Documentary Feature Audience Award Winner: First Position

FIRST POSITION follows six gifted ballet students from disparate social, regional, economic and ethnic backgrounds as they compete at the Youth America Grand Prix finals in New York City. Moving and inspiring, FIRST POSITION features stunning and memorable performances, both in dance and on camera.

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Documentary Feature Competition Grand Jury Prize: Tchoupitoulas

As picked by the Documentary Feature Jury, the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Prize winner is awarded a $10,000 unrestricted cash prize.

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Documentary Shorts
Family Nightmare, Lifelike, Everything is Incredible, The Elect, Heart Stop Beating, Love Hacking, The Love Competition
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Doubles with Slight Pepper

A father’s request of the son he left behind in Trinidad reveals deep wounds in this heartfelt immigrant story.

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Dr. Breakfast

One day at breakfast, a man’s soul bursts out of his eyeball. While his soul roams the earth, eating everything in sight, two wild deer bathe, clothe, and feed his catatonic body in this surreal meditation on the quirky, but rejuvenating, nature of friendship.

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Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker

In the land of Orlais, where battles are fought with swords and magic, a young heroine rises as templars, mages, and dragons clash. Cassandra, a brash and beautiful Seeker accused of treason, must stop a conspiracy that threatens the realm’s most powerful religious order, the Chantry of Andraste. Cassandra must clear her name and overcome her raging emotions in order to save the day and take her place in legend in the CG-animated DRAGON AGE, directed by Fumihiko Sori.

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The Dump

Told through the eyes of 11 year old Utah, THE DUMP is a story about a boy discovering there’s more to his dad than just rubbish.

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E.T. The Extraterrestrial

Ask 10 random people what the greatest science fiction movie of all time is, and E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL would be the only one with multiple votes. Steven Spielberg’s 1982 blockbuster is the ultimate sci-fi film for people that don’t like sci-fi, making eight-year-olds and 80-year-olds cheer, fear and weep with equal verve as Elliott, Gertie and Michael endeavor to save a tiny, ugly and seemingly helpless being amid authoritative intervention and the skeptical homogeneity of suburbia. Resonating with themes of friendship, belonging, tolerance, and (ahem) alienation, E.T. is trans-generational family cinema at its crest—a film for the ages, for all ages.

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The Elect

What’s really happening behind the doors of Westboro Baptist Church? The Elect gives a rare look at the group’s spokeswoman and her children as they carry out their day-to-day activities.

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