Awards & Fellowships

Peabody Documentary Awards winners

Award winners will be celebrated during a ceremony on June 1.  ✦ Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries ✦ Nanfu Wang’s Night is Not Eternal ✦ Lucy Walker’s Mountain Queen ✦ Sarah Mani’s Bread & Roses 

2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards Nominations

The Documentary ceremony will take place on June 26. 

✦ Katja Esson’s Razing Liberty Square - Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary ✦ Elaine McMillon Sheldon’s King Coal - Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary, Outstanding Writing Documentary, and Outstanding Cinematography

Catapult’s 2025 Research Grant

Catapult's Research Grant provides $10,000 and mentorship from industry powerhouses including Dawn Porter and Steven Bognar.

✦ Sabaah Folayan ✦ Loira Limbal  

Wyncote Fellowship

Presented by American Documentary, this public media award connects filmmakers with industry peers and key figures from the local Atlanta film community. 

✦ Brittany Shyne ✦ Luchina Fisher ✦ Robie Flores ✦ Isabel Alcantara Atalaya  

Film Independent Doc Story Lab

The Doc Story Lab allows filmmakers to workshop their projects with support from mentors like supported filmmakers Anayansi Prado, Kirsten Johnson, and Tracy Droz Tragos.

✦ Natalie Baszile ✦  Emily Cohen Ibañez (Also awarded the Cayton-Goldrich Family Foundation Fellowship for her film Orquidea) ✦ Hyacinth Parker

Upcoming Festival Premieres and Screenings

DC/DOX (June 12-15)

✦ Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics ✦ Jessica Earnshaw’s Baby Doe  ✦ Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni’s Cutting Through Rocks ✦ Aurora Brachman’s Hold Me Close ✦ Angela Tucker’s The Inquisitor  ✦ Sasha Wortzel’s River of Grass ✦ Brittany Shyne’s Seeds ✦ Anayansi Prado’s Uvalde Mom ✦ From the AlumNest: Lydia Cornett & Brit Fyer’s Tessitura, Amber Fares’ Coexistence, My Ass!, Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor, and Zippy Kimundu’s Widow Champion

Sheffield DocFest (June 18 - 23)

✦ Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics ✦ Maia Lekow & Christopher King’s How to Build a Library ✦ Violet Du Feng’s The Dating Game ✦ Alisa Kovalenko’s My Dear Theo ✦ From the AlumNest: Amber Fares’ Coexistence, My Ass!, and Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor

MeetMarket ✦ Carola Fuente’s Untitled Chilean Documentary 

C&E WIP Showcase We’ll return to Sheffield DocFest with a Chicken & Egg Films WIP Showcase highlighting supported work-in-progress films from around the globe that challenge the status quo, expand perspectives, and inspire change: ✦ Anatomy of Indifference, dir. Ilinca Calugareanu  ✦ *holds you tight*, dir. Jane M. Wagner  ✦ Matininó, dir. Gabriela Díaz Arp  ✦ NINE, dirs. Rachael DeCruz & Jeremy Levine  ✦ Our Hoolocks, dirs. Ragini Nath & Chinmoy Sonowal

Now Streaming

✦ Joonam is streaming on the Criterion Channel ✦ Hidden Letters is having an encore release on PBS