Awards
The festival offers a number of prizes at each festival.
The prizes awarded at the 2012 festival:
- The Full Frame Grand Jury Award for best overall film.
- The Full Frame Audience Award is chosen by ballot of the attendees of the festival.
- The Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short is given to the best film of 40 minutes or less.
- The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) Filmmaker Award for the film which best gives a firsthand look at the central issues of contemporary life and culture.
- The Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award for the best first-time documentary feature filmmaker.
- The Full Frame Inspiration Award for the best film examining religion and spirituality.
- The Full Frame President's Award for the best student film.
- The The Nicholas School Environmental Award for the film that best depicts the conflict between our drive to improve living standards through development and modernization, and the imperative to preserve both the natural environment that sustains us and the heritages that define us.
- The Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights for a film that addresses a significant human rights issue in the US.
Past Grand Jury Award winners are:
- 2012: Special Flight (Vol Special)
- 2011: Scenes of a Crime
- 2010: Enemies of the People
- 2009: Burma VJ
- 2008: Trouble the Water
- 2007: The Monastery
- 2006: Iraq in Fragments
- 2005: Murderball, Shape of the Moon
- 2004: Control Room
- 2003: Etre et Avoir
- 2002: The First Year
- 2001: Benjamin Smoke, Avant de Partir
- 2000: La Bonne du Conduite: 5 Histoires d' Auto Ecole (The Way I Look at You: 5 Stories of Driving School)
- 1999: Return with Honor, Fotoamator
- 1998: In Harm's Way, Travis
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