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This beautiful film shows us how a small school like JDH encourages these students, through a broad pedagogy, to find their own worth, to blossom and thrive, and—possibly for the first time—to imagine they have a future.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 style=\"color: #0072ab;\">Special Jury Prize\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cb>AANIKOOBIJIGAN [ANCESTOR/GREAT-GRANDPARENT/GREAT-GRANDCHILD]\u003C/b> Directed by Adam Khalil & Zack Khalil\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cb>Jury Statement:\u003C/b> The efforts of members of Native tribal alliances (particularly MACPRA), legalized by the NAGPRA Act, to repatriate ancestors’ remains — a spiritually profound endeavor against racist and colonial plunder and biased “preservation” — meet both successes and institutional resistances over many years. The ancestors themselves, imprisoned in archives and museums and yet connected to the land and water of Mother Earth and to the spiral ebbs of Time, are granted representation through passages of experimental visual technique.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 style=\"color: #0072ab;\">Karen Schmeer Excellence in Film Editing Award\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cb>LEAVING ANGOLA\u003C/b> Edited by Tim Raycroft\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cb>Jury Statement:\u003C/b> At Angola prison in Louisiana, efforts to reduce both the numbers of prisoners and the rate of recidivism include re-entry training, with work, education and mentorship being conducted by fellow inmates sentenced to life without parole. Following a mentor and one of his mentees over several years, Leaving Angola documents the bittersweetness of fostering the capacity for a freedom the mentor may never enjoy, the pressures of the world outside the prison walls, the slow-turning wheels of justice, and the vicissitudes of life. 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Pitch perfect acting is the backbone of a story between strangers who have more in common than they expected.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 style=\"color: #0072ab;\">Audience Award\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cb> FAMILY SUNDAY \u003C/b> Directed by Gerardo Del Razo\n\u003C/div>\n\u003Ch2>Documentary Shorts\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cdiv style=\"margin-left: 2%;\">\n\u003Ch3 style=\"color: #0072ab;\">Grand Jury Prize\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cb>GATORVILLE\u003C/b> Directed by Freddie Gluck\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cb>Jury Statement:\u003C/b> We’re dropped right into the tire pit in astonishing color and light in this film. The incredibly unique setting is rendered completely usual by the sweet and precocious brother and sister duo who share their contemplations on growing up in a place most people would consider extreme, and what it might mean to leave it all behind one day.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch3 style=\"color: #0072ab;\">Special Jury Prize\u003C/h3>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cb>A DERAILMENT\u003C/b> Directed by Nathan Truesdell\u003Cbr />\n\u003Cb>Jury Statement:\u003C/b> News footage from the East Palestine Ohio Norfolk Southern train derailment, which occurred in 2023, is finally set to an appropriately rageful score in this short. We are led through the slog of a deeply unjust and not so unfamiliar story of the toxic wake of capital in America. 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