Female Filmmakers Sweep Awards at Silver Wave Film Festival

The Annual Silver Wave Awards Show handed out major hardware to filmmakers from all over the world. The big winners were key creative women involved with the NB Film Co-op and Women in Film and Television Atlantic.
2018 WIFT-AT NB Salute to honour a woman working in film and television in New Brunswick: Gia Milani
Best Student Short ($250): Sister’s Dirge by Ty Giffin
Excellence in Music Composition: Zachary Greer for the Nashwaak
Excellence in Art Direction: Arianna Martinez and Cassidy Ingersoll for Letters from the Dead
Excellence in Sound Design: Bruce LeGrow for Mnemosyne
Excellence in Picture Editing is: Tracey Lavigne for Mnemosyne
Excellence in Cinematography: Jesse Anthony for Mnemosyne
Best Experimental Film: Boy in the Garden by Peter de Niverville
Best Low Budget Documentary: Bernie Langille Wants to Know…Who Killed Bernie Langille by Jackie Torrens
Best SciFi Short: 10 Minute Time Machine by Charles Wahl
Best Canadian OR International Short: Passage by Henry Colin
Best Documentary: The Song and the Sorrow by Millefiore Clarkes
Lex Gigeroff Excellence in Screenwriting Award for a NB short Drama OR Comedy: Kaitlyn Adair for March 2.4
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama OR Comedy: Kaitlyn Adair for March 2.4
Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a supporting role in a Drama OR Comedy by a New Brunswicker: Maggie Vaughan for Mnemosyne
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama OR Comedy: Tony Tomarchio for Infinity Land
Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a supporting role in a Drama OR
Comedy: Chris Gairns for Friend Zone
Best NB Short Drama: Mnemosyne by Tracey Lavigne
East Coast Camera Rental Award (valued at $5000.00)
Sponsored by Nick Wilson
Winner: Tracey Lavigne
2018 Jane LeBlanc Filmmaker Award:
Winners:
Corinne Brownlee, for Distortion
Brenda Malley for After The War
Picaroons Brian Carty Film Volunteer Recognition Award ($500): Jeff Picka
Jim Lavoie Film Professional Recognition Award: Frictive Pictures
(Professor/filmmaker Robert Gray, Professor/filmmaker Matt Rogers and teacher/filmmaker Jon Dewar)
CBC/NB Joy Award Winner
Kaitlyn Adair for Together We Move
About the Silver Wave Film Festival
The Silver Wave Film Festival (SWFF) is a four-day celebration of film, media, and music from around the world. It’s a festival that turns Fredericton – a scenic and historic city – into a center for the arts, abuzz with filmmakers, industry types, and film lovers. This year’s event celebrated 18 years of the Festival and took place from Nov 8-11, 2018.