#BUTGOD
Director Kevin McAfee
Spotlight Gold Award
26.2 to Life
Director Christine Yoo
Spotlight Gold Award
100 Years
Director Matthew Kistenmacher
Spotlight Silver Award
1979 The Year of the Islamist Revolution
Director Jonathan Hacker
Spotlight Silver Award
1986. December chronicles. A glimmer of the truth.
Director Assiya Baigozhina
Spotlight Silver Award
Above And Beyond
Director Vincent Chia
Spotlight Silver Award
A Closer Cut- A Food Truck on 68th St
Director Jordy Antonio
Spotlight Silver Award
Advocacy Club
Director Michael D McNeely
Spotlight Silver Award
Alexa: a Tale of the Mixteca
Director José Assadourian Martínez
Spotlight Silver Award
American Made
Director Dana Nies
Spotlight Gold Award
A New LVHS: Pioneering Animal Welfare in the Lehigh Valley
Director Tyler Wursta
Spotlight Silver Award
Angle
Director Alex Perry
Spotlight Gold Award
Americans in Japan
Director Johnny Vonneumann
Spotlight Bronze Award
An Open Door. - Temple Grandin
Director John Alexander Barnhardt
Spotlight Gold Award
Anxious Athlete
Director Nandita Anand
Spotlight Silver Award
Approaching the traditional Chinese Medicine
Director zhang huan Hui
Spotlight Silver Award
A Village Named Deng' Er
Director ACIMODUO
Spotlight Gold Award
Away for Awhile
Director Stephanie Slewka
Spotlight Silver Award
Axé, Salvador!
Director Domenico Rodolfo Grillone
Spotlight Bronze Award
Behind The Smoke
Director Jacob Whitley
Spotlight Silver Award
Bake It Till You Make It
Director Jason Taglieri
Spotlight Silver Award
Bee The Solution
Director Charlotte Quintanar
Spotlight Silver Award
Beloved Children of the Holocaust
Director Cliff Springs
Spotlight Silver Award
Breaking Barriers "The Djembe"
Director Josh Levine
Spotlight Bronze Award
Bring Dat Mono Back
Director Edward T Thornton
Spotlight Bronze Award
CANCER/EVOLUTION Episode 1: The Dustbin of History
Directors Maggie Jones, Brad Jones
Spotlight Silver Award
Carver of the Possible
Directors NICOLAS LEGER, Jocelyn Langlois
Spotlight Silver Award
Confronting Radicals
Director Benjamin Hilton
Spotlight Gold Award
Direct & Reflect
Directors Miki Holiday, Kal-El Billy Holiday, Kareem Dula Dixon, Troy L. Mitchell, Yolanda Nollie
Spotlight Bronze Award
Dream Big Little One
Directors Marcus Graham, Marcus Graham
Spotlight Silver Award
Echo
Directors Qidi An, Zi Mu
Spotlight Gold Award
Eighteen Tuesdays
Directors Merrick Apple Presser, Tommy Cobby Sheridan
Spotlight Silver Award
Facing Forward
Director Abigail Dickinson
Spotlight Silver Award
Fat is Fashion
Director LaQuinta R Davis
Spotlight Silver Award
Fierce
Director Wilson Evan Hansen
Spotlight Gold Award
For the Love of Food: Pour l’amour de la Cuisine
Directors Maria Luskay, Lou Guarneri
Spotlight Gold Award
From Winter Day to Winter
Director Tian Li
Spotlight Silver Award
Global Panic
Director Jacob Whitley
Spotlight Silver Award
Glorious Days and Nights-A Jazz Memoir
Director Bob Judson
Spotlight Gold Award
Gone Too Soon
Director Gemini Stax
Spotlight Silver Award
Goodboy
Director Ashley Mosher
Spotlight Platinum Award
Grant Sheehan: Light, Ghosts & Dreams
Director Robin Greenberg
Spotlight Gold Award
Greenwood Ablaze
Director Nicholle Carter
Spotlight Silver Award
Headgear Hunting
Director Yusmal Ghazali
Spotlight Silver Award
Hello VIVIAN
Director YOOJIN KIM
Spotlight Silver Award
Here to Stay
Director Lauren Marks Bowman
Spotlight Gold Award
HEYOKA
Director jang dong ju dong ju jang
Spotlight Bronze Award
Homegrown
Directors Nicole Goh, Joyce Huan
Spotlight Silver Award
Horse Teacher
Director Shandoah Goldman
Spotlight Gold Award
How To Break A World Record
Directors Andrew P Oliver, Dan Johnson
Spotlight Gold Award
If It Could Happen to Me, It Could Happen to You
Director Gwendolyn G Cassady
Spotlight Silver Award
In Our Backyard: History and Culture from the Citrus Belt (Henry Halpern's Sculptures)
Director Claudia Gonzalez
Spotlight Silver Award
In Search Of The Food Preservers
Director Nova Goh
Spotlight Silver Award
Interception: Jayne Kennedy • American Sportscaster
Director Safiya Songhai
Spotlight Gold Award
Into the Shaolin
Director Hongyun Sun
Spotlight Gold Award
INVISIBLE NO MORE
Director Andy Fiore
Spotlight Gold Award
Is There Something Going On At Home?
Director Jason Harney
Spotlight Silver Award
JAWAI
Director Katya Ignatiev
Spotlight Silver Award
Journey Of The Bidayuh
Director Ian Shepherd Salang Anak Peter
Spotlight Silver Award
Just Like You - Anxiety + Depression
Director Jennifer Greenstreet
Spotlight Gold Award
Karam Camera
Directors Liam LoPinto, Shaimaa Al Sabti, Hana Barhum
Spotlight Bronze Award
Kashi’s Manikarnika : Mystique and Moksh
Director Balendu D Kaushik
Spotlight Bronze Award
Kick Out!: The Newtown Neurotics Story
Director Luke Baker
Spotlight Silver Award
Koh Phangan Man
Director Dewey Paul Moffit
Spotlight Silver Award
Kombi Man
Director Jeff Bird
Spotlight Gold Award
Kunakirwa - A journey to the Mbira
Director Rodrigo Laje
Spotlight Gold Award
LA LIXEIRA - the invisibles' dignity
Directors GUIDO GALANTE, ANTONIO NOTARANGELO
Spotlight Silver Award
L'Eternel Féminin
Director Laine Immell
Spotlight Silver Award
Little Bride
Directors Michael Man, Emma Botting, Sindy Man
Spotlight Silver Award
LOS(t) SUEÑOS
Director Jakub Chlouba
Spotlight Platinum Award
Love,and dark matter
Director Qi Chen
Spotlight Silver Award
Master and Apprentice
Director Cory White
Spotlight Bronze Award
Mekong Apocalypse
Director Michael Buckley
Spotlight Silver Award
Middle America
Director Dana Larson
Spotlight Gold Award
Missed Conceptions
Director Donna L Marvin-Platt
Spotlight Silver Award
Mute Voices
Director Catherine Gropper
Spotlight Silver Award
My Hair, My Rules
Directors Ronald Hinton, Joel Ahumada
Spotlight Gold Award
No Address: Atlanta
Director Caletta Harris
Spotlight Silver Award
No Brakes
Director Max Stallings
Spotlight Gold Award
Noishorrifics
Director Sohanlal
Spotlight Bronze Award
Note of Defiance
Director Brian Henderson
Spotlight Gold Award
One Day...
Director Graeme Montgomery
Spotlight Gold Award
One Pill Can Kill
Directors Molly Hermann, Rob Lyall
Spotlight Silver Award
On ice
Director Katherine Zeng
Spotlight Silver Award
One Second at a Time: Battling the Monster of Addiction
Director Tim Searfoss
Spotlight Gold Award
Open Mic'er
Director Cameron Vitagliano
Spotlight Bronze Award
Paddle To The Amazon
Director Chris Forde
Spotlight Silver Award
Pain of Silence
Directors Christopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong
Spotlight Silver Award
Passion, Purpose & Parkinson's
Director Olz McCoy
Spotlight Platinum Award
"Polly"
Director Damyan Petkov Nik
Spotlight Gold Award
Powering Puerto Rico
Director Adam Fischer
Spotlight Gold Award
Pride of Puglia
Director DJ Chan
Spotlight Silver Award
Rattled: Conserving Rattlesnakes in Appalachia
Director Ryan N. Olsen
Spotlight Gold Award
Ride Your Story
Director Andy Chia
Spotlight Silver Award
Roaming History: Emmett Till
Directors Michael Rios, James Fierro
Spotlight Silver Award
Searching for Camelot: The Queen of Camelot
Director Roger Paradiso
Spotlight Silver Award
Seeking Buchen
Director Taha Anwer
Spotlight Silver Award
SERENGETI
Director Marcello Ercole
Spotlight Platinum Award
Shaking Hands With The Devil
Director Olz McCoy
Spotlight Silver Award
She; who lives
Director Ayesha Farooq
Spotlight Silver Award
Show Her The Money
Director Ky Dickens
Spotlight Gold Award
So Shoot Me
Director Leslye Abbey
Spotlight Gold Award
Spark
Director BETO SPORKENS
Spotlight Silver Award
SPIRITUAL WARRIORS: Decoding Christian Nationalism at the Capitol Riot
Director Michael Schwartz
Spotlight Gold Award
STEPPIN: A Chicago Dance
Directors Anthony Coleman, Gwen McGee
Spotlight Bronze Award
Stewards of The Land
Directors Thomas Wavid Johns, William Hartsock
Spotlight Gold Award
Swim Tuff
Director Matt Corliss
Spotlight Gold Award
The 30 Project
Submitter Christopher Kam
Spotlight Gold Award
The Absence of Memory
Director Brian Yulo Ng
Spotlight Silver Award
The Alliance
Director Amanda Jean Kowalski
Spotlight Gold Award
The Butterfly Effect
Directors Deb Wallwork, Janet Bayliss
Spotlight Silver Award
The Challenges of Making Local History Documentaries
Director Russ Fry
Spotlight Bronze Award
THE COLOR OF SLAVERY
Director Patrick Baucelin
Spotlight Silver Award
The Crew
Director Mike Leonard
Spotlight Silver Award
The Crossing: Consequences of Truth
Director Andrew Didway
Spotlight Gold Award
The Importance of Strange Perceptions (Episode 2/ BrainDagger Films Presents: Knowledge is Good)
Director Moe Taylor
Spotlight Silver Award
The land of sky, home of the Thang-ka painters
Directors Takashi Inoue, Matsuda Natsuki
Spotlight Silver Award
The Little Church That Could
Director James Newhook
Spotlight Silver Award
The Long Road to Hope: Ending Parkinson's Disease
Director Iyad H. Amer
Spotlight Silver Award
The Mammoth Hunt
Director Aiste Stonyte
Spotlight Gold Award
The Newcomers
Director Theresa Kliem
Spotlight Silver Award
The Order of Things
Directors Ramona Badescu, Jeff Silva
Spotlight Silver Award
The Prince of Carbon
Director Martin Boudot
Spotlight Silver Award
The Retirement Deception
Director Kenneth Wilcox
Spotlight Silver Award
The Sculptor's Wife: A Love Story in Documentation
Director Traci L Slatton
Spotlight Gold Award
The SixTripleEight
Director James William Theres
Spotlight Silver Award
The Vanishing Point: Tracing Shadows in Prussian Blue
Director Marek Ryszard Dojs
Spotlight Silver Award
The Veteran's Battlefield
Director Chris Baucom
Spotlight Silver Award
The Walk
Director Jonny Stern
Spotlight Gold Award
The Wind on Mount Everest
Director Qing Su
Spotlight Silver Award
Tiki Taane in session with CSO
Director Tiki Taane
Spotlight Gold Award
Tiger Run: The Untold Story
Directors Dee Brown, Omarosa Manigault Newman
Spotlight Silver Award
TRACES, Voices of the Second Generation
Directors Isaac Brown, Ana Paula Habib
Spotlight Silver Award
Tutti In Scena
Director Laura Caparrotti
Spotlight Silver Award
Ukraine's Daughter - Justyna Uschak
Director Brenda Jacoby
Spotlight Bronze Award
Uneven Ground: The Melissa Witt Story
Director LaDonna Humphrey
Spotlight Silver Award
Unhusk
Director Jue Wang
Spotlight Gold Award
War Games
Director Matthew Danzico
Spotlight Gold Award
We are the music
Director Guillermo Rosabal-Coto
Spotlight Gold Award
We Thrive
Directors Lisa Hagopian, Eric Harabadian
Spotlight Silver Award
We've Gotta Sing
Director Megan Goldstein
Spotlight Bronze Award
When Wire Was King: The Transformation of Telecommunications
Director Jennifer A. Manner
Spotlight Silver Award
WHERE HAVE ALL THE SMILES GONE
Director ANJA STRELEC
Spotlight Silver Award
"What if Schools Taught Us to Love"
Director Yannick Borit
Spotlight Silver Award
Will You Remember Me?
Director Will Dowler
Spotlight Silver Award
WITCH, REBORN
Director Maria Shevtsova
Spotlight Gold Award
Woman in the Mirror
Director Tatyana Bronstein
Spotlight Gold Award
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