Atlanta Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

GOODBYE INDIA
Director Marcello Ercole

http://www.marcelloercole.com/

Heart of the Sea
Director Shireen Rahimi 

IN IT 2 WIN IT
Director Pete Kolopenuk  

http://onefivefivefilms.com/

Remembering Brantley
Submitter Steve Hilfiker

https://www.fodasacharity.org/

399: Queen of the Tetons
Director Elizabeth Leiter

http://www.399film.com/

9th St.
Directors Kenny Horton, Aron Hoag
https://vimeo.com/813220863

A Long Way From Heaven
Director David Sant

https://alongwayfromheavenfilm.wordpress.com/

ALL SAINTS: THE JOURNEY OF ORTHODOXY IN BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA
Director Chris M Johnston

http://allsaintsdocumentary.com/

American Pot Story: Oaksterdam
Directors Ravit Markus, Dan Katzir
http://www.americanpotstory.com/

American Troll 

Director Saturnin Kondratiew 

http://americantrollmovie.com/ 

Asian Paradise-Flycatcher
Director Junfeng Zhang 

Better Together: Furman's Championship Quest
Director Richmond Weaver

Bridge of Curiosity
Director Frank J Fazzio

City of Kings: Atlanta
Director William Feagins, Jr.

https://instagram.com/wfjrFILMS  

Dance of the Gods
Director Joshua Philip Chacko

https://www.instagram.com/danceofthegods/

Dominique
Directors Christopher Larson, Jordan Layton
https://www.dominique-thefilm.com/

Eleanor Sandy Torrey West
Director Zongyi Li 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C81-

EmpowerED
Director Zayd Milkias

https://secure.givelively.org/donate/entertainment-2-affect-change/empowered

Fierro
Director Edward Tyndall

https://edwardtyndall.com/fierro

Fitriya: Muslim On and Off The Court
Directors Selina McCallum, Safa Ali Mudei

GOD'S WIVES MEN'S SLAVES
Director POORNIMA RAVI 

https://facebook.com/poornimaravinoojibail

I am Kanaka
Director Genevieve Sulway

http://iamkanakafilm.com/

I Like To Be Called Kate 

Director Nicholas Tenaglia 

https://vimeo.com/876590670  

In A Better Place
Director Drew Youngblood  

Incognito Mode
Director Ruth Beer

Long Distance Relationship
Director Kirill Simenchik

https://www.instagram.com/ldrimprov/

Mama's Voice
Director Ganna Yarovenko

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100083837036442

Mar Moussa
Director Justine Aurelia Malle

Môsoroki
Director Anurin Nwunembom 

http://betamediacmr.com/

Ndazkoh
Director Tracey April Cochrane

ÑUÑUYACHIY: BREASTFEEDING WITH AFFECTION AND CARE
Directors Jose Miguel Soriano, Ricardo Macian
https://www.instagram.com/documental_banco_leche_materna

Orun The Final Fight
Director Jeremy Norris 

http://www.emreorun.com/

Rae Rae
Director Nick Mills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBeEY92rJE&t=1s

Reviving the Forgotten River
Submitter 568 Productions

https://edspace.american.edu/568productions/

RIEFENSTAHL
Director Andres Veiel  

https://vincent-productions.com/en/2024/02/28/riefenstahl/

Roll Up For Equity
Director JM Balbuena 

https://jmbalbuena.info/synergy-studios/

Running Towards the Fire - A War Correspondent's Story
Director Barney McCoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHxIvl_uL8o

Shaka, A Story of Aloha
Director Alexander Bocchieri 

http://shakafilm.com/

Sowing the Seeds of Love
Director Riley Young

https://www.rileyoung.com/new-page-1

The Amphitrite Six thousand Miles by Sea
Director Gilles Thompson  

The Call of Glaciers
Directors  Ying Zhao, Fangyu Xing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhrm3xmB2E

The Eternal Emperor - The True Story of Franz Joseph I
Director Martin Koddenberg

https://vimeo.com/896548857

The Ewenki
Director Junfeng Zhang 

The Girl From The Village: A Story Of Hope
Director Billy Surges 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biMMkSNWqgk

The HoodTrophy Bino Story: Breaking the Generational Curse
Director Sam "Gebar" Gebremiche
https://www.instagram.com/hoodtrophybino

The Katz Tapes
Director Adam Fischer

https://vimeo.com/932567491

The Koalas
Directors Gregory Ian Miller, Georgia Wallace-Crabbe, Georgia Wallace-Crabbe
http://www.thekoalasfilm.com/

The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay
Director Kim Smith 

http://pipingploverproject.org/

The Projectionist: A Collector's Journey
Director John Cornelissen 

http://vizoartsmedia.com/

The Soil and The Sea
Director Daniele Rugo

https://www.soilandseafilm.com/

There Is No Separation
Director Wes Kline

http://noseparation.net/

Walk Alone
Director Camille Kuang

Werdum: Above the Pain
Director Kleber Luis da Silva

https://link.me/werdum

What ravens do
Director Vance Crofoot 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPTcG0BsH6I  

Where Can We Meet?
Directors Abby Porter, Toby Forehand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhbhREBr0oc

Where the Horses Heal the Soul
Director Twila LaBar

http://wherethehorseshealthesoul.com/

While the Children Fade
Director Garret Morgan

http://whilethechildrenfade.com/  

White Skies
Director Sara Prüther Vázquez 

Wildlife Haven: China
Director Junfeng Zhang 

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-12-08/CGTN-s-8K-Wildlife-Haven-China-reveals-China-s-amazing-biodiversity-1fyaEL61kWI/index.html

Without Wings
Director Thamer Jamal  

https://tjframes.com/

Women of the Wetlands (Episode 1)
Director Ikhwan Rivai 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/women-of-the-wetlands/part-1-4187611

All Moms Should Live Forever
Director Patrick Antonia Albright

A Bomb is Born
Director Angel Yan

A Road at Night
Submitter Danny Boyle 

Adopting Greyhounds
Director David Goodman

https://vimeo.com/918938718/115363ae04

Americans Smell Good
Director Emir Cakaroz 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRt161k-n2g&t=2s

Approaching the traditional Chinese Medicine
Director Huanzhang Hui 

Back to Alaska: The DeLorean Road-Trip Movie
Director Robert William Prince

http://backtoalaska.com/

Bamboo. Are you happy？
Director Mingyi Jing 

BARULLO
Director Ruth Zapico Mancebo
http://ruthzapico.com/

Beacon of Hope
Director Justin Owens

http://octooptix.com/

Behind the Mystery of the Manor
Director Joseph William Simmons

Best In The World
Director Clint Arthur 

http://thebestintheworld.com/

Beyond Myself
Directors Hao Li, Chenfei Pan 

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture: Farm, Food & Community
Directors Anne Ward, Chip Williams

CAMP HUGHES: PRELUDE TO VICTORY
Director Dale Morris Watts

http://servicebattalion.ca/

College In Prison: Life With The Possibility Of Transformation
Director Jennifer Molina 

https://edsource.org/2024/how-earning-a-college-degree-put-four-california-men-on-a-path-from-prison-to-new-lives-documentary/711342

Cuba es Mi Patria: The Homeland I Keep Inside
Director Rose Marie Perez

https://www.facebook.com/cubaesmipatria/

DAGDA
Director Connor Smith 

Dance Family
Director Jeff Davis 

https://jdsavage.com/work/layout-1/

Daniel Graham: Banjo Maker
Director James Scogin 

Deep State Gangsters
Director Frank X Panico

https://www.pedroisraelorta.com/movie

Discerning the Call: Change in the American Priesthood
Directors Jay Doherty, Patrick Cullinan
https://discerningthecall.com/

Dissonance On Fifth Avenue
Director Seth Bernstein 

Earl.
Director Ty Yong Kim 

http://www.earlkimcomposer.com/

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory
Director Kola Tubosun 

https://ebrohimie.olongoafrica.com/

Face Down - TheDisappearance of Thomas Niedermayer
Director Gerry Gregg 

http://info@blueprintpictures.ie/

Family Album: The Rama Jama's Story
Director Logan Busbee 

Finding Flint
Directors Kevin Flint, Brian Flint

Flowers in the Mountain
Director Zixin Xu 

Fracking the Contract
Director Sophie Rousmaniere

https://www.issuetv.org/frackingthecontract

Future is a morning
Director Kerong Zhang 

https://vimeo.com/1049338538

Guiding Light
Director India Anne Mitchell 

Hope in Hutongs
Directors Xiaoxiao Liu, Tong Deng

i don't even know me yet
Director Onyi Apakama 

http://iamstaci.com/

I went to the Smallest Pride in America
Director Chris Stanley 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Xj4bjtYZ8

If These Walls Could Talk
Director Mickey Stroud 

https://vimeo.com/976773641/01b540a839

Into These Heels
Director Leigh Takata 

JamCation: The Chronicles of Now Defunkt
Director Scott Macklin 

http://www.nowdefunkt.com/

LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution
Directors Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHyoEB7lJkU

Manufacturing Madness
Directors Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve
http://manufacturingmadness.net/

Memory Film: a filmmaker's diary
Director JENI THORNLEY

https://jenithornley.com/

Miracle in the Heart of Bosnia
Director Dr Sam Osmanagich  

http://www.parkravne2.com/

Mushroom's Quest
Director Dave Johnson 

https://app.frame.io/reviews/79686655-5da9-4c13-b023-59eaaedb069a?component_clicked=digest_call_to_action&email_id=39a47120-759a-4fba-8de9-53833e364ea1&email_type=pending-reviewer-invite

Music For Mushrooms
Director Krishna-Trevor Oswalt
https://www.musicformushrooms.com/

North Cormorant Island
Directors John Harford Williams, Yu Iwasaki

On this Quiet Land
Director Ye Feng 

OUR HISTORY NOT HIS-STORY
Director Bobby Deon Morgan 

http://www.elitetalent.biz/

P'tit Bouddha (Little Buddha)
Director Jean-Sébastien Dutil 

https://vimeo.com/1001804630

PHX Entertainers A Day in the life of NB/Trans Models/Dancers
Directors Rob Randolph, Grant Perryman
https://instagram.com/phxentertainers

Quail Lake Meditation
Director Nancy Bentley
http://www.nancybentley.com/

Redemption Road
Directors Yusef Bunchy Shakur, Scott McCartney
https://vimeo.com/946794763

Reel Education: Empowering Young Minds Through Filmmaking
Director JT Tepnapa Chaiyakam

RETURN TO KAWTHOOLEI: A Refugee Rapper's Journey to His Homeland in Burma
Directors I am Knyaw, St. Paul Minnesota, "Hons Solo" Honey Moon, "Wah Fish Paste" Shakerpaw Wah

Rooted in Cuba
Director Alexandra Rodriguez 

https://www.rootedincuba.com/

Run That Bet: Road To 100k
Director Cierra Pashawn 

Salmon Run
Director Pieter J Kruit 

http://www.kruitproductions.com/

Savannah Critters: Dialogues from the Southern Coast
Director Alexander Constantin Strother

SEMANA SANTA - SEVILLA
Director Marcos Ortega-Morales
https://vimeo.com/943216265?share=copy

shaman
Director Xinyi Hu 

StoneHeart, an Undying Gift
Director Nicholas Markart 

https://www.fodasacharity.org/

Sublimation Nation
Directors Roland Paul Marconi, Gary Null

Switzerland Come Take My Hand: A Tom Freund Rockumentary
Director Joshua Wade 

https://tomfreund.com/

That Theatre on Lower Abbey Street
Director Daniel J. O'Donnell 

The Art of The Art of Deception
Director Jack Crown 

https://instagram.com/vpcuc

The Corey Davis Evolution Story
Director Corey Davis

The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life
Directors Persis M Karim, Soumyaa Behrens

https://cids.sfsu.edu/

The Great Wyoming Singer-Songwriter Competition
Director Emmet Casey 

https://vimeo.com/990229742?share=copy

The Psycodelics The Movie
Director Cory Schwartz 

http://thepsycodelicsmovie.com/

THE RIVER'S SONG
Director Pierre MATHIOTE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REHuZ72mXZs&t=1s

The Skids ReVolution
Directors Laura Graham, Colin J Graham
http://www.coviro.co.uk/

Their Own Life
Director Tim Dekkers 

http://www.uittleven.com/

This is Sing-Out
Director Frank Vella 

https://frankandfriendspro.wixsite.com/film

Through the Lens of: Tod Forbes
Directors Michael Jacoby, Tod Forbes

Trail Therapy
Director Angela Hollowell 

http://www.rootfulmedia.com/

Tulsa Terrors
Director Bryan Crain

Under One Sky
Director LAI NA CHENG 

Vibrant Hands
Directors Yuping ZHANG, Jing CUI

Wakanyeja Kin Wana Ku Pi - The Children are Coming Home
Director Andy Wakeman 

Where the Heart Belongs
Director Xiaoran Du 

Yellow
Director Siyi Gu 

Zero Hour: A Chef's Odyssey
Directors Irving Perdomo, Roman Fiorella
https://instagram.com/irvdomo?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Zoonotic
Director Jason Kushner 

 Platinum Award Winners:

• Goodboy - Director: Ashley Mosher
• LOS(t) SUEÑOS - Director: Jakub Chlouba
• Passion, Purpose & Parkinson's - Director: Olz McCoy
• SERENGETI - Director: Marcello Ercole

 Gold Award Winners:

• #BUTGOD - Director: Kevin McAfee
• 26.2 to Life - Director: Christine Yoo
• American Made - Director: Dana Nies
• Angle - Director: Alex Perry
• An Open Door. - Temple Grandin - Director: John Alexander Barnhardt
• A Village Named Deng' Er - Director: ACIMODUO
• Confronting Radicals - Director: Benjamin Hilton
• Echo - Directors: Qidi An, Zi Mu
• Fierce - Director: Wilson Evan Hansen
• For the Love of Food: Pour l’amour de la Cuisine - Directors: Maria Luskay, Lou Guarneri
• Glorious Days and Nights-A Jazz Memoir - Director: Bob Judson
• Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams - Director: Robin Greenberg
• Here to Stay - Director: Lauren Marks Bowman
• Horse Teacher - Director: Shandoah Goldman
• How To Break A World Record - Directors: Andrew P Oliver, Dan Johnson
• Interception: Jayne Kennedy • American Sportscaster - Director: Safiya Songhai
• Into the Shaolin - Director: Hongyun Sun
• INVISIBLE NO MORE - Director: Andy Fiore
• Just Like You - Anxiety + Depression - Director: Jennifer Greenstreet
• Kombi Man - Director: Jeff Bird
• Kunakirwa - A journey to the Mbira - Director: Rodrigo Laje
• Middle America - Director: Dana Larson
• My Hair, My Rules - Directors: Ronald Hinton, Joel Ahumada
• No Brakes - Director: Max Stallings
• Note of Defiance - Director: Brian Henderson
• One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction - Director: Tim Searfoss
• Polly - Director: Damyan Petkov Nik
• Powering Puerto Rico - Director: Adam Fischer
• Rattled: Conserving Rattlesnakes in Appalachia - Director: Ryan N. Olsen
• Show Her The Money - Director: Ky Dickens
• So Shoot Me - Director: Leslye Abbey
• SPIRITUAL WARRIORS: Decoding Christian Nationalism at the Capitol Riot - Director: Michael Schwartz
• Stewards of The Land - Directors: Thomas Wavid Johns, William Hartsock
• Swim Tuff - Director: Matt Corliss
• The 30 Project - Submitter: Christopher Kam
• The Alliance - Director: Amanda Jean Kowalski
• The Crossing: Consequences of Truth - Director: Andrew Didway
• The Mammoth Hunt - Director: Aiste Stonyte
• The Sculptor's Wife: A Love Story in Documentation - Director: Traci L Slatton
• The Walk - Director: Jonny Stern
• Tiki Taane in session with CSO - Director: Tiki Taane
• Unhusk - Director: Jue Wang
• War Games - Director: Matthew Danzico
• We are the music - Director: Guillermo Rosabal-Coto
• WITCH, REBORN - Director: Maria Shevtsova
• Woman in the Mirror - Director: Tatyana Bronstein

Silver Award Winners:

• 100 Years - Director: Matthew Kistenmacher
• 1979 The Year of the Islamist Revolution - Director: Jonathan Hacker
• 1986. December chronicles. A glimmer of the truth. - Director: Assiya Baigozhina
• Above And Beyond - Director: Vincent Chia
• A Closer Cut- A Food Truck on 68th St - Director: Jordy Antonio
• Advocacy Club - Director: Michael D McNeely
• Alexa: A Tale of the Mixteca - Director: José Assadourian Martínez
• A New LVHS: Pioneering Animal Welfare in the Lehigh Valley - Director: Tyler Wursta
• Anxious Athlete - Director: Nandita Anand
• Approaching the Traditional Chinese Medicine - Director: Zhang Huan Hui
• Away for Awhile - Director: Stephanie Slewka
• Axé, Salvador! - Director: Domenico Rodolfo Grillone
• Behind The Smoke - Director: Jacob Whitley
• Bake It Till You Make It - Director: Jason Taglieri
• Bee The Solution - Director: Charlotte Quintanar
• Beloved Children of the Holocaust - Director: Cliff Springs
• CANCER/EVOLUTION Episode 1: The Dustbin of History - Directors: Maggie Jones, Brad Jones
• Carver of the Possible - Directors: Nicolas Leger, Jocelyn Langlois
• Dream Big Little One - Directors: Marcus Graham, Marcus Graham
• Eighteen Tuesdays - Directors: Merrick Apple Presser, Tommy Cobby Sheridan
• Facing Forward - Director: Abigail Dickinson
• Fat is Fashion - Director: LaQuinta R Davis
• From Winter Day to Winter - Director: Tian Li
• Global Panic - Director: Jacob Whitley
• Gone Too Soon - Director: Gemini Stax
• Greenwood Ablaze - Director: Nicholle Carter
• Headgear Hunting - Director: Yusmal Ghazali
• Hello VIVIAN - Director: Yoojin Kim
• Homegrown - Directors: Nicole Goh, Joyce Huan
• If It Could Happen to Me, It Could Happen to You - Director: Gwendolyn G Cassady
• In Our Backyard: History and Culture from the Citrus Belt (Henry Halpern's Sculptures) - Director: Claudia Gonzalez
• In Search Of The Food Preservers - Director: Nova Goh
• Is There Something Going On At Home? - Director: Jason Harney
• JAWAI - Director: Katya Ignatiev
• Journey Of The Bidayuh - Director: Ian Shepherd Salang Anak Peter
• Kick Out!: The Newtown Neurotics Story - Director: Luke Baker
• Koh Phangan Man - Director: Dewey Paul Moffit
• LA LIXEIRA - The Invisibles' Dignity - Directors: Guido Galante, Antonio Notarangelo
• L'Eternel Féminin - Director: Laine Immell
• Little Bride - Directors: Michael Man, Emma Botting, Sindy Man
• Love, and Dark Matter - Director: Qi Chen
• Mekong Apocalypse - Director: Michael Buckley
• Missed Conceptions - Director: Donna L Marvin-Platt
• Mute Voices - Director: Catherine Gropper
• One Pill Can Kill - Directors: Molly Hermann, Rob Lyall
• On Ice - Director: Katherine Zeng
• Pain of Silence - Directors: Christopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong
• Pride of Puglia - Director: DJ Chan
• Ride Your Story - Director: Andy Chia
• Roaming History: Emmett Till - Directors: Michael Rios, James Fierro
• Searching for Camelot: The Queen of Camelot - Director: Roger Paradiso
• Seeking Buchen - Director: Taha Anwer
• Shaking Hands With The Devil - Director: Olz McCoy
• She; Who Lives - Director: Ayesha Farooq
• Spark - Director: Beto Sporkens
• The Absence of Memory - Director: Brian Yulo Ng
• The Alliance - Director: Amanda Jean Kowalski
• The Butterfly Effect - Directors: Deb Wallwork, Janet Bayliss
• The Long Road to Hope: Ending Parkinson's Disease - Director: Iyad H. Amer
• The Newcomers - Director: Theresa Kliem
• The Order of Things - Directors: Ramona Badescu, Jeff Silva
• The Prince of Carbon - Director: Martin Boudot
• The Retirement Deception - Director: Kenneth Wilcox
• The Veteran's Battlefield - Director: Chris Baucom
• The Wind on Mount Everest - Director: Qing Su
• TRACES, Voices of the Second Generation - Directors: Isaac Brown, Ana Paula Habib
• Tutti In Scena - Director: Laura Caparrotti
• Uneven Ground: The Melissa Witt Story - Director: LaDonna Humphrey
• We Thrive - Directors: Lisa Hagopian, Eric Harabadian
• We've Gotta Sing - Director: Megan Goldstein
• When Wire Was King: The Transformation of Telecommunications - Director: Jennifer A. Manner
• WHERE HAVE ALL THE SMILES GONE - Director: Anja Strelec
• What if Schools Taught Us to Love - Director: Yannick Borit
• Will You Remember Me? - Director: Will Dowler

Spotlight Bronze Award:

• Americans in Japan - Director: Johnny Vonneumann
• Axé, Salvador! - Director: Domenico Rodolfo Grillone
• Breaking Barriers "The Djembe" - Director: Josh Levine
• Bring Dat Mono Back - Director: Edward T Thornton
• Direct & Reflect - Directors: Miki Holiday, Kal-El Billy Holiday, Kareem Dula Dixon, Troy L. Mitchell, Yolanda Nollie
• HEYOKA - Director: Jang Dong Ju
• Karam Camera - Directors: Liam LoPinto, Shaimaa Al Sabti, Hana Barhum
• Kashi’s Manikarnika: Mystique and Moksh - Director: Balendu D Kaushik
• Master and Apprentice - Director: Cory White
• Noishorrifics - Director: Sohanlal
• Open Mic'er - Director: Cameron Vitagliano
• STEPPIN: A Chicago Dance - Directors: Anthony Coleman, Gwen McGee
• The Challenges of Making Local History Documentaries - Director: Russ Fry
• Ukraine's Daughter - Justyna Uschak - Director: Brenda Jacoby
• We've Gotta Sing - Director: Megan Goldstein

Spotlight Platinum Award:

• Belle River – Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin
• Dear Ani – Micah B Levin
• Dropstones – Caitlin Durlak
• Failure to Protect – Jeremy Pion-Berlin
• Gangnam Beauty – Yan Tomaszewski
• Little Berlin – Kate McMullen
• My Duduś – Tom Krawczyk
• Nasima - The Most Fearless – Heather Kessinger
• Shredded – Noam Stolerman
• Sophie in Furbyland – Pacey Hansen
• State of the Unity – Nathaniel Paul Hoff, Jillian Ann Speece
• The Assassination & Mrs. Paine – Max Good
• The Martyr – Edmund Stenson

Spotlight Gold Award:

• A Fire Inside – Justin Krook, Luke Mazzaferro
• Backstreet to the American Dream – Patricia Nazario
• Becoming Wacky Chad – Isaac Deitz
• Being BeBe: the BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary – Emily Branham
• Cats of Malta – Sarah Jayne Portelli
• Chalk Back – Kylie Procita
• COFFEE FOR LIFE – Lennart Neumann, Wilhelm Schulz
• Dominion – Lindsey Ward
• Down The Line – Oliver Hamilton
• Exposure – Holly Morris
• Fast-Forward: Look Into Your Future – Michael Eric Hurtig
• Fly Monarca – Lyndsay Nicole, Benjamin Jordan
• Geeta – Emma Macey-Storch
• GO THROUGH THE DARK – Yunhong Pu
• Greening Israel The Movie | The Battle for Israel’s Trees – Benjamin Marsh Hilt
• Humanity our race, love our religion – Sonali Devnani
• I Am We – Ron Davis
• It Came from Aquarius Records – Kenneth Thomas
• Momma’s Boy – Jordan Shankman
• Offshore – Karel Candi
• Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums – Soren Sorensen
• Pasqualina of Springfield – Gina Cunningham
• Piconland: The Quest for the Perfect Picon Punch – Mark Maynard
• Reflections – Susanne Aichele
• Routine Interrupted – Lauren Shaw
• Sacred Waters: The Okefenokee in Peril – Mark Albertin
• Savage Land – Campbell Dalglish, Dr. Henrietta Mann
• Saving Gentle Giants – Mariclare Carey-Jones
• Tide To Table: The Remarkable Journey of Oysters – Maria Luskay, Lou Guarneri
• To Protect and Preserve: Historic Flat Rock's Legacy to Keep, Part 1 – Patricia A. Bradley, Michelle S. Mullen
• Unsinkable – Peter Grogan, Alan Corcoran
• Waniyetu Wowapi - Winter Count – Richard Steinberger

Spotlight Silver Award:

• 80 YEARS LATER – Celine Parreñas Shi
• Ablaze – Alec Morgan, Tiriki Onus
• Against The Tide – Joe Fletcher
• A Long Way From Nowhere – Paul Scheuring, Chris Ward
• APORIA – Mark Solomon
• Beyond the Voice – Abigail Rose Brannon
• Bird Lady – Carter Rostron
• Cinema Now – Louis Holder
• Cycle of Memory – Alex Leff
• FIREFLY: The Tay Fisher Story – Christopher Nostrand
• Flying With Eagles – Rémi Thevenart
• Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit – Sam Katz, James McGovern
• Kiss the Wind – Haotian Liu
• Listening – Jonathan Moore
• March of The Elephants – Olivia Chen
• My Heart is Red – Mia Chen
• Send Proof – Elijah Stephens
• Take Your Shot – Ross Bolidai
• TO THE WORLD WITH YOU – Chenghua Xu
• Ukraine War, the eyes of refugees – Olivia M. Pfaff

Spotlight Bronze Award:

• AAAMC Speaks: Teresa Hairston: The Unstoppable Game-Changer – Ethan Gill, Haley Semian, Dr. Tyron Cooper
• Aaron and the Train – James Hsieh Bylinsky
• Abuelita's Kitchen: Mexican Food Stories – Ebony Marie Bailey
• a girl can change the world – Andrea Ureno
• Approaching the Book of Changes – Hui Huanzhang
• An Unimportant Girl – Daxton Dubach
• Because we come from afar – Cédrick-Isham Calvados
• Bleed for Me: Art of the DeathMatch – Matthew L Lenz
• Food as Resistance – Keitlyn Alcantara
• Healing of the Nation: Ganja in Jamaica – Kimberly Holmes, Steve Holmes
• Norm Geisler: Not Qualified – Rachel M. Payne
• Sistas Evolving – Robyn Robinson
• Small Town Threads Documentary – Devin Olson
• TRIBE – Retji Dakum

• A Man in Chain - Director: Alireza Mirasadollah
• Gaucho Americano - Director: Nicolás Molina
• Good Intentions - Director: Andres Villasenor
• GOSIA@TOMEK - Director: Christine Jezior
• Heaven on Earth - Director: Robert Hope
• Leaving Tracks - Director: Nick Davis
• Miss Flores - Director: Juliana Toloza Serna
• Missing in Brooks County - Directors: Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss
• Welcome to the Dollhouse - Director: Elizabeth Miller-Derstine

• The Message - Director: Judit Papp
• Listening to Fukushima 2019 - Director: Yo Kohatsu
• Open Books - Director: Héctor Molina
• 35 Days - Director: Nicholas Manting Brewer
• 80.000 Schnitzel - Director: Hannah Schweier
• 86ED - Director: J.J. Hendricks
• A Cure for the Common Classroom - Director: Andy Hourahine
• A Fallow Year - Director: Dina Jane Rudick
• An Artist's Duty - Director: Elyssa Walsh
• An Encounter With Banting - Director: Isabelle Depelteau
• As Organism (Episode 1/BrainDagger Films Presents: Knowledge is Good) - Directors: Moe Taylor, Kathry
• As We Are Planted - Director: Anna Lee Ackermann
• Babylon: Ghetto, Renaissance, and Modern Oblivion - Director: Jessica Gould
• Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly - Director: Kim Smith
• Behind The Burning Vines - Director: Will Twomey
• Black Bauhinia - Director: Malte Philipp Kaeding
• BRASS - Director: Anuj Jamadagn
• Built Lands - Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero
• Burning The Village - Director: Liz Mcbee
• Chira - Director: Tela Moss
• Cliff: a portrait of an artist - Director: Adam Brooks
• CODA - Director: Hallie Haller
• Columbus in Cuba - Directors: Nicolette Swift, Matt Swift
• Crossing the Bridge: Discovering Mutual Language in Siberia - Director: Marek Ryszard Dojs
• Cultivating the Wild: William Bartram's Travels - Directors: Scott Auerbach, Eric Breitenbach, Dorinda G. Dallmeyer
• Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion - Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero
• Dan Loves Butterflies - Director: Zach Putnam
• DRIVEN - Director: Pedro McCardell
• Duckman - Director: Kaixin Aethelu Wang
• Eleven Weeks - Directors: Anna Kuperberg, Julie Caskey
• Finding Palemahan - Director: Jillian Li
• For Love of the Land - Director: Cynthia Matty-Huber
• From Milan to the World - Director: Vincenzo Schioppa
• Full Circle - Director: Anne Via McCollough
• How Speaking About Suicide Can Save Lives - Director: Marissa Dingman
• I am a Black Sculptor - Director: Robin van Erven Dorens
• IF I'VE WON IF I'VE LOST - Director: Gian Luca Rossi
• Installation City - Directors: Songqiao Zhao, Wu Tong
• Instrument of Peace; the Brother Gabriel Story - Director: Nolan Uebelhor
• Last of Us: The Last Fishermen of the Lake - Director: Andrea Marcovicchio
• Life and Tacos - Director: Anil Dhoka
• Line of Sight | Timothy C. Ely - Director: Doug S. Garnett
• Love & Stuff - Director: Judith Helfand
• MILKED - Director: Amy Taylor
• My journey to the Everest - Directors: Hernán Leal, Thomas Hardy
• My Rembetika Blues - Director: M. Zournazi
• Old-Growth Murder - Director: Tom Olsen
• OSHIKA - Winds Of Change - Director: Kim Myoungyoon
• Positive for Huntington's - Directors: Karam Gamal El Din, Yousef Gamal El Din
• Rigged - Directors: Tracy MacDonald, Jill Thacker, Jim Wolfston, Matt Zodrow
• Rival Queens - Director: Anton Armendariz Diaz
• Shaolin - Director: Alec Palumbo
• Six Bucks and More Dragons (F.U.N) Far Up North - Director: Luka Raubenheimer
• Small Town Pride - Directors: Chelle Turingan, Riley Sparks
• Sonora - Director: Johnny Holder
• Sound of Judgment - Director: Julia Wall
• Spokespeople - Director: Ryan Mekenian
• Strength Among Us - Director: Taha Ovacı
• Suicidal Alentejo - Directors: Nuno Martini, David André
• The Attached - Directors: Christopher Saint Booth, Philip Adrian Booth
• The Birth & History of Western Swing - Director: Mike Markwardt
• The Blue and White in Me - Director: Daniel Castro
• The Game Is Up: Disillusioned Trump Voters Tell Their Stories - Director: Melissa Jo Peltier
• The Hunt: In Search for Australia's Big Cats - Director: Stu Ross
• The Invisible Project - Director: Pacifica J. Sauer
• The Long Shadow - Director: Frances Causey
• The Shoulders of Giants - Director: Quinn Early
• The Story Coat - Director: Carinne Leduc
• The Unisexuals - Director: Katie Garrett
• The United States of Fashion Designer Elie Tahari - Director: David Serero
• Tipping The Pain Scale - Director: Jeff Reilly
• Two Different Eyes - Directors: Juho Lee, Juseung Lee
• Words from the ZAD - Director: Matthieu Ponchel
• Y? - Directors: Danilo Milovanović, Neža Knez, Toni Poljanec, Luka Erdani

• Bar Sepia
  Director: Montgomery Mauro
• BCTC Pandemic
  Submitter: Steph Fitch
• By Your Side
  Directors: Debbie Africa, Mike Africa Sr.
• Camino de SANGJARU
  Director: Park Cheolwoo
• Camping Life (The Ephemeral City)
  Director: Josep Perez
• Child Support: The Scorn or The Absent
  Director: Matthew Sanders
• Dante Barksdale's Last Act
  Directors: Zachary Slingsby, James Fitzgerald
• Debut
  Director: Connor Hopkins
• Dear Thalia
  Director: Rex Moribe
• Die Kunst
  Director: Jamie Roberts
• Directing Remotely and Filmmaking During the Pandemic: The Making of #MyCorona
  Director: Kirk Zeller
• Dream Big: Natasha
  Director: Mykyta Novokhatskyy
• Educating Leaders in an Uncertain World: The McGowan Fellowship
  Director: Matt Landfield
• Emotional Journey
  Director: Yang Fei
• Father
  Director: Deng Wei
• Fighting for Daybreak
  Director: Jason Head
• Fog Likely Farm: An Appalachian Story
  Directors: Anne Ward & Chip Williams
• Glimpses
  Director: Guy Pigden
• Homeless Not Hopeless
  Director: Changhee Chun
• I am Samuel
  Director: Pete Murimi
• Isonology
  Director: Thomas Hibner
• Is Your Story Making You Sick?
  Director: Frances Causey
• Jayro
  Director: Wojciech Lorenc
• Liar-In-Chief: A Chronicle of the Trump Presidency Through the Eyes of An Outraged Graphic Artist
  Director: M Kaplan
• Lost for Words
  Director: Jordan Cantello
• Magpies & UFO's
  Director: Kirk Ronald Cameron
• Matriarch
  Director: Martin Krafft
• Mentality
  Director: Garret Morgan
• Mr. Emancipation: The Walter Perry Story
  Director: Preston Chase
• My Brother Luis
  Director: Zani Wilson
• My Gypsy Road
  Director: Vilma Kartalska
• NAYA: David Kim
  Directors: AJ Valente, Janice Chung
• Oh, Mother of Mine
  Director: Anna Rawls
• Out of Exile - The Photography of Fred Stein
  Directors: Peter Stein, Dawn Freer
• Pieces of Us
  Director: Cheryl Allison
• Poteet
  Director: Kiley Josey
• Project Antarctica - Easter Island Extension
  Director: Evan Michael Gering
• PSAGOT RAMALLAH
  Director: Binyamin Haneman
• Radio Theatre For Your Soul, A Docu-Story
  Director: Shonnese C. L. Coleman
• Reparations
  Director: Jon Osaki
• Rez Metal
  Director: Ashkan Soltani Stone
• Salvatore Del Deo
  Director: Gleb Piryatinskiy
• Saving Juliette
  Director: Evey Wilson Wetherbee
• Sherod
  Director: William Feagins, Jr.
• Show Time
  Director: Zhang Qiusi
• Silenced, as Mercury Rises
  Director: Karl Talbot
• Sounds of the Sidewalk (A Journey of Goodbye)
  Directors: Michele Zousmer, Benjamin Huerta Cristobal
• Stand for Hannah
  Director: Roger Maunder
• The Adventures at Comic-Con
  Director: Jason Brown
• The Fruit of the Fungi
  Director: Clea Cullen

• BUMPASS
  Director: Brent Bartholomew
• Camping Life (The Ephemeral City)
  Director: Josep Perez
• Dorina
  Director: Atanas Kiryakov
• Dream Big: Natasha
  Director: Mykyta Novokhatskyy
• EK RAJPUT KISAN - The Real Story
  Directors: Dr. Bhawani Singh
• Empty America
  Director: Joel Bryant
• I Want My Kid Back: Treating Emotional Dysregulation
  Director: Celia Tewey
• I Want to Buy a House
  Director: Mya Saree' Gray
• Kontrast: Rhythm Delucco
  Director: Jon Meyer
• Last of the Lakers
  Director: Terry Ayrault
• Lorton
  Director: Richard Schertzer
• Once Upon Amsterdam
  Director: Rene Smaal
• The Making of a Cheer Team
  Director: Jason Harney
• The Return: A Covid-19 Story
  Director: Jeffrey Huang
• The Good Life
  Director: Carolyn Wilson

Platinum Award Winners: 

• Dear, Dreamer
  Director: Kristian Melom
• Lost In Carranza
  Director: Marin Troude
• Shelter Me
  Director: Zach Lawson
• Plastic River
  Director: Manuel Camia
• (Un)Divided
  Director: Paul Raila

Gold Award Winners:

• A Brave One
  Director: Stas Ivanov
• A Love Story for Brooke
  Director: Paul Catalanotto
• ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
  Director: Jon Osaki
• Almost Home
  Directors: Susan Cahill & Matt Rogers
• Boober
  Director: Sriram Papolu
• Born in America
  Director: Zhan Luo
• BRUSH...painted forward
  Director: Dimitri Pantchev
• Canvas
  Director: Liv Gwynn
• Chasing the Jet Stream
  Director: Claudio von Planta
• CHEF DARREN: The Challenge of Profound Deafness
  Director: Dorothy Fadiman
• Disconnected
  Director: Miroslav Nincic
• El Cuarto Reino
  Director: Alex Lora Cercos
• Extraordinary: The Seeding
  Director: Jon Sumple
• Free Spirit
  Director: Hani Yared
• From Liberty to Captivity
  Director: Debbie Wright
• Gang Love
  Director: Adam Ybarra
• Harmony: Latvian Democracy on Russia's Border
  Director: Samuel George
• I am Still Here
  Director: Cynthia Matty-Huber
• Inviolable - The Fight for Human Rights
  Director: Angela Andersen
• In Their Shoes: Unheard Stories of Reentry and Recovery
  Director: Taylor Katsanis
• Jumpin' Johnny: The Incredible True Story Of Dr. John Kline
  Director: Cameron McCasland
• Last Beer at the Pig's Ear
  Director: Peter Blow
• Letters From Long Binh
  Director: Greg Stern
• MUSTIMUHW: All of the People
  Director: Lachlan Anderson
• Oil Capital Underground: The Genesis and Evolution of Punk Rock in Tulsa-Late 70's to Mid 90's
  Director: Bryan Crain
• Our Lady Victory: The Story of Indy 11
  Director: Nick Evans
• Pick It Up! Ska in the '90s
  Director: Taylor Morden
• Pooh: The Derrick Rose Story
  Director: Scott Diener
• Prepare Now!
  Director: Peter Charles Downey
• Reap What You Sew
  Director: Tyler Adams
• "Redeemed" The Brandi Brassell Story
  Director: Joe Teixeira
• Searching For Meaning
  Director: Jean-Francois Rodrigues
• Shatter the Silence
  Director: Cheryl Allison
• Sunblock
  Director: Bill Bentley
• The Color of Art
  Director: David Weathersby
• The Deepest Cut
  Director: Alexandra Guillossou
• The Magic Behind the Mojo
  Director: Joe Gallo
• The Minds of Men
  Directors: Aaron Dykes & Melissa Dykes
• The Race
  Director: Dina Rudick
• The Rest Is History
  Director: Peter Costigan
• The Unforgettable Augustus Post
  Directors: Jason Cohn & Camille Servan-Schreiber
• The Wounded Blue
  Director: Jason Harney
• The Night is Black and the Day is White
  Director: Joe McStravick
• The Sako Tapes
  Director: Machiel van den Heuvel
• The Hebron Protocol
  Director: Jared Leong
• The Housecats
  Director: Molly Hackett
• The Instant
  Director: Hakan Aytekin
• The Gate: Dawn of the Bahá’í Faith
  Director: Bob Hercules
• The Giant Deep Reds
  Director: Maurice Micallef
• The Long Road of Exile
  Director: The Church of Almighty God
• The Making of a Man
  Director: Lo Dagerman
• The Giant Deep Reds
  Director: Maurice Micallef
• The Color of Justice
  Director: Marjolaine Grappe
• The Waitlist
  Directors: Natasha Pizzey-Siegeart & James Fredrick
• When We Were Apollo
  Director: Zachary Weil
• Who Am I
  Director: Caleb Vinson
• Why She Smiles
  Director: Caroline Sims
• Yam Festival, Ghana
  Director: James Dalrymple

Silver Award Winners:

• After the Storm
  Director: Kiyoko Tanaka
• A Dog's Life
  Director: Robert J. Bradshaw
• A Journey Through Time
  Director: Niels H. Nielsen
• Against the Grain
  Director: Tanya Galbraith
• An Unspoken Bond
  Director: Dan Janik
• Anticipation
  Director: Sara Dreher
• Any Given Sunday
  Director: Paul Anastasopoulos
• Back to the Streets
  Director: Jerome Mayhew
• Belly of the Beast
  Director: Judith Mirzoian
• Blight
  Director: Stiofan O'Neill
• Bringing the Heat
  Director: Oscar Vasquez
• Cages
  Director: Vassilis Kakogiannis
• Chasing Shadows
  Director: Sam Dalton
• Cold Nights
  Director: Ian Boyle
• Cold Feet
  Director: Emily Jones
• Confessions of a Comic Book Writer
  Director: Brian Silliman
• Crossing the Line
  Director: Tony Zherlen
• Die Burg
  Director: Hans Andreas Guttner
• Endgame
  Director: Nikolas Grumbaris
• Eyes of the Heart
  Director: Alyx Winter
• Fall from Grace
  Director: Stefan Kanyemba
• Family Secrets
  Director: Lisa H. Davis
• Flesh and Blood
  Director: Anna Schimpf
• Fragments of Time
  Director: Olan D. Kaseke
• From Nowhere
  Director: Carlos Nunez
• Future's End
  Director: Matt Tonge
• Goodbye Love
  Director: Claire Chinnery
• In the Shadow of the Moon
  Director: Maria Eleftheriou
• Lifeline
  Director: Nicholas Pang
• Like Father, Like Son
  Director: Lauren Victoria
• Life Under the Glass
  Director: Michael Brewer
• Mend the Broken
  Director: Candice McGrath
• My Mother's Garden
  Director: Kathy Biehl
• Not Alone
  Director: Leah Kauffman
• On the Edge
  Director: Adam Anderson
• Out of Sight
  Director: Gigi Carr
• Sailing on Air
  Director: Tracy Vogel
• Scattered Dreams
  Director: Tammie White
• Swing State Florida: After Michael
  Director: Samuel George
• The Blurry Road
  Director: Caitlin Hickey
• The Free World
  Director: Linda Jones
• The Heights We Reach
  Director: Marko Ristic
• The Last Horizon
  Director: Jared Macdonald
• The People We Know
  Director: Jessica Walker
• The Silent Goodbye
  Director: Laura McGill
• The Waitlist
  Directors: Natasha Pizzey-Siegeart & James Fredrick
• The Watcher
  Director: Omar Fawal
• Through Her Eyes
  Director: Anna Vargas
• Tomorrow's Promise
  Director: Michael Reynolds
• Under the Sky
  Director: Chris Elias
• Untold Secrets
  Director: Tania Golden
• We Are One
  Director: Claire Stanford
• When It Rains
  Director: Jérémy Roussier
• Wildfire
  Director: Toby Williams
• Within Reach
  Director: Tom Goodwin

Bronze Award Winners:

• 20 Liters
  Directors: Andy Seiler & Aaron Thomas
• A Moment in Time
  Director: Andrea Harris
• A Simple Life
  Director: Michael Sharpe
• Beneath the Surface
  Director: Emma Langford
• Broken Bonds
  Director: Charlie McLaren
• Captured Moments
  Director: Reema Ali
• Chasing Echoes
  Director: David Porter
• Crossroads
  Director: Nathaniel McKinney
• Distant Voices
  Director: Aisha Burke
• End of the Line
  Director: Peter Barlow
• Finding Home
  Director: Stephanie Mulligan
• Glimpse of Tomorrow
  Director: Kiran Patel
• Hollow Hearts
  Director: Marcella DiClemente
• In the Mirror
  Director: Daryl Singer
• Into the Void
  Director: Sarah Wilkinson
• Lifting Spirits
  Director: Rick Anderson
• Light of Day
  Director: Mark Severs
• Lost and Found
  Director: Janet Langston
• New Beginnings
  Director: Sophia Turner
• Out of Darkness
  Director: Peter Zhao
• Passing Through
  Director: Jamie Long
• Pieces of the Past
  Director: Carole Green
• Silent Witness
  Director: Fernando Reyes
• Small Moments
  Director: Fiona McLeod
• Strangers in the Night
  Director: Tobias Keller
• The Final Hour
  Director: Jodie Sinclair
• The Long Road Home
  Director: Rachel Larkin
• The Other Side
  Director: Alan Peterson
• The Waiting Game
  Director: Tara Linton
• Through the Lens
  Director: Sophia Cameron
• Unspoken Words
  Director: Sean Reilly
• Wandering Souls
  Director: Mia Santos
• Where We Belong
  Director: Jane Morrison
• Whispers in the Dark
  Director: Kelsey Foster
• Wild Winds
  Director: Bruce Elman
• Winter's Embrace
  Director: David Clark
• Without a Trace
  Director: Michael Gill
• Worlds Apart
  Director: Amelia Holt
• Yesteryear
  Director: Emily Ford

Platinum Award Winners:

• Don't Be Nice by Max Powers
• We Are Columbine by Laura Farber

Gold Award Winners:

• 49-1 by Martha Shaw
• A Gift of Wings: The Pilots of Sebring by Ted Snow
• After I'm Gone by Sean Bowman
• Amoka by Maria Jose Bermudez Jurado
• Arktika Incognita by Bertrand Delapierre
• Believer by Don Argott
• Cuba, Libre? by Dick Jordan
• Curing the Incurable? by Gary Null
• Crafty Containers by Paul Evans
• Desert Coffee by Mikael Lypinski
• Fearless Journey by Andreas Batliner & Sandro Schreiber
• Fighting Childhood Cancer by Jeremy Abrams
• Flickering Lights by Joby Stephens
• From Darkness to Light by Joshua Freake
• Give Us This Day by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
• Here in Oak Cliff by Bryan Sabillon
• I Am The White Tiger by Lei Chiu
• I Am What I Have Learned To Be by Adela Vrinceanu Celebidachi
• I Got the Land by Francescu Artily
• Indus Blues by Jawad Sharif
• Ixoq ("Woman") by Danielle Robitaille
• JamieJimJames by Tin Pang
• Let's Talk About Sex by Lisa Burd
• Making Mill Town by Lindsay LaPointe
• Mexico: Looking for Lost Migrants by Leo Mattei and Alex Gohari
• Mississippi Whistle by Justyn Bell
• Momentum Generation by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
• Pipe Dreams Fractured Lives by David Smith
• Ridge to Ranch to River to Reef: Florida's Conservation Connections by Maria Luskay
• RISE: The Story of Augustines by Todd Howe
• Sea Pilgrim by Will Mayer
• Skuggi (Shadow) by Richard D. Lavoie
• Suspended Generation by Andrea Egan & Joe Hitchcock
• The Happiness Machine by Rebecca Blumhagen
• The High Sierra Trail by Chris Smead
• The Home for Wayward Babydolls by Andrew Reed
• The Infamous Future by Richard Butterworth and John Campbell
• The Most Unknown by Ian Cheney
• The New Gypsy Kings by Liviu Tipurita
• The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything by The Church of Almighty God
• The Village on the Loch by Caroline Strong
• The Volcano Concert by Przemysław Wawrzyniak
• Travelling on Trash by Deb Charles, Adam Gee, Alex Hryniewicz, Steve Wheen
• Washed Up by Nathan Hughes

Silver Award Winners:

• 1, 2, 3, Once Again by Vasco Diogo
• A.E. Wells: A Man and His Park by Donald Dodge
• A Man and His Trumpet: The Leroy Jones Story by Cameron Washington
• All American Barber by John Jones
• All the Dictator's Men by Marjolaine Grappe
• Arktika Incognita by Bertrand Delapierre
• Austin Samba by Nil Buan
• Beacon by Isara Krieger
• Bow With Me by The 2018 Institute for Documentary Filmmaking
• Buddy Cruise: How the Students Were Impacted by Vanessa Bundschu
• Burn: The Lynching of George Armwood by Will Schwarz
• Captured: Tornadoes by James Stamoulakatos
• Chamber Music Wonderland by Emanuel Altenburger
• Core 2.1 by Core van der Hoeven
• Dancing Manilenyos by Patrick Alcedo
• Dunham Deaf Boy by Ladan Sahraei
• Edunation by Dr. K. M Vasudevan Pillai
• Floating Justice by Leila Lak
• Game Changer: Let's Get Physical! by Timothy "Eli" Ruckman
• Goomba's by David Williams & Aisha Noox
• Grunt Film Project by Jacob Mogler
• GUMBO by Alyssa Rachelle
• High Tide in Dorchester by David Harp
• How Does the City of Savannah Negotiate Its Complicated Past? by Sarah O'Carroll
• In Search of Godawan by Vaid Prakash Dhar
• It's in Your Eyes by Sergio García Locatelli & Sean Schoenecker
• JamieJimJames by Tin Pang
• Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country by J.J. Harting
• Making of a Gangsta by Adam Ybarra
• MAXWELL STREET MARKET / WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JEW-TOWN by Isaih Shaw
• Memories by Takamasa Iwasaki
• Mexican Wave by Judson Vaughan
• Nossa Chape by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
• ORENDA: Force of Consciousness by Lana Marconi
• Party on the Moon by Robert Fritz
• Remembering Private Quagliano by Rodney Roldan
• Solari, the Origin of Ceviche or the Original Ceviche by Sergio García Locatelli
• Strange Fruit on the Courthouse Lawn by Sean Foy, Matt Huston, Megan Miller, Kara McCafferty, Riley Fanning
• Tax Evasion: A Greek National Sport by Kelly Sarri
• The Drive: 6 Days 4392 KM 30000 Yuan by Naixin Xu
• The Happiness Machine by Rebecca Blumhagen
• The King of Snapchat by Ed Moore, Joel Raine
• The Mayor's Race by Loraine Blumenthal
• The Mothman Chronicles by Chloe Kelsch
• The Possibility of Her by William Feagins Jr.
• The Sillar Stonecutters by Alfredo Benavides Watmough
• The Time is Already by Selene Means
• The Tribal Scoop by Beeswaranjan Pradhan
• Through the Storm: Waves for Water and the Caribbean Hurricane Relief Initiative by Greg McKillop
• Underground Sunshine Cinema by Cameron Tucker
• United Hopes by Arwa Sawan
• Where There is Darkness by Sean Bloomfield & Cimela Kidonakis

Bronze Award Winners:

• 1, 2, 3, Once Again by Vasco Diogo
• Amazons of Afrika, Women Warriors by Obafemi Lasode, Harriet Ewemade
• Bigly Yellow by Nigel Deans & Nubar Ghazarian
• Departure of Empathy by Quinn Holliday
• Family Is by Miranda Florer
• I Want My Daddy by Timothy "Cutty" Sanders
• Internal Outskirts by Sergio García Locatelli
• Portrait of the Drunks by Dylan DeVore
• Solari, the Origin of Ceviche or the Original Ceviche by Sergio García Locatelli
• There's No Crying in Los Angeles by Julian an Mey & Melvin Sewell
• We Are Not a Nuisance! by Chan Chow Wah

Platinum Award Winners:

• Drop The Mic by James Blannin-Ferguson
• GODS AMONG US - The Science of Contact by Caroline Cory
• Good Fortune by Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell
• Scotland 4K - A Timelapse Journey by Andreas Koeng
• Tempest Storm by Nimisha Mukerji
• The American Skin by Elana Meyers, Christy Rose, Woody Tucker
• The Disunited State of America by Luis Prieto
• The UnAmerican Struggle by Ric Osuna
• This Cold Life by Darren Mann
• WHITNEY Can I Be Me? by Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal
• Weed Nuns by Chris Stoudt

Gold Award Winners:

• 9546 km. by Sergio García Locatelli
• Aghanashini by Ashwini Kumar Bhat
• All The Wild Horses by Ivo Marloh
• American Street Kid by Michael Leoni
• Before the Wave by Molly Willows
• Big Fish Blues by Leslye Abbey
• Called To Rescue Redefining Our Barnyard Story by Naomi Call, Loghan Call
• Cambodia and Jimmy's Village School by Adrian Eppel
• Celling Your Soul by Joni Siani
• Dancing in the Dark by Steven Mac Sweeney
• Do You Like Peacocks? by Mary Clay Fields
• Dogs of Democracy by Mary Zournazi
• Flowers and Roots, James Ragan, An Ambassador of the Arts by Dodo Banyak
• Fragments by Carlos Cova
• GIVE RIGHT TO THE RIGHTS by Christian Angeli
• How to fall apart : a true love story by Sofie Hanegreefs, Jelle Janssens
• How? Lucky by Freya Billington
• In Lorton's Darkroom by Karen Ruckman
• IRON MEN by Paul Crompton & Suri Krishnamma
• Jesus the Game Changer by Karl Faase
• KCKPL's Stories on the Bus: Matt de la Peña Reads Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
• Miles in the Life by Shaun Mathis
• My Erotic Body by Michele Beck
• My Personal Pink Time by Josh Reed
• NAMASKARAM Means Hello by Summer Dunsmore
• NATURE AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS: From Four Poems by Takamasa Iwasaki
• Obama: The Man Who Hoped to Change America by Tim Gallagher
• On a Knife Edge by Jeremy Williams
• Oor wally by Martin Lennon
• Peace Has No Borders by Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller
• Plant Codes, Unleashing Nature's Healing Power by Gary Null
• RAIN PROJECT by Oleg Chorny
• Root Up by Katia Cafe-Febrissy
• Running On Empty by Joey Dwyer, Timmy Dwyer
• Santi: Isolation by Daniel Rodriguez
• Sauti (voice) by Gayle Nosal, Beret Strong
• Saving the Planet, One Bite At A Time by Gary Null
• Stone Story by Jean-André Fourestié
• Tables of Istanbul by Zeynep Kilic
• The 2015-16 Boston Pride: A Dream Born With Isobel by Curtis Stiles
• The Road To Hollywood by Valeriya Elenskaya
• The Ultimate Triathlon by Jay Cox
• Techa by Aron Anselmi
• The Basketball Family by Jason Harney
• The End of Remembrance? by Peter Scheiner
• The Eviction by Andy Galloway
• The Greatest Weapon Ever Used by John Mollison
• The Magic Pill by Robert Tate
• The Rookie Season by Hannah Nemer & Molly Nemer
• The Saints of Sin by Aniruddha (Oni) Sen
• The Vision by Laura Allen, Lightning Mitchell
• VIGOR by Chen Qianzhang & Lan Yunjian
• Wine Diamonds: Uncorking America's Heartland by Bradley Johnson
• Zero Weeks by Ky Dickens

Silver Award Winners:

• A Grieving Mind by Naa Densua Agyei
• Adventures in Perseverance by Dasha Markina
• Aging in America by Bill Moyer
• Another Perfect Day by Ken C. Rucker
• Beyond the Soundtrack by Chris Church
• Blackout by Natalie Sampson
• Bloodline by Barry C. Douglas
• Breaking the Silence: Domestic Violence by Lauren L. Miller
• Behind the Dream by Paul Burian
• Circle of Life by Diane Ladd
• Creation by David M. Swofford
• Czech Society by Pavel Manda
• Desperate Measures by Erin Keating
• Devious by Mark Waters
• Documentary on Peace by Tim O'Connor
• Don’t Give Up by Margaret Brown
• Eureka Moments by Nadine Brown
• Every Breath by Samuel R. Watson
• Finding Home by Samantha Adams
• Frozen Angels by Violetta Boban
• Fresh Start by Thomas Donnelly
• Galaxie - Black Business Revolution by Jimmy Forster
• Gambling, Corruption and Corruption by Eduardo Garrocho
• Great Escape From New York by Charlie Hunnam
• Healing the Silence by Molly Mogg
• Help Haiti by Ian Gagliardi
• Hope by Alice Buckley
• Hot Pursuit by Miles Jarrett
• How We See the World by Carla Rice
• Imprisoned by Timo Weiland
• In The Dark of The Moon by Elizabeth Grayson
• Innocent Justice by Dominic Ma
• In The Market for Love by Julie Sieverding
• Loving What Is by Bill Sherman
• Love in the Shadows by Amiee Knight
• Mongolian Man by Philip Hubble
• My Biggest Break by Anthony K. Atkins
• Near the Broken Bridge by Sarah Holt
• Redemption by Rachael Horton
• Scars of the Heart by Lisa Williams
• Second Chance by Elizabeth Baker
• Save the Day by Victor Belinski
• Serious Fun by Chris Baker
• The Art of Risk by David McKee
• The Brave by Emma Donaldson
• The Chaser by Michael Thompson
• The Criminal Life by Emily James
• The Girl Who Cried Wolf by Amelia Jenson
• The Real History of American Football by Darnell J. Alford
• The Truth About You by Riley Green
• The Unforgiven by Patrick H. O’Neill
• Tough Decisions by Karl Schaeffer
• Ultimate Athlete by Ben Langham
• Waiting for Grace by Michelle Finley
• What Matters by Peter Plantec

Spotlight Bronze Awards

• A Grieving Mind by Naa Densua Agyei
• Adventures in Perseverance by Dasha Markina
• Aging in America by Bill Moyer
• Another Perfect Day by Ken C. Rucker
• Beyond the Soundtrack by Chris Church
• Blackout by Natalie Sampson
• Bloodline by Barry C. Douglas
• Breaking the Silence: Domestic Violence by Lauren L. Miller
• Behind the Dream by Paul Burian
• Circle of Life by Diane Ladd
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