Awards

Prizes will be awarded on Sunday April 6, 2008 at the annual Awards Ceremony and Southern Style Barbecue.  The Festival offers awards in the following categories:

Anne Dellinger Grand Jury Award
$7,500 cash award.
$20,000 in-kind for transfer of winner to film.  Sponsored by Alpha Cine.

Full Frame Audience Award
$3,000.  Provided by Doc Arts Board of Directors.

Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short
$10,000 in film stock.  Provided by Eastman Kodak.
The Jury Award for Best Short is awarded to a film 40 minutes or less in length.

Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award
$7,500.  Provided by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
The CDS Filmmaker Award recognizes documentary films that combine originality and creativity with firsthand experience in examining central issues of contemporary life and culture. In keeping with the Center’s mission, the award was created to honor and support documentary artists whose works are potential catalysts for education and change.

The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award
$2,000. Provided by the Charles E. Guggenheim Family.
This annual prize is awarded to a first-time documentary feature filmmaker as a way to foster the work of new directors, young and old.  It recognizes the extraordinary care that Charles Guggenheim took with the filmmakers whom he worked to mentor and counsel throughout the filmmaking process. 

Full Frame Inspiration Award
$5,000. Sponsored by the Hartley Film Foundation.
This award is presented to a film that best exemplifies the value and relevance of world religions and spirituality.

Full Frame President’s Award
$5,000. Sponsored by Duke University.
Aimed at recognizing up-and-coming filmmakers, this prize is awarded to the best student film.

Full Frame Spectrum Award
$10,000. Sponsored by the Fledgling Fund.
This award will honor a person of color whose filmmaking demonstrates artistic excellence and achievement.

Full Frame Women in Leadership Award
$5,000. Sponsored by the White House Project.
This award will be given to the film that best portrays women in leadership.

Full Frame/Working Films Award
$5,000 cash and $5,000 in-kind for the development of the film’s outreach plan. Sponsored by the Ettinger Foundation and Chicken & Egg Pictures.
Sponsored by Working Films, the media non-profit that is a nationally recognized activist-driven bridge between high quality documentary filmmaking and concrete impact, this prize will be awarded to the film that has the greatest potential for supporting serious grassroots organizing and social change.

The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights
$5,000.  Sponsored by Julian Price Family Foundation.
This annual award will be presented to a film that addresses a significant human rights issue in the United States.  By inspiring advocacy, increasing awareness and promoting equity and justice, the winning film will honor the legacy of Kathleen Bryan Edwards’s passion and activism for human rights.