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Directors Jenna Contreras, Lauren Stowell
Spotlight Gold Award
"1" The Message
Director Judit Papp
Spotlight Bronze Award
1/10 Listening to Fukushima 2019
Director Yo Kohatsu
Spotlight Gold Award
22 Open Books
Director Héctor Molina
Spotlight Silver Award
35 Days
Director Nicholas Manting Brewer
Spotlight Gold Award
80.000 Schnitzel
Director Hannah Schweier
Spotlight Gold Award
86ED
Director J.J. Hendricks
Spotlight Gold Award
A Contact
Director K. Sarkyte
Spotlight Silver Award
A Cure for the Common Classroom
Director Andy Hourahine
Spotlight Gold Award
A Fallow Year
Director Dina Jane Rudick
Spotlight Gold Award
A Man in Chain
Director Alireza Mirasadollah
Spotlight Platinum Award
An Artist's Duty
Director Elyssa Walsh
Spotlight Gold Award
An Encounter With Banting
Director Isabelle Depelteau
Spotlight Gold Award
Artes Liberales 2 - The Value of Leadership
Director Ceng Chen
Spotlight Bronze Award
As Organism (Episode 1/ BrainDagger Films Presents: Knowledge is Good)
Directors Moe Taylor, Kathry
Spotlight Gold Award
As We Are Planted
Director Anna Lee Ackermann
Spotlight Gold Award
Babylon: Ghetto, Renaissance, and Modern Oblivion
Director Jessica Gould
Spotlight Gold Award
Bar Sepia
Director Montgomery Mauro
Spotlight Silver Award
BCTC Pandemic
Submitter Steph Fitch
Spotlight Silver Award
Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly
Director Kim Smith
Spotlight Gold Award
Behind The Burning Vines
Director Will Twomey
Spotlight Gold Award
Black Bauhinia
Director Malte Philipp Kaeding
Spotlight Gold Award
BRASS
Director Anuj Jamadagn
Spotlight Gold Award
Built lands
Director Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Spotlight Gold Award
BUMPASS
Director Brent Bartholomew
Spotlight Bronze Award
Burning The Village
Director Liz Mcbee
Spotlight Gold Award
By Your Side
Directors Debbie Africa, Mike Africa Sr.
Spotlight Silver Award
Camino de SANGJARU
Director Park Cheolwoo
Spotlight Bronze Award
Camping Life (the ephemeral city)
Director Josep Perez
Spotlight Silver Award
Child Support: The Scorn or The Absent
Director Matthew Sanders
Spotlight Bronze Award
Chira
Director Tela Moss
Spotlight Gold Award
Cliff: a portrait of an artist
Director Adam Brooks
Spotlight Gold Award
CODA
Director Hallie Haller
Spotlight Gold Award
Columbus in Cuba
Directors Nicolette Swift, Matt Swift
Spotlight Gold Award
Country and Courage
Director Rodney Roldan
Spotlight Silver Award
Crossing the Bridge: Discovering Mutual Language in Siberia
Director Marek Ryszard Dojs
Spotlight Gold Award
Cultivating the Wild: William Bartram's Travels
Directors Scott Auerbach, Eric Breitenbach & Dorinda G. Dallmeyer
Spotlight Gold Award
Dajla: cinema and oblivion
Director Arturo Dueñas Herrero
Spotlight Gold Award
Dan Loves Butterflies
Director Zach Putnam
Spotlight Gold Award
Dante Barksdale's Last Act
Directors Zachary Slingsby, James Fitzgerald
Spotlight Silver Award
Debut
Director Connor Hopkins
Spotlight Silver Award
Dear Thalia
Director Rex Moribe
Spotlight Silver Award
Die Kunst
Director Jamie Roberts
Spotlight Silver Award
Directing Remotely and Filmmaking During the Pandemic: The Making of #MyCorona
Director Kirk Zeller
Spotlight Silver Award
Djäkamirr:caretaker of pregnancy and birth
Directors Ḻäwurrpa Maypila
Spotlight Gold Award
Dorina
Director Atanas Kiryakov
Spotlight Bronze Award
Dream Big: Natasha
Director Mykyta Novokhatskyy
Spotlight Bronze Award
DRIVEN
Director Pedro McCardell
Spotlight Gold Award
Duckman
Director Kaixin Aethelu Wang
Spotlight Gold Award
Educating Leaders in an Uncertain World: The McGowan Fellowship
Director Matt Landfield
Spotlight Silver Award
EK RAJPUT KISAN The Real Story
Directors Dr. Bhawani Singh
Spotlight Bronze Award
Eleven Weeks
Directors Anna Kuperberg , Julie Caskey
Spotlight Gold Award
Emotional Journey
Director Yang Fei
Spotlight Silver Award
Empty America
Director Joel Bryant
Spotlight Bronze Award
Father
Director Deng Wei
Spotlight Bronze Award
Fighting for Daybreak
Director Jason Head
Spotlight Silver Award
Final Words of WWII
Director Kevin McAfee
Finding Palemahan
Director Jillian Li
Spotlight Gold Award
Fog Likely Farm: An Appalachian Story
Directors Anne Ward & Chip Williams
Spotlight Silver Award
For Love of the Land
Director Cynthia Matty-Huber
Spotlight Gold Award
From Milan to the World
Director Vincenzo Schioppa
Spotlight Gold Award
Full Circle
Director Anne Via McCollough
Spotlight Gold Award
Gaucho Americano
Director Nicolás Molinad
Spotlight Platinum Award
Generation 94
Director Gemma Capdevila
Spotlight Gold Award
Glimpses
Director Guy Pigden
Spotlight Silver Award
Good Intentions
Director Andres Villasenor
Spotlight Platinum Award
GOSIA@TOMEK
Director Christine Jezior
Spotlight Platinum Award
Greener Pastures
Directors Sruthi S Menon, Sajesh Mohan
Spotlight Gold Award
Growing Peace in the Middle East
Director Steven Hoffen
Spotlight Bronze Award
Gus Alva | Paradigm+++Mas
Director Vic Huber
Spotlight Gold Award
Heaven on Earth
Director Robert Hope
Spotlight Platinum Award
Hempdemic2020
Director Aviva Vuvuzela
Spotlight Bronze Award
Homeless Not Hopeless
Director Changhee Chun
Spotlight Silver Award
How Speaking About Suicide Can Save Lives
Director Marissa Dingman
Spotlight Gold Award
I am a Black Sculptor
Director Robin van Erven Dorens
Spotlight Gold Award
I am Samuel
Director Pete Murimi
Spotlight Silver Award
IF I'VE WON IF I'VE LOST
Director Gian Luca Rossi
Spotlight Gold Award
Installation City
Director Songqiao Zhao, Wu Tong
Spotlight Gold Award
Instrument of Peace; the Brother Gabriel Story
Director Nolan Uebelhor
Spotlight Gold Award
Isonology
Director Thomas Hibner
Spotlight Silver Award
Is Your Story Making You Sick?
Director Frances Causey
Spotlight Silver Award
I Want My Kid Back: Treating Emotional Dysregulation
Director Celia Tewey
Spotlight Bronze Award
I Want To Buy a House
Director Mya Saree' Gray
Spotlight Bronze Award
Jayro
Director Wojciech Lorenc
Spotlight Silver Award
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Director Bill Haney
Spotlight Gold Award
Kontrast: Rhythm Delucco
Director Jon Meyer
Spotlight Bronze Award
Last of the Lakers
Director Terry Ayrault
Spotlight Bronze Award
Last of Us: The Last Fishermen of the Lake
Director Andrea Marcovicchio
Spotlight Gold Award
Leaving Tracks
Director Nick Davis
Spotlight Platinum Award
Let Me Ride
Directors Benjamin Muñoz Alonso, Pablo Álvarez Villaver
Spotlight Gold Award
Liar-In-Chief: A Chronicle of the Trump Presidency Through the Eyes of An Outraged Graphic Artist
Director M Kaplan
Spotlight Bronze Award
Life and Tacos
Director Anil Dhoka
Spotlight Gold Award
Line of Sight | Timothy C. Ely
Director Doug S. Garnett
Spotlight Gold Award
Lorton
Director Richard Schertzer
Spotlight Bronze Award
Lost for Words
Director Jordan Cantello
Spotlight Silver Award
Love & Stuff
Director Judith Helfand
Spotlight Gold Award
Magpies & UFO's
Director Kirk Ronald Cameron
Spotlight Silver Award
Matriarch
Director Martin Krafft
Spotlight Silver Award
Mentality
Director Garret Morgan
Spotlight Silver Award
MILKED
Director Amy Taylor
Spotlight Gold Award
Miss Flores
Director Juliana Toloza Serna
Spotlight Platinum Award
Missing in Brooks County
Directors Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss
Spotlight Platinum Award
Mr. Emancipation : The Walter Perry Story
Director Preston Chase
Spotlight Silver Award
My Brother Luis
Director Zani Wilson
Spotlight Silver Award
My Gypsy Road
Director Vilma Kartalska
Spotlight Silver Award
My journey to the Everest.
Directors Hernán Leal , Thomas Hardy
Spotlight Gold Award
My Rembetika Blues - A film about love, life and Greek music
Director M.Zournazi
Spotlight Gold Award
NAYA: DAVID KIM
Directors AJ Valente, Janice Chung
Spotlight Silver Award
Oh, Mother of Mine
Director Anna Rawls
Spotlight Silver Award
Old-Growth Murder
Director Tom Olsen
Spotlight Gold Award
Once Upon Amsterdam
Director Rene Smaal
Spotlight Bronze Award
OSHIKA - Winds Of Change
Director Kim Myoungyoon
Spotlight Gold Award
Out of Exile - The Photography of Fred Stein
Directors Peter Stein, Dawn Freer
Spotlight Silver Award
Pieces of Us
Director Cheryl Allison
Spotlight Silver Award
Positive for Huntington's
Directors Karam Gamal El Din, Yousef Gamal El Din
Spotlight Gold Award
Poteet
Director Kiley Josey
Spotlight Silver Award
Placeholders
Director Ele Mun
Spotlight Gold Award
Project Antarctica - Easter Island Extension
Director Evan Michael Gering
Spotlight Silver Award
PSAGOT RAMALLAH
Director Binyamin Haneman
Spotlight Silver Award
Radio Theatre For Your Soul, A Docu-Story
Director Shonnese C. L. Coleman
Spotlight Silver Award
RENACERES
Director Lucas Figueroa
Spotlight Gold Award
Reparations
Director Jon Osaki
Spotlight Silver Award
Rez Metal
Director Ashkan Soltani Stone
Spotlight Silver Award
Rigged
Directors Tracy MacDonald, Jill Thacker, Jim Wolfston, Matt Zodrow
Spotlight Gold Award
Rival Queens
Director Anton Armendariz Diaz
Spotlight Gold Award
Rolling
Director Andrew Neylon
Spotlight Gold Award
Salvatore Del Deo
Director Gleb Piryatinskiy
Spotlight Silver Award
Saving Earth: Turkey's Taurus Mountains
Director Abed Ahmed
Spotlight Gold Award
Saving Juliette
Director Evey Wilson Wetherbee
Spotlight Silver Award
Shaolin
Director Alec Palumbo
Spotlight Gold Award
SHEROD
Director William Feagins, Jr.
Spotlight Silver Award
Show Time
Director Zhang Qiusi
Spotlight Silver Award
Silenced, as mercury rises
Director Karl Talbot
Spotlight Silver Award
Six bucks and more dragons (F.U.N) Far Up North
Director Luka Raubenheimer
Spotlight Gold Award
Small Town Pride
Directors Chelle Turingan, Riley Sparks
Spotlight Gold Award
Smoke and Baloney
Director Shirley Moore
Spotlight Silver Award
Sonora
Director Johnny Holder
Spotlight Gold Award
Sound of Judgment
Director Julia Wall
Spotlight Gold Award
Sounds of the Sidewalk (A Journey of Goodbye)
Directors Michele Zousmer, Benjamin Huerta Cristobal
Spotlight Silver Award
Spokespeople
Director Ryan Mekenian
Spotlight Gold Award
Stand For Hannah
Director Roger Maunder
Spotlight Silver Award
Strength Among Us
Director Taha Ovacı
Spotlight Gold Award
Suicidal Alentejo
Directors Nuno Martini, David André
Spotlight Gold Award
Ted
Director Zixin Zhang
Spotlight Silver Award
The Adventures at Comic-Con
Director Jason Brown
Spotlight Silver Award
The Attached
Directors Christopher Saint Booth & Philip Adrian Booth
Spotlight Gold Award
The Birth & History of Western Swing
Director Mike Markwardt
Spotlight Gold Award
The Blue and White in Me
Director Daniel Castro
Spotlight Gold Award
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT. FROM COLMENAR VIEJO TO THE ANTARCTICA
Director Jovi Maco
Spotlight Gold Award
The Champ of Champs
Director Brian Johnston
Spotlight Gold Award
The Collins Story - Connecting the Moon to the Earth: Live from the Moon
Director Annette Juergens Busbee
Spotlight Gold Award
The Collins Story - Connecting the Moon to the Earth: Steps to the Moon
Director Annette Juergens Busbee
Spotlight Gold Award
The Education Revolution
Directors Brayton Deal, Robert Simpson
Spotlight Gold Award
The First Jewish Surfer
Director Brett Malin
Spotlight Gold Award
The Five Priests
Director Chris Charles Scott
Spotlight Gold Award
The Fruit of the Fungi
Director Clea Cullen
Spotlight Silver Award
The Game Is Up: Disillusioned Trump Voters Tell Their Stories
Director Melissa Jo Peltier
Spotlight Gold Award
The Good Life
Director Carolyn Wilson
Spotlight Broze Award
The Hunt: In Search for Australias Big Cats
Director Stu Ross
Spotlight Gold Award
The Invisible Project
Director Pacifica J. Sauer
Spotlight Gold Award
The Long Shadow
Director Frances Causey
Spotlight Gold Award
The Making of a Cheer Team
Director Jason Harney
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Man From Boggy Creek
Directors Scott McKinnon, Paul Glover
Spotlight Silver Award
The Mighty Hard Rocker
Director Abdul Stone Jackson
Spotlight Silver Award
The Missing
Director Jary Nemo
Spotlight Silver Award
The Missing and Murdered
Director Zeke Hanson
Spotlight Gold Award
The Piano Man- Johnny D'Angelo
Director Christopher W. Hurst
Spotlight Silver Award
The Purple Thanaka of the Angels
Director Borit Yannick
Spotlight Silver Award
The Return: A Covid-19 Story
Director Jeffrey Huang
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Secret Of Survival
Director Abes Borhan
Spotlight Silver Award
The Shoulders of Giants
Director Quinn Early
Spotlight Gold Award
The Soul of Motion
Directors Eduardo Baggio, Juslaine Abreu-Nogueira
Spotlight Silver Award
The Story Coat
Director Carinne Leduc
Spotlight Gold Award
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF LIFTING
Director Frank Chen
Spotlight Silver Award
The Unisexuals
Director Katie Garrett
Spotlight Gold Award
The United States of Fashion Designer Elie Tahari
Director David Serero
Spotlight Gold Award
This Is Our School
Directors Iqbal Barkat, Maree Delofski
Spotlight Silver Award
Tipping The Pain Scale
Director Jeff Reilly
Spotlight Gold Award
Transcend : A Boogie Frantick Story
Director Conrad Kaczor
Spotlight Silver Award
Turning Man - 81RPM
Director Robin Trouillet
Spotlight Silver Award
Two Different Eyes
Directors Juho Lee, Juseung Lee
Spotlight Gold Award
Two Sides of Survival
Directors Amanda Pope, Violet Du Feng
Spotlight Silver Award
Uncaught
Directors Paul Kelly, Shabbir Ghadiali
Spotlight Silver Award
USA on Parade: 2019
Directors Dale Johnson, Kat Holms
Spotlight Silver Award
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Director Elizabeth Miller-Derstine
Spotlight Platinum Award
Who Cares About DC?
Director Stephen Kolb
Spotlight Silver Award
Winter in Antarctica
Director Paul North
Spotlight Silver Award
With the sea in your eyes
Director Paolo Magris
Spotlight Silver Award
Words from the ZAD
Director Matthieu Ponchel
Spotlight Gold Award
Y?
Directors Danilo Milovanović, Neža Knez, Toni Poljanec, Luka Erdani
Spotlight Gold Award
You Can't Leave Because You Can't Leave
Director John Paul Henry
Spotlight Silver Award
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