Hugo Television Awards
The Commitment to Excellence Award: Kartemquin Films.
The Gold Hugo for Best Documentary: In the Shadow of the Moon (Dox Productions)

2008 Student Academy Awards® Finalists-Documentary:
As We Forgive (Laura Waters Hinson; American University, Washington, DC)
If a Body Meet a Body (Brian Davis; University of Southern California)
The Legend of Rosalie (Nicholas Berger; Stanford University)
Recruiter (Adam Salky; Columbia University, New York)
Song of a Sperm Donor (Emmanuel Dayan; Stanford University)
Tijuana, Nada Mas (Yolanda Pividal; City College of New York)
Unattached (J.J. Adler; Columbia University)

Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowships--$35,000 each; $7,500 to Emerging Artists. We have spotlighted the documentary projects among the Fellows. For complete information, go to http://news.renewmedia.org/2008/04/30/2008-fellows/.

Julianna Brannum (Emerging Artist)
Los Angeles, CA
Documentary Project: LaDonna Harris: Indian 101 is a documentary about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who, as the wife of a US Senator in the 1960s and '70s, worked from within Washington DC's political scene on behalf of American Indians.
Andrew Bujalski
Jamaica Plain, MA
Daniel Carrera
West Hollywood, CA
Cherien Dabis
New York, NY
Jacqueline Goss
Tivoli, NY
Documentary Project: Hart's Location is an animated documentary that will provide a subjective portrait of the residents of a rural precinct in northern New Hampshire, set against the backdrop of the months preceding the country's primary elections.
Judith Helfand
New York, NY
Documentary Project: Heat Wave: An Unnatural Disaster is a character-driven feature documentary that explores the legacy of the 1995 heat wave that ravaged the city of Chicago, leaving 739 people dead in four days, the majority of them old, poor and people of color. At the center of this story lies a moral dilemma that has nothing to do with the weather. Poverty predetermined who would live or die during the heat crisis.
Braden King
New York, NY
Billy Luther
Los Angeles, CA
Documentary Project: Grab is a documentary about the history of Grab Day, as well as its contemporary celebration in New Mexico's Laguna Pueblo Indian reservation. The filmmaker will follow a family as they prepare for this traditional festivity.
Shirin Neshat
New York, NY
Hugo Perez (Emerging Artist)
Brooklyn, NY
Laura Poitras
New York, NY
Documentary Project: Release is the second film in a documentary trilogy about America's response to the attacks of 9/11. The film explores the long-term psychological and political repercussions of the US policy of detention and torture.
Dee Rees
Long Beach, CA
Jennifer Reeves
New York, NY
Naomi Uman
Newhall, CA
Lauren Woods
San Francisco, CA
Jessica Yu
La Canada-Flintridge, CA
Documentary Project: Signs of Life is a documentary about the life and work of deaf educator Dr. Virginia McKinney, and her fight to keep open the school she founded over 40 years ago. McKinney, 83, is the founder of the Center for Communicative Development (CCD) and an advocate for the education of language-deprived deaf adults.

New Media Fellows:
Sharon Daniel
San Francisco, CA
Joe Davis
Cambridge, MA
Josh On
San Francisco, CA
C.E.B. Reas
Santa Monica, CA
Michael Rees
North Bergen, NJ
Paul Vanouse
Buffalo, NY

Webby Awards
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=12
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?media_id=97&season=12

Documentary: Individual Episode-Webby and People's Voice:
Coney Island: An Uncertain Future (Getty Images)
www.rickgershon.com/gettyimages
Documentary: Series--Webby:
NFB Filmmaker In Residence (Subject Matter Inc)
http://www.nfb.ca/filmmakerinresi...
Documentary: Series--People's Voice:
Frontline World
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/
News and Politics-Webby:
Finding the Way Home (MediaStorm)
http://mediastorm.org/0017.htm
News and Politics--Peoples Voice:
Dubai: Night Secrets (Frontline World)
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld...
News & Politics: Series-Webby:
Hometown Baghdad (Chat the Planet)
http://hometownbaghdad.com
News & Politics: Series-People's Voice:
Onion News Network
http://tv.theonion.com
Public Service and Activism-Webby:
Hometown Baghdad
http://hometownbaghdad.com
Public Service and Activism-People's Voice:
TitanGreens.com
http://www.TitanGreens.com
Reality-Webby:
Hometown Baghdad (Chat the Planet)
http://hometownbaghdad.com
Reality--People's Voice:
Mike's Got Mail (Discovery Channel)
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites...

Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature: La Americana (The American) (Dir.: Nicholas Bruckman)
Special Jury Mention for Documentary Feature: Los Puños De Una Nación (The Fists Of A Nation) (Dir.: Pituka Ortega Heilbron)
Jury Award for Best Documentary Short: Con El Toque De La Chaveta (With A Stroke of the Chaveta) (Dir.: Pamela Sporn)
Special Jury Mention for Documentary Short: Por Mis Hijos (For Them) (Dir.: Aymée Cruzalegui)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: La Americana (The American) (Dir.: Nicholas Bruckman)

Gulf Film Festival
Best Documentary: When the People Spoke (Dir.: Amer Al Zuhair)

Independent Film Festival of Boston
Grand Jury Prize Documentary: Song Sung Blue (Dir.: Greg Kohs)
Special Jury Prize Documentary: Secrecy (Dirs.: Robb Moss and Peter Galison)

Kansas City Film Jubilee
Indie Pioneer Award: Peter Broderick--President of Paradigm Consulting, which helps filmmakers and media companies develop strategies to maximize distribution, audiences, and revenues.
Heartland Division--Best Documentary: Henry D. Remple: Finding Hope in Troubled Times (Dir.: Linda Haskins)
US/International Division-Best Documentary: Punam (Dir.: Lucian Muntean)
Honorable Mention: Life is Marbelous (Dir.: Mike Wolff)
Best Jazz Short: Song of Pumpkin Brown (Dir.: Brad Jayne)
Honorable Mention: Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy #1 (Dir.: Frank Fitzpatrick);
18th & Vine (Dir.: Adam Brumback)
Best Jazz Feature: Trying to Get Good--The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon (Dirs.: Penny Peyser and Doug McIntyre)

Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Best Documentary Award: Chris & Don: A Love Story (Dirs.: Guido Santi and Tina Mascara)
Audience Award-Best Documentary: Call Me Troy (Dir.: Scott Bloom)

RiverRun International Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: Up the Yangtze (Dir.: Yung Chang)
Documentary Cinematography Award: Up the Yangtze (Cinematographer: Wang Shi Qing)
Best Documentary Short: Board Control (Dir.: Emil Trier)

Rose d'Or Festival
Best Arts Documentary: Strictly Bolshoi (Prods.: Ballet Boyz Productions, Ltd.; Channel 4)

San Francisco International Film Festival Golden Gate Awards
Documentary Feature: Up the Yangtze (Dir.: Yung Chang)
Bay Area Documentary Feature: Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (Dir.: Dawn Logsdon)
Documentary Feature Special Jury Prize: Forbidden Lie$ (Dir.: Anna Broinowski)
Documentary Short: The Ladies (Dir.: Christina A. Voros)
TV Documentary Long Form: Calavera Highway (Dir.: Renee Tajima-Peña)
TV Documentary Short Form: The Mystery of the Second Painting (Dir.: Muriel Edelstein)

Taiwan International Children's TV & Film Festival Competition
Best Documentary: I Am in a Hand Puppet Troupe

Tribeca International Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Dir.: Gini Reticker)
Best New Documentary Filmmaker: Carlos Carcas-Old Man Bebo
"New York LOVES Film" Award: Zoned In (Dir.: Daniella Zanzotto)
Best Documentary Short: Mandatory Service (Dir.: Jessica Habie)
Cadillac Audience Award: War Child (Dir.: C. Karim Chrobog)