Genre: Documentary

My Name Is Belle is a snapshot of one immigrant's experience through the eyes of a 7-year-old child. Belle Yang, artist and writer, uses herself as the model for the fictional pig-tailed girl in her book HANNAH IS MY NAME.  Belle, as Hannah, arrives from Taiwan and faces change and loneliness - the difficulty of learning a new language, a new culture, even a new name, and of living with tension while waiting for green cards, longing to be citizens.  The film dips into past and present using Belle's storytelling and bright paintings to tell her story.

Nominated for Best Documentary Short: Sixteen American high school filmmakers share their life-altering experiences discovering the Holocaust.

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature: The history of vocal imitation of rhythm and its impact on all genres of music.

In this road-trip adventure, veteran filmmakers Terri DeBono and Steve Rosen travel to three international film festivals to screen their feature documentary, BOYHOOD SHADOWS - I Swore I’d Never Tell. “Hilarious and gut-wrenching”,  LOOKING FOR AN AUDIENCE chronicles the trials and tribulations of attracting an audience to a social-issue film that nobody wants to see.

Tony and Thomas are an average couple—deeply committed to each other. Unlike most couples, their life together is threatened because they’re from two different countries. Torn from the US and battling to come home, they now live as nomads. They have little left but the road. Follow their 16-year journey of immigration struggle and exclusion.

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature: Knowing changes everything if it’s an HIV test in Kenya. Nearly 50,000 came forward to be tested for HIV in Kakamega, Kenya in a ground-breaking campaign aimed to combat the area’s three biggest public health threats at once: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and diarrheal disease. Watch how a whole community’s stigma towards HIV positive people changes for good.

Nominated for Best Documentary Short: Monty Marsh's journey home to Africa forces him to confront the horrors that his ancestors endured during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, as well as bring about many questions of what it means to be Black in America today. Unknowingly, he is confronted with an even more grim reality - modern day slavery.

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature: A total transformation of a down-and-nearly-out in a very candid manner who seeks to fulfill his desire to be loved.

Winner Best Documentary Short: This is the true story of the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASP) told by Jean Landis. A first in the history of the US. The joys and triumphs of being needed to fly military aircraft for the Army in WWII. The challenges and dangers. The heartbreak and insolence of being abruptly disbanded.

Winner Best Documentary Feature: Preservationist, naturalist, author, explorer, activist, scientist, farmer, John Muir (4/21/1838 – 12/24/1914) was all these things and more. Nearly a century after his death, this Scottish American is remembered and revered as the father of the environmental movement and the founder of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States. John Muir in the New World is a timely reminder of America’s unique and, ultimately, threatened eco-systems. The film’s PBS premier is scheduled for April 18 (9 p.m. on San Diego’s KPBS and LA’s KOCE). Visit the American Masters website to learn more.

Nominated for Best Documentary Short: Living for 32 is the inspirational story of Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre—the tragic gun-shooting incident on the Virginia Tech campus in April 2007, which left 32 dead and 17 injured. Colin shares an intimate account of terror he and his classmates endured and the courageous journey of renewal and hope he chose to pursue.

A feature-length documentary that follows five American war veterans who served together in Vietnam 40 years ago as they reunite to tour battlefields, meet former enemies, and confront the ghosts of their past.

Clickin’ for Love is a light-hearted documentary exploring the modern world of online dating.  Online dating veterans share their stories of searching for casual encounters, soul-mates, and everything in between.

A study of one of the most picturesque places on the planet that is also one of the poorest in the world.

Salum and Malise represent the able people of Tanzania. Their lives are entwined through their common goal of standing proudly as productive members of society. Leading their own initiatives while struggling to gain respect in a society that labels them as disabled, these individuals represent the current Tanzanian disability movement.