'Cannabis + Creativity' Encore Set for Friday, April 11
Film Otsego Announces Festival Winners, Upcoming Projects
ONEONTA—The 2025 Made By New York Women Film Festival’s Audience Favorite Award winner for Documentary Film, “Cannabis + Creativity,” will have an encore engagement at the Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center on Friday, April 11 at 7 p.m.
The film will be screened as part of a fundraiser for the spec television sit-com pilot, “Super Buds,” which is in pre-production for a summer or fall shoot.
“The audience at the first Made By New York Women Film Festival loved Elana Frankel’s short film about creative people and cannabis,” Otsego County Film Commissioner Greg Klein said in a media release. “At the awards brunch, when we were telling her about the ‘Super Buds’ idea, she offered to screen her film here again as a fundraiser. We loved meeting her and some of the cast, and her film is a festival favorite, so she did not have to offer twice.”
“I am thrilled to screen ‘Cannabis + Creativity’ once again at the Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center to support funding for the upcoming narrative feature ‘Super Buds,’” Frankel said. “As New York builds cannabis best-in-class commerce and a robust supply chain, it is important to me as a filmmaker to support the cannabis community and culture...that fuels commerce!”
Other awards from the festival were: Audience Favorite Short Film to “Lovers & Fools,” submitted by writer-actor-co-director/producer Marie-Louise Boisnier; the Keynote Award to Delfine Paolini, the writer-director of “A Wonderful Way With Dragons,” which opened the festival; and the Otsego Award to Gilbertsville resident Jeri Wachter, who presented her documentary, “Twice Upon A Time in America.”
