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Docufest IMDb

Docufest Awards

2024 Awards

 

Best Documentary Feature

Sister Úna Lived A Good Death 

Directed by Par Parekh


Best Foreign Documentary Feature

Much Ado About Dying

Director Simon Chambers


Best Director Documentary Feature

Firebird: Built to Burn

Director Colleen C Brady


Jury Award Documentary Feature

Everybody's Oma

Director Jason van Genderen


Audience Choice Award Documentary Feature

tOuch kink

Director Todd "Max" Carey


Best Documentary Short

Goodboy

Director Ashley Mosher


Best Foreign Documentary Short

Halfway

Director Dayne Hudson


Best Student Documentary Short

Duane

Director Alex Taylor


Best Director Documentary Short

Sack Race With Knives: The Curious Art of Kevin Titzer

Director Jordan Barclay


Best Animated Documentary Short

Role Models

Director Richard O'Connor


Audience Choice Documentary Short

Space for Art

Director Maclovia G Martel


Jury Award Documentary Short

It's Not Up To Us

Director Anthony Werhun


Best Local Documentary Short

The ATL Waterboyz

Director Antoinetta Hairston-Stallings


Awards

2023 Awards

2023 Awards

2023 Awards

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

2022 Awards

2023 Awards

2023 Awards

Award winning documentary

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

Atlanta Docufest 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

documentary film festival 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

awards for the atlanta docufest

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

2018 Awards

2020 Awards

2019 Awards

docufest - atlanta documentary film festival

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

docufest

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

award winning film

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

film festival

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

film festival 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

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