1) Awards

Giant Screen Cinema Association Marketing Awards

Best Big Idea: National Geographic for Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, for their coordinated day-and-date release to 260 screens worldwide-the largest ever day-and-date release of traditional giant screen film.
Best Film Launch by a Theater: Museum of Science-Boston-The Alps
Best Marketing by a Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films-Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D
Best Theater Launch: Myrtle Beach IMAX Theater in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,

Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film--2008 Grantees
Disturbing the Universe: Radical Lawyer William Kuntsler (Dirs.: Emily Kuntsler and Sarah Kuntler)
Fifth Generation: Kibbutz at 100 (Dir.: Toby Appleton)
Waiting for Armageddon (Dirs.: Kate Davis, David Heilbronner, Franco Sacchi)
Outside the Box: Being Black and Jewish (Dir.: Lacey Schwartz)
Raymond Scott: On to Something (Dir.: Stan Warnow)
Run for Your Life (Dir.: Judd Ehrlich)

2) Festivals

Bucharest International Film Festival 2008
Best Documentary: How To Become A Hero (Kako Postati Heroj) (Dir.: Mladen Maticevic) and Lakshmi And Me (Dir.: Nishta Jain)

Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Best Documentary-Audience Award: She's a Boy I Knew (Dir: Gwen Haworth)

Ischia Film Festival
Best Documentary: Lost Holiday (Dir.: Lucie Králová )
Special Mention: Feet Unbound (Dir.: Khee-Jin Ng)

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Best Documentary Film (under 30 min.): Lost World (Letnt vilag) (Dir.: Gyula Nemes)
Best Documentary Film (over 30 min.): Man on Wire (Dir.: James Marsh)
Special Mention: Bigger, Stronger, Faster (Dir.: Christopher Bell)
East of the West Award--Best Film: Tulpan (Dir.: Sergey Dvortsevoy)
Special Mention: Seamstresses (Dir.: Lyudmil Todorov)

Paris Cinema International Film Festival
Jury Prize and Audience Award: Young@Heart (Dir.: Stephen Walker)

Woodstock Film Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award: Haskell Wexler

Outfest Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Outstanding Documentary Feature: Sex Positive (Dir.: Daryl Wein)
Outstanding Documentary Short: La Corona (The Crown) (Dirs.: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega
Outfest Freedom Award: Football Under Cover (Dirs.: David Assmann and Ayat Najafi)
Outstanding Emerging Talent: Dave O'Brien, director, Equality U
Outstanding Artistic Achievement: Matt Wolf, director, Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Audience Award-Outstanding Documentary Feature: A Place To Live (Dir.: Carolyn Coal)
Audience Award-Outstanding Documentary Short: La Corona (The Crown) (Dirs.: Amanda Micheli and Isabel Vega)