Award-Winning independent Documentary Films

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.

2020 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

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5x7
Director Michele Citoni

Spotlight Silver Award


8 Weeks to Happy
Director Kallie Bryant

Spotlight Silver Award

​​12th Street
Directors Gregory Lovett, Matthijs Heesemans

Spotlight Silver Award


19 Shades of Black
Director John Brooks

Spotlight Silver Award


50 Little Birds
Director Hannah Lindgren

Spotlight Platinum Award


100 Boats: A Hurricane Harvey Documentary
Director Syed Hasan

Spotlight Silver Award

20.20 Social Readapation

Director Amedeo Staiano

Spotlight Bronze Award


​A Bard for the Ages
Director Brian Barsuglia

Spotlight Bronze Award


A Bay to Cherish
Director Freddy Moyano

Spotlight Silver Award


​Abel Cuerda - The Colour Painter
Director Juan Antonio Moreno

Spotlight Silver Award


A Better Way
Director Clay Vaughan

​Spotlight Gold Award


Adventure of Fragrance

Director şahin yiğit

​Spotlight Gold Award


A Fighting Chance
Director Troy Sweeney

Spotlight Silver Award


After the Coup, Malian women speak
Directors Erica Pomerance, Fatoumata Coulibaly

Spotlight Silver Award


​A Greenlander
Director Nicholas Jones

​Spotlight Gold Award


Alaska Long Hunters
Director Mark Rose

Spotlight Silver Award


Alexandre the Fool / Alexander Odyssey 
Director Pedro Pires

​Spotlight Gold Award


Alice Street
Director Spencer I Wilkinson

​Spotlight Platinum Award​


Alimos, Greek Riviera's Blue Diamond

Director Nico Mastorakis

​Spotlight Gold Award​


All the Way - The Making of Swimrun Champions
Director Carl Eneroth

​Spotlight Gold Award


Alone Across The Arctic
Director Francis Luta

​Spotlight Gold Award


A Long Way to Kansas
Director Stefano Notaro

Spotlight Silver Award​


​Alway5: The Ryan Dungey Story
Directors Ryan Marcus, Chris Onstott

Spotlight Silver Award


​American Caricature
Directors Joe Ciomek, Tom Faraci

Spotlight Silver Award​


AMERICART 2019
Director Christelle Bois

Spotlight Silver Award


A Mirror for the Sun

Director Neta Ariel

​Spotlight Gold Award


​Amy's Victory Dance
Director Brian Thomas

Spotlight Silver Award


An Irish Underdog Story
Director Jonny Farrelly

Spotlight Bronze Award


Another Child
Directors Leanna Borsellino, James Headrick

Spotlight Silver Award


Architecture is Not an Image
Directors Daoud Bouledroua, Elke Mittmann
​Spotlight Gold Award


Arctic Night

Director FENGFENG

​Spotlight Gold Award


Ashes
Director Jiuxun Jin

Spotlight Silver Award


A Tower Block in Ladbroke Grove
Director Peter Heslop-Smith
Spotlight Silver Award


A Voice for Whales
Director Selket Kaufman

​Spotlight Gold Award


Beer Boom
Directors Eric W Schleyer, An

​Spotlight Gold Award

Before I'm Gone
Director Cody Graham

Spotlight Silver Award


Behind the Name SHAKESPEARE: Power, Lust, Scorn & Scandal
Director Robin Phillips

​Spotlight Gold Award


Belle-ile In Acadie

Director Phil Comeau

​Spotlight Gold Award


Bernard: "The Rebirth"
Director Jorey Collins

Spotlight Silver Award


Birds without Wings
Director Rishabh Thakkar

Spotlight Silver Award


Birth of an Ancestor
Director Peter Hoesing

Spotlight Silver Award


Birth Time: the documentary
Directors Jerusha Sutton, Jo Hunter , Zoe Naylor

​Spotlight Gold Award

Blob Blob Fish
Director Andrew Mossop

Spotlight Silver Award


​Blood, Bone & Stone
Director Thomas A. Grant

Spotlight Silver Award


​Bloodless: The Path To Democracy
Director Bared Maronian

​Spotlight Gold Award


Blood on the Tracks
Directors Ryan Olesen, Jordan

​Spotlight Gold Award


​Blowin' Up: The Chasity D. Barnes Story
Delendra Peterson & Amanda Granger

​Spotlight Bronze Award


Blue Kangling
Director Matt Blackburn

​Spotlight Gold Award


Boston's Homelessness Crisis
Director Sheila Burke

Spotlight Silver Award


Brave Are The Fallen
Director Jacob Whitley

Spotlight Silver Award

Britain's Big Cat Mystery
Director Matthew Everet

​Spotlight Gold Award


​Burn With Us
Director Joshua S. Bischof

Spotlight Silver Award


California Rising
Submitter Rob Villanueva

Spotlight Silver Award


Candango: Memories From a Festival
Director Lino Meireles

Spotlight Silver Award


Candido
Directors Manfred Rainer, Hannah Rosa Oellinger, Stefan Wirnsperger

Spotlight Silver Award


Chained Pen
Director Anna Dalmay

Spotlight Silver Award


​Cinematographer
Director Dan Asma

​Spotlight Gold Award


Circus Movements
Directors Lukas Berger, Mário Gajo de Carvalho

Spotlight Platinum Award


​COLLECTIVE - Finding Home 
Directors Brennen Meek & Beth Meek

Spotlight Silver Award

Community Through Crisis: a Vermont story
Director Wendy E. Reynolds

Spotlight Silver Award


Cops and Corpses; Victim's Cry for Justice
Director Maurice Oniang'o​

​Spotlight Gold Award


DACAmented
Directors Samantha Campbell, Emma Greally, Kate Parker

​Spotlight Gold Award


DAMITA.
Director W. Feagins, Jr

​Spotlight Platinum Award


David Foster: Off the Record
Director Barry Avrich

​Spotlight Gold Award


Darling Pet Monkey
Director Jim McDonough

​Spotlight Gold Award


Deals and Visions
Director Christian Machacek

​Spotlight Gold Award


Dear Child
Director Luca Ammendola

​Spotlight Gold Award


Dear Commuter
Director Birdy Wei-ting Hong

​Spotlight Bronze Award


​death. everything. nothing.
Director LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant

​Spotlight Gold Award


Defending Our Crowns
Director Stephanie Bell

Spotlight Silver Award


Desire?
Director Garima Kaul

Spotlight Silver Award


Diagnosing Healthcare
Director Paul Roberts

​Spotlight Gold Award


Displacement and Hope
Director Marta N. Bautis

Spotlight Silver Award


Don't Be Afraid if I Hug You
Director Niccolò Maria Pagani

Spotlight Platinum Award


Dream, live, create and other stories from Malasana
Director Juanjo Castro

Spotlight Bronze Award


Dreams of Hope
Directors Henry Panion, David Macon

Spotlight Silver Award


dhīvaraḥ ... way of life
Director Giridhar Nayak K

​Spotlight Gold Award


​Donnybrook's Hidden Treasure
Director Glenda Cimino

Spotlight Silver Award


Don't Forget Them
Director Kamaran Karym

​Spotlight Gold Award


Down The Road
Director A.W. Stevenson

​Spotlight Gold Award


​Dry Tears of the Aral
Director Danila Volkov

​Spotlight Gold Award


El Pinche Gringo and the Barbecue Diplomacy
Directors Raymond Remo, Michelle Remo

Spotlight Silver Award


Enclosure
Directors Julia Guggisberg Hannud, Catharina Scarpellini

​Spotlight Gold Award


EUtopia
Director Bryan Carter

Spotlight Silver Award


​Eworth
Director Christopher Romano

Spotlight Silver Award


Fair Weather Sandhill
Director Freddy Moyano

Spotlight Bronze Award


Fandango at the Wall
Director Varda Bar-Kar

Spotlight Silver Award


FARESTART : Perspective
Director Greg Westhoff

Spotlight Bronze Award


Fatal Distraction
Director Susan Morgan Cooper

Spotlight Platinum Award


Father of a Broken Angel
Director Dhiney Ramos

Spotlight Silver Award


Forgotten on Sinjar
Director Igal Hecht

​Spotlight Gold Award


Five Years North
Directors Zach Ingrasci, Chris Temple

​Spotlight Gold Award


Font of Infamy
Director Savvas Constantinou

Spotlight Silver Award


Forgotten Valour
Director Taylor Doggett

​Spotlight Gold Award


Franklin Manor
Directors  Richard Sherman,  John Beale

Spotlight Bronze Award


​Flood Plain
Directors Paul J Shumaker, Payton Shumaker

Spotlight Silver Award


Following the Lieutenant - Buffalo Soldiers of the Bicycle Corps
Director Eric Westrom

​Spotlight Gold Award


Forgotten Heroes

Spotlight Silver Award


​Furthest Frontier: Stories from Tamatea/Dusky Sound
Director Will McKee

​Spotlight Gold Award


Future of the Past
Director Takamasa Iwasaki

​Spotlight Gold Award


Generation C: Growing Up in the Pandemic
Directors Adam Regenstreif , Hannah Wong

Spotlight Silver Award


Gervase
Director Michael Peel

Spotlight Silver Award


Getting Worldly
Director Edgar Grech-Cumbo

​Spotlight Gold Award


Gianni Berengo Gardin's Tale of Two Cities
Director Donna Serbe-Davis

Spotlight Silver Award

Giving Hope In a Broken and Hurting World
Director Don McLeer

Spotlight Bronze Award


Glimpses From The Great War
Director Jim Nowak

Spotlight Bronze Award


GoGo City: Displacement & Protest in Washington, DC
Director Samuel George

​Spotlight Gold Award

​Going Viral
Director Gregory Wendt

​Spotlight Gold Award


Grit
Directors N.Shanmuga Sund

​Spotlight Bronze Award


Grounded
Director Emily Walowski

​Spotlight Platinum Award


Guardians of the Forest
Director Jacob Wagner

​Spotlight Gold Award


Hamda
Director Ilona Szekeres

​Spotlight Gold Award


​Happiness Only Real When Shared
Directors Fredrik Aronsson, Jonathan Kristensson

​Spotlight Silver Award


Hard Phase
Director Abdulaziz Alsuwailem

​Spotlight Gold Award


​HARD RUBBISH - A Collection Of Memories
Director Alita Graziano

​Spotlight Gold Award


​Haunted Lane
Director Charlie VanderKlipp

​Spotlight Bronze Award


Hello World
Director Shawn Wildermuth

​Spotlight Gold Award


Higher Love
Director Hasan Oswald

​Spotlight Platinum Award


​Homeland Hero
Director Rahsaan Jones

​Spotlight Silver Award

Homelessness Is Not A Crime
Director Mann Robinson

​Spotlight Silver Award


Hometown Proud
Directors Naida Osline, Tyler Stallings

​Spotlight Silver Award


​HOPE IN THE HOLY LAND: Delving Beneath the Surface of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Director Jesse Schluntz

​Spotlight Gold Award


Hope is Not Cancelled
Director Jordan Somers

​Spotlight Gold Award

Hotel Brothers
Director Lucas Boychuk

​Spotlight Gold Award


Hotel Regina

Director Matthias Berge

​Spotlight Silver Award


How Do You Hold A Hot Dog?
Director Brent Collins

​Spotlight Gold Award


Hutchinson:SHUNTED
Directors Eric Miller, Laurine Platzky 

​Spotlight Silver Award


​Hyphen
Director Laura Kamugisha

​Spotlight Gold Award


I Bleed
Director Leah Manasseh

​Spotlight Silver Award


I Cleaned My Room
Director Ismael Lotz

​Spotlight Gold Award


​​I Have a Name
Director Lucia Mauro

​Spotlight Silver Award


I Just Wanted to Say

Director Olz McCoy

​Spotlight Bronze Award


​In Circles
Submitter Christina Kelso

​Spotlight Gold Award


Indians, Outlaws, Marshals and the Hangin' Judge
Director Larry Foley

​Spotlight Gold Award


​IN SANE 2020
Directors P
eter Evanchuck

​Spotlight Bronze Award

​Inside NASA's Innovations
Director Jonny Caplan

​Spotlight Gold Award


​INterDEPENDENCE
Director Greg Jeschke

​Spotlight Silver Award


In The Red
Director Patrick Rooney
​Spotlight Silver Award


​In the Same Direction: Jeff Pifher & Socrates' Trial
Director Alexander Craven

​Spotlight Silver Award


​Investing Life
Director Vaishali Vasant Ken

​Spotlight Silver Award


Invisible Hand

Directors Joshua B. Pribanic,  Melissa A. Troutman

​Spotlight Gold Award


It's Beautiful
Director Miko Nincic

​Spotlight Bronze Award


It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
Directors Cahal McLaughlin, Siobhán Wills

​Spotlight Silver Award


​It Was Good Talking to You
Director Samuel Ott

​Spotlight Bronze Award


January 13th, Richmond VA
Director Phineas Alexander

​Spotlight Silver Award

January 15 1970: Untold Memories of the Nigeria - Biafra War
Director Ed Emeka Keazor

Spotlight Silver Award


John Van Hamersveld CRAZY WORLD AIN’T IT
Directors Dave Tourjé, Christopher

Spotlight Gold Award


​#JustAnotherDeadTranswoman
Director Riley Del Rey

Spotlight Gold Award


Just a Podcast | Documentary
Director Michael Burnet

Spotlight Bronze Award


Justified Journey
Director Greg Jeschke

Spotlight Silver Award


Kamo Lyfe
Director Marcel Dorsey

Spotlight Bronze Award

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Kanda Bode (Don't Get Whipped)
Directors Fekad Kiros, Cheryl Halpern

Spotlight Silver Award


Keraleeya Thalangal

Director K.R. Subash

Spotlight Bronze Award


Khamid & Zulfiya
Director Ruslan Saliev

Spotlight Bronze Award


Kiana's Apache Ceremony

Director Dounia Benjelloun

Spotlight Gold Award


Kicking The Hornet's Nest
Director Kyle Floyd

Spotlight Silver Award


Kilroy and the Boy Soldier
Director Joseph Spillane

Spotlight Silver Award


​Kiss the Ground
Directors Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell

Spotlight Gold Award


Kite
Director Yumeng He

Spotlight Silver Award


​Kuzra - The Psychology of a Female Homicide.
Director Lara Azzopardi

Spotlight Silver Award


La Amable Euforia de la Danza
Director Miguel Castanet

Spotlight Silver Award


La Lobera
Submitter Claudio Escobar​

Spotlight Gold Award


Last Call for Tomorrow
Directors Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve

Spotlight Gold Award


Leap of Faith

Director Venkat Bharadwaj

Spotlight Bronze Award

Leatherpants Moped Trip - From the Alps to Las Vegas
Director Julian & Thomas Wittmann

​Spotlight Gold Award


Leaving Allen Street
Director Katrina Channells

Spotlight Silver Award


​Let's Talk About It
Director Aaron M. Canada

Spotlight Silver Award


Life in the Sacrifice Zone
Director Chad Nance

Spotlight Silver Award


Line Man
Director Marcelo Silva

Spotlight Silver Award


Little but Fierce
Director Sara Barger

Spotlight Gold Award


Living with The Odds
Director Erich Meltvedt

Spotlight Silver Award

Lockdown Lunch Club
Director Déwun Owusu

Spotlight Gold Award


Lost in Berlin
Director Rodney S. Martel

Spotlight Silver Award


​Love the Mission
Director Jared Cruce

Spotlight Silver Award


Love Thy Neighbor - The Story of Christian Riley Garcia
Director Brandon Smith

Spotlight Silver Award


Made In America
Director Kevin Bryce

Spotlight Silver Award


​Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
Director Barry Avrich

Spotlight Gold Award


​Making Lemonade: Our COVID-19 Story
Director Christopher Francis

Spotlight Gold Award


Mamakrom
Director Joseph Pelegreen

Spotlight Gold Award


Man on the Street
Director Dakare Chatman

Spotlight Bronze Award


Marasma
Director Luigi Perelli

Spotlight Silver Award


March for Dignity
Director John Eames

Spotlight Silver Award


Marie-Madeleine: A Female Chief
Director Florence Ayisi

Spotlight Gold Award


​Mauthausen - Two lives
Director Simon Wieland

Spotlight Silver Award


​Mcclenty
Director Jessee Bermudez

Spotlight Gold Award


Millennium Willow
Director Fiona Yang

Spotlight Bronze Award


Missing in Brooks County
Directors Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss

Spotlight Gold Award


​Mission Safeer 37 Days To Freedom
Directors Viraf Kekobad, Hanif Modak

Spotlight Bronze Award


​Miyamoto and the Machine: The Story of KenKen
Director Dan Sullivan

Spotlight Silver Award


Mrs. Nambiar: More than 'just' a teacher
Director Prateek Prajosh

Spotlight Silver Award


My Mother My Rock
Director Kelly Roulette

Spotlight Bronze Award


​My Roblox Story - CJ Oyer
Directors Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky

Spotlight Gold Award


My Life on the Wire
Director Marko Rivera

Spotlight Silver Award


My War-Torn Family
Director Benjamin Fischerm

Spotlight Silver Award


Nobody Wants Us
Director Laura Seltzer-Duny

Spotlight Silver Award


No Defense
Director Sara Ganim

Spotlight Silver Award


No History of Violence
Directors Ellie Bernstein, Tracy Nichole Cring

Spotlight Gold Award


No Limbs No Limits
Director Steven O' Riordan

Spotlight Gold Award


Now I am an Axolotl
Director Alejandra Medellín

Spotlight Gold Award


Nurture with Nature, A Story of Ecotherapy
Directors Tanya Stadelmann,  Dorothy Ibes

Spotlight Gold Award


​Oceans Without Limits
Director Mark van Wijk

Spotlight Gold Award


Oh Me Lads
Director Ralph Sansum

Spotlight Silver Award


Once Upon A Time In Montgomery - The WAPX Documentary
Director David Wise

Spotlight Bronze Award


One Pandemic Day
Director Mikelle Virey

Spotlight Silver Award


On The Trail Of The Humpback Whale
Director Tony Whelan
Spotlight Silver Award


​"On This Hallowed Ground" Vietnam Veterans Memorial Born From Tragedy
Director Sarah Kanafan

Spotlight Gold Award


Open Art Surgery
Director Katie Mackenzie

Spotlight Platinum Award


Open Hearts
Directors Travis Pollert,  Jacob Kostelli

Spotlight Silver Award


​Open Honest Conversations
Director Mauli Bonner

Spotlight Silver Award


Outbreak: The First Response
Director Rose Arce

Spotlight Gold Award


Overcoming Obstacles Through a United Culture
Director Heewon Kim

Spotlight Silver Award


Over-Flow
Director Elizabeth Ramjit

Spotlight Silver Award


Over the Barriers
Director Banu Ramazanova

Spotlight Silver Award


Pals
Director Nick Papaterpou

Spotlight Silver Award


PAT PASSLOF...unexpected conversation...
Director Bill Page

Spotlight Bronze Award


P.E.N.S. (Poetic Energy Needed in Society)
Director Mikell Limbrick

Spotlight Silver Award


Perception: Seeing Is Not Believing
Director James Purpura

Spotlight Silver Award


Pinnacle
Director Vikram Jeet Singh Parmar

Spotlight Gold Award


Pipetown, USA
Director Joaquín Ramon Herrera

Spotlight Silver Award


Porno Uncle Jim
Director Stephan Bookas

Spotlight Silver Award


Pre-Existing Freedom
Director Frederick Taylor

Spotlight Silver Award


Pride Of DC: The Hyde Rugby Odyssey
Director Jonni Masella

Spotlight Silver Award


ProDogTV
Director Randall Owens

Spotlight Gold Award


Prophets, Teachers and Kings
Director Devin A. Rice

Spotlight Gold Award


Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz
Director Barry Avrich

Spotlight Gold Award


Pungjeong Radio
Director Wondal Park

Spotlight Silver Award


​Puri
Director Daniel Casado

Spotlight Gold Award


​Qualcosa Rimane
Director Francesco D'Ascenzo

Spotlight Silver Award


Rachel's Law
Director Cameron Campbell

Spotlight Silver Award


Ramak Niakan Safi: This is Life
Director Jack Trent

Spotlight Silver Award


​Rebels With A Cause
Director Dobrivoie Kerpenisan

Spotlight Silver Award

Remembering: The Maurits Kiek Story
Director Cheryl Halpern

Spotlight Silver Award


Rescue Story - Saving Companion Animals
Director Daniel Gartzke

Spotlight Silver Award


Respect the Ditch
Director Michael Cotaya

Spotlight Silver Award


Return to Foretop's Father
Director Preston Randolph

Spotlight Silver Award


Revelation
Directors Nial Fulton, Sarah

Spotlight Gold Award


​Reversal of Fortune: Turkey's Unraveling Democracy
Director Barry Avrich

Spotlight Gold Award


Right Now I Want to Scream: Police and Army Killings in Rio - the Brazil Haiti Connection
Director Cahal McLaughlin, Siobhán Wills

Spotlight Silver Award


Rising Silence
Director Leesa Gazi

Spotlight Silver Award


​Rivers of Ukraine. Stokhid. Part II
Director Sergii Trofymchuk

Spotlight Gold Award


​Salman Bin Hamad - A VISION OF PROMISE
Director Eva Daoud

Spotlight Gold Award


Salt & Sea
Director Jack Sarcone

Spotlight Silver Award


Saved
Director Tim Pappa

Spotlight Silver Award


Saving Saffron
Director Tammy Khajotia

Spotlight Gold Award


Saving the Sacred
Director Daniel Bruns

Spotlight Gold Award


Searching for Camelot: The Quest
Director Roger Paradiso​

Spotlight Bronze Award


​Seeroo fi al ardh
Director Dimitri Yuri

Spotlight Gold Award


Selfie Rebels
Director Jella Bethmann

Spotlight Silver Award


Shadow of Dumont
Director Trevor Cameron

Spotlight Silver Award


​Shadows of History - Hitler‘s Secret Bio Weapons
Director Marc Fehse

Spotlight Silver Award


Sh*t Saves the World
Director Troy Hale

Spotlight Gold Award


Silver Clown
Directors Zhao Songqiao, Wu Tong

Spotlight Silver Award


Simple Things

Director Liel Sharon Gur

Spotlight Silver Award


Sleeze Lake: Vanlife at its Lowest & Best
Directors Andrew J. Morgan, Nick Nummerdor

Spotlight Silver Award


Small Town Hero
Director Brian Swinehart

Spotlight Silver Award


​Smoldering Ice
Director Aaron T Lewis

Spotlight Silver Award


Soccer Grannies
Directors Clément Boxebeld, Julia Mourri

Spotlight Gold Award


Sockeye Salmon. Red fish
Directors Dmitriy Shpilenok, Vladislav Grishin

Spotlight Gold Award


Songs From the Street
Director Mackenzie Huffman

Spotlight Silver Award


Sonnie
Director Samuel Mirpoorian

Spotlight Platinum Award


​South of Everything: A Journey to Antarctica
Director Alexyn Scheller

Spotlight Gold Award


So What Can You Eat?
Director Jack Everitt

Spotlight Silver Award

Stallion Blues
Director Ryan Oligmueller

Spotlight Silver Award


Status Unknown
Director Nate Van Dore

Spotlight Bronze Award


Steel City Surfers, the Journey to Gerry
Director Bryan Murray

Spotlight Silver Award

Straight Off The Canvas
Director Anthony Saldana

Spotlight Bronze Award

Struggle For Workplace Justice: The Michael Friedman Story
Director Elizabeth Lundy

Spotlight Silver Award


​SuddenRush - Memoirs of a Hmong Rock Band
Director Yacheng Moua

Spotlight Silver Award


Supermalo
Director Matthew Seger

Spotlight Gold Award


Taking Flight
Director Quitterie Hervoue

Spotlight Silver Award


Tao Qi
Director Emily Feng

Spotlight Bronze Award


Teacher
Director Ken Honjo

Spotlight Silver Award


​TechTalk
Director Jonny Caplan

Spotlight Gold Award


​The Alabnian Code
Director Yael Katzir

Spotlight Silver Award


The Ballad of John Henry
Submitter Matt Rice

Spotlight Gold Award


The Book of Curses
Director Iouri Goroulev

Spotlight Silver Award


The Bronze Men of Cameroon

Director Florence Ayisi

Spotlight Gold Award


The Children of Borah
Director Raza Mehdi

Spotlight Silver Award


The Cost of Darkness
Director Sandy Holman

Spotlight Silver Award


The Dancing Homeless
Director Wataru Miura

Spotlight Silver Award


The Deadliest Disease In America
Director Crystal R Emery

Spotlight Silver Award


The Donbass children
Director Lubomir Dankov

Spotlight Silver Award


Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know

Director Peter Galison

Spotlight Silver Award


​The Endless Chain
Director Benjamin Jordan

Spotlight Gold Award


The Fable of a Song
Director Andy Strohl

Spotlight Gold Award


The Final Fix

Director Norman Stone & Tim Neeves

Spotlight Gold Award


The Funeral Singer
Director Manjula Varghese

Spotlight Platinum Award


The Ghost Behind
Director Caroline Rumley

Spotlight Platinum Award


The Kids We Lose
Director Lisa Q. Wolfinger

Spotlight Silver Award


​The Last Day on Duty
Director Jon Cortegoso Otad

Spotlight Gold Award


The Last Fishing Journey
Director Tanguy Guinchard

Spotlight Gold Award


The Last Lightkeepers
Director Rob Apse

Spotlight Gold Award


The Last Rites: Death for a Living
Director Charles Phang

Spotlight Silver Award


​The Last Song
Directors Lisa Punz, Michael Hecht 

Spotlight Gold Award


The Little Tea Shop
Directors Matteo Servente, Molly J. Wexler

Spotlight Silver Award


The Little Things
Director 
Michal Aronzon

Spotlight Silver Award


The Making Of Pan Rocks Rush
Director Matthew B. Moore

Spotlight Silver Award


​The Man of The Monkey
Director David Romberg

Spotlight Silver Award


The Maroon Bomber
Director Joshua M. Thomas

Spotlight Gold Award


The Mayberry Effect
Director Christopher Hudson

Spotlight Gold Award


​The Metta Story
Director Chow Wah Chan

Spotlight Bronze Award


The New Abolitionists
Director Christina Zorich

Spotlight Gold Award


​The One and Only Jewish Miss America
Director David Arond

Spotlight Silver Award


The Other: Religion and Korean Society
Director Yubin Lee

Spotlight Silver Award


The Penan Project
Director Lau Ung Ing

Spotlight Silver Award


The Pivotal Players: Flannery O'Connor
Director Matthew Leonard

Spotlight Gold Award


The Place That Makes Us
Submitter Karla Murthy

Spotlight Gold Award


The Promise
Director Danel Aser

Spotlight Platinum Award


The Raising of the Son
Director Ricardo Jackson

Spotlight Bronze Award


​The Response: How Puerto Ricans Are Restoring Power to the People
Director Juan C. Dávila

Spotlight Gold Award


The Reunited States
Director Ben Rekhi

Spotlight Platinum Award


The Right Girls
Director Timothy Wolfer

Spotlight Gold Award


The Road Back (Benito Glosson Story)
Director Michael Young Sr.

Spotlight Bronze Award


The Sexy Six: A Story of Lifelong Friendship
Director Kathy Drasky

Spotlight Silver Award


The SixTripleEight
Director James William Theres

Spotlight Silver Award


The Special Forces Experience
Director Zachariah Montgomery

Spotlight Gold Award


The Spider Crab
Director Tristan Francia

Spotlight Gold Award


The Story of Carmen
Director Imeh Gabriel

Spotlight Silver Award


The Sullivanians:Through a Blue Window
Director Shelley Feinerman

Spotlight Bronze Award


The Tale of the Dog: The Untold Story of Denver's Greatest Music Venue. The Family Dog Denver, 1967-1968
Directors Dan Obarski, Scott Montgomery

Spotlight Gold Award


The Undocumented Lawyer
Directors Chris Temple, Zach Ingrasci

Spotlight Gold Award


The Unheard Tales of the Tamikafest
Director Fenell

Spotlight Bronze Award


The Universality of It All
Director Andres Bronnimann

Spotlight Silver Award


​The Unlikely Story of the Lesbians of First Friday
Director Kathryn L Beranich

Spotlight Silver Award

The Whisper of the Steps
Director Ksenya Kravtsova

Spotlight Silver Award


There Is No Planet B
Director Stephen Stanley

Spotlight Silver Award


There's Still Someone in the Woods
Director Teresa Turiera-Puigbò

Spotlight Silver Award


This Is Dire Times
Director Ross Anderson

Spotlight Gold Award


​This is not a person
Directors Miguel Rodriguez, Pablo Ostarek

Spotlight Silver Award


​Three Meals
Director Monika Ivonne

​Spotlight Bronze Award


Through His Eyes: A Story of Companionship
Director Zack Williams

Spotlight Silver Award


Tierra calcinada (Scorched land)
Director Antonio Ferre

Spotlight Silver Award


To Be Us: To Work
Directors Tosca Davis, Cedrick Smith, Terrance Thomas

Spotlight Bronze Award


​Together We Stand
Director Ben Greer

Spotlight Silver Award


Tony Halik
Director Marcin Borchardt

Spotlight Bronze Award


Typography Through Time: Renaissance Era
Director Rodney Roldan

Spotlight Silver Award


​U-105 / American Strongman in India
Director Casey Grant

Spotlight Silver Award


United We Heal
Directors Ryan Welch, Ryan Rossman

Spotlight Silver Award


​United We Sing
Director Dan Petracca

Spotlight Silver Award


Unlearning Sex
Director Zanah Thirus

Spotlight Silver Award


​Untie Me
Director Magi Avila

Spotlight Gold Award


Until We Touch
Director Charlotte Mungomery

Spotlight Platinum Award


Veritas
Directors Sam Wang, Zoey Zhou

Spotlight Bronze Award


​Victor
Director Christophe Hermans

Spotlight Silver Award


​Victoria's Foil
Directors Brett Forrest, Brian Ryu

Spotlight Gold Award


Viennese Miniatures
Director Christian Filek

Spotlight Silver Award


Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations
Director Andrew Goldberg

Spotlight Gold Award


Virginia's Calling

Directors Barry Lyons & Linda Nieman

Spotlight Silver Award


Voices from the Barrens
Directors Nancy Ghertner, Brian Francis

Spotlight Silver Award


Voter Fraudbusters
Director Michael Kasino

Spotlight Silver Award


Vulnerable Beauty
Director Manuele Mandolesi

Spotlight Silver Award


Walking on Water
Director Gianmarco D'Agostino

Spotlight Silver Award


Walk, Run, Ride, and Live.
Director Patrick Albright

Spotlight Silver Award


Warrior Women
Directors Dr. Elizabeth A. Castle , Christina D. King

Spotlight Gold Award


We Came A Long Way By Faith: Catholic Hill and St. James the Greater Catholic Church
Director George Wingard

Spotlight Silver Award


We Never Talked About This
Director Steven Nanson

Spotlight Bronze Award

When the Camera Stopped Rolling
Director Jane Castle

Spotlight Gold Award


Where She Lies
Director Zach Marion

Spotlight Platinum Award


Where the Stone Dropped
Directors Ian Paine, Graham Williamson

Spotlight Silver Award


White Wolves - Ghosts of the Artic

Director Oliver Goetzl

Spotlight Gold Award


Who is Ida?
Director Ken Kobre

Spotlight Silver Award

Who is Lun*na Menoh?
Director Jeff Mizushima

Spotlight Silver Award


Who Is This Women's Day For?
Director Monalisa Mukherji

Spotlight Gold Award


Why Do Men Cheat
Director Matthew Sanders

Spotlight Bronze Award


Why Kap Kneeled
Director Hadasah Ingrid Cornell

Spotlight Silver Award


With Love
Director Julia Beck

Spotlight Silver Award


Women are the Change
Directors Philip Lewis, Linda Stout

Spotlight Gold Award


Women of Faith: Coping with Trauma
Director Angela Heath

Spotlight Bronze Award


Written Off: America's Failure to Educate Dyslexic Children
Director Collins White

Spotlight Silver Award


​Xinyan One Child Left Behind
Director Yang Sea Liu

Spotlight Silver Award

You Handsome Dog (Don't You Ever Die)
Director Theresa Desautels

Spotlight Bronze Award


You Vs. You
Director Chris Tocchet

Spotlight Silver Award


Yvonne's Kitchen
Director Camille Howard

Spotlight Silver Award






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