EarthxFilm Festival 2020 Award Winners
Best Feature Film
My Octopus teacher
Award – $5000
Director:
Pippa Ehrlich
Director:
James Reed
Best Short
THE LOVE BUGS
$3000
Director:
Allison Otto, Maria Clinton
Impact Award
MOSSVILLE: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL
$2000
Director:
Alexander John Glustrom
Impact Award
THE GREAT GREEN WALL
$2000
Director:
Jared P. Scott
Impact Award
AKASHINGA: THE BRAVE ONES
$2000
Director:
Maria Willhelm
Impact Award
CURRENT SEA
$2000
Director:
Christopher Smith
Earth Catalyst
ADAPTATION
$1500
Director:
Alizé Carrère
Earth Catalyst
RAISING KHAN
$1500
Director:
Melissa Lesh
Creative Storytelling
FERRYMAN AT THE WALL, NOBODY DIES IN LONGYEARBYEN, THE RIVER IS ME
$1000
Director: David Freid
EarthxFilm Festival 2019 Award Winners
In 2018 EarthxFilm handed out cash prizes totaling $37,000 to winning filmmakers with a portion of those funds going directly to the environmental organizations and efforts that the films themselves explored or profiled.
Best Feature Film
COOKED:
SURVIVAL BY ZIP CODE
Award – $5000
What’s the best way to prepare for a disaster? In today’s era of mega-storms, raging wildfires and record-breaking floods, that question is on the minds of many. In a film adapted from Eric Kinenberg’s book HEAT WAVE: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, director Judith A. Helfand takes viewers on a journey from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave to the extreme weather and the politics of disaster that define today’s modern era, posing the question: What if a zip code was just a number and not a life-or-death sentence?
Director:
Judith Helfand
Jury Awards
Earth Catalyst
THE CLIMATE
STORY LAB
$4000
Directors:
Patricia Finnerman
Jeff Orlowski
Best Short Film
UNIONTOWN
$3000
Director:
Fraser Jones
Impact Award
SEA OF SHADOWS
$2000
Director:
Richard Ladkani
Award Beneficiary
Elephant Action League
Andrea Crosta
Impact Award
GHOST FLEET
$2000
Directors:
Shannon Service
Jeffrey Waldron
Award Beneficiary
Labor Rights Promotion Network
Patima Tungpuchayakul
Creative Storytelling
WILDLAND
$1000
Director:
Alex Jablonski
Audience Awards
Special Mention
Best Feature Film - Tie
THE RIVER AND THE WALL
$1000
Director:
Ben Masters
Best Feature Film - Tie
WATSON
$1000
Director:
Lesley Chilcott
Best Short Film
THE ROAD TO THE PHOTO ARK
$1000
Director:
Josie Swantek Heitz
Special Mention
KIFARU
Director:
David Hamdbridge
Special Mention
DETROIT HIVES
Director:
Palmer Morse
Special Mention
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Director:
Rory WT
Audience Awards
Best Feature Film - Tie
THE RIVER AND THE WALL
$1000
Director:
Ben Masters
Best Feature Film - Tie
WATSON
$1000
Director:
Lesley Chilcott
Best Short Film
THE ROAD TO THE PHOTO ARK
$1000
Director:
Josie Swantek Heitz
Special Mention
Special Mention
KIFARU
Director:
David Hamdbridge
Special Mention
DETROIT HIVES
Director:
Palmer Morse
Special Mention
THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Director:
Rory WT
EarthxFilm Festival 2018
Award Winners
In 2018 EarthxFilm handed out cash prizes totaling $37,000 to winning filmmakers with a portion of those funds going directly to the environmental organizations and efforts that the films themselves explored or profiled.
Best Feature Film
Unfractured
Award – $5000
Canadian filmmaker, writer and educator Chanda Chevannes is passionate about social change. Her hopeful documentary, UNFRACTURED, follows biologist and mother Sandra Steingraber as she reinvents herself as an outspoken activist and throws herself into an environmental war that many believe is unwinnable. It’s about fighting for something you believe in with your whole heart.
Director:
Chanda Chevannes
Best Feature
BIRD OF PREY
$3000
Director:
Eric Liner
Impact Award
PERMAFROST NOW
$2500
Director:
Stash Wislocki
Impact Award
CHASING THE THUNDER
$2500
Co-Director:
Marc Levin
Impact Award
CHASING THE THUNDER
$2500
Co-Director:
Mark Benjamin
Special Mention
ALBATROSS
Director:
Chris Jordan
Earth Catalyst
THE HUMAN ELEMENT
$2500
Director:
Matthew Testa
Earth Catalyst
GROUNDED
$2500
Director:
Gabrielle Piamonte
Creative Storytelling
THE LAST HONEY HUNTER
$2000
Director:
Ben Knight
Best Short
THE CURVE OF TIME
$3000
Director:
Jordan Manley
Best Short Film
DITCH THE VAN
$2000
Director:
Mallory Cunningham