2009 Awards Winners at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival:

Anne Dellinger Grand Jury Award - "Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country" directed by Anders Østergaard
Special Jury Award - "Unmistaken Child" directed by Nati Baratz

Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short - "12 Notes Down" directed by Andreas Koefoed
Honorable Mention - "La Chirola" directed by Diego Mondaca
Honorable Mention - "The Flying Shepherd" directed by Catalin Musat

Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award - "Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country" directed by Anders Østergaard
Sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. This award honors a documentary artist whose work is a potential catalyst for education and change.

The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award - "Voices from El-Sayed" directed by Oded Adomi Leshem
Honorable Mention - "Unmistaken Child" directed by Nati Baratz
Honorable Mention - "William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe" directed by Sara Kunstler and Emily Kunstler
This prize honors a first-time documentary feature director.

Full Frame Audience Award - "The Way We Get By" directed by Aron Gaudet
Sponsored by the Doc Arts Board of Directors.The Audience Award is determined by counting audience ballots filled out during the four day Festival.

HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award - "Love on Delivery" directed by Janus Metz
Honorable Mention - "45365" directed by Bill Ross and Turner Ross
Honorable Mention - "California Company Town" directed by Lee Anne Schmitt
Sponsored by HBO Documentary Films. This award honors first- or second-time feature filmmakers in both the director and producer roles.

Full Frame Inspiration Award - "Unmistaken Child" directed by Nati Baratz
Sponsored by the Hartley Film Foundation. This award is presented to the film that best exemplifies the value and relevance of world religions and spirituality.

Full Frame President's Award - "Oil Blue" directed by Elli Rintala
Sponsored by Duke University. Aimed at recognizing up-and-coming filmmakers, this prize is awarded to the best student film.

Full Frame / Working Films Award - "Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country" directed by Anders Østergaard
This prize is 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 - "Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech" directed by Liz Garbus
Award is presented to a film that addresses a significant human rights issue in the United States.

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Winners are determined by juries consisting of members of the national filmmaking community. The 2008 awards were presented to the following films:

Anne Dellinger Grand Jury Award: "Trouble the Water"
Directed by: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Special Jury Award: "Man on Wire"
Directed by: James Marsh

Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short: "City of Cranes"
Directed by: Eva Weber

Full Frame Audience Award: "Man on Wire"
Directed by: James Marsh

Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award: "Lioness"
Directed by: Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers

The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award: "In A Dream"
Directed by: Jeremiah Zagar

Honorable Mention: "Up the Yangtze"
Directed by: Yung Chang

Full Frame Inspiration Award: "At the Death House Door"
Directed by: Steve James and Peter Gilbert

Full Frame President's Award: "Summerchild"
Directed by: Iris Olsson

Full Frame Spectrum Award: "The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)"
Directed by: Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath

Honorable Mention: "Up the Yangtze"
Directed by: Yung Chang

Full Frame Women In Leadership Award: "Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai"
Directed by: Lisa Merton and Alan Dater

Full Frame/Working Films Award: "Please Vote for Me"
Directed by: Weijun Chen
and "Trouble the Water"
Directed by: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights: "Trouble the Water"
Directed by: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Full Frame Grand Jury Award: “The Monastery”
Directed by: Pernille Rose Grønkjær
Prize: Alpha Cine Labs, Seattle l $20,000 in lab services for a tape to film transfer for the winning film or lab services to be used in a two year period from Alpha Cine Labs, Seattle.

Full Frame Jury Award For Best Short: “Cross Your Eyes Keep Them Wide”
Directed by: Ben Wu
Prize: $10,000 in film stock. Provided by Kodak.

Honorable Mention: “Zo is dat” (The Way It Is)
Directed by: Elizabeth Salgado

Full Frame Audience Award: “War/Dance”
Directed by: Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
Prize: $3,000 cash award

Center For Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award: “The Ants”
Directed by: Kaoru Ikeya.
Prize: $7,500. Provided by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.

The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award: “The Monastery”
Directed by: Pernille Rose Grønkjær
Prize: $2,000. Provided by the Charles E. Guggenheim Family.

Seeds Of War: “Uganda Rising”
Directed by: Jesse James Miller, Pete McCormack
and “The Devil Came on Horseback”
Directed by: Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by Walter Mosley.

Full Frame Spectrum Award: “Banished”
Directed by: Marco Williams
Prize: $10,000. Sponsored by the Fledgling Fund.

Honorable Mention: “Leila Khaled, Hijacker”
Directed by: Lina Makboul

Full Frame Inspiration Award: “Forever”
Directed by: Heddy Honigmann.
Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by the Hartley Foundation.

Honorable Mention: “Lake of Fire”
Directed by: Tony Kaye

Full Frame President’s Award: “Lumo”
Directed by: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III
Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by Duke University.

Full Frame Women In Leadership Award: “Shame”
Directed by: Mohammed Naqvi
Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by the White House Project.

Full Frame/Working Films Award: “The Devil Came on Horseback”
Directed by: Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Prize: $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.

The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award For Human Rights: “For the Bible Tells Me So”
Directed by: Daniel Karslake
Prize: $5,000. Sponsored by Julian Price Family Foundation.

Full Frame/Emerging Pictures Audience Award: “Angels in the Dust”
Directed by: Louise Hogarth