“Refreshed” Independent Festival Awards reveals 2019 shortlist
The awards return for a sixth year as part of AIF's Festival Congress 2019, with a new host and several new categories
News By IQ | 9 October 2019
The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has announced the shortlist for the 2019 Independent Festival Awards, which will take place on 6 November as part of the UK association’s sixth Festival Congress.
Taking place once again at 92 Burton Road in Sheffield, this year’s winners will be announced during an awards ceremony hosted for the first time by actor, writer and comedian Thanyia Moore.
In 2017, Moore joined the likes of Katherine Ryan, Andi Osho, Sarah Millican, Miss London Hughes and Desiree Birch when she was crowned Funny Women champion, beating over 400 women in the process and also reaching the semi-finals of the BBC New Comedy Award in 2018.
In a shake-up for the Independent Festival Awards, there are nine awards categories in total this year, designed to…
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