2011 • Best Feature – Artivist Spirit:
"Love Hate Love" directed by
Dana Nachman and Don Hardy • Best Short – Artivist Spirit:
"Crooked Beauty" directed by Ken Paul Rosenthal • Best Feature – Children's Advocacy:
"Surfing Soweto" directed by
Sara Blecher • Best Short – Children's Advocacy:
"Grace" directed by Meagan Kelly • Best Feature – Animal Advocacy:
"Green" directed by Patrick Rouxel • Best Short – Animal Advocacy:
"Saving Pelican 895" directed by Irene Taylor Brodsky • Best Feature – Environmental Preservation:
"Spoil" directed by Trip Jennings • Best Short – Environmental Preservation:
"The Leaves Keep Falling" directed by Julie Winokur • Best Feature – International Human Rights:
"Because We Were Beautiful" directed by Frank van Osch • Best Short – International Human Rights:
"Umoja" directed by Elizabeth Tadic
2010 • Best Feature – Artivist Spirit:
"ReGeneration" directed by Philip Montgomery • Best Short – Artivist Spirit:
"Arena" directed by Jota Aronack • Best Feature – Children's Advocacy:
"Kids of the Majestic" directed by
Dylan Verrechia • Best Short – Children's Advocacy:
"Sarah" directed by Brandon Hess • Best Feature – Animal Advocacy: ''"Africa's Lost Eden"'' directed by James Byrne • Best Short – Animal Advocacy:
"Albatrocity" directed by J. Ollie Lucks, Iain Frengley, Edward Saltau • Best Feature – Environmental Preservation:
"Deep Green" directed by Matt Briggs • Best Short – Environmental Preservation:
"The Krill is Gone" directed by Jeffrey Bost • Best Feature – International Human Rights:
"Complexo – Universo Paralelo" directed by Mário Patrocinio • Best Short – International Human Rights:
"Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain" directed by Toby Marsden
2009 • Best Feature – Artivist Spirit:
"Intelligent Life" directed by Brian Malone • Best Short – Artivist Spirit:
"Rough Cut" directed by Taghreed Saadeh • Best Feature – Children's Advocacy:
"Children of War" directed by Bryan Single • Best Short – Children's Advocacy:
"The One Wayz" directed by Linda Chavez • Best Feature – Animal Advocacy:
"Ice Bears of the Beaufort" directed by Arthur C. Smith III • Best Short – Animal Advocacy:
"Abe" directed by Khen Shalem • Best Feature – Environmental Preservation:
"Belonging" directed by Gerard Ungerman • Best Short – Environmental Preservation:
"Urubus têm Asas (Vultures Have Wings)" directed by Marcos Negrão and Andre Rangel • Best Feature – International Human Rights:
"La Mission" directed by Peter Bratt • Best Short – International Human Rights:
"Intersection" directed by Jae Woe Kim
2008 • Best Feature – Artivist Spirit:
"Zeitgeist: Addendum" directed by Peter Joseph
(This was the festival opening movie) • Best Short – Artivist Spirit:
"Sovereignty" directed by Jonathan Sale • Best Feature – International Human Rights:
"They Turned Our Desert Into Fire" directed by Marck Brecke • Best Short – International Human Rights:
"Tibet: Beyond Fear" directed by Michael Perlman • Best Feature – Children's Advocacy:
"Bomb Harvest" directed by Kim Mordaunt • Best Short – Children's Advocacy: ''"
Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal's Maoist Army"'' directed by
Robert Koenig • Best Feature – Animal Advocacy:
"Companions to None" directed by Bill Buchanan • Best Short – Animal Advocacy:
"Blinders" directed by Donald Moss • Best Feature – Environmental Preservation:
"One Water" directed by Sanjeev Chatterjee • Best Short – Environmental Preservation:
"Eudaimonia" directed by Jude Shingle
2007 • Best Feature – Artivist Spirit:
"Zeitgeist" directed by Peter Joseph • Best Short – Artivist Spirit:
"The Rich Have Their Own Photographers" directed by Ezra Bookstein • Best Feature – International Human Rights:
"American Drug War" directed by
Kevin Booth • Best Short – International Human Rights:
"The Worst Job in the World" directed by Jens Pedersen • Best Feature – Children's Advocacy:
"Glue Boys" directed by Phil Hamer • Best Short – Children's Advocacy:
"Girl Stars: Anita the Beekeeper" directed by Vikash Nowlakh • Best Feature – Animal Advocacy:
"Beyond Closed Doors" directed by Hugh Dorigo • Best Short – Animal Advocacy:
"Sharks – Stewards of the Reef" directed by Holiday Johnson • Best Feature – Environmental Preservation:
"Out of Balance" directed by Tom Jackson • Best Short – Environmental Preservation:
"Anthropology 101" directed by Wayne Brittendon
2006 • Best Short – Human Rights:
"A QUESTION OF LOYALTY" directed by Randall Wilkins • Best Feature – Human Rights:
"Occupation 101" directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish • Best Short – Children's Advocacy:
"DAUGHTERS AND SONS: PREVENTING CHILD TRAFFICKING IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE" directed by Sarah Feinbloom • Best Feature – Children's Advocacy:
"SITA: A GIRL OF JAMBU" directed by Kathleen Man • Best Short – International Environmental Preservation:
"FREEDOM FUELS" directed by Martin O'Brien • Best Feature – International Environmental Preservation:
"Crude Impact" directed by James Jandak Wood • Best Short – Animal Advocacy:
"THE MEATRIX II" directed by Louis Fox • Best Feature – Animal Advocacy:
"MAD COWBOY" directed by Dr. Michael Tobias • Best Short – Artivist Spirit:
"BELIEVE" directed by Synthian Sharp • Best Feature – Artivist Spirit:
"CLASS ACT" directed by Sara Sackner
2005 • Best Short – Environmental Preservation:
"OIL AND WATER" directed by Corwin Fergus • Best Feature– Environmental Preservation:
"OIL ON ICE" directed by Dale Djerassi • Best Short – Animal Advocacy:
"WITNESS" directed by Jennifer Stein • Best Feature – Animal Advocacy:
"Earthlings" directed by
Shaun Monson • Best Short – International Human Rights:
"Seoul Train" directed by
Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth &
Aaron Lubarsky • Best Feature – International Human Rights:
"TRUDELL" directed by Heather Rae • Best Short – Children's Advocacy:
"HUMMINGBIRD" directed by Holly Mosher • Best Feature – Children's Advocacy:
"STOLEN CHILDHOODS" directed by Len Morris • Best Short – Artivist Spirit: ''"EMMANUEL'S GIFT"'' directed by Lisa Lax and Nancy Lax • Best Feature – Artivist Spirit:
"HOPE" directed by Catherine Margerin
2004 • Best Feature – Environmental Preservation:
"BLUE VINYL" directed by Judith Helfland • Best Short– Environmental Preservation:
"GOOD RIDDANCE" directed by Nick Hilligoss • Best Feature – Animal Rights:
"CHATTEL" directed by Rebecca Harrell • Best Short– Animal Rights:
"4 DAYS" directed by Richard Hauck • Best Feature – Children's Advocacy:
"BORN INTO BROTHELS" directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski • Best Short – Children's Advocacy:
"OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER" directed by Joel Venet • Best Feature – Human Rights:
"WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE" directed by Rana Freedman • Best Short – Human Rights: ''"BID 'EM IN"'' directed by Neal Sopata • Best Feature – Artivist Spirit:
"A LIFE OF DEATH" directed by Dawn Westlake • Best Short – Artivist Spirit:
"OUTSIDE THE LINES", Directed by Markus Stilman • Audience Award:
"NOTHING WITHOUT YOU" directed by Ted Mattison and Paul Kelleher ==References==