Alliance of Women Film Journalists To Present AWFJ EDA Award @ IDFA 2015 – Nov 18-29

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists will proudly present our juried AWFJ EDA Award @ IDFA 2015 for the Best Female Directed Film. This is the second consecutive year of the organization’s partnership with IDFA to recognize women’s accomplishments in documentary filmmaking. In 2014, the AWFJ EDA Award @ IDFA was presented to Maite Alberdi for Tea Time The AWFJ EDA Award and the Oxfam Global Justice Award are the only two independently-presented awards on the IDFA Awards roster. Read more>>

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AWFJ @ IDFA: Juried EDA Awards Presented to Two Documetaries

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Inc. (AWFJ) presented juried AWFJ EDA Awards to two female-directed feature length documentaries at the 2014 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s leading documentary film festival. The awards were presented in conjunction with this year’s The Female Gaze program, which included a strand of 28 female-directed feature length documentaries and a panel discussion with 15 leading female filmmakers from around the world. Read on…

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AWFJ Presents EDA Awards @ IDFA 2014

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists Inc. (AWFJ) is set to present juried EDA Awards at the 2014 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s leading documentary film festival. Which of the five festival-nominated premiering films will win the EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary is to be determined jury members Leba Hertz, Katherine McLaughlin, Jennifer Merin, Wendy Mitchell, Susan Wloszczyna and Dorothy Woodend. Read on…

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