Short films often represent nonfiction filmmaking at its most pure: a single subject or a single idea explored at just the right length. This award recognizes those films that find the balance of running time and artistry. The previous winners of this award were Vance Malone’s THE POODLE TRAINER (2011) and Tim Hetherington’s DIARY (2012).
Nominated for
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
Three Mexican immigrants risk their lives every day rappelling down the skyscrapers of Chicago washing windows. We are privileged to observe the intimacy and connection of their conversations, revealing thoughts about working, mortality and of the people they observe inside…
Nominated for
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
This documentary celebrates the uniqueness of childhood and the lack of limits in a child”s imagination. In an outdoor nursery in the woods, children create their own individually constructed worlds and test the boundaries of reality. The woods become the…
Nominated for
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
As a 10-year-old growing up in the small African village of Mandima during the 1980s, Robert-Jan Lacombe, the son of European parents, never thought he would have to say goodbye. In this poignant short, Lacombe looks back on his unique…
Nominated for
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
A dizzy trip through the mid-1990s with a dysfunctional American family. Reliving a distracted child’s birthday party, an emotionless wedding, a Halloween in a garage and a Christmas marked with alcohol, drugs and perversion, the film is a crumpled letter…
Nominated for
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
At 33, Francis Duffy has mastered his trade. “I don’t even think when I’m cutting,” he says. “I just let my hands move away.” In prison since age 16, Duffy is the defending champion of the Scottish Prison Service Hairdressing…
