1) Awards

Fledgling Fund Award for Socially Conscious Documentaries
($10,000 presented to one of the 150 works-in-progress
participating in Project Forum at IFP's Independent Film Week)
The Promise of Freedom (Dir.: Beth Murphy)

Giant Screen Cinema Association (GSCA) Achievement Awards
Best Giant Screen Film: Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (Prod.: National Geographic)
Best Film for Learning: Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (Prod.: National Geographic)
Big Idea Award: Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (Prod./Dist.: National Geographic)
Best Film Produced Non-Exclusively for the Giant Screen: U2 3D
(Prods.: 3ality Digital Entertainment and U2 Ltd.; Dist.: National Geographic)
Best Original Score: Wild Ocean 3D (Composers: Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas; Prods.: Yes/No Productions and Giant Screen Films; Dist.: Giant Screen Films)
Best Sound Design: Wild Ocean 3D (Sound Designers: Brian Eimer, Mike Roberts and J.R. Fountain; Prods.: Yes/No Productions and Giant Screen Films; Dist.: Giant Screen Films)
Best Cinematography: Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D (Cinematographers: Greg MacGillivray, Doug Lavender, Brad Ohlund, Ron Goodman and Jack Tankard; Prod./Dist.: .MacGillivray Freeman Films)
Special Achievement in Film: Alan Markowitz, Visceral Image Productions, and Tim Sassoon, Sassoon Film Design, for the creation of the opening title sequence in Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D.
Best Film Launch by a Theater: Museum of Science, Boston, for its launch of The Alps
Best Marketing by a Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films for its launch of Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D.
Best Theater Launch: Myrtle Beach IMAX Theatre, South Carolina
IMAX Corporation Hall of Fame Award: Into the Deep (Dir.: Howard Hall)

IFP Gotham Awards
2008 Gotham Tribute: Sheila Nevins

International Visual Communications Association (IVCA) Clarion Awards--Nominees
Launched in 2003 in the UK, the IVCA Clarion Awards are "recognize best practice in communicating the importance of CSR, sustainable development, social inclusion and ethical debate."
Feature Films
Fields of Fuel (Dir.: Josh Tickell; Wtr.: Johnny O'Hara; Prods.:Greg Reitman, Dale Rosenbloom, Daniel Assael, Darius Fisher and Rebecca Harrell
Burning the Future: Coal in America (Dir./Wtr.: David Novack; Wtr.: Richard Hankin; Prods.: Odessa Films / American Coal Productions)
Hunger (Dir./Wtr.: Steve McQueen; Wtr.: Enda Walsh; Prod.: Pathe Distribution)
Of Time and the City (Dir./Wtr.: Terence Davies; Prods.: Roy Boulter and Solon Papadoulos

Television
Our Big Fair Trade Adventure (Prod.: Century Films Ltd; Channel 4)
Summit About The Boy (Prod.: Media Trust)
Dumped (Prod.: Outline Productions; Channel 4)
The Estate We're In (Twofour Communications; BBC One)

Video
One Planet Food (Prod.: Burrell Durrant Hifle; The Soil Association)
Torn (Prod.: Hotdog and Mustard Films; Migrants Resource Centre)
Communication Matters (Prod.: iceni; Birmingham City Council, sponsored by NDCS)
Talk To Frank (Prod.: Mind's Eye Media; Profero, for the COI)
Safety Online (Prod.: Take 3 Productions; Orange)
Love The Game (Prod.: The Edge Picture Company; Football Foundation)

Qantas Film and Television Awards 2008--winners in the documentary categories:
Best Documentary: An Island Calling (Dir.: Annie Goldson)
Achievement in Directing: Justin Pemberton (The Nuclear Comeback)
Achievement in Camerawork: Wayne Vinten (An Island Calling)
Achievement in Editing: Bryan Shaw (The Wahine Disaster)

Quebecor Documentary Fellowships and Bursaries.
The Quebecor Documentary Fellowship Program provides mid-level documentary filmmakers from diverse communities the opportunity for year-round training, mentorship and networking through participation in a full slate of DOC Toronto events and Hot Docs festival and conference activities.
Quebecor Documentary Fellowship Recipients:
Sameer Farooq, Smoke Signal Projects
Donna Kay and Cindy Kakonge
Safiya Randera, Grapepear Productions
Mark Stokes
Carolina Valencia, Piedras Negras Films

Quebecor Bursary Recipients:
Kwoi Gin, Kwozimodo International
Ken Hama, KNH Productions
Sadia Mir
Renata Mohamed, Ahmeba Images
Rolster Taylor, Creative Energy Media

2) Festivals

Atlantic Film Festival
Best Documentary: Norm (Dirs.: Kent Nason and Teresa MacInnes)

Los Angeles Latino Film Festival
Audience Award, Documentary: Fraude: Mexico 2006 (Dir.: Luis Mandoki)
Jury Prize, Documentary: The Promise of Music (Dir.: Enrique Sanchez Lansch)
Special Mentions: Cafe de los maestros (Dir.: Miguel Kohan); La Americana (Dir.: Nicholas Bruckman); 13 Peoples, Defending Water, Air and Land (Dir.: Francesco Taboada Tabone)