Awards

We are pleased to sponsor awards at the IFP Market and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival that recognize filmmakers who address socially important issues as well as encourage a diversity of voices in filmmaking. 

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.

2007 Winner

  • Good Fortune
    Directed by Landon Van Soest

2007 Nominees

  • 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

2006 Winner

  • Promised Land
    Directed by Yoruba Richen

2006 Nominees

  • 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

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

  • Tijuana, Nada Más
    Directed by Yolanda Pividal

2007 Nominees

  • 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

2006 Winner

  • The Man of Two Havanas
    Directed by Vivien Lesnick Weisman

2006 Nominees

  • 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

Full Frame Spectrum Award

Presented at the 2007 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, this $10,000 award honors a filmmaker of color whose work demonstrates artistic excellence and achievement.

2007 Winner

  • Banished
    Directed by Marco Williams

Honorable Mention

  • Hijacker
    Directed by Leila Khaled