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Inaugural Winter Film Awards Festival Celebrates Cinema and Performing Arts in New York February 9-12
First Annual Winter Film Awards to Air on American Primetime Television Featuring Winners for Best Studio Film, Indie Film and Emerging Performing Artist

New York, NY, November 22, 2011 - The Winter Film Awards (WFA) is a celebration of cinema and the performing arts. The 2012 Winter Film Awards Festival will run from February 9-12 with a series of award ceremonies and special events. The star-studded launch event will take place in New York City on Thursday, February 9, 2012. The awards show will air on American Primetime Television, a new IPTV multi-platform network, distributed by Omniverse TV reaching over 45 million households.

“We are delighted to showcase the best of the best in film and performing arts at our festival and to have our award winners featured on APTV as part of its dynamic original programming”, says WFA President George Isaacs.”

As a precursor to the Oscars, the 2012 Winter Film Awards Festival will launch with the Winter Film Awards Major Studio Film Awards gala, which celebrates the outstanding film achievements of 2011, as recognized by the WFA Board of Governors. The Major Studio Film Awards will be presented on Thursday, February 9th, 2012, in NYC and will be nationally televised on APTV.

On Friday, February 10th, 2012 awards will be presented for excellence in independent film to filmmakers who deliver outstanding work, but have not yet received a distribution deal. Award winners will receive national exposure on APTV. February 11th and 12th will round out the festival with the WFA Film Festival and Performing Arts showcase.

As part of the Competitions section of the festival, the performing arts showcase will be a forum where individuals from all areas of performing arts will compete for awards. WFA is proud to announce its partnership with Cringe Humor for the comedy awards and live stand up competition.
The WFA Film festival is an IMDB qualifying film festival. WFA Call for Entries is officially open and filmmakers can submit their work to www.withoutabox.com

www.winterfilmawards.com



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