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2023 Awards
2023 Awards
2023 Awards
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
2022 Awards
2023 Awards
2023 Awards
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
2021 Awards
2023 Awards
2021 Awards
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
2020 Awards
2020 Awards
2021 Awards
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
2019 Awards
2020 Awards
2019 Awards
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
Audience Choice Award
Dosed
by Tyler Chandler
2018 Awards
2020 Awards
2019 Awards
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
2017 Awards
2017 Awards
2017 Awards
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
2016 Awards
2017 Awards
2017 Awards
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
2015 Awards
2017 Awards
2015 Awards
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
2014 Awards
2014 Awards
2015 Awards
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
2013 Awards
2014 Awards
2013 Awards
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
2012 Awards
2014 Awards
2013 Awards
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