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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