Award Winning Films

GIFF is proud to support filmmakers with a variety of film awards and cash prizes.  Check out our award-winning films!

BEST SOCIAL IMPACT FILM AWARD

Presented by Ann & Nick Young

LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING

Documentary / 1hr 38mins / USA

LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll,exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator– Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything.

Director: Lisa Cortes
Producers: Robert Friedman, Lisa Cortés, Liz Yale Marsh and Caryn Capotosto Executive Producers: Dee Rees, Mike Powers, Anita May Rosentstein, Gus Wenner, Jason Fine, Amy Entelis, Courtney Sexton
Editors: Jake Hostetter, Lead Editor: Nyneve Laura Minnear

HONORABLE MENTION

BEYOND ZERO

Documentary  /  102 mins  /  Ireland, UK, Belgium, France

Documentary / 72 mins / USA
Called “the most important business story of the past 100 years,” the film chronicles the story of the past leader Ray Anderson and his company, Interface. After a life-changing epiphany, Ray led his team on a high-stakes journey.

Directors:  Nathan Havey
Producers: Jim Havey, Executive Producer: Diana Propper De Callejon, Co – Executive Producers:Bill Hayward, Bob Fish, Michael McFall, Ben Lumpkin
Editor: Nathan Church

Past Winners

Best Social Impact Film

  • 2023 – “Little Richard – I Am Everything”
  • 2022 – “The First Wave”
  • 2021 –  “Through the Night”
  • 2020 – “Music Got Me Here”
  • 2019 – “Afterward”
  • 2018 – “Crime + Punishment”
  • 2017 – “City of Ghosts”
  • 2016 – “Hooligan Sparrow”
  • 2015 – “3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets”

Honorable Mentions

  • 2023 – “Beyond Zero”
  • 2022 – “Young Plato”
  • 2022 – “Casablanca Beats”
  • 2021 – “The Boy From Medellin”
  • 2021 – “There is No Evil”

Best CT Short

  • 2020 – “The Other Side”
  • 2019 – “120 Years”
  • 2018 – “The Hammamis”
  • 2017 – “Blind Sushi”

Best Documentary Feature

  • 2019 – “Cold Case Hammarskjöld”
  • 2018 – “The Dawn Wall”
  • 2017 – “Bending the Arc”
  • 2016 – “Hooligan Sparrow”
  • 2015 – “The Russian Woodpecker”

Best Narrative Feature

  • 2019 – “Sister Aimee”
  • 2018 – “The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler”
  • 2017 – “The Strange Ones”
  • 2016 – “Little Men”
  • 2015 – “Zurich”

Best Documentary Short

  • 2019 – “Mack Wrestles”
  • 2018 – “Kayayo”
  • 2017 – “The Rabbit Hunt”
  • 2016 – “Another Kind of Girl”
  • 2015 – “Santa Cruz del Islote”

Best Narrative Short

  • 2019 – “The Animal”
  • 2018 – “The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler”
  • 2017 – “Under Pressure”
  • 2016 – “Before the Bomb”
  • 2015 – “Grounded”

Audience Award

  • 2020 – “A Peloton of One”
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