Awards Roundup—June 11-June 24, 2008

I. Awards

Cinereach Award: Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath (The Betrayal (Nerakhoon))

German Camera Awards
Nonfictional Forms: Maximilian Plettau, Peter Juras and Sorin Dragoi
Honorary Award: Carl F. Hutterer
Best Editing--Documentary: Monika Brauer
Special Award: Patrick Gautschy, Simon Usteri and Christian Witschi, for their account of the cycling event Tour de Suisse 2007.

Norwegian Amanda Awards
Documentary: A Beautiful Tragedy (Dir.: David Kinsella); Blood & Honor (Dir.: Havard Bustnes); The Seed of Happiness (Dir.: Karoline Grindaker)

Women in Film Finishing Fund
Jessica Gerstle (Travels with My Dad)
Roberta Grossman (Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh)
Lonnie Lardner (Angel in the Hood)
Amanda Pope (The Legend of Pancho Barnes)
Heather Ross (Girls on the Wall)
Rebecca Schanberg (Do No Harm)
 

II. Festivals

Brooklyn Fest 2008
Best Documentary--Diane Seligman Award:  Carny (Dir.: Alison Murray)
Spirit Award—Documentary: ABC Colombia (Dir.: Enrica Colusso)
Best New Director: Kevan Tucker (The Unidentified )
Audience Award—Documentary: Crawford (Dir.: David Modigliani)

CineVegas
Documentary Jury Prize: Beautiful Losers (Dirs.: Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard)
Special Documentary Jury Prize: Hi My Name is Ryan (Dirs.: Paul Eagleston and Stephen Rose)
Documentary Audience Award: Lost in the Fog (Dir.: John Corey)

deadCENTER Film Festival (Oklahoma City)

Best Documentary Feature: Greensboro: Closer to the Truth (Dir.: Adam Zucker)

International Short Film Festival (*Hamburg)
Jury Award:  Kempinski (Dir.: Neil Beloufa)
Three-Minute Quickie Competition Audience Award: Nothing's There (Dirs.: René Schöttler and Markus Schaefer)
ZDF Dokukanal—Best Documentary Short: Automotive Action Painting (Car Painting) (Dir.: George Barber).

Jackson Hole Film Festival
Audience Choice Award—Best Documentary: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Dir.: Gini Reticker; Prod.: Abigail Disney),
Best Documentary: Please Vote for Me (Dir.: Weijun Chen; Prod.: Don Edkins), Best Global Insight Award: Where the Water Meets the Sky (Dir.: David Eberts; Prod.: Helen Cotton)
MovieHatch Online 2 Onscreen Short Film Competition: Sal Mosca: Unsung (Dir.: James Lester)

Maui Film Festival
Audience Award—Documentary Feature: The Human Experience (Dir.: Charles Kinnane; Prod.: Joseph Campo)
Audience Award—Best Documentary Feature, World Cinema: War Child
(Prods.: C. Karim Chrobog and Afshin Molavi)
Audience Award—Documentary Short: Guardians of the Sea (Dir.: Charles Annenberg Weingarten)
Green Cinema Award: The Humpback Code (Dir.: Daniel Opitz); Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai (Dirs.: Lisa Merton and Alan Dater)

Nantucket Film Festival
Adrienne Shelley Excellence in Fimmaking Award: Nanette Burstein (American Teen) Audience Award: Of All the Things (Dir.: Jody Lambert) 

NewFest
Documentary Feature Award: Be Like Others (Dir.: Tanaz Eshaghian)
Honorable Mention: Meadowlark (Dir.: Taylor Greeson)
Short Film Prize—Documentary: Odd One Out, Very Normal Really: From Lucas to Luus (Dir.: Charlotte Hoogakker)

Provincetown International Film Festival
Audience Prize—Best Documentary: Flow: For the Love of Water (Dir.: Irena Salina)

Seattle International Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize: Derek (Dir.: Isaac Julien)
Documentary Competition Special Jury Prizes: Combalion (Dir.: Raphaël Mathié); Accelerating America (Dir.: Timothy Hotchner)
Short Film Jury Award--Documentary Grand Jury Prize: “Self Portrait with Cows Going Home" and Other Works: A Portrait of Sylvia Plachy (Dir.: Rebecca Dreyfus)
Short Film Jury Award--Documentary Special Jury Prize: The Ladies (Dir.:  Christina Voros)
Best Documentary Golden Space Needle Award: The Wrecking Crew (Dir.: Denny Tedesco)

Shanghai Science & Technology Museum’s Science Week Film Festival
Film of Outstanding Content: Mystery of the Nile (MacGillivray Freeman Films); Mystic India (Giant Screen Films)
Film of Outstanding Image: Deep Sea 3D (IMAX Corporation)
Film of Outstanding Special Effects: Deep Sea 3D (IMAX Corporation)
Film of Outstanding Sound: Mystery of the Nile (MacGillivray Freeman Films)
Best-received Film (Flat Screen): Deep Sea 3D (IMAX Corporation); Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D (MacGillivray Freeman Films); L5: First City In Space (IMAX Corporation)
Best-received Film (Dome Screen): Mystery of the Nile (MacGillivray Freeman Films); Africa: The Serengeti (SARAI, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Graphic Films); The Alps (MacGillivray Freeman Films)

SilverDocs
Audience Award—Feature: Herb and Dorothy (Dir.: Megumi Sasaki)
Audience Award—Short: The Tailor (Dir.: Oscar Perez)
Sterling US Feature Award: The Garden (Dir.: Scott Hamilton Kennedy)
Special Jury Mention: Trouble The Water (Dirs.: Carl Deal and Tia Lessin)
Sterling World Feature Award: The English Surgeon (Dir.: Geoffrey Smith)
Special Jury Mention: The Red Race (Dir.: Chou Gan)
Sterling Short Award: What Would The Drop Know About That? (Dir.: Jan Zabeil)
Honorable Mention: Ground Floor Right (Dir.: Marlene Schiött Rasmussen) and One Day (Dir.: Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen)
Music Documentary Award: Throw Down Your Heart (Dir.: Sascha Paladino)
Cinematic Vision Award: The Order of Myths (Dir.: Margaret Brown)
The WITNESS Award: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Dir.: Gini Reticker)
American Film Market/SILVERDOCS Award: Kassim the Dream (Dir.: Kief Davidson)
Writers Guild of America Documentary Screenplay Award: Forbidden Lie$ (Dir.: Anna Broinowski)
Humane Society of the United States Animal Content in Entertainment (ACE) Grant: The Elephant in the Living Room (Dir.: Michael Webber)

Worldwide Short Film Festival (Toronto)
Best Documentary:  Zietek (Dir.: Bartosz Blaschke)