Atlanta Spotlight Film Festival

ÑUÑUYACHIY: BREASTFEEDING WITH AFFECTION AND CARE
Directors Jose Miguel Soriano, Ricardo Macian
https://www.instagram.com/documental_banco_leche_materna

Orun The Final Fight
Director Jeremy Norris

http://www.emreorun.com/

Rae Rae
Director Nick Mills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBeEY92rJE&t=1s

Reviving the Forgotten River
Submitter 568 Productions

https://edspace.american.edu/568productions/

RIEFENSTAHL
Director Andres Veiel

https://vincent-productions.com/en/2024/02/28/riefenstahl/

Roll Up For Equity
Director JM Balbuena

https://jmbalbuena.info/synergy-studios/

Running Towards the Fire - A War Correspondent's Story
Director Barney McCoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHxIvl_uL8o

Shaka, A Story of Aloha
Director Alexander Bocchieri

http://shakafilm.com/

Sowing the Seeds of Love
Director Riley Young

https://www.rileyoung.com/new-page-1

The Amphitrite Six thousand Miles by Sea
Director Gilles Thompson

The Call of Glaciers
Directors Ying Zhao, Fangyu Xing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvhrm3xmB2E

The Eternal Emperor - The True Story of Franz Joseph I
Director Martin Koddenberg

https://vimeo.com/896548857

The Ewenki
Director Junfeng Zhang

The Girl From The Village: A Story Of Hope
Director Billy Surges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biMMkSNWqgk

The HoodTrophy Bino Story: Breaking the Generational Curse
Director Sam "Gebar" Gebremiche
https://www.instagram.com/hoodtrophybino

The Katz Tapes
Director Adam Fischer

https://vimeo.com/932567491

The Koalas
Directors Gregory Ian Miller, Georgia Wallace-Crabbe, Georgia Wallace-Crabbe
http://www.thekoalasfilm.com/

The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay
Director Kim Smith

http://pipingploverproject.org/

The Projectionist: A Collector's Journey
Director John Cornelissen

http://vizoartsmedia.com/

The Soil and The Sea
Director Daniele Rugo

https://www.soilandseafilm.com/

There Is No Separation
Director Wes Kline

http://noseparation.net/

Walk Alone
Director Camille Kuang

Werdum: Above the Pain
Director Kleber Luis da Silva

https://link.me/werdum

What ravens do
Director Vance Crofoot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPTcG0BsH6I

Where Can We Meet?
Directors Abby Porter, Toby Forehand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhbhREBr0oc

Where the Horses Heal the Soul
Director Twila LaBar

http://wherethehorseshealthesoul.com/

While the Children Fade
Director Garret Morgan

http://whilethechildrenfade.com/

White Skies
Director Sara Prüther Vázquez

Wildlife Haven: China
Director Junfeng Zhang

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-12-08/CGTN-s-8K-Wildlife-Haven-China-reveals-China-s-amazing-biodiversity-1fyaEL61kWI/index.html

Without Wings
Director Thamer Jamal

https://tjframes.com/

Women of the Wetlands (Episode 1)
Director Ikhwan Rivai

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/women-of-the-wetlands/part-1-4187611

2024 Silver Award Winners

All Moms Should Live Forever
Director Patrick Antonia Albright

A Bomb is Born
Director Angel Yan

A Road at Night
Submitter Danny Boyle

Adopting Greyhounds
Director David Goodman

https://vimeo.com/918938718/115363ae04

Americans Smell Good
Director Emir Cakaroz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRt161k-n2g&t=2s

Approaching the traditional Chinese Medicine
Director Huanzhang Hui

Back to Alaska: The DeLorean Road-Trip Movie
Director Robert William Prince

http://backtoalaska.com/

Bamboo. Are you happy？
Director Mingyi Jing

BARULLO
Director Ruth Zapico Mancebo
http://ruthzapico.com/

Beacon of Hope
Director Justin Owens

http://octooptix.com/

Behind the Mystery of the Manor
Director Joseph William Simmons

Best In The World
Director Clint Arthur

http://thebestintheworld.com/

Beyond Myself
Directors Hao Li, Chenfei Pan

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture: Farm, Food & Community
Directors Anne Ward, Chip Williams

CAMP HUGHES: PRELUDE TO VICTORY
Director Dale Morris Watts

http://servicebattalion.ca/

College In Prison: Life With The Possibility Of Transformation
Director Jennifer Molina

https://edsource.org/2024/how-earning-a-college-degree-put-four-california-men-on-a-path-from-prison-to-new-lives-documentary/711342

Cuba es Mi Patria: The Homeland I Keep Inside
Director Rose Marie Perez

https://www.facebook.com/cubaesmipatria/

DAGDA
Director Connor Smith

Dance Family
Director Jeff Davis

https://jdsavage.com/work/layout-1/

Daniel Graham: Banjo Maker
Director James Scogin

Deep State Gangsters
Director Frank X Panico

https://www.pedroisraelorta.com/movie

Discerning the Call: Change in the American Priesthood
Directors Jay Doherty, Patrick Cullinan
https://discerningthecall.com/

Dissonance On Fifth Avenue
Director Seth Bernstein

Earl.
Director Ty Yong Kim

http://www.earlkimcomposer.com/

Ebrohimie Road: A Museum of Memory
Director Kola Tubosun

https://ebrohimie.olongoafrica.com/

Face Down - TheDisappearance of Thomas Niedermayer
Director Gerry Gregg

http://info@blueprintpictures.ie/

Family Album: The Rama Jama's Story
Director Logan Busbee

Finding Flint
Directors Kevin Flint, Brian Flint

Flowers in the Mountain
Director Zixin Xu

Fracking the Contract
Director Sophie Rousmaniere

https://www.issuetv.org/frackingthecontract

Future is a morning
Director Kerong Zhang

https://vimeo.com/1049338538

Guiding Light
Director India Anne Mitchell

Hope in Hutongs
Directors Xiaoxiao Liu, Tong Deng

i don't even know me yet
Director Onyi Apakama

http://iamstaci.com/

I went to the Smallest Pride in America
Director Chris Stanley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Xj4bjtYZ8

If These Walls Could Talk
Director Mickey Stroud

https://vimeo.com/976773641/01b540a839

Into These Heels
Director Leigh Takata

JamCation: The Chronicles of Now Defunkt
Director Scott Macklin

http://www.nowdefunkt.com/

LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution
Directors Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHyoEB7lJkU

Manufacturing Madness
Directors Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve
http://manufacturingmadness.net/

Memory Film: a filmmaker's diary
Director JENI THORNLEY

https://jenithornley.com/

Miracle in the Heart of Bosnia
Director Dr Sam Osmanagich

http://www.parkravne2.com/

Mushroom's Quest
Director Dave Johnson

https://app.frame.io/reviews/79686655-5da9-4c13-b023-59eaaedb069a?component_clicked=digest_call_to_action&email_id=39a47120-759a-4fba-8de9-53833e364ea1&email_type=pending-reviewer-invite

Music For Mushrooms
Director Krishna-Trevor Oswalt
https://www.musicformushrooms.com/

North Cormorant Island
Directors John Harford Williams, Yu Iwasaki

On this Quiet Land
Director Ye Feng

OUR HISTORY NOT HIS-STORY
Director Bobby Deon Morgan

http://www.elitetalent.biz/

P'tit Bouddha (Little Buddha)
Director Jean-Sébastien Dutil

https://vimeo.com/1001804630

PHX Entertainers A Day in the life of NB/Trans Models/Dancers
Directors Rob Randolph, Grant Perryman
https://instagram.com/phxentertainers

Quail Lake Meditation
Director Nancy Bentley
http://www.nancybentley.com/

Redemption Road
Directors Yusef Bunchy Shakur, Scott McCartney
https://vimeo.com/946794763

Reel Education: Empowering Young Minds Through Filmmaking
Director JT Tepnapa Chaiyakam

RETURN TO KAWTHOOLEI: A Refugee Rapper's Journey to His Homeland in Burma
Directors I am Knyaw, St. Paul Minnesota, "Hons Solo" Honey Moon, "Wah Fish Paste" Shakerpaw Wah

Rooted in Cuba
Director Alexandra Rodriguez

https://www.rootedincuba.com/

Run That Bet: Road To 100k
Director Cierra Pashawn

Salmon Run
Director Pieter J Kruit

http://www.kruitproductions.com/

Savannah Critters: Dialogues from the Southern Coast
Director Alexander Constantin Strother

SEMANA SANTA - SEVILLA
Director Marcos Ortega-Morales
https://vimeo.com/943216265?share=copy

shaman
Director Xinyi Hu

StoneHeart, an Undying Gift
Director Nicholas Markart

https://www.fodasacharity.org/

Sublimation Nation
Directors Roland Paul Marconi, Gary Null

Switzerland Come Take My Hand: A Tom Freund Rockumentary
Director Joshua Wade

https://tomfreund.com/

That Theatre on Lower Abbey Street
Director Daniel J. O'Donnell

The Art of The Art of Deception
Director Jack Crown

https://instagram.com/vpcuc

The Corey Davis Evolution Story
Director Corey Davis

The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life
Directors Persis M Karim, Soumyaa Behrens

https://cids.sfsu.edu/

The Great Wyoming Singer-Songwriter Competition
Director Emmet Casey

https://vimeo.com/990229742?share=copy

The Psycodelics The Movie
Director Cory Schwartz

http://thepsycodelicsmovie.com/

THE RIVER'S SONG
Director Pierre MATHIOTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REHuZ72mXZs&t=1s

The Skids ReVolution
Directors Laura Graham, Colin J Graham
http://www.coviro.co.uk/

Their Own Life
Director Tim Dekkers

http://www.uittleven.com/

This is Sing-Out
Director Frank Vella

https://frankandfriendspro.wixsite.com/film

Through the Lens of: Tod Forbes
Directors Michael Jacoby, Tod Forbes

Trail Therapy
Director Angela Hollowell

http://www.rootfulmedia.com/

Tulsa Terrors
Director Bryan Crain

Under One Sky
Director LAI NA CHENG

Vibrant Hands
Directors Yuping ZHANG, Jing CUI

Wakanyeja Kin Wana Ku Pi - The Children are Coming Home
Director Andy Wakeman

Where the Heart Belongs
Director Xiaoran Du

Yellow
Director Siyi Gu

Zero Hour: A Chef's Odyssey
Directors Irving Perdomo, Roman Fiorella
https://instagram.com/irvdomo?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Zoonotic
Director Jason Kushner

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

2022 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

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

2021 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

Spotlight Platinum Award

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

Spotlight Gold Award

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

Spotlight Silver Award Winners

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
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

Spotlight Bronze Award Winners

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

2020 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

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

2019 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

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

2018 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

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 Chow Wah

2017 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

Platinum Award Winners:

Drop The Mic by James Blannin-Ferguson
GODS AMONG US - The Science of Contact by Caroline Cory
Good Fortune by Josh Tickell, Rebecca Tickell
Scotland 4K - A Timelapse Journey by Andreas Koeng
Tempest Storm by Nimisha Mukerji
The American Skin by Elana Meyers, Christy Rose, Woody Tucker
The Disunited State of America by Luis Prieto
The UnAmerican Struggle by Ric Osuna
This Cold Life by Darren Mann
WHITNEY Can I Be Me? by Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal
Weed Nuns by Chris Stoudt

Gold Award Winners:

9546 km. by Sergio García Locatelli
Aghanashini by Ashwini Kumar Bhat
All The Wild Horses by Ivo Marloh
American Street Kid by Michael Leoni
Before the Wave by Molly Willows
Big Fish Blues by Leslye Abbey
Called To Rescue Redefining Our Barnyard Story by Naomi Call, Loghan Call
Cambodia and Jimmy's Village School by Adrian Eppel
Celling Your Soul by Joni Siani
Dancing in the Dark by Steven Mac Sweeney
Do You Like Peacocks? by Mary Clay Fields
Dogs of Democracy by Mary Zournazi
Flowers and Roots, James Ragan, An Ambassador of the Arts by Dodo Banyak
Fragments by Carlos Cova
GIVE RIGHT TO THE RIGHTS by Christian Angeli
How to fall apart : a true love story by Sofie Hanegreefs, Jelle Janssens
How? Lucky by Freya Billington
In Lorton's Darkroom by Karen Ruckman
IRON MEN by Paul Crompton & Suri Krishnamma
Jesus the Game Changer by Karl Faase
KCKPL's Stories on the Bus: Matt de la Peña Reads Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Miles in the Life by Shaun Mathis
My Erotic Body by Michele Beck
My Personal Pink Time by Josh Reed
NAMASKARAM Means Hello by Summer Dunsmore
NATURE AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS: From Four Poems by Takamasa Iwasaki
Obama: The Man Who Hoped to Change America by Tim Gallagher
On a Knife Edge by Jeremy Williams
Oor wally by Martin Lennon
Peace Has No Borders by Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller
Plant Codes, Unleashing Nature's Healing Power by Gary Null
RAIN PROJECT by Oleg Chorny
Root Up by Katia Cafe-Febrissy
Running On Empty by Joey Dwyer, Timmy Dwyer
Santi: Isolation by Daniel Rodriguez
Sauti (voice) by Gayle Nosal, Beret Strong
Saving the Planet, One Bite At A Time by Gary Null
Stone Story by Jean-André Fourestié
Tables of Istanbul by Zeynep Kilic
The 2015-16 Boston Pride: A Dream Born With Isobel by Curtis Stiles
The Road To Hollywood by Valeriya Elenskaya
The Ultimate Triathlon by Jay Cox
Techa by Aron Anselmi
The Basketball Family by Jason Harney
The End of Remembrance? by Peter Scheiner
The Eviction by Andy Galloway
The Greatest Weapon Ever Used by John Mollison
The Magic Pill by Robert Tate
The Rookie Season by Hannah Nemer & Molly Nemer
The Saints of Sin by Aniruddha (Oni) Sen
The Vision by Laura Allen, Lightning Mitchell
VIGOR by Chen Qianzhang & Lan Yunjian
Wine Diamonds: Uncorking America's Heartland by Bradley Johnson
Zero Weeks by Ky Dickens

Silver Award Winners:

A Grieving Mind by Naa Densua Agyei
Adventures in Perseverance by Dasha Markina
Aging in America by Bill Moyer
Another Perfect Day by Ken C. Rucker
Beyond the Soundtrack by Chris Church
Blackout by Natalie Sampson
Bloodline by Barry C. Douglas
Breaking the Silence: Domestic Violence by Lauren L. Miller
Behind the Dream by Paul Burian
Circle of Life by Diane Ladd
Creation by David M. Swofford
Czech Society by Pavel Manda
Desperate Measures by Erin Keating
Devious by Mark Waters
Documentary on Peace by Tim O'Connor
Don’t Give Up by Margaret Brown
Eureka Moments by Nadine Brown
Every Breath by Samuel R. Watson
Finding Home by Samantha Adams
Frozen Angels by Violetta Boban
Fresh Start by Thomas Donnelly
Galaxie - Black Business Revolution by Jimmy Forster
Gambling, Corruption and Corruption by Eduardo Garrocho
Great Escape From New York by Charlie Hunnam
Healing the Silence by Molly Mogg
Help Haiti by Ian Gagliardi
Hope by Alice Buckley
Hot Pursuit by Miles Jarrett
How We See the World by Carla Rice
Imprisoned by Timo Weiland
In The Dark of The Moon by Elizabeth Grayson
Innocent Justice by Dominic Ma
In The Market for Love by Julie Sieverding
Loving What Is by Bill Sherman
Love in the Shadows by Amiee Knight
Mongolian Man by Philip Hubble
My Biggest Break by Anthony K. Atkins
Near the Broken Bridge by Sarah Holt
Redemption by Rachael Horton
Scars of the Heart by Lisa Williams
Second Chance by Elizabeth Baker
Save the Day by Victor Belinski
Serious Fun by Chris Baker
The Art of Risk by David McKee
The Brave by Emma Donaldson
The Chaser by Michael Thompson
The Criminal Life by Emily James
The Girl Who Cried Wolf by Amelia Jenson
The Real History of American Football by Darnell J. Alford
The Truth About You by Riley Green
The Unforgiven by Patrick H. O’Neill
Tough Decisions by Karl Schaeffer
Ultimate Athlete by Ben Langham
Waiting for Grace by Michelle Finley
What Matters by Peter Plantec

Spotlight Bronze Awards

A Grieving Mind by Naa Densua Agyei
Adventures in Perseverance by Dasha Markina
Aging in America by Bill Moyer
Another Perfect Day by Ken C. Rucker
Beyond the Soundtrack by Chris Church
Blackout by Natalie Sampson
Bloodline by Barry C. Douglas
Breaking the Silence: Domestic Violence by Lauren L. Miller
Behind the Dream by Paul Burian
Circle of Life by Diane Ladd
Creation by David M. Swofford
Czech Society by Pavel Manda
Desperate Measures by Erin Keating
Devious by Mark Waters
Documentary on Peace by Tim O'Connor
Don’t Give Up by Margaret Brown
Eureka Moments by Nadine Brown
Every Breath by Samuel R. Watson
Finding Home by Samantha Adams
Frozen Angels by Violetta Boban
Fresh Start by Thomas Donnelly
Galaxie - Black Business Revolution by Jimmy Forster
Gambling, Corruption and Corruption by Eduardo Garrocho
Great Escape From New York by Charlie Hunnam
Healing the Silence by Molly Mogg
Help Haiti by Ian Gagliardi
Hope by Alice Buckley
Hot Pursuit by Miles Jarrett
How We See the World by Carla Rice
Imprisoned by Timo Weiland
In The Dark of The Moon by Elizabeth Grayson
Innocent Justice by Dominic Ma
In The Market for Love by Julie Sieverding
Loving What Is by Bill Sherman
Love in the Shadows by Amiee Knight
Mongolian Man by Philip Hubble
My Biggest Break by Anthony K. Atkins
Near the Broken Bridge by Sarah Holt
Redemption by Rachael Horton
Scars of the Heart by Lisa Williams
Second Chance by Elizabeth Baker
Save the Day by Victor Belinski
Serious Fun by Chris Baker
The Art of Risk by David McKee
The Brave by Emma Donaldson
The Chaser by Michael Thompson
The Criminal Life by Emily James
The Girl Who Cried Wolf by Amelia Jenson
The Real History of American Football by Darnell J. Alford
The Truth About You by Riley Green
The Unforgiven by Patrick H. O’Neill
Tough Decisions by Karl Schaeffer
Ultimate Athlete by Ben Langham
Waiting for Grace by Michelle Finley
What Matters by Peter Plantec

2016 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

Platinum Award Winners:

• A New Path for the Serengeti – Director: Brad Johnson

• At What Cost - Pipelines, Pollution and Eminent Domain in the Rural South – Director: Mark Albertin

• Brewed in 210 - Director Marco Ortega

Born Warriors Redux: Bound Fists – Director: Vincent Giordano

• Crossing The Line – Director: David Tryhorn

• Death or Liberty – Director: Kathryn Symmons

• Dharavi Hustle – Director: Sachin Sundareshan

• Effervescence – Director: Garret Whittington

• From Footy to Verdi – Director: Michael Volpe

• I Take Photos – Director: Oliver Lister

• KILLA DIZEZ - LIFE AND DEATH IN THE TIME OF EBOLA – Director: Nico Piro

• Living in the Age of Airplanes – Director: Melia Manter

• Marovo Carver – Director: Elliot Spencer

• Nail House – Director: K. S. McMullen

• Paris Tower 13 – Director: Thomas Lallier

• PLUS! – Directors: Sandra Chuma & Kalisha Whitman

• Silo, A Spiritual Path – Director: Ken Dickinson

• SMOKE THAT TRAVELS – Director: Kayla Briet

• Sustainable – Director: Matt Wechsler

• The Caravan Film – Director: Margot McMaster

• The Moving Theatre – Directors: Eugene Hughes, Pia Jones & Ben Mallaby

• The World Has No Eyedea – Director: Brandon Crowson

Gold Award Winners:

• Alegria - A Humanitarian Expedition – Director: Christoph von Toggenburg

• A Mighty Fine Memory: Stories and Tunes from the Fiddler of Banjo Branch – Director: Hannah Furgiuele

• American Shift – Director: Erik Vosburgh

• ARGO NAVIS – Directors: Susanne Bausinger, Stelios Efstathopoulos

• BALKAN BLUES - Stories from Mostar – Director: Lucio de Candia

• Boycott THIS! – Director: Stan Moore

• BRCA: A Mother’s Journey – Directors: Anjali de Bellefroid, Simon McLean

• Cuba’s Crossroads: Hope, Rock, and [R]Evolution – Director: Maria Luskay

• Dancing with Hope – Director: Andrew Elizaga

• Escaping Agra – Director: Pallavi Somusetty

• First Lady of the Revolution – Director: Andrea Kalin

• Forever Home – Director: Raquel Korman

• Kayayo, the Living Shopping Baskets – Director: Mari Bakke Riise

• Kite Zhang’s Kites – Director: Nathan Yun

• Land of our Father – Director: Patrick Gillespie

• LIFE, ANIMATED – Director: Roger Ross Williams

• Like Notes of Music - Christian Peltenburg-Brechneff the Landscape Painter – Director: Michael Magee

• LUSH COSMETICS PRESENTS: TROPHY – Director: Inder Nirwan

• Magic Cobra Tattoo – Director: Adrian Alonso Cordoni

• Manifest: Power of Thought – Director: Laura Lillie

• Mary Boyle: The Untold Story – Director: Gemma O’Doherty

• Missing Peace – Director: Jenna Gartlan

• My Name is Joan – Director: Margaret Stapor Costa

• Painting a Normal Life – Director: Paul Catalanotto

• Ross Kemp: The Fight Against ISIS – Director: Marta Shaw

• Sewol – Director: Ok-Hee Jeong

• Sitting is Not Good, I Want War – Director: Zanyar Omrani

• The Dog Walkers of Buenos Aires – Director: Peter Wilson

• The Greatest Honor – Director: Kane Farabaugh

• The JJ Project – Director: Matthew Starr

• The Memories Station – Director: Derek Frank

• The Seventh Summit – Director: Elia Youssef

• Travis - The True Story of Travis Walton – Directors: Jennifer W Stein, Travis Walton, Bob Terrio, Ben Hansen, Ron James

• Troll: A Southern Tale – Director: Marinah Janello

• Two Blue Lines – Director: Tom Hayes

• ubuntu – Director: Christian Abi Abboud

• Voice from the Wilderness – Director: Jason Britski

Silver Award Winners:

• A Song For You – Director: Sharon Karp

• Among the Believers – Directors: Hemal Trivedi, Mohammed Ali Naqvi

• Blood Sugar – Director: Joe Hitchcock

• Chasing Dreams – Director: Sam Ashurov

• Chill – Director: Jennifer Frappier

• Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution – Director: Glenn Gebhard

• Dowsing the Past: Materialities of Civil War Memories – Director: Konstantinos Kalantzis

• Earth-Q – Director: Mark Pinoli

• Ella – Director: Damien Madden

• Ghostbike – Director: Judith Finneren

• MATCH: A Tinder Tale – Director: Joshua DeFour

• Nemo: Nobody – Director: Melissa Hoban

• No More Now – Director: Pratik Parmar

• Nothin’ but Music – Directors: Eric Harabadian, Lisa Hagopian

• Pech River Boys: Tales From Afghanistan – Directors: Shannon & Jenny Fontenot

• Pinch Of Salt – Director: Tanmay Shah

• Postcards from a Ghost – Director: Sydney Southam

• Quiet Please… – Director: Jeffrey Scott Gould

• Raising the Bar – Director: Onir Onir

• Road to Srebrenica – Director: Markus Leppala

• Shir Madness – Director: Emily Murray

• Sixty Spanish Cigarettes – Director: Mark John Ostrowski

• Social Diary of a Spirit Medium – Director: Chow Wah Wah

• Special Muscles – Director: Annamarya Scaccia

• The Ability Exchange – Director: Bing Wang

• The Coffee Man – Director: Jeffrey Hann

• The Dam(n) – Directors: Eugen Karlyuk, Elena Mechik

• The Firmest Friend – Director: Andrew Fixell

• The Green Standard – Directors: William Rosenfeld, Jacob Strunk

• The Kunqu Singer – Director: Brendan Donnelly

• The Parchman Ordeal: The Untold Story – Director: G. Mark LaFrancis

• The Streets that Speak – Director: Vida Lercari

• There. And Back. – Director: John Mollison

• Three Lives – Director: Olivia Prinzi

• USS Indianapolis: The Legacy – Director: Sara Vladic

• WALK ON THE WILD SIDE – Director: Germaine McCormack-Kos

• Wally – Director: Andy Galloway

• Waste Not Want Not – Director: Scott Schimmel

• Who is Estaban – Directors: Ryan Conley and Mike Raine

Spotlight Bronze Awards

• “2.0.G. Heroes. Soldiers. Boricuas.” – Director: Gilberto Gonzalez

• Abdullah – Director: Cecilia Rumore

• A Faceless Faith – Director: Reza Safa

• An American Quilt-Stitching Together Our 9/11 Memories – Director: Roz Sohnen

• An Unspoken Partnership – Director: Sue Keeton

• Bahia Delivery – Director: Thiago Rodrigues

• Beirut Kamikaze – Director: Christophe Karabache

• Better Days – Director: Joseph Driscoll

• Born Warriors Redux: Bound Fists – Director: Vincent Giordano

• Bread of Life – Director: Sergio García Locatelli

• But They Can’t Break Stones – Director: Elena Dirstaru

• Casualties of W.A.R. – Director: Yahya McClain

• Chasing Gold – Director: Brent Deal

• Dark Clouds Far Away – Director: Ian Lapworth

• Distorted Realities – Director: Khashayar Gholami

• District Up! – Director: Dennis Spielman

• Ella – Director: Damien Madden

• EXIT: MUSIC – Director: James Murdoch

• Functional Fitness – Director: Bob Rose

• Ghostbike – Director: Judith Finneren

• Hamish – Director: Robbie Fraser

• Hoda’s Story – Director: Johan Eriksson

• Huicholes: The Last Peyote Guardians – Director: Hernán Vilchez

• Justice Denied – Director: Gerilynn Weinstein Matthe

• Jumping the Shadows – Director: Lorenzo Valmontone

• Maternal Histories – Director: Anouk Dominguez-Degen

• Mental Health in New York – Director: Elizabeth Kraker

• Miracle Workers: A Portrait Series of Domestic Violence Survivors – Director: Jose Pagan

• Not Even the Mountain Stays the Same – Director: Diana Nicolae

• Rabbi Hood – Director: Joël Gozlan

• Redemption ‘People Can Change’ – Director: Karen Gall

• Running for Pride-A Cross Country Documentary – Director: Alec Douglas

• Sacred Water – Director: Olivier Jourdain

• Shakti – Director: Jessica Hill

• Singapore Minstrel – Director: Xi Jie Ng

• Somewhere to Go: Punk Victoria – Director: Paulina Ortlieb

• Texas Paranormalists – Director: David Goodman

• The Barber Farm Project – Director: Gretchen Siegchrist

• The Father Tapes – Director: Albert Meisl

• The Final Resolution – Director: Brian Ronalds

• The Peace Agency – Director: Sue Useem

• The Silence – Director: Cleo Tellier

• The Sounds of Street Vendors: Havana, Cuba – Director: Michael Brims

• The Tibetan Girl – Director: Huaqing Jin

• The Urban World – Director: Warren Bass

• The Wolf Mask – Director: Jeongho Ahn

• Voices From Kaw Thoo Lei – Director: Martha Gorzycki

• We Are In It – Director: Yehuda Sharim

• Why We Walk – Director: Andrew Littlefield

• Women Are the Answer – Director: Fiona Cochrane

• Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town – Director: David Rae Morris

2015 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

Platinum Award Winners:

• 120 Days – Ted Roach

• American Native – Steven Oritt

• Anna – Eric Latek

• Backyard Blockbusters – John Hudgens

• Becoming Bulletproof – Michael Barnett

• Beautiful By Night – James Hosking

• Blade #1 – Zuzka Kurtz

• Born Into This – Lea Scruggs, Sean Ryon

• Bryn – Marc Menish

• Calling the Cops on Jesus – Peter Carolla

• Damon at 86th Street – Emily Sheskin

• Dante’s Down the Hatch – Jef Bredemeier

• Forced Perspective – Nick Cavalier

• Gallero – Andreas Hadjipateras

• In Memory – 72 U

• I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrell – James Franco

• Jim Bird: Portrait of an American – Nik Kleverov

• Last Day of Freedom – Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman

• Live Fast, Draw Yung – Anthony Mathile, Stacey Lee

• Luchadora – River Finlay

• Luchadora – Amber Cortes

• Michael S., Versammelt – Steven Swirko

• Mystic Jungfraujoch - Top of Europe – Markus Eichenberger

• Out of Focus – Shahriar Siami Shal

• Our People – Payne Lindsey

• Right Footed – Nick Spark

• Searching for Eddie Running Wolf – Thomas Hartmann

• Seven Ways From Sunday – Robert Sickels

• Southern Rites – Gillian Laub

• Stink! – Jon J. Whelan

• The Hollerin’ Contest At Spivey’s Corner – Brian Gersten, Liv Dubendorf

• The Nike Chariot Earring – Karen Audette

• The Way We Talk – Michael Turner

• Through The Fire – Olivia Lace-Evans, Nyasha Kadandara

• Tomgirl – Jeremy Asher Lynch

• UBAH! – Joe Berlinger

• We’re Not Blood – Jeffrey Togman

• What Makes Dave Run – Peter Zander

Gold Award Winners:

A Journey to Namie (15m, Singapore) by Sulfikar Amir
A New Understanding: Science of Psilocybin (55m, U S A) dir. by Robert J. Barnhart
Air Sex: The Movie (80m, Canada, U S A) dir. by Brock LaBorde, Jonathan Evans
All These Flowers (82m, Canada, U S A) dir. by Kevin Bryce
Antarctic Edge: 70 Degrees South (72m, Antarctica) dir. by Dena Seidel
Blood on the Mountain (92m, U S A) dir. by Jordan Freeman, Mari-Lynn Evans
Breakfast at Ina's (50m, U S A) dir. by Mercedes Kane
Bill Evans/Time Remembered (84m, U S A) by Bruce Spiegel
Cold Nights Hot Salsa (60m, Canada) dir. by Edwin Gailits
Common Cents (38m, U S A) dir. by Myles Shank
Compelling Love & Sexual Identity (93m, U S A) dir. by Kurt Neale
Copper The Documentary (23m, U S A) dir. by AJ Oscarson
De Jeweetwels (51m, Netherlands) dir. by Fokke Baarssen
Damari and Guyala (10m, Australia) dir. by Marley Sharp, Benjiman Southwell
Dream On (99m, U S A) dir. by Roger Weisberg
Escaping Agra (51m, U S A) dir. by Pallavi Somusetty
Faith in the Big House - The Remake (57m, U S A) dir. by Jonathan Schwartz
Famous Last Words (87m, U S A) dir. by Brian Boye
Finding Noah (97m, U S A) dir. by Brent Baum
Gazelle - The Love Issue (93m, Brazil, French Polynesia, U S A) dir. by Cesar Terranova
Growing Reason (118m, U S A) dir. by Hunter Bradshaw
Honor thy Father and thy Mother, Damn It (51m, Israel) dir. by Alexandra Rahmilevich
Hollywood Beauty Salon (88m, U S A) sub. by Glenn Holsten
I Am Moral Courage: A New Yorker Escapes Forced Marriage In Egypt (10m, U S A) dir. by Adam Grannick
Impressions of Humanity (40m, Cuba, U S A) dir. by Marcos Antonio
In Football We Trust (87m, U S A) dir. by Tony Vainuku, Erika Cohn
In Search of Balance (73m, U S A) dir. by Adam Pfleghaar
Jonathan's Very Own (14m, U S A) dir. by Stephen Pettit
JIHAD: A Story of the Others (50m, United Kingdom) dir. by Deeyah Khan
Kite Zhang's Kites (N/A) by Nathan Yun
Let's Talk About Men (22m, Canada) dir. by Dario Vrbanek
Mega-Lo-Mania (60m, U S A) dir. by Michael Cardoza
Minding Our Own (40m, U S A) dir. by Inaya Yusuf
Mount Lawrence (99m, U S A) dir. by Chandler Wild
Nothing With Something: Death of a Diner (65m, U S A) dir. by James Boo
One Fall (69m, U S A) dir. by Carl Fondelheit IV
Our Daily Dose (20m, U S A) dir. by Jeremy Seifert
Overburden (65m, U S A) dir. by Chad Stevens
Outerspace Life: The Story of Jack Overby (21m, U S A) dir. by Lance Johnson
Plamen (20m, U S A) dir. by Dress Code
Positions (6m, Canada) dir. by Emily Preston
Rose & Roy (97m, U S A) dir. by Adolfo Doring
Sideshow of the Absurd (14m, U S A) dir. by Jane C. Wagner, Tina DiFeliciantonio
Stage Four: A Love Story (73m, U S A) dir. by Benjamin Steger
The Flying Dutchmen (84m, U S A) dir. by Kendal Miller
The Iron Man (76m, Ireland) dir. by Nicky Larkin
The Key of B (17m, U S A) dir. by Jayden Rathsam Hua
The Opening Act (64m, U S A) by Linda Chorney
The Record Man (107m, U S A) dir. by Mark Moormann
The Seventh Summit (N/A) by Elia Youssef
The University (83m, U S A) dir. by Matt Rutherford
The Whale Overboard (26m, France) by Paul Sourice
Waiting for John (70m, U S A) dir. by Jessica Sherry
What I Learned From The Stranger (TBD) by Unknown
White Noise (TBD) by Unknown

Silver Award Winners:

A Chance To Dress - Alice Bouvrie
A Farmer's Road - John Murray
A Struggle for Home: The Crimean Tatars - Christina Paschyn
After the Last River - Victoria Lean
Apocalyptica Theme & Variations - Kevin J. Custer
Ants - Stoyan Nikolaev
Angels with a Cause - Gary Novak
Exiled Mothers - Sharon Alward
Far Afield: A Conservation Love Story - Jennifer Tennican
First Degree - Roger Weisberg
Fog Of War - Viachaslau Makshun
For the Love of Life: Living for Tomorrow - Hanae Uchida
Gambling with Massachusetts - Kevin McCrea
Gigolo - Marecaille Hubert
Gonna Sip That Sip, Hit That Dip: The Emerging Queer Hip Hop Movement - Chasson Gracie
Golden Age - Maija Blåfield
Goodbye Theresienstadt - Carl Otto Dethlefsen, Jonatan Jerichow
Honoring a Commitment - Jed Henry
Heroin in the Suburbs: The New Face - Julie Ciannavei
In Our Backyard - Danielle Rose
Insatiable: The Homaro Cantu Story - Brett Schwartz
Jeanne & Mike: Original Art - Kathy Drasky
John Paul II in America: Uniting a Continent - David Naglieri
Jikoo, a Wish - Leroy Christophe
Kandahar Journals - Louie Palu, Devin Gallagher
Korla - John Turner
La Mia Strada - My Road - Michael DiLauro
Lessons In Dissent - Matthew Torne
Life is But a Dream - Courtney James
Living the Fantasy - Joshua Adler
Makoshika - Jessica Jane Hart
Manislam- Islam and Masculinity - Nefise Özkal Lorentzen
Many Beautiful Things - Laura Waters Hinson
Many Scars - Deborah Sayer
My Voice, My Life - Ruby Yang
Nathan East: For The Record - Chris Gero
Nashville in Harmony: Ten Years of Using Music to Build Community - Steven Knapp
One Million Dubliners - Aoife Kelleher
Our Soldier - Jotja Bessems
Outermost Radio - Alan Chebot
Power's War - Cameron Trejo
Prisons for Profit - Craig Knowles
Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion. Their Pain. - Vic Compher
Red - Delicious But Deadly - Riz Nasim
Ron Pope: One Way Ticket - Kelly Teacher
Scadia: The Known World - Christopher LeClere
Schoolidarity - Andrew Friend
Stopper: The Rise and Fall of the Bastard Squad - Jason C. Wilson
Sweethearts of the Gridiron - Michael Wayne
Tell Spring Not To Come This Year - Michael McEvoy, Saeed Taji Farouky
The Bicknell - Genevieve Bicknell
The Course - Audra Blake
The Creative Method - Jessica McGaugh
The Disobeying Teachers - Dongill Seo
The Foolish Old Man - YiXin Huo
The Greatest Freedom Show on Earth - RJ Huggins
The Landscape Within - Andrea Capranico
The Last Tear - Christopher H.K. Lee
The Missing - Han Tao
The Pilgrimage in the Sky - Toshikazu Otani
The Pilgrim - Paweł Jóźwiak-Rodan
The Poet of Havana - Ron Chapman
The Price of Providence - Merajur Rahman Baruah
The Road to Tighza - James Huang
The Silenced Walls - Sabrina Van Tassel
The Sons of Mapes - Aaron Hose
The Spirit Echoes - Rainer Hoffmann, Erika Harzer
The Trial - Sam Lukudu
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Waiting - Cristian Piazza
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We Sing Where I'm From - Dee Garceau
Why We Stay - Crystal Kayiza
Zabaleen - Justin Kramer
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Atlanta Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

2024 Platinum Award Winners

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2023 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards Winners

2022 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

2021 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

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2020 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards

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