1) Awards
Emmy Governors Award:
National
Geographic Channel's "Preserve Our Planet" Campaign
Gucci
Tribeca Finishing Fund
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NCLR ALMA Award
Outstanding Made-for-Television Documentary: American Experience: Roberto Clemente (Dir./Prod.:
Bernardo
Ruiz)
Norwegian
Amanda Awards
Documentary: Blood &
Honor (Dir.: Havard Bustnes)
2) Festivals
Durban
International Film Festival
Best Documentary:
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (Dir.: Steven
Sebring)
Special Mention
Documentary: Send a Bullet (Manda
Bala) (Dir.: Jason Kohn)
Best South African
Documentary: 50 Years! Of Love? (Dir.:
Karin Slater)
Amnesty International
Durban Human
Rights Award: Taking Root: The Vision
of Wangari Maathai (Dirs.: Alan Dater and Lisa Merton)
Audience Choice Best
Wavescapes Film: Sharkwater (Dir.:
Rob Stewart)
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Grand Prize-Best Documentary:
Acceleration America (Dir.: Timothy Hotchner)
Best Documentary Short: Trip To Hell & Back (Dir.: Stu Maddox)
Alternative Spirit Award: Bi the Way (Dir.: Brittany Blockman)
Traverse City Film Festival
Best Documentary: Body of War (Dirs./Prods.: Phil
Donahue and Ellen Spiro)
Audience Award for Best Non-Fiction Film: Body of War (Dirs./Prods.: Phil
Donahue and Ellen Spiro)
Best Non Fiction Film by a New Filmmaker: The Youngest Candidate (Dir.:
Jason Pollock)
Best American Historical Document: Trouble the Water (Dirs.: Carl
Deal and Tia Lessin)
Special Jury Prize for Non-Fiction Filmmaking: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Dir.:
Gini Reticker)
Special Jury Prize for Amazing Non-Fiction Film: Bigger,
Faster, Stronger (Dir.: Christopher Bell)
Stanley Kubrick Prize
for Bold and Innovative Filmmaking: Theater
of War (Dir.: John W. Walter)
West Hollywood International Film Festival
Directors Impact Award: Drug
Wars: Silver or Lead (Dir./Prod.:
Rusty Fleming)
Woods Hole
Film Festival
Best Documentary: They
Killed Sister Dorothy (Dir.: Daniel Junge)
Best of the Fest Audience Award: They Killed Sister Dorothy (Dir.:
Daniel Junge)
Best Short Documentary: The Ladies (Dir.: Christina Voros)
New England Emerging Filmmaker Award-Documentary: Katrina Browne (Traces of the Trade)