#BUTGOD
Director Kevin McAfee

Spotlight Gold Award


26.2 to Life
Director Christine Yoo

Spotlight Gold Award


100 Years
Director Matthew Kistenmacher
​Spotlight Silver Award

1979 The Year of the Islamist Revolution
Director Jonathan Hacker

​Spotlight Silver Award

1986. December chronicles. A glimmer of the truth.
Director Assiya Baigozhina

​Spotlight Silver Award

Above And Beyond
Director Vincent Chia

​Spotlight Silver Award


A Closer Cut- A Food Truck on 68th St
Director Jordy Antonio

​Spotlight Silver Award


Advocacy Club
Director Michael D McNeely

​Spotlight Silver Award


Alexa: a Tale of the Mixteca
Director José Assadourian Martínez
​Spotlight Silver Award

American Made
Director Dana Nies

Spotlight Gold Award

A New LVHS: Pioneering Animal Welfare in the Lehigh Valley
Director Tyler Wursta

​Spotlight Silver Award


Angle
Director Alex Perry

Spotlight Gold Award


Americans in Japan
Director Johnny Vonneumann
Spotlight Bronze Award

An Open Door. - Temple Grandin
Director John Alexander Barnhardt

Spotlight Gold Award


Anxious Athlete
Director Nandita Anand

​Spotlight Silver Award

Approaching the traditional Chinese Medicine
Director zhang huan Hui

​Spotlight Silver Award


A Village Named Deng' Er
Director ACIMODUO

Spotlight Gold Award


Away for Awhile
Director Stephanie Slewka

​Spotlight Silver Award


Axé, Salvador!
Director Domenico Rodolfo Grillone

Spotlight Bronze Award


Behind The Smoke
Director Jacob Whitley

​Spotlight Silver Award

Bake It Till You Make It
Director Jason Taglieri

​Spotlight Silver Award


Bee The Solution
Director Charlotte Quintanar

​Spotlight Silver Award

Beloved Children of the Holocaust
Director Cliff Springs

​Spotlight Silver Award

Breaking Barriers "The Djembe"
Director Josh Levine

Spotlight Bronze Award


Bring Dat Mono Back
Director Edward T Thornton

Spotlight Bronze Award


CANCER/EVOLUTION Episode 1: The Dustbin of History
Directors Maggie Jones, Brad Jones
​Spotlight Silver Award

Carver of the Possible
Directors NICOLAS LEGER, Jocelyn Langlois
​Spotlight Silver Award

Confronting Radicals
Director Benjamin Hilton

Spotlight Gold Award


Direct & Reflect
Directors Miki Holiday, Kal-El Billy Holiday, Kareem Dula Dixon, Troy L. Mitchell, Yolanda Nollie
Spotlight Bronze Award


Dream Big Little One
Directors Marcus Graham, Marcus Graham
​Spotlight Silver Award

Echo
Directors Qidi An, Zi Mu

Spotlight Gold Award


Eighteen Tuesdays
Directors Merrick Apple Presser, Tommy Cobby Sheridan
​Spotlight Silver Award

Facing Forward
Director Abigail Dickinson

​Spotlight Silver Award


Fat is Fashion
Director LaQuinta R Davis

​Spotlight Silver Award

Fierce
Director Wilson Evan Hansen

Spotlight Gold Award


For the Love of Food: Pour l’amour de la Cuisine
Directors Maria Luskay, Lou Guarneri
Spotlight Gold Award


From Winter Day to Winter
Director Tian Li

​Spotlight Silver Award

Global Panic
Director Jacob Whitley

​Spotlight Silver Award


Glorious Days and Nights-A Jazz Memoir
Director Bob Judson

Spotlight Gold Award


Gone Too Soon
Director Gemini Stax

​Spotlight Silver Award


Goodboy
Director Ashley Mosher

Spotlight Platinum Award


Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams
Director Robin Greenberg

Spotlight Gold Award


Greenwood Ablaze
Director Nicholle Carter

​Spotlight Silver Award


Headgear Hunting
Director Yusmal Ghazali

​Spotlight Silver Award


Hello VIVIAN
Director YOOJIN KIM

​Spotlight Silver Award

Here to Stay
Director Lauren Marks Bowman
Spotlight Gold Award

HEYOKA
Director jang dong ju dong ju jang
Spotlight Bronze Award


Homegrown
Directors Nicole Goh, Joyce Huan
​Spotlight Silver Award


Horse Teacher
Director Shandoah Goldman

Spotlight Gold Award

How To Break A World Record
Directors Andrew P Oliver, Dan Johnson
Spotlight Gold Award


If It Could Happen to Me, It Could Happen to You
Director Gwendolyn G Cassady
​Spotlight Silver Award


In Our Backyard: History and Culture from the Citrus Belt (Henry Halpern's Sculptures)
Director Claudia Gonzalez

​Spotlight Silver Award


In Search Of The Food Preservers
Director Nova Goh

​Spotlight Silver Award


Interception: Jayne Kennedy • American Sportscaster
Director Safiya Songhai

Spotlight Gold Award


Into the Shaolin
Director Hongyun Sun

Spotlight Gold Award

INVISIBLE NO MORE
Director Andy Fiore

Spotlight Gold Award


Is There Something Going On At Home?
Director Jason Harney

​Spotlight Silver Award


JAWAI
Director Katya Ignatiev

​Spotlight Silver Award


Journey Of The Bidayuh
Director Ian Shepherd Salang Anak Peter
​Spotlight Silver Award


Just Like You - Anxiety + Depression
Director Jennifer Greenstreet

Spotlight Gold Award

Karam Camera
Directors Liam LoPinto, Shaimaa Al Sabti, Hana Barhum

Spotlight Bronze Award


Kashi’s Manikarnika : Mystique and Moksh
Director Balendu D Kaushik

Spotlight Bronze Award

Kick Out!: The Newtown Neurotics Story
Director Luke Baker

​Spotlight Silver Award


Koh Phangan Man
Director Dewey Paul Moffit

​Spotlight Silver Award

Kombi Man
Director Jeff Bird

Spotlight Gold Award


Kunakirwa - A journey to the Mbira
Director Rodrigo Laje

Spotlight Gold Award


LA LIXEIRA - the invisibles' dignity
Directors GUIDO GALANTE, ANTONIO NOTARANGELO
​Spotlight Silver Award

L'Eternel Féminin
Director Laine Immell

​Spotlight Silver Award

Little Bride
Directors Michael Man, Emma Botting, Sindy Man
​Spotlight Silver Award


LOS(t) SUEÑOS
Director Jakub Chlouba

Spotlight Platinum Award


Love,and dark matter
Director Qi Chen

​Spotlight Silver Award


Master and Apprentice
Director Cory White

Spotlight Bronze Award

Mekong Apocalypse
Director Michael Buckley

​Spotlight Silver Award


Middle America
Director Dana Larson

Spotlight Gold Award

Missed Conceptions
Director Donna L Marvin-Platt
​Spotlight Silver Award


Mute Voices
Director Catherine Gropper

​Spotlight Silver Award


My Hair, My Rules
Directors Ronald Hinton, Joel Ahumada
Spotlight Gold Award

No Address: Atlanta
Director Caletta Harris

​Spotlight Silver Award

No Brakes
Director Max Stallings

Spotlight Gold Award


Noishorrifics
Director Sohanlal

Spotlight Bronze Award


Note of Defiance
Director Brian Henderson

Spotlight Gold Award


One Day...
Director Graeme Montgomery
Spotlight Gold Award

One Pill Can Kill
Directors Molly Hermann, Rob Lyall
​Spotlight Silver Award


On ice
Director Katherine Zeng

​Spotlight Silver Award

One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction
Director Tim Searfoss

Spotlight Gold Award

Open Mic'er
Director Cameron Vitagliano

Spotlight Bronze Award


Paddle To The Amazon
Director Chris Forde

​Spotlight Silver Award


Pain of Silence
Directors Christopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong
​Spotlight Silver Award

Passion, Purpose & Parkinson's
Director Olz McCoy

Spotlight Platinum Award


"Polly"
Director Damyan Petkov Nik

Spotlight Gold Award


Powering Puerto Rico
Director Adam Fischer

Spotlight Gold Award

Pride of Puglia
Director DJ Chan

​Spotlight Silver Award

Rattled: Conserving Rattlesnakes in Appalachia
Director Ryan N. Olsen

Spotlight Gold Award

Ride Your Story
Director Andy Chia

​Spotlight Silver Award

Roaming History: Emmett Till
Directors Michael Rios, James Fierro
​Spotlight Silver Award


Searching for Camelot: The Queen of Camelot
Director Roger Paradiso

​Spotlight Silver Award

Seeking Buchen
Director Taha Anwer

​Spotlight Silver Award


SERENGETI
Director Marcello Ercole

Spotlight Platinum Award


Shaking Hands With The Devil
Director Olz McCoy

​Spotlight Silver Award

She; who lives
Director Ayesha Farooq

​Spotlight Silver Award


Show Her The Money
Director Ky Dickens

Spotlight Gold Award

So Shoot Me
Director Leslye Abbey

Spotlight Gold Award


Spark
Director BETO SPORKENS

​Spotlight Silver Award

SPIRITUAL WARRIORS: Decoding Christian Nationalism at the Capitol Riot
Director Michael Schwartz

Spotlight Gold Award

STEPPIN: A Chicago Dance
Directors Anthony Coleman, Gwen McGee

Spotlight Bronze Award 


Stewards of The Land
Directors Thomas Wavid Johns, William Hartsock
Spotlight Gold Award


Swim Tuff
Director Matt Corliss

Spotlight Gold Award


The 30 Project
Submitter Christopher Kam

Spotlight Gold Award

The Absence of Memory
Director Brian Yulo Ng

​Spotlight Silver Award


The Alliance
Director Amanda Jean Kowalski
Spotlight Gold Award


The Butterfly Effect
Directors Deb Wallwork, Janet Bayliss
​Spotlight Silver Award


The Challenges of Making Local History Documentaries
Director Russ Fry​
Spotlight Bronze Award


THE COLOR OF SLAVERY
Director Patrick Baucelin

​Spotlight Silver Award


The Crew
Director Mike Leonard

​Spotlight Silver Award

The Crossing: Consequences of Truth
Director Andrew Didway

Spotlight Gold Award


The Importance of Strange Perceptions (Episode 2/ BrainDagger Films Presents: Knowledge is Good)
Director Moe Taylor

​Spotlight Silver Award

The land of sky, home of the Thang-ka painters
Directors Takashi Inoue, Matsuda Natsuki
​Spotlight Silver Award

The Little Church That Could
Director James Newhook

​Spotlight Silver Award

The Long Road to Hope: Ending Parkinson's Disease
Director Iyad H. Amer

​Spotlight Silver Award


The Mammoth Hunt
Director Aiste Stonyte

Spotlight Gold Award


The Newcomers
Director Theresa Kliem

​Spotlight Silver Award


The Order of Things
Directors Ramona Badescu, Jeff Silva
​Spotlight Silver Award


The Prince of Carbon
Director Martin Boudot

​Spotlight Silver Award

The Retirement Deception
Director Kenneth Wilcox

​Spotlight Silver Award


The Sculptor's Wife: A Love Story in Documentation
Director Traci L Slatton

Spotlight Gold Award


The SixTripleEight
Director James William Theres
​Spotlight Silver Award

The Vanishing Point: Tracing Shadows in Prussian Blue
Director Marek Ryszard Dojs

​Spotlight Silver Award

The Veteran's Battlefield
Director Chris Baucom

Spotlight Silver Award


The Walk
Director Jonny Stern

Spotlight Gold Award


The Wind on Mount Everest
Director Qing Su

Spotlight Silver Award

Tiki Taane in session with CSO
Director Tiki Taane

Spotlight Gold Award

Tiger Run: The Untold Story
Directors Dee Brown, Omarosa Manigault Newman
Spotlight Silver Award


TRACES, Voices of the Second Generation
Directors Isaac Brown, Ana Paula Habib
Spotlight Silver Award

Tutti In Scena
Director Laura Caparrotti

Spotlight Silver Award


Ukraine's Daughter - Justyna Uschak
Director Brenda Jacoby

Spotlight Bronze Award


Uneven Ground: The Melissa Witt Story
Director LaDonna Humphrey

Spotlight Silver Award


Unhusk
Director Jue Wang

Spotlight Gold Award

War Games
Director Matthew Danzico

Spotlight Gold Award

We are the music
Director Guillermo Rosabal-Coto
Spotlight Gold Award


We Thrive
Directors Lisa Hagopian, Eric Harabadian
Spotlight Silver Award

We've Gotta Sing
Director Megan Goldstein

Spotlight Bronze Award


When Wire Was King: The Transformation of Telecommunications
Director Jennifer A. Manner

Spotlight Silver Award


WHERE HAVE ALL THE SMILES GONE
Director ANJA STRELEC

Spotlight Silver Award

"What if Schools Taught Us to Love"
Director Yannick Borit

Spotlight Silver Award


Will You Remember Me?
Director Will Dowler

Spotlight Silver Award

WITCH, REBORN
Director Maria Shevtsova

Spotlight Gold Award

Woman in the Mirror
Director Tatyana Bronstein
Spotlight Gold Award









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