1) Awards

Banff World Television Awards--Nominees
Category: Arts &
Performing Arts Documentaries
Arena: The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul (Dir.: Adam Low; Prod.: Martin Rosenbaum; Lone Star Productions/BBC)
Roadsworth: Crossing the Line (Dir.: Alan Kohl; Prod.: Sergeo Kirby; National Film Board of Canada)
Silk Road (Prods.: Murray Weissman & Associates/Faudon Movies, LLC)
The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale (Dir./Prod.: Jeff Stimmel; HBO)
The Curse of Mona Lisa (Prods.: Oxford Film & Television Broadcaster; Channel 4)

Category: Environmental Programs
Aftermath: Population Zero (Prod.: Cream Productions Inc.; History Television Canada, Global Television, National Geographic Channel)
Frontline: Heat (Prod.: Martin Smith; PBS International)
Hugh's Chicken Run (Channel 4)
Let it Snow! (Prod.: Epo-Film for ORF in co-production with ARTE)
NOVA: Ocean Animal Emergency (Prod.: Doug Hamilton; PBS International)
Seed Hunter (Dir./Prod.: Sally Ingleton/360 Degree Films; ABC, RTE, ARTE)

Category: History & Biography Programs
102 Minutes That Changed America (Prod.: Siskel/Jacobs Productions; HISTORY)
Henry Kissinger--Secrets of a Superpower (Dir./Prod.: Stephen Lamby; NDR Television)
Ortona 1943: A Bloody Christmas (Prod.: SD Cinematografica Mediaset and ZDF Enterprises)
Paris 1919 (Dir.: Paul Cowan; National Film Board of Canada)
Passage (Prods.: PTV Productions and John Walker Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada)
Victorian Sex Explorer (Dir.: Michael Waldman; Channel 4)

Category: Investigative & Current Affairs Programs
CIA's European Connection (Dirs.: Jacob Mikkelsen, Mette Aaby, Kristoffer Voigt, Morten Mouritsen; Prod.: Steen Jensen; Danish Broadcasting
Corporation)
Dispatches: Warlords Next Door (Prod.: Channel 4)
Iraq: The Lost Generation (Dirs./Prods.: Ed Robbins, Shermeen Obaid-Chinoy; Hardcash Productions/Channel 4)
Massacre at Virginia Tech (Prod.: ORTV International; BBC2, Investigation Discovery)
Ne Dîtes pas à ma Mère (Dir.: Diego Bunuel: Prod.: CAPA Presse TV; Canal Plus / Planete)
Oil for Fraud (Prod.: Maha Productions; ARTE)

Category: Lifestyle & Information Programs
Britain From Above (Dirs.: Cassian Harrison, Nic Young, Mark Radice, Chris Mitchell; Prods.: Lucy Haken, Rob Barnes, Nicola Lloyd, Michelle Feuerlicht; BBC)
Family Restaurant: The Quons (Be Bold) (Prods.: Anaid Productions Inc.; Food Network Canada)
Jamie's Ministry of Food (Prod.: Channel 4)
Sex Education Show (Prods.: Paula Campion, Beth Evans, Donna McLaughlin, Adeline Lomage)

Steven & Chris: Episode 70 (Prod.: CBC Television)
TAXI  (Prod.: CJ Media; CJ tvN)

Category: Political Documentaries
Age of Terror (prod.: Peter Taylor; BBC)
Dispatches: Gordon Brown - Where Did It All Go Wrong? (Prod.: Andrew Rawnsley;
Channel 4)
Full Cover Girl (Prod.: Folke Rydén Production AB in association with PBS International; Swedish Television, SVT)
Frontline: The War Briefing (Prods.: Marcela Gaviria, Rain Media; PBS Frontline)
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (Dirs.: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill; HBO)
Taxi to the Dark Side (Dior.: Alex Gibney; Prod.: Eva Orner; HBO)

Category: Popular Science & Technology Programs
02--The Molecule That Made the World (Prod.: ORF-Universum)
Cracking the Colour Code (Dir.: Hugh Piper; Prod.: Electric Pictures in association with Gedeon Programmes; ARTE)
Guinea Pig - Season 3 (Prod.: Frantic Films; Discovery Channel Canada)
Inuit Odyssey (Dirs./Prods.: Tom Radford, Niobe Thompson; Prods.: Clearwater Media;
CBC Television, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network)
The Body Machine (Prod.: MB Media Productions Inc.; Discovery Channel Canada)
The Great Sperm Race (Prod.: Channel 4)

Category: Social & Humanitarian Programs
El Olvido (Oblivion) (Dir.: Heddy Honigmann; Films Transit International Inc.)
Hair India (Dirs.: Raffaele Brunetti, Marco Leopardi; B&B Film)
Memory Books (Dir.: Christa Graf; ZDF German Television)
Moken: Enigmatic Sea Nomads (Prod.: NHK )
The Qur'an (Dir.: Anthony Thomas; Prod.: Juniper Communications Ltd.; Channel 4)
The Recruiter (Dir.: Edet Belzberg; HBO)

Category: Sports Documentaries
Black Power Salute (Dir.: Geoff Small; BBC)
Jose Canseco: The Last Shot (Exec. Prods.: Hank Cohen, Jason Hehir, Scott Lonker, Tom Moody, Rob Sharenow; A&E Television Network)
Miracle Body (Dirs.: Wally Longul, Tatsuya Maeda; NHK)
Sledhead (Dir.: David McIlvride; Prod.: Alison Love; Prod.: Gabriel Films North Inc. in association with
Sledhead Productions Inc.; CTV Television)
Thriller in Manila (Dir./Prod.: John Dower; Channel 4)

Category: Wildlife & Natural History Programs
Darwin and the Tree of Life (Prod.: Sacha Mirzoeff; BBC)
Extraordinary Animals in the Womb (Prod.: Peter Chinn; Channel 4)
Meerkat Manor: The Next Generation (Exec. Prods.: Caroline Hawkins, Mick Kaczorowski; Prod.: Oxford Scientific Films, Southern Star Factual; Animal Planet International)
Saving Luna (Dirs./Prods.: Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit; Prod.: Mountainside Films; CBC Newsworld)
The Forest (Dir.: Jan Haft; Prod.: nautilusfilm GmbH; NDR)
Titus: The Gorilla King (Dir.: David Allen; Prod.: Linda Bell; Prod.: Tigress Productions;
BBC, WNET

Doc Challenge
Jury Winners
Best Film: Forty Foot (Team: An Lar/Dublin, Ireland; Team Leader: Leticia Agudo)
American Documentary | P.O.V. Award: A Healing Art (Team: Fly on the Wall/Seattle, WA; Team Leader: Ellen Frick)
Documentary Educational Resources (DER) Award: The Greasy Pole (Team: Gloucester to Gloucester Films/Gloucester, MA; Team Leader: Mike Pallazola)
Best Directing: Lorelei Lee (Team: First Touch Films/San Francisco, CA)
Best Editing: Dark Material (Team: Reel Grrls/Seattle, WA)
Best Cinematography: Fragile Ground (Team: Polar Star Films/Barcelona, Spain)
Best Original Score: Lorelei Lee (Team: First Touch Films/San Francisco, CA)
Best Soundtrack: Ghosts (Team: Shed Collective/Atlanta, GA)
Best Use of Theme: Dark Material (Team: Reel Grrls/Seattle, WA; Theme: Hope and Fear)
Best Use of Art Genre: Nagashima (Team: Takashi Sugimoto/Lisbon, Portugal)
Best Use of Character Study Genre: The Violin Maker (Team: Frenetic Productions/Seattle, WA)
Best Use of Experimental Genre: Fragile Ground (Team: Polar Star Films/Barcelona, Spain)
Best Use of First Person Genre:  The Art of Softness (Team: Big Punch Media/Toronto, ON, Canada)
Best Use of Historical Genre: Forty Foot (Team: An Lar/Dublin, Ireland;
Team Leader: Leticia Agudo)
Best Use of Music Genre: In My Hands (Team: Gotanda/Berlin, Germany)
Best Use of Nature Genre: Pipe Dream )Team: Mirror/Portland, OR)
Best Use of Social Issue/Political Genre: Lorelei Lee (Team: First Touch Films/San Francisco, CA)
Best Use of Sports Genre: The Greasy Pole (Team: Gloucester to Gloucester Films/Gloucester, MA; Team Leader: Mike Pallazola)
Honorable Mention by Hot Docs Jury: Time Well Spent (Team: JAGS/Poughkeepsie, NY)
Best Use of 3D: Propoganda in 3D (Team: Blue Zula/Montreal,
Quebec, Canada)
Best Use of Graphics: Speak Your Mind (Team: Blue Party Films/Bend, OR)
 

FOCAL Awards
Best Use of Footage in Factual Productions: 102 Minutes that Changed America (Siskel Jacobs Productions; History/USA); The Night
James Brown Saved Boston (Dir./Prod.: David Leaf; David Leaf Productions/ USA); The Unseen Alistair Cooke (Exec. Prod.: Rebecca Eaton; BBC Bristol Factual/UK)
Best Use of Footage in an Arts, Music or Drama Production: The Thirties
in Colour (BBC Vision - Factual - Arts/UK)
Best Use of Wildlife and Natural History Stock Footage: Clever Monkeys (Wtr./Editor: Mark Fletcher; BBC NHU (UK)
Best Use of Sports Footage: Graham Hill - Driven (Dir.: Mark Craig; Mark Stewart Productions/UK)
Best Use of Footage in a Feature Length Production: Of Time and the City (Dir.: Terence Davies; Hurricane Films Ltd/UK)
Best Use of Footage on Non-television Platforms: CBC/Radio-Canada Digital Archives (website-- http //archives.cbc.ca CBC/La société Radio-Canada/Canada)

Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism
Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar: Made in L.A. (POV)
Special Mention:  Peter Noyes and John Schwada: House Thefts (KTTV-FOX Los Angeles); Larry Adelman, Llew Smith and Christine Herbes-Sommers: Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (California Newsreel with Vital Pictures)
 

Student Academy
Awards
Documentary (Gold, Silver and Bronze Award winners to be announced June 13)
The Last Mermaids (Dir.: Liz Chae, Columbia University)
A Place to Land (Dir.: Lauren DeAngelis, American University)
The Wait (Dir.: Cassandra Lizaire and Kelly Asmuth, Columbia University)

Toronto Documentary Forum
Canwest-Hot Docs TDF Pitch Prize: White Pine Pictures (The Team)

Vision Awards
Producer of Vision, Documentary: Stephen Nemeth
 

2) Festivals
 

Chicago Latino Film Festival
Documentary Audience Award:  Our Disappeared"/"Nuestros
Desaparecidos (Dir.: Juan Mandelbaum)
 

GLIMMER: The 7th Hull International Short Film Festival.
International Competition-Special Mention: Humoresca (Humoresque) (Dir. Diana Delenau)
UK Competition--Special Mention: Life of a Pigeon (Dir. Billy Campbell)
Anthony Minghella Award for Best UK Short: The Solitary Life of Cranes
(Dir.: Eva Weber)

Hot Docs
Best Canadian Feature Documentary: Invisible City (Dir.: Hubert Davis; Prods.: Mehernaz Lentin, Gerry Flahive)
Special Jury Prize--Canadian Feature: Waterlife (Dir.: Kevin McMahon; Prods.: Michael McMahon, Kristina McLaughlin, Gerry Flahive)
Best International Feature Documentary: The One Man Village (Dir./Prod.: Simon El Habre; Prods.: Jad Abi-Khalil, Irit Neidhardt)
Special Jury Prize--International Feature: Cooking History (Dir./Prod.: Peter Kerekes; Prods.: Georg Misch, Pavel Strnad)
Best Mid-Length Documentary:  Rabbit À La Berlin (Dir.: Bartek Konopka; Prod.: Anna Wydra)
Best Short Documentary: The Delian Mode (Dir./Prod.: Kara Blake; Prod.: Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre)
documentary's Don Haig Award:  Brett Gaylor, Tracey Deer
The Lindalee Tracey Award: Laura Bari, Will Inrig
HBO Documentary Films Emerging Artist Award: Chung-ryoul Lee (Old Partner)
Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award: Alanis Obomsawin by the HotThe crowds Audience Award: The Cove (Dir.: Louie Psihoyos)
 

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Nestor Almendros Award: Anne Aghion
 

Los Angeles Asian Pacific International Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize--Outstanding Documentary: Whatever It Takes
(Dir.: Christopher Wong)
Special Jury Prize: The Real Shaolin (Dir.: Alexander Lee)
Audience Award: Whatever It Takes (Dir.: Christopher Wong)
 

MEDIAWAVE 2009 International Film and Music Festival
Best Documentary Film: Kak stat stervoi / Bitch Academy (Dir.: Alina Rudnitskaya)

Rose d'Or Festival Golden Rose Awards
Best Arts Documentary: The Curse of the Mona Lisa (Prods.: Oxford Film & Television Broadcaster; Channel 4)

San Francisco International Film Festival
Golden Gate Award Documentary Feature Winners
Investigative Documentary Feature: Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (Dir.: Anders Østergaard)
Bay Area Documentary Feature: D tour (Dir.: Jim Granato)
Documentary Feature: Nomad's Land (Dir.: Gaël Métroz)
New Directors Award:  Snow (Dir.: Aida Begic)
Bay Area Short, Second Prize: Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping
Mall (Dir.: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano)
Documentary Short: Tongzhi in Love (Dir.: Ruby Yang)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: Speaking in Tongues (Dirs./Prods.:   Marcia Jarmel, Ken Schneider)

Tiburon International Film Festival
Best Documentary: Final Image (Dir.: Andres Habegger)

Worldfest International Film Festival
Special Jury Award: The Monster Among Us ( Dirs./Prods.: Allen Mondell, Cynthia Salzman Mondell)
Special Jury Remi Award: Moon Beat (Dir.: Kevin Sterling)