Full Frame winners for 2018

The 2018 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival announced this year's winners at the annual Awards Barbecue.

The Reva and David Logan Grand Jury Award
Sponsored by The Reva and David Logan Foundation

Hale County This Morning, This Evening by RaMell Ross
Poetic film explores an Alabama community,

Special Jury Award to Of Fathers and Sons by Talal Derki

Full Frame Jury Award for Best Short
Provided by Drs. Andrew and Barbra Rothschild

I Am Bisha by Roopa Gogineni
World Premiere. Ganja and his friends film a humorous and satirical web series, Bisha TV, starring puppets to combat the violent, genocidal regime of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir

Full Frame Audience Award – Feature

Minding the Gap by Bing Liu

Filmmaker follows skateboarders through the streets of Rockford, Illinois, for more than a decade.

Full Frame Audience Award – Short
Sponsored by Thunder Mountain Media

Girl-Hearted by Anne Scheschonk
Seven-year-old Nori and her mother, Josephin, reflect on their experiences together.

Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award
Provided by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Of Fathers and Sons by Talal Derki
From the filmmaker of the groundbreaking documentary Return to Homs, this doc takes us into the lives of a Syrian family led by an Al-Nusra fighter.

Charles E. Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award
Provided by the Charles E. Guggenheim Family

América by Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside

After their father is unexpectedly arrested, three brothers come together to care for their aging grandmother, América.

Honorable mention
Minding the Gap by Bing Liu

Full Frame President’s Award
Sponsored by Duke University

The Issue of Mr. O’Dell by Rami Katz
A conversation with the 94-year-old activist, Jack O’Dell, who once worked alongside Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights
Sponsored by the Julian Price Family Foundation in memory of Melanie Taylor

The Unafraid by Heather Courtney and Anayansi Prado

Three DACA students work for immigrant rights, and the future of their families.

For additional information on these and other films screened at Full Frame 2018, visit the festival website.