Atlanta Docufest: Award Winning Documentaries

Best Documentary Feature

Jack Has a Plan

​​​Directed by Bradley Berman

Best Foreign Documentary Feature

Hello World

​​​​​Directed by Kenneth Elvebakk

Best Artist Documentary Feature

The Mad Writer

Directed by Zach Kashkett

Best Biographical Documentary Feature

Song of the Cicada

​​​​Directed by Aaron Weiss & Robert Weiss

Best Director Documentary Feature

Humanity Stoked

​​​Directed by Michael Ien Cohen

Best Cinematography 

WILD BEAUTY: Mustang Spirit of the West

​​​​Directed by Ashley Avis

Best Local Documentary Feature

Where The Butterflies Go

​​Directed by Fraser Jones

Jury Award Documentary Feature

Beautiful Faces

​​Directed by Dagan West Beckett

Audience Choice Award Documentary Feature

DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime

​​​Directed by Nicholas Meyers & Tyler Chandler

Best Documentary Short

Brotherness

​Director David Power

Best Foreign Documentary Short

​Little Berlin

Director Kate McMullen

Best Biographical Documentary Short

#MoCrazyStrong

Directors Jamie MoCrazy & Mark Locki

Best Director Documentary Short

She Got Balls!

Director Cheryl Hess

Best Student Documentary

Requiem for a Whale

Director Ido Weisman

Best Local Documentary Short

Young Kings

Directors Jonathan Banks, Dr. Arshley Emile

Best Animated Documentary Short

Miss Betty's Calling

Director Richard O'Connor

Audience Choice Documentary Short

Jackson

Director Denver Hollingsworth

Best Documentary Feature

Nasima

Director Heather Kessinger

Best Foreign Documentary Feature

A Fire Inside

Directors Justin Krook &  Luke Mazzaferro

Best Historical Documentary Feature

The Assassination & Mrs. Paine

Director Max Good

Best Director(s) - Feature Documentary 

State of the Unity

Directors Nathaniel Paul Hoff & Jillian Ann Speece

Best Cinematography 

Dropstones

Director Caitlin Durlak

Audience Choice Award - Feature Documentary

Failure to Protect

Director Jeremy Pion-Berlin

Best Documentary Short

Dear Ani

Director Micah B Levin

Best Foreign Documentary Short

Gangnam Beauty

Director Yan Tomaszewski

Best Director Short Documentary 

My Duduś

Director Tom Krawczyk

Best Sports Documentary Short

Shredded

​Director Noam Stolerman

Best Local Documentary

Lui Na Greine "Window of a Sunset"

Director Brandon Andersen

Best Documentary Feature

Missing in Brooks County 

Directors Lisa Molomot, Jeff Bemiss

Best Foreign Documentary Feature

GOSIA@TOMEK

Director Christine Jezior

Best Cinematography 

Gaucho Americano 

Director Nicolás Molinad

Best Sports Documentary Feature

Live Free. Skate Hard.

Director Legrand McMullen

Best Short

Heaven on Earth

Director Robert Hope

Best Local Short

Decisions 

Director Keller Fornes

Best Animated Short

Miss Flores

Director Juliana Toloza Serna 

Best Foreign Short

Good Intentions

Director Andres Villasenor

Best Director

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Director Elizabeth Miller-Derstine

Audience Choice Award

Leaving Tracks

Director Nick Davis

Best Documentary Feature

Reunited States

​​Directed by Ben Rekhi

Best Foreign Documentary Feature

Don't Be Afraid if I Hug You

Director Niccolò Maria Pagani

Best Director 

Higher Love

Directed by Hasan Oswald

Best Short

The Promise

Director Danel Aser

Best Local Short

Sleepless Flight 

​Director Jeremy Cournyea

Best Experimental Short

The Ghost Behind

Director Caroline Rumley 

Best Foreign Short

Open Art Surgery

Director Katie Mackenzie

Best Cinematography

Circus Movements

Directors Lukas Berger,  Mário Gajo de Carvalho

Best Student Film

Grounded

Director Emily Walowski

Audience Choice Award

Fatal Distraction

Director Susan Morgan Cooper

Best Feature

The Artist and the Pervert

​by Beatrice Behn & René Gebhardt 

Best Director (Feature)

One Child Left Behind

by Jodi Gomes 

Best Short

Uniontown

by Fraser Jones

Best Local Short

Composite 

​by Patrick W. Shaver

Best Animated Short

Bright Lights - The Perils of the Pokies

by Charby Ibrahim

Best Foreign Short

Blindball 

by Torben Schou

Best Young Director

Ariana Feiner - A Story of Courage

Best Director (Short)

The Last Harvest

by Alexis Spradic

Best Cinematography

Inferno

​by Patrick Fileti 

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Audience Choice Award

Dosed

by Tyler Chandler

Best Documentary Feature

DON’T BE NICE

by Max Powers

Best Foreign Documentary Feature

STATE OF EXCEPTION

by Jason O'Hara

Best Social Issue Documentary Feature

THE MOST DANGEROUS YEAR

by Vlada Knowlton

Best Director

WE ARE COLUMBINE

by Laura Farber

Best Cinematography

BIRD OF PREY

by Eric Liner

Audience Choice Award

LETTER FROM MASANJIA

​by Leon Lee

Best  Documentary Short

GRIND

by Yuri Alves

Best Director - Short

HIDDEN BLUEPRINTS - THE STORY OF MIKEY

by Jeremy Lee MacKenzie

Best Animated Short

MY GRANDFATHER’S MEMORY BOOK

by Colin Levy

Best Student Documentary Short

LOSER BY BIRTH

by Cole Bankston

Best Foreign Documentary Short

THE BEAUTY OF REVERSO

by Michael Brent Adam

Best Local Documentary Short

THE REVIVE PROJECT

by Shar-De Griffith

Best Social-Issue Documentary Short

AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS

By Amanda Zackem

Best Documentary Feature

WHITNEY Can I Be Me?

by Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal

Best Dramatic Documentary Feature

Manson: The Voice of Madness

by Buddy Day

Best Social-Issue Documentary

The Disunited State of America

by Luis Prieto

Best Political Documentary

The UnAmerican Struggle

by Ric Osuna

Best LGBT Documentary Feature

It's Not Just Me

by Jonathan Messer

Best Environmental Documentary Feature

Intelligent Trees​

by Julia Dordel & Guido Tölke

Best Scientific Documentary Feature

E.T. CONTACT: They are Here

by Caroline Cory

Best Adventure Documentary Feature

The Lure

by Tomas Leach

Best Director

Tempest Storm

by Nimisha Mukerji

Audience Choice Documentary Feature

This Cold Life

by Darren Mann

Jury Award Documentary Feature

Good Fortune

by Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell

Best Cinematography

The Disunited State of America

by Luis Prieto

Best Documentary Short

The American Skin

by Christy Rose , Elana Meyers, Woody Tucker

Best Foreign Documentary Short

The Good Fight

by Ben Holman

Best Environmental Documentary Short

For Flint

by Brian Schulz

Best Sports Documentary Short

Fresh Meat

by Angie Jones

Best Local Documentary Short

Alex

by Larissa Loeffler

Best Dramatic Documentary Short

Alex

by Brian Inocencio, Nottapon BoonPrakob

Best Social-Issue Documentary Short

The Fourth Kingdom

by Alex Lora-Cercos & Adan Aliaga

Best LGBT Documentary Short

My First Drag Show

by Brian Graves

Audience Choice Documentary Short

Deaners

by David Garry

Jury Award Documentary Short

My Irnik

by Francois Lebeau, Matthew Hood

Best Documentary Feature

Raising Bertie

​​​​​dir by Margaret Byrne

Best Dramatic Documentary Feature

Until 20

dir. by Geraldine Moriba, Jamila Paksima

Best Social - Issue Documentary Feature

Indivisible

​​​​​dir by Hilary Linder

Best Foreign Documentary Feature

The Trivialist

dir by Ronen Becker

Best LGBT Documentary

Uncle Gloria : One Helluva Ride!

dir by Robyn Symon

Best Local Documentary Feature

Behind The Lens: A PC&E Story

dir by Nick Theriot

Audience Choice Documentary Feature

Spilled Milk

dir. by Jaqai Mickelsen

Juror’s Choice Documentary Feature

Kelly's Hollywood

dir by Brian Donovan

Best Documentary Short

Heartbreak & Beauty

dir. by Libby Banks, Nathan Basha, Robin Bryan, Genevieve Clay-Smith

Best Experimental Documentary Short

Nail House

dir. by K. S. McMullen

Best Sports Documentary Short

The Boxer

dir. by Craig Cutler​

Best Foreign Documentary Short

Alphonsine

dir. by Matthieu Raulic

Best Dramatic Documentary Short

In This World

dir. by  Kelly Creedon

Best Social-Issue Documentary Short

Good White People

dir. by  Jarrod Welling-Cann and Erick Stoll​

Audience Choice Documentary Short

I Take Photos

dir. by Oliver David Lister

Juror’s Choice Documentary Short

The Extra Mile

dir. by Courtney Ross

Best Director

Missing Mom

dir by Robert McCallum, Jordan Morris

Best Cinematography

Children of the Arctic

dir by Nick Brandestini

Best Inspirational Documentary

Adventures of Miss Fit

dir by Gregg Simpson

Best Documentary Feature

Southern Rites 

dir. by Gillian Laub

Best Comedy Documentary Feature

Backyard Blockbusters 

dir. by John Hudgens

Best Dramatic Documentary Feature

We're Not Blood

dir. by Jeffrey Togman

Best Social - Issue Documentary Feature

120 Days 

dir. by Ted Roach

Best Art Documentary Feature

Forced Perspective 

dir. by Nick Cavalier

Best Political Documentary Feature

American Native 

dir. by Steven Oritt

Best Environmental Documentary Feature

Stink! 

dir. by Jon J. Whelane

Best Local Documentary Feature

Dante's Down the Hatch

dir. by Jef Bredemeier

Audience Choice Documentary Feature

Searching for Eddie Running Wolf

dir. by Thomas Hartmann

Judges Choice Documentary Feature

Right Footed 

dir. by Nick Spark

Best Documentary Featurette 

Blade #1 

dir. by Zuzka Kurtz

Best Documentary Short

Anna

dir. by Eric Latek

Best Experimental Documentary Short

Last Day of Freedom 

dir. by Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman

Best Sports Documentary Short

Born Into This 

dir. by Lea Scruggs, Sean Ryon

Best Foreign Documentary Short

Mystic Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe 

dir. by Markus Eichenberger

Best Dramatic Documentary Short

Luchadora 

dir. by River Finlay

Best Art Documentary Short

Live Fast, Draw Yung

dir. by Anthony Mathile, Stacey Lee

Audience Choice Documentary Short

Through The Fire 

dir. by Olivia Lace-Evans and Nyasha Kadandara

Best Director 

I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrell 

dir. by James Franco

Best Documentary Feature

Perfect Strangers
dir. by Jan Krawitz

Best Comedy Documentary Feature

Despite the Gods
dir. by Penny Vozniak

Best Personal Documentary Feature

Art of Darkness

dir. by David Parker

Best Political Documentary Feature

Freedom From Choice
dir. by Tim Delmastro

Best Social Issue Documentary Feature

The Last One
dir. by Nadine Licostie

Audience Choice Feature

American Bear: An Adventure in the Kindness of Strangers
dir. by Sarah Sellman, Greg Grano

Best Documentary Short
I Live in Life
dir. by Lars Fuchs

Best Personal Documentary Short
Merlijn en de Rode Appel
dir. by Susan Koenen

Best Foreign Documentary Short
Godka Cirka
dir. by Àlex Lora, Antonio Tibaldi

Best Local Documentary Short
Free Art 4U
dir. by Nicole Powell

Audience Choice Short
The Pink Helmet Posse
dir. by Kristelle Laroche

Best Director
GreasePaint
dir. by Daniel Espeut

Best Documentary Feature

Blood Brother 

dir. by Steve Hoover

Best Director Documentary Feature

Furever 

dir. by Amy Finkel

Best Social-Issue Documentary Feature

Money & Life 

dir. by Katie Teague

Best Drama Documentary Feature

Wampler's Ascent

dir. by Elizabeth Wampler

Best Foreign Documentary Feature

Destinos Interrumpidos (Interrupted Destinies) 

dir. by Danny Holguin, Juan Carlos Echeverria

Best Personal Documentary Feature

​In His Footsteps 

dir. by Shelley Taylor

Audience Choice Award

​The 25,000 Mile Love Story 

dir. by John Davies

Best Documentary Short

The Love Story of Leonard Knight dir. by Patrick Rea

Best Comedy Documentary Short

Smear Campaign: @LizzWinstead's #Tour4PP

dir. by Matthew Gorman

Best Personal Documentary Short

Scattered 

dir. by Lindsay Lindenbaum

​Best Drama Documentary Short

Be With Me 

dir. by Michael Terrill

Best Foreign Documentary Short

Los Ojos de Dante

dir. by Gonzalo Gurrea Ysasi

Best Director Documentary Short

​Making Waste 

dir. by Scott Reus, Stan Arthur

Best Documentary Feature

Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology

dir. by Tiffany Shlain

Best Director Documentary Feature

Shenandoah 

dir. by David Turnley

Best Comedy Documentary Feature

kART Across America 

dir. by Jeremy Make, Andy Raney

Best Social-Issue Documentary Feature

End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless 

dir. by Tim Delmastro

​Best Environmental Documentary Feature

The Clean Bin Project 

dir. by Grant Baldwin

Best Drama Documentary Feature

Kelly 

dir. by James Stenson

Best Foreign Documentary Feature

​Decadence: Decline of The Western World 

dir. by Pria Viswalingam

Best Local Documentary Feature

THE ACTIVISTS: War, Peace, and Politics in the Streets 

dir. by Melody Weinstein

Audience Choice Award

FunkJazz Kafe: Diary Of A Decade (The Story Of A Movement) 

dir. by Jason Orr

Best Documentary Short

Carbon for Water 

dir. by Evan Abramson

​Best Comedy Documentary Short

Chase 

dir. by Malia Bruker

Best Drama Documentary Short

Come on Down and Pick Me Up

dir. by Nicholas Corrao, Jonathan Bougher

​Best Foreign Documentary Short

Ending In 6 Minutes 

dir. by Peter Slee

​Best Director Documentary Short

​26 & Never Been Kissed 

dir. by Sarah Choi