Spotlight Documentary Award Winning Films

GOODBYE INDIA
Director Marcello Ercole

http://www.marcelloercole.com/

Heart of the Sea
Director Shireen Rahimi 

IN IT 2 WIN IT
Director Pete Kolopenuk  

http://onefivefivefilms.com/

Remembering Brantley
Submitter Steve Hilfiker

https://www.fodasacharity.org/

2023 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards Winners

 Platinum Award Winners:

• Goodboy - Director: Ashley Mosher
• LOS(t) SUEÑOS - Director: Jakub Chlouba
• Passion, Purpose & Parkinson's - Director: Olz McCoy
• SERENGETI - Director: Marcello Ercole

 Gold Award Winners:

• #BUTGOD - Director: Kevin McAfee
• 26.2 to Life - Director: Christine Yoo
• American Made - Director: Dana Nies
• Angle - Director: Alex Perry
• An Open Door. - Temple Grandin - Director: John Alexander Barnhardt
• A Village Named Deng' Er - Director: ACIMODUO
• Confronting Radicals - Director: Benjamin Hilton
• Echo - Directors: Qidi An, Zi Mu
• Fierce - Director: Wilson Evan Hansen
• For the Love of Food: Pour l’amour de la Cuisine - Directors: Maria Luskay, Lou Guarneri
• Glorious Days and Nights-A Jazz Memoir - Director: Bob Judson
• Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams - Director: Robin Greenberg
• Here to Stay - Director: Lauren Marks Bowman
• Horse Teacher - Director: Shandoah Goldman
• How To Break A World Record - Directors: Andrew P Oliver, Dan Johnson
• Interception: Jayne Kennedy • American Sportscaster - Director: Safiya Songhai
• Into the Shaolin - Director: Hongyun Sun
• INVISIBLE NO MORE - Director: Andy Fiore
• Just Like You - Anxiety + Depression - Director: Jennifer Greenstreet
• Kombi Man - Director: Jeff Bird
• Kunakirwa - A journey to the Mbira - Director: Rodrigo Laje
• Middle America - Director: Dana Larson
• My Hair, My Rules - Directors: Ronald Hinton, Joel Ahumada
• No Brakes - Director: Max Stallings
• Note of Defiance - Director: Brian Henderson
• One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction - Director: Tim Searfoss
• Polly - Director: Damyan Petkov Nik
• Powering Puerto Rico - Director: Adam Fischer
• Rattled: Conserving Rattlesnakes in Appalachia - Director: Ryan N. Olsen
• Show Her The Money - Director: Ky Dickens
• So Shoot Me - Director: Leslye Abbey
• SPIRITUAL WARRIORS: Decoding Christian Nationalism at the Capitol Riot - Director: Michael Schwartz
• Stewards of The Land - Directors: Thomas Wavid Johns, William Hartsock
• Swim Tuff - Director: Matt Corliss
• The 30 Project - Submitter: Christopher Kam
• The Alliance - Director: Amanda Jean Kowalski
• The Crossing: Consequences of Truth - Director: Andrew Didway
• The Mammoth Hunt - Director: Aiste Stonyte
• The Sculptor's Wife: A Love Story in Documentation - Director: Traci L Slatton
• The Walk - Director: Jonny Stern
• Tiki Taane in session with CSO - Director: Tiki Taane
• Unhusk - Director: Jue Wang
• War Games - Director: Matthew Danzico
• We are the music - Director: Guillermo Rosabal-Coto
• WITCH, REBORN - Director: Maria Shevtsova
• Woman in the Mirror - Director: Tatyana Bronstein

Silver Award Winners:

• 100 Years - Director: Matthew Kistenmacher
• 1979 The Year of the Islamist Revolution - Director: Jonathan Hacker
• 1986. December chronicles. A glimmer of the truth. - Director: Assiya Baigozhina
• Above And Beyond - Director: Vincent Chia
• A Closer Cut- A Food Truck on 68th St - Director: Jordy Antonio
• Advocacy Club - Director: Michael D McNeely
• Alexa: A Tale of the Mixteca - Director: José Assadourian Martínez
• A New LVHS: Pioneering Animal Welfare in the Lehigh Valley - Director: Tyler Wursta
• Anxious Athlete - Director: Nandita Anand
• Approaching the Traditional Chinese Medicine - Director: Zhang Huan Hui
• Away for Awhile - Director: Stephanie Slewka
• Axé, Salvador! - Director: Domenico Rodolfo Grillone
• Behind The Smoke - Director: Jacob Whitley
• Bake It Till You Make It - Director: Jason Taglieri
• Bee The Solution - Director: Charlotte Quintanar
• Beloved Children of the Holocaust - Director: Cliff Springs
• CANCER/EVOLUTION Episode 1: The Dustbin of History - Directors: Maggie Jones, Brad Jones
• Carver of the Possible - Directors: Nicolas Leger, Jocelyn Langlois
• Dream Big Little One - Directors: Marcus Graham, Marcus Graham
• Eighteen Tuesdays - Directors: Merrick Apple Presser, Tommy Cobby Sheridan
• Facing Forward - Director: Abigail Dickinson
• Fat is Fashion - Director: LaQuinta R Davis
• From Winter Day to Winter - Director: Tian Li
• Global Panic - Director: Jacob Whitley
• Gone Too Soon - Director: Gemini Stax
• Greenwood Ablaze - Director: Nicholle Carter
• Headgear Hunting - Director: Yusmal Ghazali
• Hello VIVIAN - Director: Yoojin Kim
• Homegrown - Directors: Nicole Goh, Joyce Huan
• If It Could Happen to Me, It Could Happen to You - Director: Gwendolyn G Cassady
• In Our Backyard: History and Culture from the Citrus Belt (Henry Halpern's Sculptures) - Director: Claudia Gonzalez
• In Search Of The Food Preservers - Director: Nova Goh
• Is There Something Going On At Home? - Director: Jason Harney
• JAWAI - Director: Katya Ignatiev
• Journey Of The Bidayuh - Director: Ian Shepherd Salang Anak Peter
• Kick Out!: The Newtown Neurotics Story - Director: Luke Baker
• Koh Phangan Man - Director: Dewey Paul Moffit
• LA LIXEIRA - The Invisibles' Dignity - Directors: Guido Galante, Antonio Notarangelo
• L'Eternel Féminin - Director: Laine Immell
• Little Bride - Directors: Michael Man, Emma Botting, Sindy Man
• Love, and Dark Matter - Director: Qi Chen
• Mekong Apocalypse - Director: Michael Buckley
• Missed Conceptions - Director: Donna L Marvin-Platt
• Mute Voices - Director: Catherine Gropper
• One Pill Can Kill - Directors: Molly Hermann, Rob Lyall
• On Ice - Director: Katherine Zeng
• Pain of Silence - Directors: Christopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong
• Pride of Puglia - Director: DJ Chan
• Ride Your Story - Director: Andy Chia
• Roaming History: Emmett Till - Directors: Michael Rios, James Fierro
• Searching for Camelot: The Queen of Camelot - Director: Roger Paradiso
• Seeking Buchen - Director: Taha Anwer
• Shaking Hands With The Devil - Director: Olz McCoy
• She; Who Lives - Director: Ayesha Farooq
• Spark - Director: Beto Sporkens
• The Absence of Memory - Director: Brian Yulo Ng
• The Alliance - Director: Amanda Jean Kowalski
• The Butterfly Effect - Directors: Deb Wallwork, Janet Bayliss
• The Long Road to Hope: Ending Parkinson's Disease - Director: Iyad H. Amer
• The Newcomers - Director: Theresa Kliem
• The Order of Things - Directors: Ramona Badescu, Jeff Silva
• The Prince of Carbon - Director: Martin Boudot
• The Retirement Deception - Director: Kenneth Wilcox
• The Veteran's Battlefield - Director: Chris Baucom
• The Wind on Mount Everest - Director: Qing Su
• TRACES, Voices of the Second Generation - Directors: Isaac Brown, Ana Paula Habib
• Tutti In Scena - Director: Laura Caparrotti
• Uneven Ground: The Melissa Witt Story - Director: LaDonna Humphrey
• We Thrive - Directors: Lisa Hagopian, Eric Harabadian
• We've Gotta Sing - Director: Megan Goldstein
• When Wire Was King: The Transformation of Telecommunications - Director: Jennifer A. Manner
• WHERE HAVE ALL THE SMILES GONE - Director: Anja Strelec
• What if Schools Taught Us to Love - Director: Yannick Borit
• Will You Remember Me? - Director: Will Dowler

Spotlight Bronze Award:

• Americans in Japan - Director: Johnny Vonneumann
• Axé, Salvador! - Director: Domenico Rodolfo Grillone
• Breaking Barriers "The Djembe" - Director: Josh Levine
• Bring Dat Mono Back - Director: Edward T Thornton
• Direct & Reflect - Directors: Miki Holiday, Kal-El Billy Holiday, Kareem Dula Dixon, Troy L. Mitchell, Yolanda Nollie
• HEYOKA - Director: Jang Dong Ju
• Karam Camera - Directors: Liam LoPinto, Shaimaa Al Sabti, Hana Barhum
• Kashi’s Manikarnika: Mystique and Moksh - Director: Balendu D Kaushik
• Master and Apprentice - Director: Cory White
• Noishorrifics - Director: Sohanlal
• Open Mic'er - Director: Cameron Vitagliano
• STEPPIN: A Chicago Dance - Directors: Anthony Coleman, Gwen McGee
• The Challenges of Making Local History Documentaries - Director: Russ Fry
• Ukraine's Daughter - Justyna Uschak - Director: Brenda Jacoby
• We've Gotta Sing - Director: Megan Goldstein

Spotlight Platinum Award:

• Belle River – Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin
• Dear Ani – Micah B Levin
• Dropstones – Caitlin Durlak
• Failure to Protect – Jeremy Pion-Berlin
• Gangnam Beauty – Yan Tomaszewski
• Little Berlin – Kate McMullen
• My Duduś – Tom Krawczyk
• Nasima - The Most Fearless – Heather Kessinger
• Shredded – Noam Stolerman
• Sophie in Furbyland – Pacey Hansen
• State of the Unity – Nathaniel Paul Hoff, Jillian Ann Speece
• The Assassination & Mrs. Paine – Max Good
• The Martyr – Edmund Stenson

Spotlight Gold Award:

• A Fire Inside – Justin Krook, Luke Mazzaferro
• Backstreet to the American Dream – Patricia Nazario
• Becoming Wacky Chad – Isaac Deitz
• Being BeBe: the BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary – Emily Branham
• Cats of Malta – Sarah Jayne Portelli
• Chalk Back – Kylie Procita
• COFFEE FOR LIFE – Lennart Neumann, Wilhelm Schulz
• Dominion – Lindsey Ward
• Down The Line – Oliver Hamilton
• Exposure – Holly Morris
• Fast-Forward: Look Into Your Future – Michael Eric Hurtig
• Fly Monarca – Lyndsay Nicole, Benjamin Jordan
• Geeta – Emma Macey-Storch
• GO THROUGH THE DARK – Yunhong Pu
• Greening Israel The Movie | The Battle for Israel’s Trees – Benjamin Marsh Hilt
• Humanity our race, love our religion – Sonali Devnani
• I Am We – Ron Davis
• It Came from Aquarius Records – Kenneth Thomas
• Momma’s Boy – Jordan Shankman
• Offshore – Karel Candi
• Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums – Soren Sorensen
• Pasqualina of Springfield – Gina Cunningham
• Piconland: The Quest for the Perfect Picon Punch – Mark Maynard
• Reflections – Susanne Aichele
• Routine Interrupted – Lauren Shaw
• Sacred Waters: The Okefenokee in Peril – Mark Albertin
• Savage Land – Campbell Dalglish, Dr. Henrietta Mann
• Saving Gentle Giants – Mariclare Carey-Jones
• Tide To Table: The Remarkable Journey of Oysters – Maria Luskay, Lou Guarneri
• To Protect and Preserve: Historic Flat Rock's Legacy to Keep, Part 1 – Patricia A. Bradley, Michelle S. Mullen
• Unsinkable – Peter Grogan, Alan Corcoran
• Waniyetu Wowapi - Winter Count – Richard Steinberger

Spotlight Silver Award:

• 80 YEARS LATER – Celine Parreñas Shi
• Ablaze – Alec Morgan, Tiriki Onus
• Against The Tide – Joe Fletcher
• A Long Way From Nowhere – Paul Scheuring, Chris Ward
• APORIA – Mark Solomon
• Beyond the Voice – Abigail Rose Brannon
• Bird Lady – Carter Rostron
• Cinema Now – Louis Holder
• Cycle of Memory – Alex Leff
• FIREFLY: The Tay Fisher Story – Christopher Nostrand
• Flying With Eagles – Rémi Thevenart
• Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit – Sam Katz, James McGovern
• Kiss the Wind – Haotian Liu
• Listening – Jonathan Moore
• March of The Elephants – Olivia Chen
• My Heart is Red – Mia Chen
• Send Proof – Elijah Stephens
• Take Your Shot – Ross Bolidai
• TO THE WORLD WITH YOU – Chenghua Xu
• Ukraine War, the eyes of refugees – Olivia M. Pfaff

Spotlight Bronze Award:

• AAAMC Speaks: Teresa Hairston: The Unstoppable Game-Changer – Ethan Gill, Haley Semian, Dr. Tyron Cooper
• Aaron and the Train – James Hsieh Bylinsky
• Abuelita's Kitchen: Mexican Food Stories – Ebony Marie Bailey
• a girl can change the world – Andrea Ureno
• Approaching the Book of Changes – Hui Huanzhang
• An Unimportant Girl – Daxton Dubach
• Because we come from afar – Cédrick-Isham Calvados
• Bleed for Me: Art of the DeathMatch – Matthew L Lenz
• Food as Resistance – Keitlyn Alcantara
• Healing of the Nation: Ganja in Jamaica – Kimberly Holmes, Steve Holmes
• Norm Geisler: Not Qualified – Rachel M. Payne
• Sistas Evolving – Robyn Robinson
• Small Town Threads Documentary – Devin Olson
• TRIBE – Retji Dakum

• A Man in Chain - Director: Alireza Mirasadollah
• Gaucho Americano - Director: Nicolás Molina
• Good Intentions - Director: Andres Villasenor
• GOSIA@TOMEK - Director: Christine Jezior
• Heaven on Earth - Director: Robert Hope
• Leaving Tracks - Director: Nick Davis
• Miss Flores - Director: Juliana Toloza Serna
• Missing in Brooks County - Directors: Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss
• Welcome to the Dollhouse - Director: Elizabeth Miller-Derstine

• The Message - Director: Judit Papp
• Listening to Fukushima 2019 - Director: Yo Kohatsu
• Open Books - Director: Héctor Molina
• 35 Days - Director: Nicholas Manting Brewer
• 80.000 Schnitzel - Director: Hannah Schweier
• 86ED - Director: J.J. Hendricks
• A Cure for the Common Classroom - Director: Andy Hourahine
• A Fallow Year - Director: Dina Jane Rudick
• An Artist's Duty - Director: Elyssa Walsh
• An Encounter With Banting - Director: Isabelle Depelteau
• As Organism (Episode 1/BrainDagger Films Presents: Knowledge is Good) - Directors: Moe Taylor, Kathry
• As We Are Planted - Director: Anna Lee Ackermann
• Babylon: Ghetto, Renaissance, and Modern Oblivion - Director: Jessica Gould
• Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly - Director: Kim Smith
• Behind The Burning Vines - Director: Will Twomey
• Black Bauhinia - Director: Malte Philipp Kaeding
• BRASS - Director: Anuj Jamadagn
• Built Lands - Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero
• Burning The Village - Director: Liz Mcbee
• Chira - Director: Tela Moss
• Cliff: a portrait of an artist - Director: Adam Brooks
• CODA - Director: Hallie Haller
• Columbus in Cuba - Directors: Nicolette Swift, Matt Swift
• Crossing the Bridge: Discovering Mutual Language in Siberia - Director: Marek Ryszard Dojs
• Cultivating the Wild: William Bartram's Travels - Directors: Scott Auerbach, Eric Breitenbach, Dorinda G. Dallmeyer
• Dajla: Cinema and Oblivion - Director: Arturo Dueñas Herrero
• Dan Loves Butterflies - Director: Zach Putnam
• DRIVEN - Director: Pedro McCardell
• Duckman - Director: Kaixin Aethelu Wang
• Eleven Weeks - Directors: Anna Kuperberg, Julie Caskey
• Finding Palemahan - Director: Jillian Li
• For Love of the Land - Director: Cynthia Matty-Huber
• From Milan to the World - Director: Vincenzo Schioppa
• Full Circle - Director: Anne Via McCollough
• How Speaking About Suicide Can Save Lives - Director: Marissa Dingman
• I am a Black Sculptor - Director: Robin van Erven Dorens
• IF I'VE WON IF I'VE LOST - Director: Gian Luca Rossi
• Installation City - Directors: Songqiao Zhao, Wu Tong
• Instrument of Peace; the Brother Gabriel Story - Director: Nolan Uebelhor
• Last of Us: The Last Fishermen of the Lake - Director: Andrea Marcovicchio
• Life and Tacos - Director: Anil Dhoka
• Line of Sight | Timothy C. Ely - Director: Doug S. Garnett
• Love & Stuff - Director: Judith Helfand
• MILKED - Director: Amy Taylor
• My journey to the Everest - Directors: Hernán Leal, Thomas Hardy
• My Rembetika Blues - Director: M. Zournazi
• Old-Growth Murder - Director: Tom Olsen
• OSHIKA - Winds Of Change - Director: Kim Myoungyoon
• Positive for Huntington's - Directors: Karam Gamal El Din, Yousef Gamal El Din
• Rigged - Directors: Tracy MacDonald, Jill Thacker, Jim Wolfston, Matt Zodrow
• Rival Queens - Director: Anton Armendariz Diaz
• Shaolin - Director: Alec Palumbo
• Six Bucks and More Dragons (F.U.N) Far Up North - Director: Luka Raubenheimer
• Small Town Pride - Directors: Chelle Turingan, Riley Sparks
• Sonora - Director: Johnny Holder
• Sound of Judgment - Director: Julia Wall
• Spokespeople - Director: Ryan Mekenian
• Strength Among Us - Director: Taha Ovacı
• Suicidal Alentejo - Directors: Nuno Martini, David André
• The Attached - Directors: Christopher Saint Booth, Philip Adrian Booth
• The Birth & History of Western Swing - Director: Mike Markwardt
• The Blue and White in Me - Director: Daniel Castro
• The Game Is Up: Disillusioned Trump Voters Tell Their Stories - Director: Melissa Jo Peltier
• The Hunt: In Search for Australia's Big Cats - Director: Stu Ross
• The Invisible Project - Director: Pacifica J. Sauer
• The Long Shadow - Director: Frances Causey
• The Shoulders of Giants - Director: Quinn Early
• The Story Coat - Director: Carinne Leduc
• The Unisexuals - Director: Katie Garrett
• The United States of Fashion Designer Elie Tahari - Director: David Serero
• Tipping The Pain Scale - Director: Jeff Reilly
• Two Different Eyes - Directors: Juho Lee, Juseung Lee
• Words from the ZAD - Director: Matthieu Ponchel
• Y? - Directors: Danilo Milovanović, Neža Knez, Toni Poljanec, Luka Erdani

• Bar Sepia
  Director: Montgomery Mauro
• BCTC Pandemic
  Submitter: Steph Fitch
• By Your Side
  Directors: Debbie Africa, Mike Africa Sr.
• Camino de SANGJARU
  Director: Park Cheolwoo
• Camping Life (The Ephemeral City)
  Director: Josep Perez
• Child Support: The Scorn or The Absent
  Director: Matthew Sanders
• Country and Courage Director :   Rodney Roldan 
• Dante Barksdale's Last Act
  Directors: Zachary Slingsby, James Fitzgerald
• Debut
  Director: Connor Hopkins
• Dear Thalia
  Director: Rex Moribe
• Die Kunst
  Director: Jamie Roberts
• Directing Remotely and Filmmaking During the Pandemic: The Making of #MyCorona
  Director: Kirk Zeller
• Dream Big: Natasha
  Director: Mykyta Novokhatskyy
• Educating Leaders in an Uncertain World: The McGowan Fellowship
  Director: Matt Landfield
• Emotional Journey
  Director: Yang Fei
• Father
  Director: Deng Wei
• Fighting for Daybreak
  Director: Jason Head
• Fog Likely Farm: An Appalachian Story
  Directors: Anne Ward & Chip Williams
• Glimpses
  Director: Guy Pigden
• Homeless Not Hopeless
  Director: Changhee Chun
• I am Samuel
  Director: Pete Murimi
• Isonology
  Director: Thomas Hibner
• Is Your Story Making You Sick?
  Director: Frances Causey
• Jayro
  Director: Wojciech Lorenc
• Liar-In-Chief: A Chronicle of the Trump Presidency Through the Eyes of An Outraged Graphic Artist
  Director: M Kaplan
• Lost for Words
  Director: Jordan Cantello
• Magpies & UFO's
  Director: Kirk Ronald Cameron
• Matriarch
  Director: Martin Krafft
• Mentality
  Director: Garret Morgan
• Mr. Emancipation: The Walter Perry Story
  Director: Preston Chase
• My Brother Luis
  Director: Zani Wilson
• My Gypsy Road
  Director: Vilma Kartalska
• NAYA: David Kim
  Directors: AJ Valente, Janice Chung
• Oh, Mother of Mine
  Director: Anna Rawls
• Out of Exile - The Photography of Fred Stein
  Directors: Peter Stein, Dawn Freer
• Pieces of Us
  Director: Cheryl Allison
• Poteet
  Director: Kiley Josey
• Project Antarctica - Easter Island Extension
  Director: Evan Michael Gering
• PSAGOT RAMALLAH
  Director: Binyamin Haneman
• Radio Theatre For Your Soul, A Docu-Story
  Director: Shonnese C. L. Coleman
• Reparations
  Director: Jon Osaki
• Rez Metal
  Director: Ashkan Soltani Stone
• Salvatore Del Deo
  Director: Gleb Piryatinskiy
• Saving Juliette
  Director: Evey Wilson Wetherbee
• Sherod
  Director: William Feagins, Jr.
• Show Time
  Director: Zhang Qiusi
• Silenced, as Mercury Rises
  Director: Karl Talbot
• Sounds of the Sidewalk (A Journey of Goodbye)
  Directors: Michele Zousmer, Benjamin Huerta Cristobal
• Stand for Hannah
  Director: Roger Maunder
• The Adventures at Comic-Con
  Director: Jason Brown
• The Fruit of the Fungi
  Director: Clea Cullen

• BUMPASS
  Director: Brent Bartholomew
• Camping Life (The Ephemeral City)
  Director: Josep Perez
• Dorina
  Director: Atanas Kiryakov
• Dream Big: Natasha
  Director: Mykyta Novokhatskyy
• EK RAJPUT KISAN - The Real Story
  Directors: Dr. Bhawani Singh
• Empty America
  Director: Joel Bryant
• I Want My Kid Back: Treating Emotional Dysregulation
  Director: Celia Tewey
• I Want to Buy a House
  Director: Mya Saree' Gray
• Kontrast: Rhythm Delucco
  Director: Jon Meyer
• Last of the Lakers
  Director: Terry Ayrault
• Lorton
  Director: Richard Schertzer
• Once Upon Amsterdam
  Director: Rene Smaal
• The Making of a Cheer Team
  Director: Jason Harney
• The Return: A Covid-19 Story
  Director: Jeffrey Huang
• The Good Life
  Director: Carolyn Wilson

Platinum Award Winners:

  •   50 Little Birds – Director: Hannah Lindgren

  •   Alice Street – Director: Spencer I Wilkinson

  •   Circus Movements – Directors: Lukas Berger, Mário Gajo de Carvalho

  •   DAMITA. – Director: W. Feagins, Jr

  •   Don’t Be Afraid if I Hug You – Director: Niccolò Maria Pagani

  •   Fatal Distraction – Director: Susan Morgan Cooper

  •   Grounded – Director: Emily Walowski

  •   Higher Love – Director: Hasan Oswald

  •   Open Art Surgery – Director: Katie Mackenzie

  •   Sonnie – Director: Samuel Mirpoorian

  •   The Funeral Singer – Director: Manjula Varghese

  •   The Ghost Behind – Director: Caroline Rumley

  •   The Promise – Director: Danel Aser

  •   The Reunited States – Director: Ben Rekhi

  •   Until We Touch – Director: Charlotte Mungomery

  •   Where She Lies – Director: Zach Marion

Gold Award Winners:

 •   A Better Way – Director: Clay Vaughan

  •   A Greenlander – Director: Nicholas Jones

  •   Adventure of Fragrance – Director: Şahin Yiğit

  •   Alimos, Greek Riviera’s Blue Diamond – Director: Nico Mastorakis

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

  •   Alone Across The Arctic – Director: Francis Luta

  •   Architecture is Not an Image – Directors: Daoud Bouledroua, Elke Mittmann

  •   A Mirror for the Sun – Director: Neta Ariel

  •   Beer Boom – Directors: Eric W. Schleyer, An

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

  •   Belle-ile In Acadie – Director: Phil Comeau

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

  •   Bloodless: The Path To Democracy – Director: Bared Maronian

  •   Blue Kangling – Director: Matt Blackburn

  •   Britain’s Big Cat Mystery – Director: Matthew Everet

  •   Cinematographer – Director: Dan Asma

  •   Cops and Corpses; Victim’s Cry for Justice – Director: Maurice Oniang’o

  •   DACAmented – Directors: Samantha Campbell, Emma Greally, Kate Parker

  •   Darling Pet Monkey – Director: Jim McDonough

  •   David Foster: Off the Record – Director: Barry Avrich

  •   Deals and Visions – Director: Christian Machacek

  •   Dear Child – Director: Luca Ammendola

  •   death. everything. nothing. – Director: LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant

  •   dhīvaraḥ … way of life – Director: Giridhar Nayak K

  •   Don’t Forget Them – Director: Kamaran Karym

  •   Down The Road – Director: A.W. Stevenson

  •   Dry Tears of the Aral – Director: Danila Volkov

  •   Enclosure – Directors: Julia Guggisberg Hannud, Catharina Scarpellini

  •   Forgotten on Sinjar – Director: Igal Hecht

  •   Five Years North – Directors: Zach Ingrasci, Chris Temple

  •   Forgotten Valour – Director: Taylor Doggett

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

  •   Future of the Past – Director: Takamasa Iwasaki

  •   Getting Worldly – Director: Edgar Grech-Cumbo

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

  •   Going Viral – Director: Gregory Wendt

  •   Guardians of the Forest – Director: Jacob Wagner

  •   Hamda – Director: Ilona Szekeres

  •   Hard Phase – Director: Abdulaziz Alsuwailem

  •   HARD RUBBISH - A Collection Of Memories – Director: Alita Graziano

  •   Hello World – Director: Shawn Wildermuth

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

  •   Hope is Not Cancelled – Director: Jordan Somers

  •   Hotel Brothers – Director: Lucas Boychuk

  •   How Do You Hold A Hot Dog? – Director: Brent Collins

  •   Hyphen – Director: Laura Kamugisha

  •   I Cleaned My Room – Director: Ismael Lotz

  •   In Circles – Submitter: Christina Kelso

  •   Indians, Outlaws, Marshals and the Hangin’ Judge – Director: Larry Foley

  •   Inside NASA’s Innovations – Director: Jonny Caplan

  •   Invisible Hand – Directors: Joshua B. Pribanic, Melissa A. Troutman

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

  •   #JustAnotherDeadTranswoman – Director: Riley Del Rey

  •   Kiana’s Apache Ceremony – Director: Dounia Benjelloun

  •   Kiss the Ground – Directors: Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell

  •   La Lobera – Submitter: Claudio Escobar

  •   Last Call for Tomorrow – Directors: Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve

  •   Leatherpants Moped Trip - From the Alps to Las Vegas – Directors: Julian & Thomas Wittmann

  •   Little but Fierce – Director: Sara Barger

  •   Lockdown Lunch Club – Director: Déwun Owusu

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

  •   Making Lemonade: Our COVID-19 Story – Director: Christopher Francis

  •   Mamakrom – Director: Joseph Pelegreen

  •   Marie-Madeleine: A Female Chief – Director: Florence Ayisi

  •   Mcclenty – Director: Jessee Bermudez

  •   Missing in Brooks County – Directors: Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss

  •   My Roblox Story - CJ Oyer – Directors: Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky

  •   No Defense – Director: Sara Ganim

  •   No History of Violence – Directors: Ellie Bernstein, Tracy Nichole Cring

  •   No Limbs No Limits – Director: Steven O’ Riordan

  •   Now I am an Axolotl – Director: Alejandra Medellín

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

  •   Oceans Without Limits – Director: Mark van Wijk

  •   “On This Hallowed Ground” Vietnam Veterans Memorial Born From Tragedy – Director: Sarah Kanafan

  •   Pinnacle – Director: Vikram Jeet Singh Parmar

  •   ProDogTV – Director: Randall Owens

  •   Prophets, Teachers and Kings – Director: Devin A. Rice

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

  •   Puri – Director: Daniel Casado

  •   Revelation – Directors: Nial Fulton, Sarah

  •   Reversal of Fortune: Turkey’s Unraveling Democracy – Director: Barry Avrich

  •   Rivers of Ukraine. Stokhid. Part II – Director: Sergii Trofymchuk

  •   Salman Bin Hamad - A VISION OF PROMISE – Director: Eva Daoud

  •   Saving Saffron – Director: Tammy Khajotia

  •   Saving the Sacred – Director: Daniel Bruns

  •   Seeroo fi al ardh – Director: Dimitri Yuri

  •   Sht Saves the World* – Director: Troy Hale

  •   Soccer Grannies – Directors: Clément Boxebeld, Julia Mourri

  •   Sockeye Salmon. Red fish – Directors: Dmitriy Shpilenok, Vladislav Grishin

  •   South of Everything: A Journey to Antarctica – Director: Alexyn Scheller

  •   Supermalo – Director: Matthew Seger

  •   TechTalk – Director: Jonny Caplan

  •   The Ballad of John Henry – Submitter: Matt Rice

  •   The Bronze Men of Cameroon – Director: Florence Ayisi

  •   The Endless Chain – Director: Benjamin Jordan

  •   The Fable of a Song – Director: Andy Strohl

  •   The Final Fix – Directors: Norman Stone, Tim Neeves

  •   The Last Day on Duty – Director: Jon Cortegoso Otad

  •   The Last Fishing Journey – Director: Tanguy Guinchard

  •   The Last Lightkeepers – Director: Rob Apse

  •   The Last Song – Directors: Lisa Punz, Michael Hecht

  •   The Maroon Bomber – Director: Joshua M. Thomas

  •   The Mayberry Effect – Director: Christopher Hudson

  •   The New Abolitionists – Director: Christina Zorich

  •   The Pivotal Players: Flannery O’Connor – Director: Matthew Leonard

  •   The Place That Makes Us – Submitter: Karla Murthy

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

  •   The Right Girls – Director: Timothy Wolfer

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

  •   The Special Forces Experience – Director: Zachariah Montgomery

  •   The Spider Crab – Director: Tristan Francia

  •   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

  •   The Undocumented Lawyer – Directors: Chris Temple, Zach Ingrasci

  •   This Is Dire Times – Director: Ross Anderson

  •   Untie Me – Director: Magi Avila

  •   Victoria’s Foil – Directors: Brett Forrest, Brian Ryu

  •   Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations – Director: Andrew Goldberg

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

  •   When the Camera Stopped Rolling – Director: Jane Castle

  •   White Wolves - Ghosts of the Artic – Director: Oliver Goetzl

  •   Who Is This Women’s Day For? – Director: Monalisa Mukherji

  •   Women are the Change – Directors: Philip Lewis, Linda Stout

Silver Award Winners:

  •   5x7 – Director: Michele Citoni

  •   8 Weeks to Happy – Director: Kallie Bryant

  •   12th Street – Directors: Gregory Lovett, Matthijs Heesemans

  •   19 Shades of Black – Director: John Brooks

  •   100 Boats: A Hurricane Harvey Documentary – Director: Syed Hasan

  •   A Bay to Cherish – Director: Freddy Moyano

  •   Abel Cuerda - The Colour Painter – Director: Juan Antonio Moreno

  •   A Fighting Chance – Director: Troy Sweeney

  •   After the Coup, Malian Women Speak – Directors: Erica Pomerance, Fatoumata Coulibaly

  •   Alaska Long Hunters – Director: Mark Rose

  •   A Long Way to Kansas – Director: Stefano Notaro

  •   Alway5: The Ryan Dungey Story – Directors: Ryan Marcus, Chris Onstott

  •   American Caricature – Directors: Joe Ciomek, Tom Faraci

  •   AMERICART 2019 – Director: Christelle Bois

  •   Amy’s Victory Dance – Director: Brian Thomas

  •   Another Child – Directors: Leanna Borsellino, James Headrick

  •   Ashes – Director: Jiuxun Jin

  •   A Tower Block in Ladbroke Grove – Director: Peter Heslop-Smith

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

  •   Bernard: “The Rebirth” – Director: Jorey Collins

  •   Birds Without Wings – Director: Rishabh Thakkar

  •   Birth of an Ancestor – Director: Peter Hoesing

  •   Blob Blob Fish – Director: Andrew Mossop

  •   Blood, Bone & Stone – Director: Thomas A. Grant

  •   Boston’s Homelessness Crisis – Director: Sheila Burke

  •   Brave Are The Fallen – Director: Jacob Whitley

  •   Burn With Us – Director: Joshua S. Bischof

  •   Candango: Memories From a Festival – Director: Lino Meireles

  •   Candido – Directors: Manfred Rainer, Hannah Rosa Oellinger, Stefan Wirnsperger

  •   Chained Pen – Director: Anna Dalmay

  •   Collective - Finding Home – Directors: Brennen Meek, Beth Meek

  •   Community Through Crisis: A Vermont Story – Director: Wendy E. Reynolds

  •   Defending Our Crowns – Director: Stephanie Bell

  •   Desire? – Director: Garima Kaul

  •   Displacement and Hope – Director: Marta N. Bautis

  •   Dreams of Hope – Directors: Henry Panion, David Macon

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

  •   EUtopia – Director: Bryan Carter

  •   Eworth – Director: Christopher Romano

  •   Fandango at the Wall – Director: Varda Bar-Kar

  •   Father of a Broken Angel – Director: Dhiney Ramos

  •   Flood Plain – Directors: Paul J Shumaker, Payton Shumaker

  •   Forgotten Heroes – (Director not listed)

  •   Gervase – Director: Michael Peel

  •   Gianni Berengo Gardin’s Tale of Two Cities – Director: Donna Serbe-Davis

  •   Happiness Only Real When Shared – Directors: Fredrik Aronsson, Jonathan Kristensson

  •   Homeland Hero – Director: Rahsaan Jones

  •   Homelessness Is Not A Crime – Director: Mann Robinson

  •   Hometown Proud – Directors: Naida Osline, Tyler Stallings

  •   I Bleed – Director: Leah Manasseh

  •   I Have a Name – Director: Lucia Mauro

  •   INterDEPENDENCE – Director: Greg Jeschke

  •   In The Red – Director: Patrick Rooney

  •   In the Same Direction: Jeff Pifher & Socrates’ Trial – Director: Alexander Craven

  •   Investing Life – Director: Vaishali Vasant Ken

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

  •   January 13th, Richmond VA – Director: Phineas Alexander

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

  •   Justified Journey – Director: Greg Jeschke

  •   Kicking The Hornet’s Nest – Director: Kyle Floyd

  •   Kilroy and the Boy Soldier – Director: Joseph Spillane

  •   Kite – Director: Yumeng He

  •   Kuzra - The Psychology of a Female Homicide – Director: Lara Azzopardi

  •   La Amable Euforia de la Danza – Director: Miguel Castanet

  •   Leaving Allen Street – Director: Katrina Channells

  •   Life in the Sacrifice Zone – Director: Chad Nance

  •   Line Man – Director: Marcelo Silva

  •   Living with The Odds – Director: Erich Meltvedt

  •   Lost in Berlin – Director: Rodney S. Martel

  •   Love the Mission – Director: Jared Cruce

Bronze Award Winners:

  •   20.20 Social Readapation – Director: Amedeo Staiano

  •   A Bard for the Ages – Director: Brian Barsuglia

  •   An Irish Underdog Story – Director: Jonny Farrelly

  •   Blowin’ Up: The Chasity D. Barnes Story – Directors: Delendra Peterson, Amanda Granger

  •   Dream, Live, Create and Other Stories from Malasana – Director: Juanjo Castro

  •   Fair Weather Sandhill – Director: Freddy Moyano

  •   Farestart: Perspective – Director: Greg Westhoff

  •   Glimpses From The Great War – Director: Jim Nowak

  •   Giving Hope in a Broken and Hurting World – Director: Don McLeer

  •   Grit – Director: N. Shanmuga Sund

  •   Haunted Lane – Director: Charlie VanderKlipp

  •   I Just Wanted to Say – Director: Olz McCoy

  •   IN SANE 2020 – Director: Peter Evanchuck

  •   It’s Beautiful – Director: Miko Nincic

  •   Just a Podcast | Documentary – Director: Michael Burnet

  •   Kamo Lyfe – Director: Marcel Dorsey

  •   Keraleeya Thalangal – Director: K.R. Subash

  •   Khamid & Zulfiya – Director: Ruslan Saliev

  •   Leap of Faith – Director: Venkat Bharadwaj

  •   Man on the Street – Director: Dakare Chatman

  •   Millennium Willow – Director: Fiona Yang

  •   Mission Safeer: 37 Days to Freedom – Directors: Viraf Kekobad, Hanif Modak

  •   My Mother My Rock – Director: Kelly Roulette

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

  •   PAT PASSLOF…Unexpected Conversation… – Director: Bill Page

  •   Searching for Camelot: The Quest – Director: Roger Paradiso

  •   Status Unknown – Director: Nate Van Dore

  •   Straight Off The Canvas – Director: Anthony Saldana

  •   Tao Qi – Director: Emily Feng

  •   The Metta Story – Director: Chow Wah Chan

  •   The Raising of the Son – Director: Ricardo Jackson

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

  •   The Sullivanians: Through a Blue Window – Director: Shelley Feinerman

  •   The Unheard Tales of the Tamikafest – Director: Fenell

  •   Three Meals – Director: Monika Ivonne

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

  •   Tony Halik – Director: Marcin Borchardt

  •   Typography Through Time: Renaissance Era – Director: Rodney Roldan

  •   Veritas – Directors: Sam Wang, Zoey Zhou

  •   We Never Talked About This – Director: Steven Nanson

  •   Women of Faith: Coping with Trauma – Director: Angela Heath

  •   You Handsome Dog (Don’t You Ever Die) – Director: Theresa Desautels

Platinum Award Winners: 

• Dear, Dreamer
  Director: Kristian Melom
• Lost In Carranza
  Director: Marin Troude
• Shelter Me
  Director: Zach Lawson
• Plastic River
  Director: Manuel Camia
• (Un)Divided
  Director: Paul Raila

Gold Award Winners:

• A Brave One
  Director: Stas Ivanov
• A Love Story for Brooke
  Director: Paul Catalanotto
• ALTERNATIVE FACTS: The Lies of Executive Order 9066
  Director: Jon Osaki
• Almost Home
  Directors: Susan Cahill & Matt Rogers
• Boober
  Director: Sriram Papolu
• Born in America
  Director: Zhan Luo
• BRUSH...painted forward
  Director: Dimitri Pantchev
• Canvas
  Director: Liv Gwynn
• Chasing the Jet Stream
  Director: Claudio von Planta
• CHEF DARREN: The Challenge of Profound Deafness
  Director: Dorothy Fadiman
• Disconnected
  Director: Miroslav Nincic
• El Cuarto Reino
  Director: Alex Lora Cercos
• Extraordinary: The Seeding
  Director: Jon Sumple
• Free Spirit
  Director: Hani Yared
• From Liberty to Captivity
  Director: Debbie Wright
• Gang Love
  Director: Adam Ybarra
• Harmony: Latvian Democracy on Russia's Border
  Director: Samuel George
• I am Still Here
  Director: Cynthia Matty-Huber
• Inviolable - The Fight for Human Rights
  Director: Angela Andersen
• In Their Shoes: Unheard Stories of Reentry and Recovery
  Director: Taylor Katsanis
• Jumpin' Johnny: The Incredible True Story Of Dr. John Kline
  Director: Cameron McCasland
• Last Beer at the Pig's Ear
  Director: Peter Blow
• Letters From Long Binh
  Director: Greg Stern
• MUSTIMUHW: All of the People
  Director: Lachlan Anderson
• Oil Capital Underground: The Genesis and Evolution of Punk Rock in Tulsa-Late 70's to Mid 90's
  Director: Bryan Crain
• Our Lady Victory: The Story of Indy 11
  Director: Nick Evans
• Pick It Up! Ska in the '90s
  Director: Taylor Morden
• Pooh: The Derrick Rose Story
  Director: Scott Diener
• Prepare Now!
  Director: Peter Charles Downey
• Reap What You Sew
  Director: Tyler Adams
• "Redeemed" The Brandi Brassell Story
  Director: Joe Teixeira
• Searching For Meaning
  Director: Jean-Francois Rodrigues
• Shatter the Silence
  Director: Cheryl Allison
• Sunblock
  Director: Bill Bentley
• The Color of Art
  Director: David Weathersby
• The Deepest Cut
  Director: Alexandra Guillossou
• The Magic Behind the Mojo
  Director: Joe Gallo
• The Minds of Men
  Directors: Aaron Dykes & Melissa Dykes
• The Race
  Director: Dina Rudick
• The Rest Is History
  Director: Peter Costigan
• The Unforgettable Augustus Post
  Directors: Jason Cohn & Camille Servan-Schreiber
• The Wounded Blue
  Director: Jason Harney
• The Night is Black and the Day is White
  Director: Joe McStravick
• The Sako Tapes
  Director: Machiel van den Heuvel
• The Hebron Protocol
  Director: Jared Leong
• The Housecats
  Director: Molly Hackett
• The Instant
  Director: Hakan Aytekin
• The Gate: Dawn of the Bahá’í Faith
  Director: Bob Hercules
• The Giant Deep Reds
  Director: Maurice Micallef
• The Long Road of Exile
  Director: The Church of Almighty God
• The Making of a Man
  Director: Lo Dagerman
• The Giant Deep Reds
  Director: Maurice Micallef
• The Color of Justice
  Director: Marjolaine Grappe
• The Waitlist
  Directors: Natasha Pizzey-Siegeart & James Fredrick
• When We Were Apollo
  Director: Zachary Weil
• Who Am I
  Director: Caleb Vinson
• Why She Smiles
  Director: Caroline Sims
• Yam Festival, Ghana
  Director: James Dalrymple

Silver Award Winners:

• After the Storm
  Director: Kiyoko Tanaka
• A Dog's Life
  Director: Robert J. Bradshaw
• A Journey Through Time
  Director: Niels H. Nielsen
• Against the Grain
  Director: Tanya Galbraith
• An Unspoken Bond
  Director: Dan Janik
• Anticipation
  Director: Sara Dreher
• Any Given Sunday
  Director: Paul Anastasopoulos
• Back to the Streets
  Director: Jerome Mayhew
• Belly of the Beast
  Director: Judith Mirzoian
• Blight
  Director: Stiofan O'Neill
• Bringing the Heat
  Director: Oscar Vasquez
• Cages
  Director: Vassilis Kakogiannis
• Chasing Shadows
  Director: Sam Dalton
• Cold Nights
  Director: Ian Boyle
• Cold Feet
  Director: Emily Jones
• Confessions of a Comic Book Writer
  Director: Brian Silliman
• Crossing the Line
  Director: Tony Zherlen
• Die Burg
  Director: Hans Andreas Guttner
• Endgame
  Director: Nikolas Grumbaris
• Eyes of the Heart
  Director: Alyx Winter
• Fall from Grace
  Director: Stefan Kanyemba
• Family Secrets
  Director: Lisa H. Davis
• Flesh and Blood
  Director: Anna Schimpf
• Fragments of Time
  Director: Olan D. Kaseke
• From Nowhere
  Director: Carlos Nunez
• Future's End
  Director: Matt Tonge
• Goodbye Love
  Director: Claire Chinnery
• In the Shadow of the Moon
  Director: Maria Eleftheriou
• Lifeline
  Director: Nicholas Pang
• Like Father, Like Son
  Director: Lauren Victoria
• Life Under the Glass
  Director: Michael Brewer
• Mend the Broken
  Director: Candice McGrath
• My Mother's Garden
  Director: Kathy Biehl
• Not Alone
  Director: Leah Kauffman
• On the Edge
  Director: Adam Anderson
• Out of Sight
  Director: Gigi Carr
• Sailing on Air
  Director: Tracy Vogel
• Scattered Dreams
  Director: Tammie White
• Swing State Florida: After Michael
  Director: Samuel George
• The Blurry Road
  Director: Caitlin Hickey
• The Free World
  Director: Linda Jones
• The Heights We Reach
  Director: Marko Ristic
• The Last Horizon
  Director: Jared Macdonald
• The People We Know
  Director: Jessica Walker
• The Silent Goodbye
  Director: Laura McGill
• The Waitlist
  Directors: Natasha Pizzey-Siegeart & James Fredrick
• The Watcher
  Director: Omar Fawal
• Through Her Eyes
  Director: Anna Vargas
• Tomorrow's Promise
  Director: Michael Reynolds
• Under the Sky
  Director: Chris Elias
• Untold Secrets
  Director: Tania Golden
• We Are One
  Director: Claire Stanford
• When It Rains
  Director: Jérémy Roussier
• Wildfire
  Director: Toby Williams
• Within Reach
  Director: Tom Goodwin

Bronze Award Winners:

• 20 Liters
  Directors: Andy Seiler & Aaron Thomas
• A Moment in Time
  Director: Andrea Harris
• A Simple Life
  Director: Michael Sharpe
• Beneath the Surface
  Director: Emma Langford
• Broken Bonds
  Director: Charlie McLaren
• Captured Moments
  Director: Reema Ali
• Chasing Echoes
  Director: David Porter
• Crossroads
  Director: Nathaniel McKinney
• Distant Voices
  Director: Aisha Burke
• End of the Line
  Director: Peter Barlow
• Finding Home
  Director: Stephanie Mulligan
• Glimpse of Tomorrow
  Director: Kiran Patel
• Hollow Hearts
  Director: Marcella DiClemente
• In the Mirror
  Director: Daryl Singer
• Into the Void
  Director: Sarah Wilkinson
• Lifting Spirits
  Director: Rick Anderson
• Light of Day
  Director: Mark Severs
• Lost and Found
  Director: Janet Langston
• New Beginnings
  Director: Sophia Turner
• Out of Darkness
  Director: Peter Zhao
• Passing Through
  Director: Jamie Long
• Pieces of the Past
  Director: Carole Green
• Silent Witness
  Director: Fernando Reyes
• Small Moments
  Director: Fiona McLeod
• Strangers in the Night
  Director: Tobias Keller
• The Final Hour
  Director: Jodie Sinclair
• The Long Road Home
  Director: Rachel Larkin
• The Other Side
  Director: Alan Peterson
• The Waiting Game
  Director: Tara Linton
• Through the Lens
  Director: Sophia Cameron
• Unspoken Words
  Director: Sean Reilly
• Wandering Souls
  Director: Mia Santos
• Where We Belong
  Director: Jane Morrison
• Whispers in the Dark
  Director: Kelsey Foster
• Wild Winds
  Director: Bruce Elman
• Winter's Embrace
  Director: David Clark
• Without a Trace
  Director: Michael Gill
• Worlds Apart
  Director: Amelia Holt
• Yesteryear
  Director: Emily Ford

Platinum Award Winners:

• Don't Be Nice by Max Powers
• We Are Columbine by Laura Farber

Gold Award Winners:

• 49-1 by Martha Shaw
• A Gift of Wings: The Pilots of Sebring by Ted Snow
• After I'm Gone by Sean Bowman
• Amoka by Maria Jose Bermudez Jurado
• Arktika Incognita by Bertrand Delapierre
• Believer by Don Argott
• Cuba, Libre? by Dick Jordan
• Curing the Incurable? by Gary Null
• Crafty Containers by Paul Evans
• Desert Coffee by Mikael Lypinski
• Fearless Journey by Andreas Batliner & Sandro Schreiber
• Fighting Childhood Cancer by Jeremy Abrams
• Flickering Lights by Joby Stephens
• From Darkness to Light by Joshua Freake
• Give Us This Day by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
• Here in Oak Cliff by Bryan Sabillon
• I Am The White Tiger by Lei Chiu
• I Am What I Have Learned To Be by Adela Vrinceanu Celebidachi
• I Got the Land by Francescu Artily
• Indus Blues by Jawad Sharif
• Ixoq ("Woman") by Danielle Robitaille
• JamieJimJames by Tin Pang
• Let's Talk About Sex by Lisa Burd
• Making Mill Town by Lindsay LaPointe
• Mexico: Looking for Lost Migrants by Leo Mattei and Alex Gohari
• Mississippi Whistle by Justyn Bell
• Momentum Generation by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
• Pipe Dreams Fractured Lives by David Smith
• Ridge to Ranch to River to Reef: Florida's Conservation Connections by Maria Luskay
• RISE: The Story of Augustines by Todd Howe
• Sea Pilgrim by Will Mayer
• Skuggi (Shadow) by Richard D. Lavoie
• Suspended Generation by Andrea Egan & Joe Hitchcock
• The Happiness Machine by Rebecca Blumhagen
• The High Sierra Trail by Chris Smead
• The Home for Wayward Babydolls by Andrew Reed
• The Infamous Future by Richard Butterworth and John Campbell
• The Most Unknown by Ian Cheney
• The New Gypsy Kings by Liviu Tipurita
• The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything by The Church of Almighty God
• The Village on the Loch by Caroline Strong
• The Volcano Concert by Przemysław Wawrzyniak
• Travelling on Trash by Deb Charles, Adam Gee, Alex Hryniewicz, Steve Wheen
• Washed Up by Nathan Hughes

Silver Award Winners:

• 1, 2, 3, Once Again by Vasco Diogo
• A.E. Wells: A Man and His Park by Donald Dodge
• A Man and His Trumpet: The Leroy Jones Story by Cameron Washington
• All American Barber by John Jones
• All the Dictator's Men by Marjolaine Grappe
• Arktika Incognita by Bertrand Delapierre
• Austin Samba by Nil Buan
• Beacon by Isara Krieger
• Bow With Me by The 2018 Institute for Documentary Filmmaking
• Buddy Cruise: How the Students Were Impacted by Vanessa Bundschu
• Burn: The Lynching of George Armwood by Will Schwarz
• Captured: Tornadoes by James Stamoulakatos
• Chamber Music Wonderland by Emanuel Altenburger
• Core 2.1 by Core van der Hoeven
• Dancing Manilenyos by Patrick Alcedo
• Dunham Deaf Boy by Ladan Sahraei
• Edunation by Dr. K. M Vasudevan Pillai
• Floating Justice by Leila Lak
• Game Changer: Let's Get Physical! by Timothy "Eli" Ruckman
• Goomba's by David Williams & Aisha Noox
• Grunt Film Project by Jacob Mogler
• GUMBO by Alyssa Rachelle
• High Tide in Dorchester by David Harp
• How Does the City of Savannah Negotiate Its Complicated Past? by Sarah O'Carroll
• In Search of Godawan by Vaid Prakash Dhar
• It's in Your Eyes by Sergio García Locatelli & Sean Schoenecker
• JamieJimJames by Tin Pang
• Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country by J.J. Harting
• Making of a Gangsta by Adam Ybarra
• MAXWELL STREET MARKET / WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JEW-TOWN by Isaih Shaw
• Memories by Takamasa Iwasaki
• Mexican Wave by Judson Vaughan
• Nossa Chape by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
• ORENDA: Force of Consciousness by Lana Marconi
• Party on the Moon by Robert Fritz
• Remembering Private Quagliano by Rodney Roldan
• Solari, the Origin of Ceviche or the Original Ceviche by Sergio García Locatelli
• Strange Fruit on the Courthouse Lawn by Sean Foy, Matt Huston, Megan Miller, Kara McCafferty, Riley Fanning
• Tax Evasion: A Greek National Sport by Kelly Sarri
• The Drive: 6 Days 4392 KM 30000 Yuan by Naixin Xu
• The Happiness Machine by Rebecca Blumhagen
• The King of Snapchat by Ed Moore, Joel Raine
• The Mayor's Race by Loraine Blumenthal
• The Mothman Chronicles by Chloe Kelsch
• The Possibility of Her by William Feagins Jr.
• The Sillar Stonecutters by Alfredo Benavides Watmough
• The Time is Already by Selene Means
• The Tribal Scoop by Beeswaranjan Pradhan
• Through the Storm: Waves for Water and the Caribbean Hurricane Relief Initiative by Greg McKillop
• Underground Sunshine Cinema by Cameron Tucker
• United Hopes by Arwa Sawan
• Where There is Darkness by Sean Bloomfield & Cimela Kidonakis

Bronze Award Winners:

• 1, 2, 3, Once Again by Vasco Diogo
• Amazons of Afrika, Women Warriors by Obafemi Lasode, Harriet Ewemade
• Bigly Yellow by Nigel Deans & Nubar Ghazarian
• Departure of Empathy by Quinn Holliday
• Family Is by Miranda Florer
• I Want My Daddy by Timothy "Cutty" Sanders
• Internal Outskirts by Sergio García Locatelli
• Portrait of the Drunks by Dylan DeVore
• Solari, the Origin of Ceviche or the Original Ceviche by Sergio García Locatelli
• There's No Crying in Los Angeles by Julian an Mey & Melvin Sewell
• We Are Not a Nuisance! by Chan C