SPOTLIGHT
DOCUMENTARY
FILM AWARDS
Platinum Awards: celebrate truly remarkable films with the highest scores from our panel.
Gold Awards: celebrate incredible films with the second highest scores from our panel.
Silver Awards: awarded to unforgettable films with the third highest scores from our panel.
Bronze Awards: awarded to films with high artistic achievement with the fourth highest scores from our panel.
Dec. 2018 Award-Winners
1,2,3, Once Again
by Vasco Diogo
Spotlight Bronze Award
49-1
by Martha Shaw
Spotlight Gold Award
50 Summers
by Dan Napoli
Spotlight Gold Award
A Gift of Wings: The Pilots of Sebring
by Ted Snow
Spotlight Gold Award
A Man And His Trumpet: The Leroy Jones Story
by Cameron Washington
Spotlight Silver Award
After I'm Gone
by Sean Bowman
Spotlight Gold Award
All American Barber
by John Jones
Spotlight Silver Award
All the Dictator's Men
by Marjolaine Grappe
Spotlight Silver Award
Amazons of Afrika, Women Warriors
by Obafemi Lasode, Harriet Ewemade
Spotlight Bronze Award
Amoka
by Maria Jose Bermudez Jurado
Spotlight Gold Award
Arktika Incognita
by Bertrand Delapierre
Spotlight Gold Award
Austin Samba
by Nil Buan
Spotlight Silver Award
Beacon
by Isara Krieger
Spotlight Silver Award
Believer
by Don Argott
Spotlight Gold Award
Bigly Yellow
by Nigel Deans & Nubar Ghazarian
Spotlight Bronze Award
Bow With Me
by The 2018 Institute for Documentary Filmmaking
Spotlight Silver Award
Broken
by Mohammed Alatar
Spotlight Gold Award
Buddy Cruise: How The Students Were Impacted
by Vanessa Bundschu
Spotlight Silver Award
BURN: The Lynching of George Armwood
by Will Schwarz
Spotlight Silver Award
Crafty Containers
by Paul Evans
"Cuba, Libre?"
by Dick Jordan
Spotlight Gold Award
Curing the Incurable?
by Gary Null
Spotlight Gold Award
Dancing Manilenyos
by Patrick Alcedo
Spotlight Silver Award
by Max Powers
Spotlight Platinum Award
Edunation
by Dr. K. M Vasudevan Pillai
Spotlight Silver Award
Fearless Journey
by Andreas Batliner & Sandro Schreiber
Spotlight Gold Award
Flickering Lights
by Joby Stephens
Spotlight Gold Award
Floating Justice
by Leila Lak
Spotlight Silver Award
Give Us This Day
by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
Spotlight Gold Award
Goomba's
by David Williams & Aisha Noox
Spotlight Silver Award
'Grunt' Film Project
by Jacob Mogler
Spotlight Silver Award
GUMBO
by Alyssa Rachelle
Spotlight Silver Award
I promise to fail
by Alberto Rocco
Spotlight Silver Award
I Want My Daddy
by Timothy "Cutty" Sanders
Spotlight Bronze Award
Indus Blues
by Jawad Sharif
Spotlight Gold Award
Internal Outskirts
by Sergio García Locatelli
Spotlight Bronze Award
Ixoq ("Woman")
by Danielle Robitaille
Spotlight Gold Award
JamieJimJames
by Tin Pang
Spotlight Gold Award
Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country
by J.J. Harting
Spotlight Silver Award
Let's Talk About Sex
by Lisa Burd
Spotlight Gold Award
Let's Walk Together As One
by Dan Webb
Spotlight Silver Award
Making Mill Town
by Lindsay LaPointe
Spotlight Gold Award
Max
by Dan Besley
Spotlight Silver Award
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JEW-TOWN
by Isaih Shaw
Spotlight Silver Award
Me, My Mouth and I
by Sophie Robinson
Spotlight Silver Award
Memories
by Takamasa Iwasaki
Spotlight Silver Award
memories for sale.
by Mitch Graszat
Spotlight Silver Award
Mexican Wave
by Judson Vaughan
Spotlight Silver Award
Mississippi Whistle
by Justyn Bell
Spotlight Gold Award
Momentum Generation
by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
Spotlight Gold Award
Nossa Chape
by Jeff Zimbalist & Michael Zimbalist
Spotlight Silver Award
Paradise Boogie
by Lisa Hagopian & Eric Harabadian
Spotlight Silver Award
Pipe Dreams Fractured Lives
by David Smith
Spotlight Gold Award
Portrait of the Drunks
by Dylan DeVore
Spotlight Bronze Award
Remembering Private Quagliano
by Rodney Roldan
Spotlight Silver Award
RISE: The Story of Augustines
by Todd Howe
Spotlight Gold Award
Sea Pilgrim
by Will Mayer
Spotlight Gold Award
Skuggi (Shadow)
by Richard D. Lavoie
Spotlight Gold Award
Strange Fruit on the Courthouse Lawn
by Sean Foy, Matt Huston, Megan Miller, Kara McCafferty, Riley Fanning
Spotlight Silver Award
Suspended Generation
by Andrea Egan & Joe Hitchcock
Spotlight Gold Award
Tax Evasion: A Greek National Sport
by Kelly Sarri
Spotlight Silver Award
THE DRIVE: 6DAYS 4392KM 30000YUAN
by Naixin Xu
Spotlight Silver Award
The Infamous Future
by Richard Butterworth and John Campbell
Spotlight Gold Award
A Look at Complementary Therapies to combat PTSD
by Nicole Amelio-Casper
Spotlight Silver Award
The Most Unknown
by Ian Cheney
Spotlight Gold Award
The One Who Holds Sovereignty Over Everything
by The Church of Almighty God
Spotlight Gold Award
The Sillar Stonecutters
by Alfredo Benavides Watmough
Spotlight Silver Award
The Time is Already
by Selene Means
Spotlight Silver Award
The Village on the Loch
by Caroline Strong
Spotlight Gold Award
The Volcano Concert
by Przemysław Wawrzyniak
Spotlight Gold Award
The War on You: Why Kill Kratom?
by Giordan Emilio-Zemach
Spotlight Silver Award
There's no crying in Los Angeles
by Julian an Mey & Melvin Sewell
Spotlight Bronze Award
Waves for Water and The Caribbean
Hurricane Relief Initiative
by Greg McKillop
Spotlight Silver Award
Underground Sunshine Cinema
by Cameron Tucker
Spotlight Silver Award
United Hopes
by Arwa Sawan
Spotlight Silver Award
Uri In The Sky
by Amir Har-Gil
Spotlight Silver Award
by Laura Farber
Spotlight Platinum Award
Where There Is Darkness
by Sean Bloomfield & Cimela Kidonakis
Spotlight Silver Award
2018 Spotlight Documentary Film Awards
Award-Winning independent Documentary Films
A.E Wells- A Man and His Park
by Donald Dodge
Spotlight Silver Award
Auroville's Children
by Nora Große Harmann
Spotlight Silver Award
Back to the roots - a simple way of farming
by Stefan Haberbosch
Spotlight Silver Award
B-Boy
by Steve Cale
Spotlight Gold Award
Black Snow
by Stephen Linstead
Spotlight Silver Award
Captured: Tornadoes
by James Stamoulakatos
Spotlight Silver Award
Chamber Music Wonderland
by Emanuel Altenburger
Spotlight Gold Award
Choices
by Adam Fleisher
Spotlight Gold Award
Core 2.1
by Core van der Hoeven
Spotlight Silver Award
Departure Of Empathy
by Quinn Holliday
Spotlight Bronze Award
Desert Coffee
by Mikael Lypinski
Spotlight Gold Award
Dunham Deaf Boy
by Ladan Sahraei
Spotlight Silver Award
Family Is
by Miranda Florer
Spotlight Bronze Award
Fighting Childhood Cancer
by Jeremy Abrams
Spotlight Gold Award
From Darkness to Light
by Joshua Freake
Spotlight Gold Award
Game Changer: Let's Get Physical!
by Timothy "Eli" Ruckman
Spotlight Silver Award
Here In Oak Cliff
by Bryan Sabillon
Spotlight Gold Award
High Tide in Dorchester
by David Harp
Spotlight Silver Award
How Does the City of Savannah Negotiate Its Complicated Past?
by Sarah O'Carroll
Spotlight Silver Award
I Am The White Tiger
by Lei Chiu
Spotlight Gold Award
I Am What I Have Learned To Be
by Adela Vrinceanu Celebidachi
Spotlight Gold Award
I Got the Land
by Francescu Artily
Spotlight Gold Award
Ibiza Jazz the Experience
by Marco Torres Walker
Spotlight Gold Award
(in) rhythm
by KT Thomas
Spotlight Silver Award
In Searh of Godawan
by Vaid Prakash Dhar
Spotlight Silver Award
It's in your Eyes
Sergio García Locatelli & Sean Schoenecker
Spotlight Silver Award
LGBT Experience
by Tom Monasterios
Spotlight Gold Award
Making Of A Gangsta
by Adam Ybarra
Spotlight Silver Award
MANRY AT SEA ~ In the Wake of a Dream
by Steve Wystrach
Spotlight Silver Award
Memories in Tears ― Pass on the War Stories to the Next Generation
by Hiromi Takagi
Spotlight Silver Award
Mexico : Looking For Lost Migrants
by Leo Mattei and Alex Gohari
Spotlight Gold Award
Monger
by Jeff Zorrilla
Spotlight Silver Award
ORENDA: Force Of Consciousness
by Lana Marconi
Spotlight Silver Award
Party On The Moon
by Robert Fritz
Spotlight Silver Award
Puerto Rico: Hope in the Dark
by Dr. Maria T. Luskay, Aime Rodriguez Semder
Spotlight Silver Award
Raising the Bar
by Onir
Spotlight Silver Award
Ridge to Ranch to River to Reef: Florida's Conservation Connections
by Maria Luskay
Spotlight Gold Award
Solari, the origin of ceviche or the original ceviche
by Sergio García Locatelli
Spotlight Bronze Award
Stare Into The Lights My Pretties
by Jordan Brown
Spotlight Silver Award
Storm Hunters: Lake of Fire
by Peter Bozinov, Mitch Charron
Spotlight Silver Award
The End of the Road
by Sergio García Locatelli
Spotlight Silver Award
The Happiness Machine
by Rebecca Blumhagen
Spotlight Gold Award
The High Sierra Trail
by Chris Smead
Spotlight Gold Award
The Home for Wayward Babydolls
by Andrew Reed
Spotlight Gold Award
The Joy Block
by Joanie Fox
Spotlight Gold Award
The King of Snapchat
by Ed Moore, Joel Raine
Spotlight Silver Award
The Mayor's Race
by Loraine Blumenthal
Spotlight Silver Award
The Mothman Chronicles
by Chloe Kelsch
Spotlight Silver Award
The New Gypsy Kings
by Liviu Tipurita
Spotlight Gold Award
The Possibility of Her
by William Feagins, Jr.
Spotlight Silver Award
The Sakada Series
by Maribel Apuya
Spotlight Silver Award
The Tribal Scoop
by Beeswaranjan Pradhan
Spotlight Silver Award
Travelling on Trash
by Deb Charles, Adam Gee, Alex Hryniewicz, Steve Wheen
Spotlight Gold Award
Two Days with Papou
by John Long
Spotlight Silver Award
Washed Up
by Nathan Hughes
Spotlight Gold Award
We Are Not a Nuisance!
by Chan Chow Wah
Spotlight Bronze Award
Whistle-Nut Weekend
by Chris Wallace
Spotlight Silver Award
You Can Be BRAVE
by Dr. Jennifer Camota Luebke
Spotlight Silver Award