It's been a wild ten days since the last Awards Roundup, with Los Angeles Film Festival, Silverdocs, Palm Spring ShortFest, Sunny Side of the Doc and Edinburgh all wrapping up this past weekend, seemingly making way for the FIFA World Cup as that quadrennial global fiesta moved into the second round. Among the films continuing their prize-winning runs included Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol, taking the Cinematic Vision Award at Silverdocs; Laura Poitras' The Oath, winning the top doc prize at Edinburgh; Leanne Pooley's The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, which earned best doc honors at Frameline; Lucy Walker's Waste Land, taking audience awards 6,000 miles apart, at Maui and Provincetown; and Cynthia Wade's Born Sweet , which took the audience award at Pam Springs.
1) Awards
Nastri d'Argento (Italian National Film Journalists Union)
Best Documentary: The Mouth of the Wolf (Dir.: Pietro Marcello)
Best Documentary on Cinema Negli Occhi (Dirs.: Daniele Anzellotti, Francesco Del Grosso)
Special Mention: L'uomo dalla bocca storta (Dirs.: Emanuele Salce, Andrea Pergolari)
Silver Crane Awards (Lithuania)
Best Documentary Film: The River (Dirs.: Julija Gruodienė, Rimantas Gruodis)
2) Festivals
AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs
Documentary Festival
Sterling Award for Best US Feature: Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy) (Dir.: Stephanie Wang-Breal)
Special Jury Mentions: The Kids Grow Up (Dir.: Doug Block); My Peristroika (Dir.: Robin Hessman)
Sterling Award for Best World Feature: The Woman with the 5 Elephants (Dir.: Vadim Jendreyko)
Special Jury Mention: Steam of Life (Dirs.: Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen)
Sterling Award for Best Short Film: This Chair Is Not Me (Dir.: Andy Taylor Smith)
Special Jury Mentions: Between Dreams (Dir.: Iris Olsson); The Poodle Trainer (Dir.: Vance Malone)
Cinematic Vision Award: Marwencol (Dir.: Jeff Malmberg)
WITNESS Award: Budrus (Dir.: Julia Bacha)
WGA Documentary Screenplay Award: Yael Hersonski (A Film Unfinished)
Audience Award-Feature: Men Who Swim (Dir.: Dylan Williams)
Audience Award-Short: Bye Bye Now (Dirs.: Aideen O'Sullivan, Ross
Whitaker)
Brooklyn International Film Festival
Grand Chameleon Award: The Minutement Movie (Dir.: Corey Wascinski)
Best Documentary: The Minutement Movie (Dir.: Corey Wascinski)
Spirit Award--Documentary: Survival Song (Dir.: Yu Guangyi)
Audience Award--Documentary: Being In the World (Dir.: Tao Ruspoli)
deadCENTER Film Festival
Best Documentary Short: A Song for Ourselves (Dir.: Tadashi Nakamura)
Best Documentary Feature: A Good Day to Die (Dirs.: David Mueller, Lynn Salt)
Grand Jury Prize--Documentary Feature: Our House (Dir.: Greg King)
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary Award: The Oath (Dir.: Laura Poitras)
Scottish Short Documentary Award: Maria's Way (Dir.: Anne Milne)
Frameline: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Best Documentary: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls (Dir.: Leanne Pooley)
Frameline Outstanding Documentary Award: Dzi Croquettes (Dirs.: Tatiana Issa, Raphael Alvarez)
Special Mentions: Postcard to Daddy (Dir.: Michael Stock); The Real Anne Lister (Dir.: Matthew Hill)
Krakow Film Festival
The Golden Horn for the Director of the Best Documentary Film--Over 60 Minutes: Kaleo La Belle
(Beyond This Place; Switzerland)
The Silver Horn for Special Artistic Merit--Over 60 Minutes: Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath (Enemies of the People; UK/Cambodia)
The Golden Horn for the Director of the Best Documentary Film--30-60 Minutes: Andrey Gryazev (Sanya and Sparrow; Russia)
The Silver Horn for Special Artistic Merit--30-60 Minutes Category: Marc Isaacs (Men of the City; UK)
The Honourable Mentions:
The Dog Hill (Dir.: Grzegorz Zariczny; Poland)
Who Looks After (Dir.: Muriel Rebora; Argentina)
108 (Dir.: Renate Costa; Spain)
Osadne (Dir.: Marko Skop; Czech Republic, Slovakia)
As Lilith (Dir.: Eytan Harris; Israel)
Student Documentary Competition: Let's Run Away from Her (Dir.: Marcin Koszałka; Poland)
The Silver Dragon for the Director of the Best Short Documentary Film: Jay Rosenblatt (The Darkness of a Day; USA)
The Silver Hobby-Horse for the Director of the Best Documentary Film: Igor Chojna (The Screening At The Tatry Cinema)
The Maciej Szumowski Award: Grzegorz Zariczny (The Dog Hill)
Los Angeles Film Festival
Best Documentary: Make Believe (Dir.: J. Clay Weed)
Best Documentary Short Film: The Lucky One (Dir.: Tomasz Wolski)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature: Thunder Soul (Dir.: Mark Landsman)
Audience Award for Best International Feature: Presumed Guilty (Dirs.: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith)
Audience Award for Best Short Film: Dock Ellis & the LSD No-No (Dir.: James Blagden)
Maui International Film Festival
Audience Award--Documentary Feature: Queen of the Sun (Dir.: Taggart Siegel)
Audience Award--World Cinema Documentary: Waste Land (Dir.: Lucy Walker)
Audience Award--Visionary Documentary: Castles in the Sky (Dir. Taylor Steele)
Montreal First Peoples Festival
Best Séquences Documentary Prize: Rehje (Dirs.: Anais Huerta, Raúl Cuesta)
Honorable Mention: Tcikinaw (Dir.: Ann Ardouin)
Nantucket Film Festival
Special Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking: Davis Guggenheim
Adrienne Shelly Excellence in Filmmaking Award: Jennifer Arnold (A Small Act)
Best Storytelling in a Documentary Film: Bill Cunningham New York (Dir.: Richard Press, Prod.: Philip Gefter)
Palm Springs International ShortFest
Audience Favorite Documentary Short: Born Sweet (Dir.: Cynthia Wade)
Jury Special Citation: Flawed (Dir.: Andrea Dorfman)
Best Documentary Short:
First Place: The Shutdown (Dir.: Adam Stafford)
Second Place: Cohen on the Bridge: Rescue at Entebbe (Dir.: Andrew Wainrib)
Jury Special Citation: The Lucky Ones (Dir.: Tomasz Wolski)
Best Student Documentary Short:
First Place: The Little Snow Animal (Dir.: Miia Tervo)
Second Place: A Moth in Spring (Dir.: Yu Gu)
Provincetown International Film Festival
Documentary Audience Prize: Waste Land (Dir.: Lucy Walker)
Sunny Side of the Doc
Best International Projects Showcase (BIPS)
History: Odessa (Sub-Cult-Ura Productions; Romania)
Science/Environmental: The Olive Route (Solferino Images; France)
Social/Political Issues: Patriotism, 90 (CNEX; China)
Special Mention: La Brigade (Cinétévé; France)
Arts/Culture: Girls Don't Cry (Ego Media; Latvia)
Best Cross-media Project: The Brussels Business (Up Creatives; UK)
"Under 30s": Angela Yeoh (Kungfusion: Fighting Girls at Shaolin School; UK)
Best French Project: Pencil Strokes (L'envol Productions; France)
"Coups de Couer" Mentions: For Neda (Dir.: Anthony Thomas; Prod.: Mentorn Media); LinkTV's ViewChange