1) Awards

American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award
Broadcast Category: Julia Cort (NOVA scienceNOW: Asteroid)

BAFTA Awards--Television--Nominees
Factual Series
Amazon with Bruce Parry (Series Prod./Dir./Prod: Steve Robinson; Dirs./Prods.: Matt Brandon, Rob Sullivan, James Smith; Prods.: BBC Two/Indus Films, Endeavour Productions)
Blood Sweat and T-Shirts (Dirs./Prods.: Mark Rubens, Tim Quicke, Jo Bishop; Prods.:
BBC Three/Ricochet)
The Family (Dir.: Jonathan Smith; Prod.: Fozia Khan; Prods.: C4/Firefly Films)
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan (Dirs./Prods.: Clive Tulloh, John Conroy, Matt Bennett, Ross Kemp; Prods.:  SKY1/Tiger Aspect)

Specialist Factual
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery (Dirs.:/Prods.: Claudia Lewis, Kim Shillinglaw; Prods.: BBC Four/BBC Productions )
Life in Cold Blood (Series Prod.: Miles Barton; Exec. Prod.: Sara Ford; Prods.: Hilary Jeffkins, James Brickell; Adam White; Prods.: BBC One/BBC Productions)
Lost Land of the Jaguar (Prods.: BBC One/BBC Productions)
Stephen Fry & the Gutenberg Press: The Machine That Made Us (Dirs./Prods.: Stephen Fry, Patrick McGrady, Lucy Ward, Philip Crocker; Prods.: BBC Four/Wavelength Films)

Single Documentary
A Boy Called Alex (Dir.: Stephen Walker; Prods.: C4/Walker George Productions)
Chosen (True Stories) (Dirs./Prods.: Brian Woods, Caroline Haydon, Chris Eley, Jimmy Edmonds; Prods.: C4/True Vision Productions)
The Fallen (Dirs./Prods.: Morgan Matthews, Elodie Gornall, Joby Gee, David Brindley; Prods.: BBC Two/Minnow Films)
Thriller in Manila (Dirs./Prods.: John Dower, John Smithson, Elinor Day, Andrew MacKenzie; Prods.: More4/Darlow Smithson Productions)

Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards
Best Single Documentary: Arena: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector (Dir.: Vikram Jayanti; Prod.: Anthony Wall; BBC Productions/Vixpix for BBC 2)

Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking
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GLAAD Media Awards
Outstanding Documentary Award: A Jihad for Love (Dir.: Parvez Sharma; Prod.: Sandi Dubowski)

International Digital Emmy Awards
Digital Program--Non-Fiction:
Britain from Above (Series Dir.: Cassian Harrison; Series Prod.: Lucy van Beek; BBC, Lion/United Kingdom)

NPS/ Go Short Award for Best European Short Film
Documentary: The Solitary Life of Cranes (Dir.: Eva Weber)

Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus through Documentary Grant Award
The Sundance Documentary Film program and the Skoll Foundation announced the latest round of recipients of the Stories of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Focus Through Documentary Grant Award:

Connected
Director: Jonathan Stack
Social Entrepreneur: Aloy Chife
Nigerian entrepreneur Chife is making an unrelenting effort to shrink Africa's digital divide by bringing information technology to those who need it most. 

Easy Like Water
Director: Glenn Baker
Social Entrepreneur: Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan
In Bangladesh, Architect Abul Hasanat Mohammed Rezwan's solar-powered floating schools are turning the front lines of climate change into a community of learning. 

To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus BANKS ON America (working title)
Director: Gayle Ferraro
Social Entrepreneur: Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus, known for developing the concept of microcredit, reached seven and a half million poverty-stricken families in Bangladesh with his Grameen Bank. This film profiles the Nobel Prize winner's newest location in Queens, New York, and 500 women borrowers.

SH*T!
Directors: Annika Gustafson and Phil Jandaly
Social Entrepreneurs: Various
This remarkable film shows viewers how to save the planet, save money while they do it, and have a laugh or two in the meantime.

The Revolutionary Optimists
Directors: Maren Grainger-Monsen, Nicole Newnham
Social Entrepreneur:  Amlan Ganguly
In the slums of Calcutta, Ganguly, a lawyer-turned-social entrepreneur, empowers children to become "health minders" in their communities, which causes malaria and diarrhea rates to drop, and neighborhoods to transform.

And here are the recipients from the first cycle, announced in January:
Back To School
Producer: Julia Parker Benello
Social Entrepreneur: Sakena Yacoobi
Sakena Yacoobi's Afghan Institute for Learning, a grassroots organization she founded 12 years ago, brings education to women in Afghanistan, a country driven by war and torn between competing ideologies.

Green Shall Overcome
Director/Producer: Megan Gelstein
Social Entrepreneur: Van Jones
Green Shall Overcome examines the national movement for green-collar jobs as both a pathway out of poverty for young adults and a key weapon in the battle against climate change. The film focuses on Van Jones, an Oakland, Calif.-based African-American civil rights lawyer who helped make Oakland the first city in the nation to create a green job corps program.

Poor Consuelo Conquers The World
Director: Peter Friedman
Producer: Paul Miller
Social Entrepreneur: PCI-Media Impact
Poor Consuelo Conquers the World tells the story of popular soap operas and telenovelas, now being used to combat the effects of poverty around the world.

The Team
Director: Patrick Reed
Producer: Peter Raymont
Social Entrepreneurs: John Marks and Susan Collin Marks
Kenyans scramble to produce a dramatic TV soap opera series, hoping taboo storylines can bridge deep ethnic divisions.

Youthbuild Documentary (working title)
Director: Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern
Social Entrepreneur: Dorothy Stoneman
This feature-length documentary will follow a year in the lives of out-of school young people selected for a high stakes community rebuild project in North Philadelphia.

Tribeca All Access Program--2009 Documentary Projects

An American Promise (Dirs./Prods.: Michael Stephenson, Joe Brewster)
Two sets of parents embark on a 12-year quest to find what is the price we pay to provide the "best" education for our children in our cities.

Borderline (Dir.: Shirli Michalevicz; Prod.: Claudia Levin)
A group of forgotten Palestinian and Israeli mentally ill patients live side by side within an asylum surrounded by a society that lives in a state of conflicting "madness".

High Tech, Low Life (Dir.: Stephen Maing)
Truth and potential fame motivates a young vegetable seller to become one of China's first citizen reporters, covering China's controversial and censored news stories via his blog, digital camera, and blackberry.

The Kavalina Project (Dir.: Gina Abatemarco, Prods.: Anne Takahashi, Anna Hendt)
When your island is being swallowed by the sea, climate change isn't about "going green," but about survival- for the people of Kivalina Alaska, time is running out.

La Muncea Fea (The Ugly Doll) (Co-Dir.:/Prod.: George Reyes; Co-Dir.: Claudia Lopez; Prod.: Nekisa Cooper)
A group of elderly sex workers in Mexico City seek peace and find community behind the walls of Casa Xochiquetzal, a refuge established by one of their former colleagues.

Resolution 07-609: The Rule of Law (Dir./Prod.: Marco Williams)
A community is torn apart when legislation to curtail immigration deems certain members unwanted, asking the greater questions of who belongs and who has that right to decide.

Shot In Mexico (Dir./Prod.: Xochitl Dorsey; Prod.: Monica Campbell)
Brad Will, an independent video journalist, goes to Oaxaca, Mexico to document a rising conflict; caught between protestors and the local police he tragically captures his own final moments.

Wham! Bam! Islam! (Dir.: Mark French; Dir./Prod.: Isaac Solotaroff)
One man's quest to bring new perspective to the rising population of today's Muslim youth results in a whole new set of unexpected comic book superheroes.

When I Walk (Dir./Prod.: Jason DaSilva; Prod.: Leigh DaSilva)
A young filmmaker living with multiple sclerosis turns the camera on himself, inspired by the desire to reconcile filmmaking with the difficulties of living with the condition.

2) Festivals

Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. 
Outstanding Environmental Documentary Film: Children of the Amazon (Dir.: Denise Zmekhol)