A cluster of festivals in the South concluded over the weekend, with Lucy Walker's Waste Land nabbing the top doc prize at the Dallas International Film Festival, to add to the growing collection of trophies that film has amassed since taking home the World Documentary Audience Award at Sundance. Also in The Big D, Mark Landsman's Thunder Soul won the Audience Award and a special mention for editing. Moving eastward to the Sunshine State, Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein's How to Fold a Flag won the Grand Jury Award for Documentary Feature at the Florida Film Festival, while Roger Ross Williams' Oscar-winning Music By Prudence won the Audience Award for Best Short Film. At the Sarasota Film Festival, DocuWeeks alum Inglelore, by Frank Steifel, won the Audience Award for Best Short Film, while Laura Poitras' The Oath and Josh Fox's Gasland won, respectively, Best Documentary Feature and a Special Jury Prize. Another Sundance veteran, Chico Colvard's Family Affair, earned the Documentary Feature Jury Award at the Atlanta Film Festival.

1)      Awards

C-SPAN's StudentCam 2010 Competition
Grand Prize Winner:
Madison Richards, Samantha Noll, & Lauren Nixon
8th Grade
I've Got The Power
McKinley Middle Charter School
Racine, WI
Time Warner Cable
Air Date: Tuesday, April 27
For information on all the winners, click here.

Harry Chapin Media Awards (to honor journalists for their coverage of hunger and poverty-related issues)
Television/Film:
Socially Connected: Is Anybody Listening? (Dirs./Prods.: Karen Forshay, John Larson, Bret Marcus, Justine Schmidt, Val Zavala, Marcus Villatoro; KCET-TV)
Cash for Poor: Mexico's Anti-Poverty Program (Dirs./Prods.: Merrill Schwerin, Catherine Wise, Ray Suarez; The PBS NewsHour)
The Children Beyond Chernobyl (Dirs./Prods.: Jim Fahy, Ken Fogerty; RTE)
Trouble the Water (Dirs./Prods.: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal; HBO) 

2)  Festivals

Atlanta Film Festival
Documentary Feature Jury Award: Family Affair (Dir.: Chico Colvard)
Pink Peach Jury Award--Feature: 8: The Mormon Proposition (Dir.: Reed Cowan) 
Shorts Jury Award--Documentary: Born Sweet (Dir.: Cynthia Wade) 
Honorable Mention: Woman Rebel (Dir.: Kiran Deol)

Bannf Television Festival--Rockie Award Nominees
Arts and Performing Arts Documentaries:
In A Dream (Herzliya Films and Red Light Films in association with HBO Documentary Films; USA)
Place (Renck Akerlund Films; SVT--Sveriges Television; Sweden)
Tales from the Museum of Islamic Art (Oxford Film and Television; Al Doha Channel; UK)
Karsh Is History (Productions Grand Nord;  Bravo, ARTV, Knowledge & TVO; Canada)
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (66 Productions in association with HBO Documentary Films; USA)  
The First Movie (ConnectFilm; More4/Channel 4; UK)

Environmental Programs:
Bang Goes the Theory: The Human Power Station (Dragonfly Film and Television Productions; BBC; UK)
Global Sushi : demain nos enfants mangeront des méduses (Capa presse TV in association with Canal +; France)
How The Earth Was Made (Pioneer Film & Television Productions;  HISTORY/A&E Television Networks; UK)
Rainmakers (Submarine in association with VPRO, ZDF/Arte; The Netherlands)
Shit Happens!: History of the Product  (YLE--Finnish Broadcasting Company; Finland)

History & Biography Programs:       
Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain: The Great War & Having a Ball (BBC; BBC2; UK)
Christianity: A History (Pioneer Productions in association with CTVC ; Channel 4; UK)
Death Masks  (Wild Dream Films; HISTORY/A&E Television Networks; USA)
Summer '39  (TagTraum in association with WDR; Germany)
The Miracle of Leipzig (Broadview TV GmbH in association with MDR, Arte; Germany)
World War II in HD  (Reda Productions in association with HISTORY (A&E Television Networks; USA)

Investigative & Current Affairs Programs:
Backlight: Lockerbie Revisited  (Blazhoffski Productions in association with VPRO Television ; The Netherlands)
Dispatches: Pakistan's Taliban Generation (October Films; Channel 4; UK)
FRONTLINE: Black Money (FRONTLINE in association with Cam Bay Productions; USA) 
The Language of Al Qaeda (The Al Qaeda Code)  (Heliox in association with WDR & Nomad Films; ARTE/WDR ; Canada)
To Catch a Paedophile  (ITV Studios; UK)
Waste: the nuclear nightmare  (Bonne Pioche in association with ARTE France; France)

Political Documentaries:
A Violent Response (Television International; K24; Kenya)
Iran and the West  (BBC Current Affairs in association with Brook Lapping; BBC; UK)
Lords of the Revolution (VH1 in association with VH1 Rock Docs; USA)
Right America Feeling Wronged (HBO Documentary Films: USA)
The Most Secret Place on Earth--The CIA's Covert War in Laos (Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion Köln GmbH & Co.KG in association with NDR/ARTE, WDR; Germany)
VOCES: Special Circumstances  (Latino Public Broadcasting in association with Tunnel Productions; American Public Television; Chile)

Popular Science & Technology Programs:
Cosmic Code Breakers: The Secrets of Prime Numbers (NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.; Japan)
Drain the Ocean (Burning Gold Productions in association with ORF; National Geographic Channel; UK)
Electric Dreams (Wall to Wall; BBC; UK) 
The Five Secrets of an Office Clerk ( Canal 22; Mexico)
The Human Spark (The Chedd-Angier-Lewis Production Company & THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG; USA)
The Music Instinct: Science and Song (THIRTEEN in association with Mannes Productions Inc.; PBS)   

Social & Humanitarian Documentaries:
The Queen and I (Real Reel in association with SVT - Sveriges Television; Sweden)
Empire of the World (Nomad Films Inc.; TVO, KNOWLEDGE, TFO, SBS & TG4; Canada)
65 Red Roses (Force Four Entertainment in association with CBC News Network, Knowledge; Canada)   
You die as you lived   (KRO Television; The Netherlands)

Sports Documentaries:

CRANKY (Henge Production & Consulting Ltd.; Canada)
Ireland's Grand Slam Journey  (RTE; Ireland)
On the Verge of Impossible: The Treasure of the Great Snow   (TVE; Spain)
Pursuing the Flame (Nish Media; Canada)
Ton Sijbrands - checkers player despite all consequences   (NPO; The Netherlands)
VOCES: The Golden Age (Latino Public Broadcasting; USA)

Wildlife & Natural History Programs:
A Park for All Seasons (High Fidelity HDTV; Canada)
Death of the Megabeasts  (Prospero Productions; SBS; Australia)
Life (BBC in association with Discovery/SKAI/Open University, RTI Spa; BBC1; UK)
Rift Valley--The Great Rift  (A Co-production of ORF, Cosmos Factory, Studio Hamburg/NDR Naturfilm, WDR, ARTE, National Geographic Channel; ORF-Universum/NHU; Austria)
Wildlife (NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.)    in association with NHK Enterprises, Inc.; Japan)
Yellowstone  (BBC in association with Animal Planet; USA)

Beverly Hills Film Festival
Special Jury Award--Best Documentary: Sequestro (Dir.: Jorge W. Atalla; Exec. Prods.: Frederico Lapenda, Christian Gudegast)
Best Director: Jorge W. Atalla (Sequestro)
Best Cinematography: Ginny Martin, Joel Shapiro, Peter Rosen (A Surprise in Texas)
Audience Choice Award-Best Documentary: A Surprise in Texas (Dir.: Peter Rosen)

Cape Winelands Film Festival (South Africa)
Best Documentary: War Against the Weak (Dir.: Justin Strawhand)
Documentary Special Mention: Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation (Dir.: Catherine Meyburgh)

Dallas International Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: Waste Land (Dir.: Lucy Walker; Co-Dirs.: Jao Jardim, Karen Harley)
Special Jury Prize: The Last Survivor (Dirs.: Michael Pertnoy, Michael Kleiman)
Special Mention for Editing: Thunder Soul (Editor: Claire Didier; Dir.: Mark Landsman)
MPS Studios Texas Filmmaker Award:  American: The Bill Hicks Story (Dirs.: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas)
Environmental Visions Filmmaker Award: Climate Refugees (Dir.: Michael Nash)
Best Short Film: Quadrangle (Dir.: Amy Grappell)
Audience Award--Best Documentary: Thunder Soul (Dir.: Mark Landsman)

Florida Film Festival
Grand Jury Award For Best Documentary Feature: How To Fold A Flag (Dirs.: Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein)
Special Jury Award for Documentary Filmmaking: Best Worst Movie (Dir.: Michael Paul Stephenson)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: Racing Dreams (Dir.: Marshall Curry)
Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short: The Poodle Trainer (Dir.: Vance Malone)
Audience Award for Best Short Film: Music By Prudence (Dir.: Roger Ross Williams)

Sarasota Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature: The Oath (Dir.: Laura Poitras)
Special Jury Prize: Gasland (Dir.: Josh Fox)
Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature: For Once In My Life (Dir.: James Bigham)
Audience Award, Best Short Film: Ingelore (Dir.: Frank Stiefel)