Awards
Sheffield Doc/Fest continues to honour the best of its film programme. The films are judged by a collection of industry professionals.
The Sheffield Inspiration Award
The Sheffield Inspiration Award celebrates a figure in the industry who has championed documentary and helped get great work into the public eye. The 2010 Sheffield Inspiration Award was awarded to Britain’s own Kim Longinotto for her outstanding contribution to the documentary form. Longinotto is one of the pre-eminent filmmakers working in both broadcast and theatrical documentary today, widely revered for her incisive, compassionate portraits of female oppression and injustice. Her credits include Sisters in Law (2005); Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go (2007) and Rough Aunties (2009) which screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009.
The Special Jury Award
The Special Jury Award honours a film selected from highlights of the Doc/Fest programme that displays excellence in style, substance and approach. A jury of documentary specialists from the UK and around the world will view selected highlights of the programme, awarding the prize to the best of the bunch. The 2010 Special Jury Award was awarded to Kim Longinotto’s Pink Saris with special mention to Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light.
The BT Vision Sheffield Innovation Award
A jury of peers award one documentary from the Doc/Fest programme that exhibits originality in approach to form and radical manifestations in the delivery of its story. The 2010 BT Vision Sheffield Innovation Award was awarded to Clio Barnard for The Arbor, a biography of Yorkshire playwright Andrea Dunbar. The Jury also gave special mention to Philippe Brault and David Dufresne’s Prison Valley, an investigation into the American penal system through the example of Canon City, Colorado, which is home to no less than 13 prisons. Prison Valley was selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest’s MeetMarket in 2009.
The Sheffield Green Award
Honours one documentary from the Doc/Fest programme that best addresses major environmental challenges such as global warming. The 2010 Sheffield Green Award was awarded to Floris-Jan van Luyn’s Rainmakers, which was selected for Sheffield Doc/Fest’s MeetMarket in 2008. A special Mention went to Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity.
The Sheffield Youth Jury Award
The Sheffield Youth Jury Award is given to the film that is most engaging for young audiences and is chosen by a jury of young people ages 16-21. The 2010 Sheffield Youth Jury Award was awarded to Laura Fairrie’s The Battle for Barking The jury described Laura’s film as “challenging, relevant and entertaining”. A special mention went to Gemma Atwal’s Marathon Boy.
The Sheffield Student Doc Award
Films made as part of tertiary course work from UK and International universities are eligible and are judged by a panel of industry experts. The 2010 Sheffield Student Doc Award was awarded to Will Woodward’s No Easy Time, which focuses on Therapeutic Community, a prison programme run by prisoners themselves.
The Sheffield Doc/Fest Audience Award
The winning films of the 2010 award were Father, Son and the Holy War by Anand Patwardhan and Scenes from a Teenage Killing by Morgan Matthews.
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