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Director Celine Parreñas Shi
Spotlight Silver Award
AAAMC Speaks: Teresa Hairston: The Unstoppable Game-Changer
Directors Ethan Gill, Haley Semian, Dr. Tyron Cooper
Spotlight Bronze Award
Aaron and the Train
Director James Hsieh Bylinsky
Spotlight Bronze Award
Ablaze
Directors Alec Morgan, Tiriki Onus
Spotlight Silver Award
Abuelita's Kitchen: Mexican Food Stories
Director Ebony Marie Bailey
Spotlight Bronze Award
A Fire Inside
Directors Justin Krook, Luke Mazzaferro
Spotlight Gold Award
Against The Tide
Director Joe Fletcher
Spotlight Silver Award
a girl can change the world
Director Andrea Ureno
Spotlight Bronze Award
A Long Way From Nowhere
Directors Paul Scheuring, Chris Ward
Spotlight Silver Award
A New Loneliness
Director Olivia Hoover
Spotlight Gold Award
APORIA
Director Mark Solomon
Spotlight Silver Award
Approaching the Book of Changes
An Unimportant Girl
Director Daxton Dubach
Spotlight Bronze Award
AWARE
Director Drew Tank Garrett
Spotlight Silver Award
Backstreet to the American Dream
Director Patricia Nazario
Spotlight Gold Award
Because we come from afar
Director Cédrick-Isham Calvados
Spotlight Bronze Award
Becoming Wacky Chad
Director Isaac Deitz
Spotlight Gold Award
Being BeBe: the BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary
Director Emily Branham
Spotlight Gold Award
Belle River
Directors Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau, Yannick Nolin
Spotlight Platinum Award
Bendix: Site Unseen
Director Anthony Scalia
Spotlight Gold Award
Beyond the Voice
Director Abigail Rose Brannon
Spotlight Silver Award
BIG OLD GOOFY WORLD - THE STORY OF OH BOY RECORDS
Directors Joshua Britt, Neilson Hubbard
Spotlight Silver Award
Bird Lady
Director Carter Rostron
Spotlight Silver Award
Black Sand
Director Dr. Sohan Roy
Spotlight Bronze Award
Bleed for Me: Art of the DeathMatch
Director Matthew L Lenz
Spotlight Bronze Award
Blowing on the Embers
Director Chris Frieswijk
Spotlight Gold Award
Born in 1938 Kim Han-ok
Submitter 소리 이
Spotlight Bronze Award
Burning River
Director Logan Lambert
Spotlight Silver Award
BUTTERFLIES IN THE SKIES : the Cretan rhymes
Director Yiannis Markakis
Spotlight Silver Award
Calliope's Last Songs
Director Giorgis Fotopoulos
Spotlight Bronze Award
CAPPC (China Asia Pacific Press Center) - The montage of 13 journalists' trips to Chengdu in 2018
Director Lancen Gm
Spotlight Silver Award
Case for Kindness
Director Steven Sawalich
Spotlight Gold Award
Cats of Malta
Director Sarah Jayne Portelli
Spotlight Gold Award
Chalk Back
Director Kylie Procita
Spotlight Gold Award
Charaiveti
Directors Bauddhayan Mukherji, Chandan Biswas
Spotlight Silver Award
CHIEF
Director Harri Romppainen
Spotlight Silver Award
CHIMERA
Director Spenser Watson Spratlin
Spotlight Silver Award
Cinema and Sanctuary - Hans Richter & America's First Documentary Film School
Director Dave Davidson
Spotlight Silver Award
Cinema Now
Director Louis Holder
Spotlight Silver Award
Citizen of Moria
Directors Jawad Mir, Ahmad Ebrahimi
Spotlight Silver Award
Clothed Minds
Director Carletta S. Hurt
Spotlight Silver Award
COFFEE FOR LIFE
Directors Lennart Neumann, Wilhelm Schulz
Spotlight Gold Award
Common Grounds?
Director Raed Truett Gilliam
Spotlight Silver Award
Covid Diaries
Directors Jess Mountfield, Frank Trentmann, Jukka Gronow
Spotlight Bronze Award
Creativity
Director Andrew Winegarner
Spotlight Silver Award
Cycle of Memory
Director Alex Leff
Spotlight Silver Award
Dear Ani
Director Micah B Levin
Spotlight Platinum Award
Ding-ho Comedy
Directors Yutong Liu, Yuluan G
Spotlight Bronze Award
Dominion
Director Lindsey Ward
Spotlight Gold Award
Down The Line
Director Oliver Hamilton
Spotlight Gold Award
DREAMS OF DARAA
Director Reilly Dowd
Spotlight Silver Award
Dropstones
Director Caitlin Durlak
Spotlight Platinum Award
Earth Women
Directors Dolapo Adeleke, Deji Akinpelu
Spotlight Silver Award
Eco Anxiety
Director Jean-Francois Rodrigues
Spotlight Silver Award
El Boleto (The Ticket)
Directors Daniel Prypchan, Manuel R Mota
Spotlight Silver Award
Eliseo Art Silva: Finding the Wide American Earth
Directors Loren A Roberts, Roberto San Luis
Spotlight Silver Award
Exposure
Director Holly Morris
Spotlight Gold Award
Extreme Vetting
Director Sam Ghazi
Spotlight Silver Award
Failure to Protect
Director Jeremy Pion-Berlin
Spotlight Platinum Award
Fast-Forward: Look Into Your Future
Director Michael Eric Hurtig
Spotlight Gold Award
FIREFLY: The Tay Fisher Story
Director Christopher Nostrand
Spotlight Silver Award
Flying With Eagles
Director Rémi Thevenart
Spotlight Silver Award
Fly Monarca
Directors Lyndsay Nicole, Benjamin Jordan
Spotlight Gold Award
Food as Resistance
Director Keitlyn Alcantara
Spotlight Bronze Award
For the Love of Friends
Director Cara Consilvio
Spotlight Silver Award
Frank Miller American Genius
Director Silenn Thomas
Spotlight Gold Award
Freshwater
Directors Ian Planchon, Lynn Melling
Spotlight Silver Award
Future Fantastic: China’s Science Revolution
Director Christopher Riley
Spotlight Silver Award
Gangnam Beauty
Director Yan Tomaszewski
Spotlight Platinum Award
Geeta
Director Emma Macey-Storch
Spotlight Gold Award
Genesi - A new vineyard was born in Tuscany
Director Christian Betti
Spotlight Bronze Award
GO THROUGH THE DARK
Director Yunhong Pu
Spotlight Gold Award
Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit
Directors Sam Katz, James McGovern
Spotlight Silver Award
Greening Israel The Movie | The Battle for Israel’s Trees
Director Benjamin Marsh Hilt
Spotlight Gold Award
Green Is The New Black
Directors Jake Taylor, Caleb Graham
Spotlight Silver Award
Greenway
Director Jed Terrence Lee
Spotlight Silver Award
Guardians of Our Land
Director Nell Wang
Spotlight Gold Award
Healing of the Nation: Ganja in Jamaica
Directors Kimberly Holmes, Steve Holmes
Spotlight Bronze Award
HEAR MY VOICE: Born Black In America
Directors William Michael Barbee, Deidre L. Jackson
Spotlight Bronze Award
Hello Forties Documentary
Director Monique Jeter-Holley
Spotlight Silver Award
History of the Music Hall
Director Tim Eric Wilson
Spotlight Silver Award
Hug 65+
Director Xenia Tsilochristou
Spotlight Gold Award
Humanity our race , love our religion
Director Sonali Devnani
Spotlight Gold Award
I AM, I STAY, I SMILE
Director Montse Bertran Arqué
Spotlight Silver Award
I Am We
Director Ron Davis
Spotlight Gold Award
In Echo All About
Director Nicholas Mullins
Spotlight Bronze Award
In Our Backyard: History and Culture from the Citrus Belt (Sound from the Golden Age by Kyoco Taniyama)
Director Claudia Gonzalez
Spotlight Bronze Award
In Search of My Sister
Director Jawad Mir
Spotlight Bronze Award
It Came from Aquarius Records
Director Kenneth Thomas
Spotlight Gold Award
John Dee
Director D. Stokes Piercy
Spotlight Gold Award
Karla Caves
Director Vihang Suryavanshi
Spotlight Silver Award
Kiss the Wind
Director Haotian Liu
Spotlight Silver Award
Knights on 3!
Director Olivia Elise Chaney
Spotlight Silver Award
Libya War on the road
Director Lorenzo Moscia
Spotlight Silver Award
Listening
Director Jonathan Moore
Spotlight Silver Award
Little Berlin
Director Kate McMullen
Spotlight Platinum Award
Lita the baby raven
Director Vance Crofoot
Spotlight Bronze Award
Longing for Áhkká
Directors Gustav Cavallin, Jens Nilsson
Spotlight Gold Award
Look Like Somebody
Directors Michael Johnson
Spotlight Bronze Award
March of The Elephants
Director Olivia Chen
Spotlight Silver Award
Melbourne on Dylan
Director Chris Franklin
Spotlight Gold Award
Mind Monogram : Down The Ivory Hall
Director Seth Halko
Spotlight Bronze Award
Molecular Chirality: A Scientific Documentary
Submitter Robert Cameron
Spotlight Silver Award
Momma’s Boy
Director Jordan Shankman
Spotlight Gold Award
Mother Ballerina Producer
Director Magnus Christoffersen
Spotlight Silver Award
My Duduś
Director Tom Krawczyk
Spotlight Platinum Award
My Heart is Red
Director Mia Chen
Spotlight Silver Award
My Name Is Merle
Director Robert Kinlaw
Spotlight Silver Award
Nasima - The Most Fearless
Director Heather Kessinger
Spotlight Platinum Award
Nevus... I own it
Director Valérie Disle
Spotlight Silver Award
NFT Revolution Documentary
Director James Hu
Spotlight Silver Award
Norm Geisler: Not Qualified
Director Rachel M. Payne
Spotlight Bronze Award
Nothing Has Been Forgotten
Director Jeff Blyth
Spotlight Bronze Award
Not Your Average Neighbour
Director Chee Wei Tay
Spotlight Gold Award
Offshore
Director Karel Candi
Spotlight Gold Award
Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums
Director Soren Sorensen
Spotlight Gold Award
One Driver, One Mic
Director Krishnan Vasudevan
Spotlight Silver Award
On The Road with Boyish
Director Eli Edwards
Spotlight Silver Award
Our Triumphant Holy Day
Director Greg Di Roma
Spotlight Silver Award
ParaGold
Director Ron Davis
Spotlight Bronze Award
Pasqualina of Springfield
Director Gina Cunningham
Spotlight Gold Award
Piconland: The Quest for the Perfect Picon Punch
Director Mark Maynard
Spotlight Gold Award
POCKiT - Live in Mexico
Director Moises Linares
Spotlight Bronze Award
Portrait of a Weaver
Director Michael Tiranoff
Spotlight Bronze Award
Poverty Reduction in China: A New Dawn
Director Sumio Fujita
Spotlight Silver Award
Real Fur
Director Taimoor Choudhry
Spotlight Bronze Award
Reflections
Director Susanne Aichele
Spotlight Gold Award
Routine Interrupted
Director Lauren Shaw
Spotlight Gold Award
Sacred Waters: The Okefenokee in Peril
Director Mark Albertin
Spotlight Bronze Award
Savage Land
Directors Campbell Dalglish, Dr. Henrietta Mann
Spotlight Gold Award
Saving Gentle Giants
Director Mariclare Carey-Jones
Spotlight Gold Award
Searching for Camelot
Director Roger Paradiso
Spotlight Bronze Award
Send Proof
Director Elijah Stephens
Spotlight Silver Award
Shredded
Director Noam Stolerman
Spotlight Platinum Award
Sick Year
Director Logan Albright
Spotlight Silver Award
Sing the Heart of the Magic: A Jennifer L. Nelson Story
Director Alan Winston King
Spotlight Silver Award
Sistas Evolving
Director Robyn Robinson
Spotlight Bronze Award
Sleepless Birds
Directors Dana Melaver, Tom Claudon
Spotlight Gold Award
Small Town Threads Documentary
Director Devin Olson
Spotlight Bronze Award
Sometimes Y
Director Mike Mihail
Spotlight Bronze Award
Sophie in Furbyland
Director Pacey Hansen
Spotlight Platinum Award
Stage Presents
Director Greg Jeschke
Spotlight Bronze Award
State of the Unity
Directors Nathaniel Paul Hoff & Jillian Ann Speece
Spotlight Platinum Award
STEM Roots
Director Marcell L Pickens, Jr.
Spotlight Bronze Award
Sunrise Vibration
Director Shingo Ota
Spotlight Gold Award
Take Your Shot
Director Ross Bolidai
Spotlight Silver Award
Taking Innocence Project
Director Antonece Johnson
Spotlight Silver Award
Tandem Local
Directors François Legrand, Marc-Antoine Boyer, Ludovic Bollette
Spotlight Silver Award
Teach Me
Director Anna Cottrill
Spotlight Silver Award
The Assassination & Mrs. Paine
Director Max Good
Spotlight Platinum Award
The Bardia
Director Gabriella Garcia-Pardo
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Biological Aging Challenge
Directors Gary Null, Roland Roland Marconi
Spotlight Gold Award
The Brain Mappers
Director Lawrence Alan Klein
Spotlight Gold Award
The Captain's Heart
Director Simon Bang
Spotlight Gold Award
The Count
Director Jake Isaacs
Spotlight Silver Award
The Disappearance of the Black Farmer
Directors Inetta J Cooper Fult
Spotlight Bronze Award
THE FIRE CATS - Save Something Small
Director Katharine Parsons
Spotlight Gold Award
The Kibomango Story
Director Savva Svet
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Last Bus to Nay Pyi Taw
Directors Brandon Bloom, Jordan Satmary
Spotlight Silver Award
The Last Photo Walk
Director Mazen Hamed Alhaj Salem
Spotlight Gold Award
The Martyr
Director Edmund Stenson
Spotlight Platinum Award
The Mind Game
Director Chen Peng
Spotlight Gold Award
theOLDMAN&thePOET
Director peter evanchuck
Spotlight Gold Award
The Other Side of Wrong
Director Boštjan Slatenšek
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Piccadilly Rats - Live in Moderation
Director Nathan Cunningham
Spotlight Silver Award
The Renegade Legacy of Bleecker and MacDougal
Director Karen Kramer
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Sun Rises in The East
Director Tayo Giwa
Spotlight Bronze Award
The Wolves + Butterflies: Lupus Diaries
Director Keisha L Jordan
Spotlight Bronze Award
There Goes The Neighborhood
Director Ian Phillips
Spotlight Silver Award
This is what I'm wearing when I'm dead.
Director Marvin Menné
Spotlight Silver Award
Ticketyboo
Director Renee Brack
Spotlight Silver Award
Tide To Table: The Remarkable Journey of Oysters
Directors Maria Luskay, Lou Guarneri
Spotlight Gold Award
Too Good to be Forgotten
Directors Andy Bystrom, John Bystrom
Spotlight Bronze Award
To Protect and Preserve: Historic Flat Rock's Legacy to Keep, Part 1, Flat Rock's History
Directors Patricia A. Bradley, Michelle S. Mullen
Spotlight Gold Award
TO THE WORLD WITH YOU
Director CHENGHUA XU
Spotlight Silver Award
Track and Trace: Year One of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Directors Chad Cogdill, Tricia Fulks-Kelley
Spotlight Bronze Award
Tree-sistance
Submitter Graeme Benson
Spotlight Bronze Award
TRIBE
Director Retji Dakum
Spotlight Bronze Award
Ukraine War , the eyes of refugees
Director Olivia M. Pfaff
Spotlight Silver Award
Unbelievable! The Art Williams Story
Director Edward C. Bartel II
Spotlight Bronze Award
Unsinkable
Directors Peter Grogan, Alan Corcoran
Spotlight Gold Award
Vegan Warsaw
Directors Marcin Anaszewicz, Anna Izabela Spurek
Spotlight Silver Award
Voice ~The world that finds you~
Director Koki Homma
Spotlight Bronze Award
Voutes
Director Tasos Gkinosatis
Spotlight Silver Award
Waniyetu Wowapi - Winter Count
Director Richard Steinberger
Spotlight Gold Award
Werner van Gent - life between war and music
Director Michael Magee
Spotlight Bronze Award
What's in a Name
Director Jon Tracy
Spotlight Bronze Award
Whiplash
Director Cole Sheerin
Spotlight Bronze Award
Wrist Lock: The Martial Arts' Influence on Police Use of Force
Director Jason Harney
Spotlight Bronze Award
Yes I Can And I Will
Director Michael Lynch
Spotlight Bronze Award
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