1) Awards

Cinereach Summer Cycle Grant Recipients
Delta Boys (Dir.: Andrew Berends)
The Mosuo Sisters (Dirs.: Marlo Poras, Yu Ying Wu Chou)
Noah's Arc  (Dirs.: David Redmon, Ashley Sabin)
Phantom Cowboys   (Dirs.: Annie Waldman, Daniel Carbone)
Strong Island  (Dir.: Yance Ford)
Untitled Gay Retiree Documentary  (Dir.: PJ Raval)
Untitled Small Act Documentary:  (Dir.: Jennifer Arnold)
Up Heartbreak Hill  (Dir.: Erica Scharf)
The World in a Room  (Dir.: Tanaz Eshaghian)

Gemini Awards (Canada)
Best Biography Documentary Program
The Bush Years (Prods.: Terence McKenna, Michelle Gagnon; CBC)
The Man Who Crossed the Sahara (Prod.:  Korbett Matthews; Bravo!)
Peace Warrior (Prods.: Sue Ridout, Sara Darling; Dreamfilm Productions Ltd.)
The Pellatt Newsreel (Prods.: Barbra Cooper, Michael Leclair; Lush Art & Entertainment)

Best Children's or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series
Aquateam (Prods.: Leanne Chisholm, John Wesley Chisholm; Arcadia Entertainment)
Mystery Hunters (Prods.:  Jonathan Finkelstein, Jason Levy; Apartment 11 Productions)
Sci Q - Season 1 (Prods.: Edwina Follows, Andrew Burnstein, Jane Gilbert, Dave Litman; Exploration Production Inc.)
TVO Kids - Mark's Moments (Prods. Marney Malabar, Daniel Bourre, Pat Ellingson, Mark Sykes; TVO)

Best Documentary Series
The Adventurers (Prods.: Gordon Henderson, Michael Allder, Andrew Gregg; 90th Parallel Film & Television Productions Ltd.)
Ancestors in the Attic - Season III (Prods.: Dugald Maudsley, Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon; Primitive Entertainment Inc.)
CBC News: The Lens (Prods.: Andrew Johnson, Charlotte Odele, Catherine Olsen, Angelina Stokman; CBC Television)
Survivorman Third Season (Prods.: Les Stroud, David Brady; Survivorman 3 Productions Inc.)
The View from Here (Prod.: Jane Jankovic;  TVO)

Best History Documentary Program
China's Earthquake: The People In the Pictures (Prods.: Susan Teskey, Diana Dai; CBC)
Dark Tourism (Prods.:  Laszlo Barna, Steven Silver; Barna-Alper Productions Inc.)
Death or Canada (Prods.: Craig Thompson, Dave Farrell, Stephen Rooke; Ballinran Productions Limited, Tile Films Ireland)
Who Sank the Titanic? (Prods.: Alan Handel, Stuart Carter; Handel Productions (TI) Inc., Pioneer Productions)

Best Performing Arts Program or Series or Arts Documentary Program or Series
Caesar & Cleopatra (Prod.: Barry Avrich; Melbar Entertainment Group)
FLicKeR (Prods.: Maureen Judge, Silva Basmajian, Anita Lee; Makin' Movies Inc., National Film Board of Canada)
Toscanini: In His Own Words (Prods.: Daniel Iron, Helene Le Coeur; Foundry Films Inc., Ideale Audience)
Vida Y Danza Cuba (Prod.: Veronica Tennant; Eccentric Things Inc.)
The Young Romantic (Prods.: Niv Fichman, Jessica Daniel, Barbara Willis Sweete; Rhombus Media Inc.)

Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program
Air India 182
(Prods.: David York, Sturla Gunnarsson; Withrow Road Pictures Inc.)
bploi wai dtaai: Leave Her to Die (Prods.: Antonia Thomson, Sean Buckley; Think Positive Productions)
Norm (Prods.:  Kent Nason, Teresa MacInnes; Moondat Productions Inc.)
Tiger Spirit (Prods.; Ed Barreveld, Anita Lee, Min Sook Lee; Storyline Entertainment Inc.)
Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma
(Prods.: Peter Raymont, Silva Basmajian; White Pine Pictures)

Best Direction in a Documentary Program
Robert Cornellier (Black Wave The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez)
Annette Mangaard (General Idea : Art, AIDS and the fin de siècle)
Kent Nason, Teresa MacInnes (Norm)
Karen Cho (Seeking Refuge)
John Zaritsky (The Wild Horse Redemption)

Best Direction in a Documentary Series
Michael McNamara (Driven By Vision: Of Castles, Kings and Jesters
Ryszard Hunka (The Great Food Revolution: 24 Hours, 24 Million Meals: Feeding New York City)
Liam O'Rinn (The Great Food Revolution: The Great Food Revolution
Hadley Obadiac (The Nature of Things: Living City: A Critical Guide)
Les Stroud (Survivorman Third Season: Papua New Guinea)

Best Direction in a News Information Program or Series
Catherine Clark (CBC News: Marketplace--Miracle Makers or Money Takers)
Morris Karp (CBC News: the fifth estate: Powerless)
Harvey Cashore (CBC News: the fifth estate: The Chess Master)
Tamar Weinstein (CBC News: the fifth estate: Staying Alive)

Best Direction in a Performing Arts Program or Series
Elise Swerhone (Ballet High)
Veronica Tennant (Vida Y Danza Cuba)
Barbara Willis Sweete (The Young Romantic)

Best Original Music Score for a Documentary Program or Series
Christopher Dedrick (The Body Machine)
Christopher Dedrick (Death or Canada)
Edmund Eagan (FLicKeR)
Eric LeMoyne (Liberty, USA)
Daniel Séguin (The Wild Horse Redemption)

Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series
Colm Whelan (Death or Canada)
Steve Cosens (The Rawside of...Die Mannequin)
Michael Grippo csc (Running Guns - A Journey into the Small Arms Trade)
Michael Jorgensen (Secrets of the Dinosaur Mummy)
Ian Kerr, John Collins (The Wild Horse Redemption)

Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series
Nick Hector, C.C.E. (Air India 182)
Jay Tipping (Battlefield Mysteries: The Siege of Malta)
Michael Brockington (Carts of Darkness)
Prem Sooriyakumar (The Man Who Crossed the Sahara)
Matthew Hannam (The Rawside of...Die Mannequin)

Best Sound in an Information/Documentary Program or Series
Ewan Deane, Patrick Brereton, Jim Ursulak (Combat School: One Platoon)
Allan Fung, Dale Lennon, Steve Moore (Death or Canada)
Alex Salter (Flipping Out)
Jody Ellis, Alan Geldart (India Reborn: Manufacturing Dreams)
Bruce Cameron, Jean Asselin, Adrian Tucker (The Musical Brain)

Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series
Robert Cornellier, Paul Carvalho (Black Wave The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez)
Sheona McDonald (Capturing a Short Life)
Tracey Deer (Club Native)
Araz Artinian (The Genocide in Me)
Larry Weinstein, Harvey Sachs (Toscanini: In His Own Words)

Best Writing in an Information Program or Series
Bob McKeown (CBC News: the fifth estate: The Code)
Gillian Findlay (CBC News: the fifth estate: A Death in the Family)
David Freeman, Paul Bates, Diana Frances, Ken Hegan, Nick McCabe-Lokos, Carman Melville, Scott Montgomery, Adam Nicholls, Randy Potash, George Stroumboulopoulos (The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos: Sarah Palin)
Ryan Leigh (INK: Alter Egos Exposed: "Villains")

Imagen Awards
Best Documentary/Television: A Class Apart (Dirs./Prods.: Carlos Sandoval, Peter Miller; Latino Public Broadcasting)
Best National Informational Program: Despierta America - De Lava Platos a Chef (Univision)
Best Local Informational Program: Vista L.A. (KABC)
Best Feature Documentary: Beisbol (Prods.: Winston Davis Assoc.)

Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Best Popular Documentary: A Good Way to Die? (Dir.: Dan Salmon; Tash Christie Octopus Pictures TV3
Best Arts/Festival/Feature-Documentary:  the art star and the sudanese twins (Dir./Prod.: Pietra Brettkelly)
Best Director- Documentary:  Pietra Brettkelly (the art star and the sudanese twins)
Best Camerawork--Documentary/Factual Programme: Hunger for the Wild (Cin.: Peter Young; Fisheye Films Ltd TV One
Best Editing - Documentary/Factual Programme: Irena Dol. Pietra Brettkelly (the art star and the sudanese twins)

Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund (TFPF) Grant Recpients
61 Bullets (Dir.: David Modigliani)
Along Recovery (Dir.: Justin Springer)
America's Parking Lot (Dir.: Jonny Mars)
Burned (Dir.: Emily Pyle)
Footography (Dir.: Nick Smith)
Leaving The Ark (Dir.: Minor Wilson)
Long Island (Dir.: Amy Grappell)
The Long Fight (Dir.: Greg Kwedar)
No No: A Dockumentary (Dir.: Jeffrey Radice)
The Past Is a Foreign Country (Dir.: Daniel Stuyck)
Potlatch (Dir.: James Marsh)
The Road to Livingston (Dirs.: Erik Mauck, Chelsea Hernandez)
Strengths and Weaknesses: The Politics of Science Education (Dir.: Scott Thurman)
Two Trinities (Dir.: Sandra Guardado)
Untitled Gay Retiree Documentary (Dir.: PJ Raval)
Vanilla: The Sacred Orchid (Dir.: Curtis Craven)
The Yogurt Shop Murders (Dir.: Claire Huie)

2) Festivals

AsoloArtFilmFestival 2009
Premio Asolo for the Best Film on Art: Nora (Dirs.: Alla Kovgan, David Hinton)
Premio Asolo for the Best Artist's Biography:  Calder, sculpteur de l'air/Calder sculptor of air (Dir.: François Lèvy-Kuentz)
Premio Asolo for the Best Film on Architecture and Design: Predappio in luce/Predappio. The town of Mussolini (Dir.: Marco Bertozzi )
Gran Premio Asolo for the Best Competing Film: Nora (Dirs.: Alla Kovgan, David Hinton)

Feel Good Film Festival
Feel Good feature-Special Mention: The Brothers Warner (Dir.: Cass Warner)

Rhode Island Film Festival
Best Documentary: No. 4 Street of Our Lady (Dirs.: Barbara Bird, Judy Maltz, Richie Sherman)
Best Documentary Short: Team Taliban (Dir.: Benjamin Kegan)

DokuFest (Prizren, Kosovo)
Best Documentary: Rene (Dir.: Helena Trestikova)
Special Mentions: The One Man Village (Dir.: Simon El Habre); Defamation (Dir.: Yoav Shamir)
Best Short Documentary: The Solitary Life of Cranes (Dir.: Eva Weber)
Best Balkan Documentary: Sisters of Lilith (Dir.: Emel Celebi)
Special Mention: Three (Dir.: Goran Devic)
Green Docs Award: A Sea Change (Dir.: Barbara Ettinger)
Human Rights Award: The Glass House (Dir.: Hamid Rahmanian)
Audience Award: Bloody Mondays and Strawberry Pies (Dir.: Coco Shrijber)

Grossmann Film and Wine Festival (Ljutomer, Slovenia)
Best Musical Documentary: Vlada (Dir.: Rudi Uran)

Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival
Best Documentary: Herskovitz: At The Heart of Blackness (Dir.: Llewellyn Smith)
The 2009 Saatchi &Saatchi "Nothing is Impossible" Award--Best Documentary:Return to Mexico City  (Dir./Prod.: Joie Walls)

Sarajevo Film Festival
Best Documentary: The Caviar Connection (Dir.: Dragan Nikolic)
Human Rights Award: Heated Blood (Dir.: Marko Mamuzic)