Awards
We are pleased to sponsor awards that recognize filmmakers who address socially important issues as well as encourage a diversity of voices in filmmaking.
The Fledgling Fund Outreach and Engagement Grant for Social Issue Documentaries
Presented in collaboration with IFP, this $10,000 award recognizes films that have strong potential for community engagement and social change.
2009 Winner
- The Way We Get By
Directed by Aron Gaudet
2009 Nominees
- Fresh
Directed by Ana Joanes - Land of Opportunity
Directed by Luisa Dantas - Speaking in Tongues
Directed by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider - The Promise of Freedom
Directed by Beth Murphy - Anatomy of Poverty
Directed by Elinyisia Mosha - The Battle for Winter Soldier
Directed by David Zeiger and Bestor Cram - Gacaca: The Trials
Directed by Anne Aghion - Granito
Directed by Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís - Intifada NYC
Directed by David Teague - The Promise of Freedom
Directed by Beth Murphy - Semper Fi: Always Faithful
Directed by Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon - Good Fortune
Directed by Landon Van Soest - Land of Opportunity: The New Orleans
Directed by Luisa Dantas - The Mosque in Morgantown
Directed by Brittany Huckabee - Speaking in Tongues
Directed by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider - Today the Hawk Takes One Chick
Directed by Jane Gillooly - Under our Skin
Directed by Andy Wilson - Promised Land
Directed by Yoruba Richen - The Axe in the Attic
Directed by Edward Pincus & Lucia Small - The Greening of Southie
Directed by Ian Cheney - Life Sentence
Directed by Yoav Potash - My Mother's Garden
Directed by Cynthia Lester - Promised Land
Directed by Yoruba Richen - Whatever It Takes
Directed by Christopher Wong - Tijuana, Nada Más
Directed by Yolanda Pividal - Land of Opportunity: The New New Orleans
Directed by Luisa Dantas - Paolo
Directed by Andrea Franco Batievsky - Summer Sun, Winter Moon
Directed by Hugo Perez - Ulises' Odyssey
Directed by Lorena Manriquez - The Man of Two Havanas
Directed by Vivien Lesnick Weisman - Animas Perdidas
Directed by Monika Navarro - In the Footsteps of Orpheus
Directed by Hugo Perez - The Man of Two Havanas
Directed by Vivien Lesnick Weisman - The Betrayal
Directed by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath - Banished
Directed by Marco Williams - Hijacker
Directed by Leila Khaled
The Fledgling Fund Award for Socially Conscious Documentary
Presented at the annual IFP Market, this $10,000 award recognizes a work in progress that addresses a key social issue.
2008 Winner
2008 Nominees
2007 Winner
2007 Nominees
2006 Winner
2006 Nominees
The Fledgling Fund Award for an Emerging Latino Filmmaker
Presented annually at the IFP Market, this $10,000 cash award recognizes the work of an emerging Latino film maker and also includes a spot in the IFP Documentary Rough Cut Lab held each October.
2007 Winner
2007 Nominees
2006 Winner
2006 Nominees
Full Frame Spectrum Award
Presented at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, this $10,000 award honors a filmmaker of color whose work demonstrates artistic excellence and achievement.