks!

WINNER – BEST PICTURE – THE COOKIE RUSH by MOTIONDREAMERS PRODUCTION
Motiondreamers Production is a NY/NJ based production company that makes Films, Music Videos, Commercials, Wedding Videos, etc. "The Cookie Rush" was produced by Motiondreamers' Youngsam Yoon, Director of Photography, and Seong Kim, Director. They are eager to make creative and innovative videos, and always open to work with passionate local filmmakers. Please visit www.motiondreamers.com , Facebook page www.Facebook.com/motiondreamers or YouTube www.youtube.com/motiondreamers

Best Picture Winner receives 2 round trip tickets to the Dominican Republic courtesy of JetBlue, a $3500 software package from FootageFirm and a $1000 membership in VideoBlocks.

WINNER – FAN FAVORITE – PIANOFORTE by TEAM J
Team J's creatives include director / composer Jerry Jean, videographer / editors Angelica Vanessa & Jennifer Painter, all NYC based. The trio first began working together shooting music videos for Jerry's gigs and projects. Angelica & Jennifer both honed their craft at FIT, and Jerry was a music major at NYU/Columbia. Pianoforte is their first short film collaboration! For more work, visit Jerry at www.jerryjean.com , www.youtube.com/JerryJeanMedia ,, Angelica at www.angelicavanessa.com, and Jen at www.jenniferpainter.com

Fan Favorite Winner receives 3 round trip tickets to the Dominican Republic courtesy of JetBlue, and a $3500 software package from FootageFirm

WINNER – BEST SCREENPLAY – SNOWFLAKE by The Grape Dutches of York
Best Screenplay winner, "Snowflake" was a film created by Daniel Florio and Chris Sciacco, with fellow members of the NY sketch group The Grape Dutches of York. The Dutches have also had films selected this year for the 2012 Off-Centered Film Festival and 2012 24hr. Film Festival. They primarily make original comedy sketches, and self-produced a web-series "Recession Whores". To see these and more of the Dutches work, visit them at their website: www.grapedutches.com and "like" them on Facebook.

WINNER – HONORARY AWARD – BREEDS OF MEN by APHORISTIC FILMS
For the NJ-Based director Richard Lobrovich, a graduate of Full Sail University, writers Ryan Boyle and Rory Mooney, this is their first 48 Hour film challenge together and won't be their last. The team work and positivity on set allowed Aphoristic Films to deliver "Breeds of Men" on time and to win the Honorary Film Award.

The WINTER FILM AWARDS mission is to recognize excellence and diversity in cinema and to promote learning and expression for all artists at all stages of their careers. We celebrate the crazy cultural mixture that is New York City, showcasing emerging filmmakers from every age, ethnic, racial, religious, cultural, political and geographic perspective, and we strive to help new artists get a foot in the door.