After much deliberation, the Social Justice Film Festival and Institute is happy to announce the recipients of the 2020 Social Justice Film Festival Awards for festival films. We are grateful to every filmmaker who took part in the festival this year.
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Documentary Feature
Gold Prize: Since I Been Down, directed by Gilda Sheppard
Silver Prize: Personhood, directed by Jo Ardinger
Bronze Prize: Can Art Stop a Bullet: William Kelly’s Big Picture, directed by Mark Street
Narrative Feature
Gold Prize: Ask for Jane, directed by Rachel Carey
Documentary Featurette
Gold Prize: Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses, directed by Vanessa Roth
Silver Prize: Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote, directed by Robert Greenwald
Bronze Prize: Seva, directed by Rippin Sindher
Narrative Featurette
Gold Prize: Rebel, directed by Pier-Philippe Chevigny
Silver Prize: Augustus, directed by Jon Alston
Bronze Prize: Unsaid, directed by Eric Frost-Barnes
Documentary Short
Gold Prize: The Thin Blue Variety Show, directed by Gretta Wilson
Silver Prize: La Vida de Un Latero, directed by Madeline Gunderson
Bronze Prize: Dani Burt, directed by Brian Olliver
Narrative Short
Gold Prize: Target Practice, directed by Yasmin Neal
Silver Prize: An Uninvited Guest, directed by Richard B. Pierre
Bronze Prize: Butterflies, directed by Yona Rozenkier
Youth Visions
Gold Prize: Stronger than Steel, directed by Jacob Pincus
Silver Prize: Wednesday at Elizabeth, directed by Noa Wollstein
Bronze Prize: Canary in a Mine, directed by Takaitheartist
Indigenous Futures
Jury Prize: The Last Ice, directed by Scott Ressler
