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Best Youth Filmmaker |
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"Hey...Shorty!"
Sisters in Strength, Directors/Producers
Youth Produced Film, 20 minutes
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A group of young Brooklyn women grew tired of being sexually propositioned by men on their city's streets. They funneled their frustration into creating Girls for Gender Equity, an anti-harassment street campaign.
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Emerging Local Filmmaker |
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"Mandatory Sentencing"
Mike King, Director
(in association with the
Federal Deptaratment of Probation & Stop Hand Gun Violence)
4Peace, Producer
Experimental, 19 minutes
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Instructional medium showcasing the consequences of crime and the after effect of a crime gone bad.
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Best Music Song Award |
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"Playing
for Change: Peace Through Music"
Jonathan Walls & Mark Johnson, Directors
Kevin Krupitzer & Mark Johnson, Producers
Documentary Feature, 13 minutes
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Traveling across four continents over three years with cameras and a mobile recording studio, Mark Johnson and Jonathan Walls embarked on a search for musical inspiration. What they discovered on their journey was the power music has to connect the world together. (Screening partner Berklee College of Music).
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Best Narrative Short Film |
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"Afia"
Lacey Duke, Director/Producer
Narrative Short, 10 minutes
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Afia is a riveting comedy about a small misunderstood girl with big public school drama.
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Best Documentary Short Film Award |
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"Black Ice"
Darril & George Fosty, Directors/Producers
Documentary Short, 40 minutes
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Black Ice simultaneously tells the tales of a significant moment in sports history and a pivotal period in the struggle for Black equality.
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The Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in
Documentary Filmmaking |
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"The Price of Sugar"
Bill Haney, Director
Eric Grunebaum & Bill Haney, Producers
Documentary Feature, 90 minutes
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In the Dominican Republic, a tropical island-nation, tourists flock to pristine beaches unaware that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians have toiled under armed-guard on plantations harvesting sugarcane, much of which ends up in U.S. kitchen.
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The Audience Favorite Award |
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"Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation"
Charles Burnett, Director
Abius Akwaake & Steve Gukas, Producers
Narrative Feature, 2 hours and 30 minutes
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Charles Burnett's Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation tells the rise to power of Samuel Nujoma (Carl Lumbly), a prominent leader in Namibia's struggle for independence from South Africa, and that country's first president.
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