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by Claire Downey, Taylor Autumn Herndon & Tessa Lawrence
Spotlight Silver Award
8 Seasons of ART
by Phil McGraw
Spotlight Silver Award
A Brave One
by Stas Ivanov
Spotlight Gold Award
A Generation Game: Italia Wasteels
by Luciano Ruocco
Spotlight Silver Award
Almost Home
by Susan Cahill & Matt Rogers
Spotlight Bronze Award
A Love Story for Brooke
by Paul Catalanotto
Spotlight Gold Award
ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
by Jon Osaki
Spotlight Silver Award
An Equal Voice
by Phil Cooke
Spotlight Silver Award
Artes Liberales
by Ceng Chen
Spotlight Bronze Award
Back In The Saddle
by Jacob Jolly & Zachary Bush
Spotlight Silver Award
Behind bars are trees of green
by Magdalena Kołodziejczyk & Rafał Kołodziejczyk
Spotlight Silver Award
Betty Williams: Contagious Courage
by Dawn Engle
Spotlight Silver Award
Big Lies
by Igor Runov
Spotlight Silver Award
Boober
by Sriram Papolu
Spotlight Gold Award
Born in America
by Zhan Luo
Spotlight Silver Award
Bronze: A Forgotten Treasure
by Nivitra Devi Hari
Spotlight Silver Award
BRUSH...painted forward
by Dimitri Pantchev
Spotlight Gold Award
Canvas
by Liv Gwynn
Spotlight Bronze Award
Changing Point
by Rebecca Coley
by Claudio von Planta
Spotlight Gold Award
CHEF DARREN: The Challenge of Profound Deafness
by Dorothy Fadiman
Spotlight Silver Award
Colors of Resistance
by Areeb Zuaiter
Spotlight Silver Award
Disconnected
by Miroslav Nincic
Spotlight Gold Award
El Cuarto Reino
by Alex Lora Cercos
Spotlight Silver Award
Extraordinary: The Seeding
by Jon Sumple
Spotlight Silver Award
Free Spirit
by Hani Yared
Spotlight Silver Award
From Liberty to Captivity
by Debbie Wright
Spotlight Silver Award
Floating Pilgrims
by David Goodman
Spotlight Bronze Award
Gang Love
by Adam Ybarra
Spotlight Silver Award
Harmony: Latvian Democracy on Russia's Border
by Samuel George
Spotlight Bronze Award
Hatem: Immigrant, Businessman, Father
by Abraham Kalaoun & Daniella Young
Spotlight Silver Award
Hellbent: The Twisted Vision of Richard Williams
by David Silver
Spotlight Bronze Award
His Last Stop: The Curious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
by Ben Stahl, Wesley Cianchette & Aaron Decker
Spotlight Silver Award
How to Bend Concrete in 108 Easy Steps
by Mahesh Madhav
Spotlight Gold Award
I am Still Here
by Cynthia Matty-Huber
Spotlight Silver Award
In the Dark Room
by Luigi Abanto Varese
Spotlight Silver Award
In Their Shoes: Unheard Stories of Reentry and Recovery
by Taylor Katsanis
Spotlight Gold Award
Inviolable - The Fight for Human Rights
by Angela Andersen
Spotlight Gold Award
Jumpin' Johnny: The Incredible True Story Of Dr. John Kline
by Cameron McCasland
Spotlight Silver Award
LAID-BACK APPROACH
by Gino Ceriachi
Spotlight Silver Award
Last Beer at the Pig's Ear
by Peter Blow
Spotlight Gold Award
Letters From Long Binh
by Greg Stern
Spotlight Bronze Award
Memphis Majic
by Eddie Bailey
Spotlight Silver Award
More Than A Number
by Vicki O'Neill
Spotlight Bronze Award
MUSTIMUHW: All of the People
by Lachlan Anderson
Spotlight Silver Award
My Farmland
by Diana Dai
Spotlight Silver Award
My life in your hands
by Joaquín Carmona Hidalgo
Spotlight Silver Award
Nollywood in Focus
by Iké Udé
Spotlight Bronze Award
Ocean Station November
by Damon Stuebner
Spotlight Silver Award
Oil Capital Underground: The Genesis and Evolution of Punk Rock in Tulsa-Late 70's to Mid 90's
by Bryan Crain
Spotlight Gold Award
Our Lady Victory: The Story of Indy 11
by Nick Evans
Spotlight Silver Award
Out of Spite
by Tina Fischer
Spotlight Silver Award
Path of Blood
by Jonathan Hacker
Spotlight Silver Award
Pick It Up! Ska in the '90s
by Taylor Morden
Spotlight Gold Award
Plastic River
by Manuel Camia
Spotlight Platinum Award
Plugged In
by Richard Willett
Spotlight Gold Award
Pooh: The Derrick Rose Story
by Scott Diener
Spotlight Gold Award
Prepare Now!
by Peter Charles Downey
Spotlight Gold Award
Prospect
by Duncan Shaw
Spotlight Silver Award
Qassem Haddad .. The Last Door’s Hour
by Khalid Al-Rowaie
Spotlight Bronze Award
Reap What You Sew
by Tyler Adams
Spotlight Gold Award
"Redeemed" The Brandi Brassell Story
by Joe Teixeira
Spotlight Bronze Award
Reinventing Rosalee
by Lillian Glass
Spotlight Silver Award
Renegade Dreamers
by Karen Kramer
Spotlight Silver Award
Repeat Offender
by Jason Harney
Spotlight Bronze Award
Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
by Michael Kasino
Spotlight Bronze Award
Rivers of Ukraine. Stokhid. Part I
by Sergii Trofymchuk
Spotlight Silver Award
Scientifilia
by Pilar Rodríguez Franco
Spotlight Silver Award
Searching For Meaning
by Jean-Francois Rodrigues
Spotlight Bronze Award
Sedae
by Daniel Smukalla
Spotlight Gold Award
Shatter the Silence
by Cheryl Allison
Spotlight Gold Award
Sunblock
by Bill Bentley
Spotlight Bronze Award
Suspended and the Art of Forgiveness
by Andrew Wall
Spotlight Gold Award
The Color of Art
by David Weathersby
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Color of Justice
by Marjolaine Grappe
Spotlight Gold Award
The Deepest Cut
by Alexandra Guillossou
Spotlight Silver Award
The Last Harvest
by Alexis Spradic
Spotlight Gold Award
The Magic Behind the Mojo
by Joe Gallo
Spotlight Gold Award
The Minds of Men
by Aaron Dykes & Melissa Dykes
Spotlight Silver Award
The Race
by Dina Rudick
Spotlight Gold Award
The Rest Is History
by Peter Costigan
Spotlight Gold Award
The Unforgettable Augustus Post
by Jason Cohn & Camille Servan-Schreiber
Spotlight Gold Award
The Wounded Blue
by Jason Harney
Spotlight Bronze Award
Tin City
by Dina Mande
Spotlight Gold Award
To Find a Harpy
by Daniel O'Neill
Spotlight Gold Award
To the Brink and Back
by The Church of Almighty God
Spotlight Silver Award
Troublemaker
by Jason C. Wilson
Spotlight Gold Award
Uncle Frank's House: An American Dream
by Kathy Drasky
Spotlight Silver Award
Undeterred
by Eva Lewis
Spotlight Silver Award
What to Do about Climate Disruption?
by Eric Simon
Spotlight Silver Award
When All That's Left is Love
by Eric Gordon
Spotlight Bronze Award
You Got Everything, Honey
by John Coates
Spotlight Bronze Award
20 Liters
by Andy Seiler & Aaron Thomas
Spotlight Bronze Award
A New Deal for Public Art in the Free State
by Graham Carroll & Kara Heitz
Spotlight Gold Award
A Story of Courage
by Ariana Feiner
Spotlight Gold Award
A Wonderful World: a Louie Armstrong Documentary
by Paul Notice
Spotlight Gold Award
All Mixed Up?
by Zoë Takaki
Spotlight Silver Award
by Aaron Migdon
Spotlight Silver Award
Babli
by Aneel Ahmad
Spotlight Silver Award
Bass Impact
by Danny Donnelly
Spotlight Gold Award
by Tom St John Gray
Spotlight Silver Award
Big Brother Hui
by Feng Yangyang
Spotlight Silver Award
Bullied
by Thomas Keith
Spotlight Gold Award
Caiden's Photos
by Nathan Raglan
Spotlight Bronze Award
Catonsville: Music City Maryland
by JD Barth
Spotlight Silver Award
Chen
by Orit Novak
Spotlight Silver Award
CommuKnity
by Vishnu Perumal
Spotlight Bronze Award
Dear, Dreamer
by Kristian Melom
Spotlight Platinum Award
by Hans Andreas Guttner
Spotlight Silver Award
Educated
by Hudson Flynn
Spotlight Silver Award
Flint, Michigan...in their own words
by James Dalrymple
Spotlight Gold Award
FLOAT
by Saila Huusko
Spotlight Silver Award
Hayat
by Rendah Haj
Spotlight Bronze Award
Hope for Breast Cancer
by Eric Zielinski
Spotlight Gold Award
Hope Village
by Ri-Karlo Handy
Spotlight Gold Award
In Flowers Through Space
by Dennis Cahlo
Spotlight Gold Award
Indian Space Dreams
by Sue Sudbury
Spotlight Gold Award
Inside The Heart
by Jesse Monday
Spotlight Silver Award
Iric
by Sandra Tamkin
Spotlight Silver Award
John and the Pahlavan
by Ryan Blake
Spotlight Silver Award
LAKOTA State of Mind
by Filiz Rezvan & Jon-Luke Kavapil
Spotlight Gold Award
Let the Blonde Sing
by Rachel Knoll
Spotlight Silver Award
Lost In Carranza
By Marin Troude
Spotlight Platinum Award
Minor Accident of War
by DIane Fredel-Weis & Piotr Kabat
Spotlight Gold Award
MO TE IWI: Carving for the People
by Robin Greenberg
Spotlight Silver Award
Mosul
by Daniel Gabriel
Spotlight Gold Award
Multiple Personality: Reality & illusion
by Jim Myers
Spotlight Silver Award
No Pork on the Fork: A Kosher BBQ Story
by Jacob Ross & Adam Hirsch
Spotlight Gold Award
Paradise Lost
by Adam Smith & Ryan Sandberg
Spotlight Silver Award
Photos in the Rain
by Thomas F. O'Brien
Spotlight Bronze Award
POST-TRUTH, the truth has never been so false
by El Probe Manchego
Spotlight Bronze Award
Retina: Light Sensitive Layer, Diagnostic Equipments, Common Diseases
by Vedavyasa N K
Spotlight Silver Award
Richard Wilbur: Keeping the Difficult Balance
by Ralph Hammann
Spotlight Silver Award
Riding A Dream
by Tommy Bolwell & Mattia Reiniger
Spotlight Gold Award
Rockabill
by Andrew Power
Spotlight Gold Award
Sankofa
by Princess Garrett
Spotlight Silver Award
Searching for a Beautiful Bachelor
by Peter Evanchuck & Helene Lacelle
Spotlight Silver Award
Shelter Me
By Zach Lawson
Spotlight Platinum Award
Swing State Florida: After Michael
by Samuel George
Spotlight Silver Award
Taking Flight: The WASZP Story
by Jordan Roberts
Spotlight Silver Award
TEENAGER 4 GOVERNOR (OF THE GR8 STATE OF KANSAS)
by Michael Engelken
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Acting Hawaiian Council of Regency; Exposing the American Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom
by Benjamin Cohn
Spotlight Silver Award
The Buddy I Never Met
by Keller Fornes
Spotlight Silver Award
The Cat Man
by Mauricio Ventura & Robert Julian
Spotlight Silver Award
The Difference
by Brianne Berkson & Miguel Gluckstern
Spotlight Silver Award
The Distant Islands
by Alberto Meroni
Spotlight Silver Award
The Doctor Who Refused To Give Up
by Börje Peratt
Spotlight Silver Award
The Forgotten Ones
by Tracii McGregor
Spotlight Silver Award
The Gate: Dawn of the Bahá’í Faith
by Bob Hercules
Spotlight Gold Award
by Maurice Micallef
Spotlight Gold Award
The Hebron Protocol
by Jared Leong
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Housecats
by Molly Hackett
Spotlight Gold Award
The Instant
by Hakan Aytekin
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Long Road of Exile
by The Church of Almighty God
Spotlight Silver Award
The Making of a Man
by Lo Dagerman
Spotlight Silver Award
The Night is Black and the Day is White
by Joe McStravick
Spotlight Gold Award
The Sako Tapes
by Machiel van den Heuvel
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Ukishima
by Kim Jin Hong
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Waitlist
by Natasha Pizzey-Siegeart & James Fredrick
Spotlight Silver Award
Tous Les Jours
by Nicholas Mullins
Spotlight Gold Award
Trailer Boys
by Yusri Sapari
Spotlight Bronze Award
Transplant
by Zheyu Liang
Spotlight Bronze Award
(Un)Divided
by Paul Raila
Spotlight Platinum Award
Unmasking Jihadi John: Anatomy of a Terrorist
by Anthony Wonke
Spotlight Gold Award
Vegetable Skin, an Interview
by Giovanni Soletta
Spotlight Silver Award
WARM YOUR HANDS UP WITH SNOW
by Rodion Antakov
Spotlight Bronze Award
We the Bathers
by Phoebe Arnstein
Spotlight Gold Award
When We Were Apollo
by Zachary Weil
Spotlight Gold Award
Who Am I
by Caleb Vinson
Spotlight Silver Award
Why She Smiles
by Caroline Sims
Spotlight Gold Award
Yam Festival, Ghana
by James Dalrymple
Spotlight Gold Award
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Award-Winners
2019 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards
December 2019
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