Full Frame Presents 2025 Award Winners

Full Frame, a qualifying event for nominations for the Academy Award® Documentary Short Film category and the Producers Guild of America Awards, proudly presents its 2025 award winners. These nine awards total $45,000 in cash prizes.

FULL FRAME GRAND JURY AWARD
Seeds (dir. Brittany Shyne)

FULL FRAME GRAND JURY SPECIAL JURY AWARD
The Perfect Neighbor (dir. Geeta Gandbhir)

FULL FRAME JURY AWARD FOR BEST SHORT
Presented by Drs. Barbra and Andrew Rothschild
perfectly a strangeness (dir. Alison McAlpine)

CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES FILMMAKER AWARD
Presented by Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies
Coexistence, My Ass! (dir. Amber Fares)

CHARLES E. GUGGENHEIM EMERGING ARTIST AWARD
Presented by the Charles E. Guggenheim Family
The Other One (dir. Marie-Magdalena Kochová) 

THE JOHN FRANKLIN HUMANITIES INSTITUTE AWARD
Presented by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University
Mama Micra (dir. Rebecca Blöcher)
Honorable mentions: perfectly a strangeness (dir. Alison McAlpine) and The Other Side of the Mountain (dir. Yumeng He)

FULL FRAME PRESIDENT’S AWARD
Presented by Duke University
The Spectacle (dir. Yasmin van Dorp)

KATHLEEN BRYAN EDWARDS AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
Presented by the Julian Price Family Foundation in memory of Melanie Taylor
Speak. (dirs. Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman)

IRIS TILLMAN HILL AUDIENCE AWARD—SHORT
Presented by Peter Lange in honor of Iris Tillman Hill
The Devil Is Busy (dirs. Christalyn Hampton, Geeta Gandbhir)

IRIS TILLMAN HILL AUDIENCE AWARD—FEATURE
Presented by Peter Lange in honor of Iris Tillman Hill
Come See Me in the Good Light (dir. Ryan White)

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