"2.0.G. Heros. Soldiers. Boricuas."
by Gilberto Gonzalez
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Abdullah
by Cecilia Rumore
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A Faceless Faith
by Reza Safa
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Alegria - A Humanitarian Expedition
by Christoph von Toggenburg
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A Mighty Fine Memory: Stories and Tunes from the Fiddler of Banjo Branch
by Hannah Furgiuele
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An American Quilt-Stitching Together Our 9/11 Memories
by Roz Sohnen
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A New Path for the Serengeti
by Brad Johnson
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An Unspoken Partnership
by Sue Keeton
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A Song For You
by Sharon Karp
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At What Cost - Pipelines, Pollution and Eminent Domain in the Rural South
by Mark Albertin
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Bahia Delivery
by Thiago Rodrigues
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BALKAN BLUES - Stories from Mostar
by Lucio de Candia
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by Christophe Karabache
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Brewed in the 210
by Marco Ortega
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Born Warriors Redux: Bound Fists
by Vincent Giordano
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But They Can't Break Stones
by Elena Dirstaru
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Cheers for Mushrooms
by Xiao Xiao
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Dark Clouds Far Away
by Ian Lapworth
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Death or Liberty
by Kathryn Symmons
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District Up!
by Dennis Spielman
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Dowsing the Past: Materialities of Civil War Memories
by Konstantinos Kalantzis
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Earth-Q
by Mark Pinoli
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Effervescence
by Garret Whittington
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Finding Bespoke: Shoemaker
by Salaah Swan
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From Footy to Verdi
by Michael Volpe
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Ghostbike
by Judith Finneren
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Hamish
by Robbie Fraser
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Homebound
by Anita Carroll
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I Was Born Yesterday
by Soudabeh Moradian
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Jumping the Shadows
by Lorenzo Valmontone
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Justice Denied
by Gerilynn Weinstein Matthe
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KILLA DIZEZ - LIFE AND DEATH IN THE TIME OF EBOLA
by Nico Piro
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"Liberty & Slavery: The Paradox of America's Founding Fathers"
by Troy Thomas
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Living in the Age of Airplanes
by Melia Manter
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Marovo Carver
by Elliot Spencer
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MATCH: A Tinder Tale
by Joshua DeFour
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Mental Health in New York
by Elizabeth Kraker
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My Life as a Film
by Eva Vitija
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My Monalisa
by Francois Chandelle
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Nail House
by K. S. McMullen
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Not Even the Mountain Stays the Same
by Diana Nicolae
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Painting a Normal Life
by Paul Catalanotto
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Paris Tower 13
by Thomas Lallier
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Pech River Boys: Tales From Afghanistan
by Shannon & Jenny Fontenot
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PLUS!
by Sandra Chuma & Kalisha Whitman
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Postcards from a Ghost
by Sydney Southam
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Rabbi Hood
by Joël Gozlan
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Road to Srebrenica
by Markus Leppala
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Sewol
by Ok-Hee Jeong
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Shir Madness
by Emily Murray
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Silo, A Spiritual Path
by Ken Dickinson
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Sixty Spanish Cigarettes
by Mark John Ostrowski
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SMOKE THAT TRAVELS
by Kayla Briet
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Social Diary of a Spirit Medium
by Chow Wah Wah
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Sustainable
by Matt Wechsler
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The Ability Exchange
by Bing Wang
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The Caravan Film
by Margot McMaster
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The Dog Walkers of Buenos Aires
by Peter Wilson
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The Father Tapes
by Albert Meisl
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The Final Resolution
by Brian Ronalds
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The Firmest Friend
by Andrew Fixell
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The Greatest Honor
by Kane Farabaugh
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The JJ Project
by Matthew Starr
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The Kunqu Singer
by Brendan Donnelly
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The Moving Theatre
by Eugene Hughes, Pia Jones & Ben Mallaby
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There. And Back.
by John Mollison
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The Silence
by Cleo Tellier
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The Streets that Speak
by Vida Lercari
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The Tibetan Girl
by Huaqing Jin
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by Warren Bass
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The Wind Beneath Your Wings
by John Mollison
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The Wolf Mask
by Jeongho Ahn
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The World Has No Eyedea
by Brandon Crowson
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Two Blue Lines
by Tom Hayes
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Voice from the Wilderness
by Jason Britski
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Voices From Kaw Thoo Lei
by Martha Gorzycki
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We Are In It
by Yehuda Sharim
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Who Am I To Stop It
by Cheryl Green , Cynthia Lopez
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2016 Award-Winning independent Documentary Films
JUNE 2016 Award Winners:
Platinum Awards: celebrate truly remarkable films with the highest scores from our panel.
Gold Awards: celebrate incredible films with the second highest scores from our panel.
Silver Awards: awarded to unforgettable films with the third highest scores from our panel.
Bronze Awards: awarded to films with high artistic achievement with the fourth highest scores from our panel.
December 2016 Award Winners:
SPOTLIGHT
DOCUMENTARY
FILM AWARDS
AWARDS
ABIDANCE
by Anja Strelec, Tomislava Jukic
Spotlight Bronze Award
ALL IT TAKES
by Drew Dickler, Jake Hochendoner
Spotlight Bronze Award
ALMOST HOLY
by Steve Hoover
Spotlight Bronze Award
American Shift
by Erik Vosburgh
Spotlight Gold Award
Among the Believers
by Hemal Trivedi , Mohammed Ali Naqvi
Spotlight Silver Award
ARGO NAVIS
by Susanne Bausinger, Stelios Efstathopoulos
Spotlight Gold Award
Avenues of Escape
by Leon Lee
Spotlight Bronze Award
Band Geeks
by Travis Boone
Spotlight Bronze Award
Better Days
by Joseph Driscoll
Spotlight Bronze Award
Blood Sugar
by Joe Hitchcock
Spotlight Silver Award
Boycott THIS!
by Stan Moore
Spotlight Gold Award
Bread of Life
by Sergio García Locatelli
Spotlight Bronze Award
BRCA: A Mother's Journey
by Anjali de Bellefroid, Simon McLean
Spotlight Gold Award
Casualties of W.A.R.
by Yahya McClain
Spotlight Bronze Award
Chasing Dreams
by Sam Ashurov
Spotlight Silver Award
Chasing Gold
by Brent Deal
Spotlight Bronze Award
Chill
by Jennifer Frappier
Spotlight Silver Award
Crossing The Line
by David Tryhorn
Spotlight Platinum Award
Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution
by Glenn Gebhard
Spotlight Silver Award
Cuba's Crossroads: Hope, Rock, and [R]Evolution
by Maria Luskay
Spotlight Gold Award
Dancing with Hope
by Andrew Elizaga
Spotlight Gold Award
Dharavi Hustle
by Sachin Sundareshan
Spotlight Platinum Award
Distorted Realities
by Khashayar Gholami
Spotlight Bronze Award
Ella
by Damien Madden
Spotlight Silver Award
Escaping Agra
by Pallavi Somusetty
Spotlight Gold Award
EXIT: MUSIC
by James Murdoch
Spotlight Bronze Award
First Lady of the Revolution
by Andrea Kalin
Spotlight Gold Award
Forever Home
by Raquel Korman
Spotlight Gold Award
Functional Fitness
by Bob Rose
Spotlight Bronze Award
Hoda's Story
by Johan Eriksson
Spotlight Bronze Award
Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians
by Hernán Vilchez
Spotlight Bronze Award
Irreclaimable
by Justin Toppins
Spotlight Bronze Award
I Take Photos
by Oliver Lister
Spotlight Platinum Award
Kayayo, the Living Shopping Baskets
by Mari Bakke Riise
Spotlight Gold Award
Kite Zhang's Kites
by Nathan Yun
Spotlight Gold Award
Land of our Father
by Patrick Gillespie
Spotlight Gold Award
LIFE, ANIMATED
by Roger Ross Williams
Spotlight Gold Award
Like Notes of Music - Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff the Landscape Painter
by Michael Magee
Spotlight Gold Award
LUSH COSMETICS PRESENTS: TROPHY
by Inder Nirwan
Spotlight Gold Award
Magic Cobra Tattoo
by Adrian Alonso Cordoni
Spotlight Gold Award
Manifest: Power of Thought
by Laura Lillie
Spotlight Gold Award
Mary Boyle: The Untold Story
by Gemma O'Doherty
Spotlight Gold Award
Maternal Histories
by Anouk Dominguez-Degen
Spotlight Bronze Award
Miracle Workers: A Portrait Series of Domestic Violence Survivors
by Jose Pagan
Spotlight Bronze Award
Missing Peace
by Jenna Gartlan
Spotlight Gold Award
MOTHER TONGUE
By Nadim Iqbal
Spotlight Bronze Award
My Name is Joan
by Margaret Stapor Costa
Spotlight Gold Award
Nemo: Nobody
by Melissa Hoban
Spotlight Silver Award
No More Now
by Pratik Parmar
Spotlight Silver Award
Nothin' but Music
By Eric Harabadian, Lisa Hagopian
Spotlight Silver Award
Pinch Of Salt
by Tanmay Shah
Spotlight Silver Award
Quiet Please...
by Jeffrey Scott Gould
Spotlight Silver Award
Raising the Bar
by Onir Onir
Spotlight Silver Award
REDEMPTION 'People Can Change'
by Karen Gall
Spotlight Bronze Award
Ross Kemp: The Fight Against ISIS
by Marta Shaw
Spotlight Gold Award
Running for Pride-A Cross Country Documentary
by Alec Douglas
Spotlight Bronze Award
Sacred Water
by Olivier Jourdain
Spotlight Bronze Award
Shakti
by Jessica Hill
Spotlight Bronze Award
Singapore Minstrel
by Xi Jie Ng
Spotlight Bronze Award
Sitting is Not Good, I Want War
by Zanyar Omrani
Spotlight Gold Award
Somewhere to Go: Punk Victoria
by Paulina Ortlieb
Spotlight Bronze Award
Special Muscles
by Annamarya Scaccia
Spotlight Silver Award
Texas Paranormalists
by David Goodman
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Barber Farm Project
by Gretchen Siegchrist
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Coffee Man
by Jeffrey Hann
Spotlight Silver Award
The Dam(n)
by Eugen Karlyuk, Elena Mechik
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The Green Standard
by William Rosenfeld , Jacob Strunk
Spotlight Gold Award
The IBUR Connection
by Joe Diamand
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Memories Station
by Derek Frank
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The Parchman Ordeal: The Untold Story
by G. Mark LaFrancis
Spotlight Silver Award
The Peace Agency
by Sue Useem
Spotlight Bronze Award
THE PUPPETEERS
by Ajit Nag
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The Seventh Summit
by Elia Youssef
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The Sounds of Street Vendors: Havana, Cuba
by Michael Brims
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Three Lives
by Olivia Prinzi
Spotlight Silver Award
Travis- The True Story of Travis Walton
by Jennifer W Stein, Travis Walton, Bob Terrio, Ben Hansen, Ron James
Spotlight Gold Award
Troll: A Southern Tale
by Marinah Janello
Spotlight Gold Award
ubuntu
by Christian Abi Abboud
Spotlight Gold Award
USS Indianapolis: The Legacy
by Sara Vladic
Spotlight Silver Award
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
by Germaine McCormack-Kos
Spotlight Silver Award
Wally
by Andy Galloway
Spotlight Silver Award
Waste Not Want Not
by Scott Schimmel
Spotlight Silver Award
Who is Estaban
by Ryan Conley and Mike Raine
Spotlight Silver Award
Why We Walk
by Andrew Littlefield
Spotlight Bronze Award
WOMEN ARE THE ANSWER
by Fiona Cochrane
Spotlight Bronze Award
"Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town"
by David Rae Morris
Spotlight Bronze Award