1) Awards

Asia Pacific Screen Awards--Nominees:
Best Documentary Feature Film:
33 Days (33 Yaoum) (Dir.: Mai Masri; Lebanon/Qatar)
63 Years On (Ggeutnaji Anhmeun Jeon Jaeng) (Dir.: Kim Dong Won; South Korea)
Kantata Takwa (Dirs.: Gotot Prakosa and Erros Djarot; Indonesia)
Rain of the Children (Dir.: Vincent Ward; New Zealand)
Tinar (Dir.: Mehdi Moniri; Iran)

2008 Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition--Finalists:
Against the Current (Prod.: Trout Unlimited)
Glass Half Full (Dir.: David Sutera)
Gold for Gold (Dir.: Mark E. Petersen)
Rainwater Harvesting (Dir.: Amit Shanker)
Wah Wah (Dir.: Ronald San Agustin)
Water Thicker Than Oil (Dir.: Michael McGuire)

2) Festivals

Artivist Film Festival
2008 Artivist Spirit Award--Best Feature: Zeitgeist--Addendum (Dir.: Peter Joseph)
Artivist Award--Best Feature/Human Rights: They Turned Our Desert Into Fire (Dir.: Marck Brecke)
Artivist Award--Best Feature/Children's Advocacy: Bomb Harvest (Dir.: Kim Mordaunt)
Artivist Award--Best Feature/Animal Rights: Companions to None (Dir.: Bill Buchanan)
Artivist Award--Environmental Preservation/Best Feature: One Water (Dir.: Sanjeev Chatterjee)

Athens International Film Festival
Music and Film Golden Athena: Largo (Dirs.: Andrew van Baal and Mark Flanagan)

Morelia International Film Festival
Best Documentary: Trazando Aleida (Tracing Aleida) (Dir.: Christiane Burkhard)

Namur Festival of Francophone Film
Best Documentary Feature: Puisque nous sommes nes (Dir.: Jean-Pierre Duret)

National Geographic's All Roads Film Festival
Audience Favorite Award for Best Feature-length Film: Welcome to Enurmino! (Dir.: Aleksei Vakhrushev)
Best Short: A Sketch of Wathone (Dir.: Kyi Phyu Shin)
Audience Choice Award: As We Forgive (Dir.: Laura Waters Hinson)

Netherlands Film Festival--Golden Calf Awards
Best Feature Documentary: Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies (Dir.: Coco Schrijber)
Best Short Documentary: Landscapes Unknown (Ii) (Dirs.: Melle van Essen and Riekje Ziengs)

Nordic Panorama
Nordic Documentary Prize: Big John (Dir.: Havard Bustnes)
Honorary Mentions: Lies (Dir.: Jonas Odell); Recipes for Disasters (Dir.: John Webster)

Reykjavik International Film Festival
Special Mention: She's a Boy I Knew (Dir.: Gwen Haworth)
Audience Award: Electronica Reykjavik (Dir.: Arnar Jonasson)

Rio de Janiero Film Festival
Documentary Feature: Estrada Real Da Cachaça (Royal Road of Cachaca) (Dir.: Pedro Urano)
Documentary Short: 69-Praça Da Luz (69-Luz Square) (Dirs.: Carolina Markowicz and Joana Galvão)
Special Jury Prize: Jards (Dir.: Marco Abujamra)
Audience Award--Documentary Feature: Loki-- Arnaldo Baptista (Loki - Arnaldo Baptista) (Dir.: Paulo Henrique Fontenelle)

Tropfest NY
Best Film: Mankind Is No Island (Dir.: Jason van Genderen)

Valley Film Festival
Ten Degrees Hotter Award for Best Documentary Feature: Blocking the Path to 9/11 (Dir.: John Ziegler)

Vancouver Film Festival
Nonfiction Feature Award: Born Without (Dir.:Eva Norvind)
Audience Award-Best Documentary: Throw Down Your Heart (Dir.: Sascha Paladino)
National Film Board Award for Most Popular Canadian Documentary: Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action (Dir.:Velcrow Ripper).
Audience Award-Best Environmental Film: Blue Gold: World Water Wars (Dir.: Sam Bozzo)

Woodstock Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary: In a Dream (Dir.: Jeremiah Zagar)
Best Short Documentary: Pickin' and Trimmin' (Dir.: Matt Morris)
Best Cinematography: At the Edge of the World (Daniel Fernandez, Tim Gorski, Simeon Houtman, James Joyner, Jonathan Kane, Mathieu Mauvernay, John "Rip" Odebralski)
Best Editing of a Feature Documentary: In a Dream (Keiko Deguchi and Jeremiah Zagar)
The Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award: Haskell Wexler

Zurich Film Festival
Blind Loves (Dir.: Juraj Lehotsky)