and served as Masters of Ceremony for the award ceremony. On the last night of the Festival, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot led a discussion on activism moderated by anti-corruption author Zephyr Teachout. Second and Third Annual Festival- 2016 and 2017 Events leading up to the second annual festival including screening of the films Spotlight, The Big Short, and The Revenant. The advance screening of The Big Short, co-sponsored by GIFF Board Member Mark Teixeira, included a post-film panel featuring three of the men that inspired roles in the film. In early January, GIFF presented the CT premiere of the Showtime series Billions. The screening of the pilot episode featured a post-screening panel moderated by David Edelstein of New York Magazine, and featured GIFF Board Member and co-creator David Levien, co-creator Brian Koppelman, director of the pilot episode Neil Burger, and actors David Costabile and Terry Kinney. The 2016 Festival was scheduled for June 9–12. In 2017, the festival was held for the third time. Jenna Bush Hager by then was a board member of GIFF. Impact The Festival donates a portion of proceeds to nonprofit organizations, with a partnership announced in August 2014 with UNICEF and the One Minute Foundation on the OneminutesJr campaign, which equips young filmmakers with the resources to create one-minute short films, and showcases their work. The selection of UNICEF as the Festival's first beneficiary organization was made to support efforts to "build a model that made the most of those connections to benefit both individual filmmakers and a charity everyone believed in." The Greenwich International Film Festival offers a number of awards and cash prizes, including an award for the Best Social Impact Film, which is a focus of the Festival. Awards include $10,000 cash prizes for Best Social Impact Film, Best Narrative Feature, and Best Documentary Feature, and $2,500 cash prized for Best Narrative Short and Best Documentary Short. Notable Films GIFF primarily showcases narrative and documentary features and short films. Recent premieres and award-winning films shown at GIFF include: Entourage, All Things Must Pass, Jane Wants A Boyfriend (World Premiere), I Smile Back, The Keeping Room, The Overnight, Time Out of Mind, Mania Days, 7 Minutes, 40-Love, Night Owls, Uncle John, Victoria, WildLike, Zurich, 3 ½ Minutes, 10 Bullets, Landfill Harmonic, The Russian Woodpecker, Tiger Tiger, Vaclav Havel: Living in Freedom (U.S. Premiere), Dirty Laundry Day, I’ve Just Had