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2018 First Place Winners

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Still I Rise
BEST OF FEST
Still I Rise
Gabriel Diamond, Patrick Barnes, Phil Collis | Skoll Foundation
Still I Rise, poem by Maya Angelo
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Media Award
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Morgan Neville | Focus Features
Featured Hero: Fred Rogers
Kim Phuc - The Sunrise StoryTeller
Ron Kovic Peace Prize & Women Transforming Media - Student Award
Kim Phuc [excerpt from The Sunrise Storyteller]
Kasha Sequoia Slavner
Featured Hero: Kim Phuc
Educate Girls
Dan Eldon Activist Award
Educate Girls
Gabriel Diamond | Skoll Foundation
www.educategirls.ngo
RBG
Special Hero Award
RBG
Betsy West | Julie Cohen
Featured Hero: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dr. James Doty
GLOBAL EDUCATOR AWARD
Dr. James Doty
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
Stanford University
Gloria's Call
Women Transforming Media
Gloria's Call
Cheri Gaulke
Featured Hero: Gloria Orenstein
The Toothmans
Relationships First Award
The Toothmans
Hansen Bursic
The Sunrise Storyteller [Trailer]
Emerging Artist
Sophie Kim
Director from Harvard-Westake High School, Mentor: Cheri Gaulke
Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana Islands
Sylvia Earle Ocean Conservation Award
Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana Islands
Directed by: Stephani Gordon
Produced by: Whitney Yadao-Evans, Niquole Esters, and Jennifer Shoemaker
Featured Hero: Conservation International
Gray Areas
Teen Press Award
Gray Areas
Kat Swander, Jack Safir
Harvard-Westlake High School
People's Choice Award
Looking After Our Country
Mark Pearce | Balangara Films
Featured Hero: Albert Wiggan
Media Arts Educator Award
Cheri Gaulke
Artist / Educator / Activist
Harvard-Westlake High School
CROW: The Legend - VR
Immersive Storytelling - Narrative
CROW: The Legend - VR
Eric Darnell | Produced by Baobab Studios
Featuring: John Legend, Oprah Winfrey
Protecting The Amazon
Environmental Award
Protecting the Amazon by Advancing Indigenous Rights
Paul Paz Y Mino
amazonwatch.org
Protecting The Amazon
Environmental Award
Last Stand - The Vanishing Caribou Rainforest (Trailer)
Colin Arisman
Vulnerable Rally | Rise
Music Video Award
Vulnerable Rally | Rise
Gabriel Diamond & Candice Holdorf | Music/Lyrics by Mikey Pauker
Invisible
Music Video Award
Invisible
Bishop Lamont | USC MICH and Kwippit
Charles Ofori Antipem
Education Heroes
Charles Ofori Antipem
Cheikh Darou Seck
Featured Hero: Charles Antipem
A Moment of Compassion
Health Heroes Award
A Moment of Compassion
Brenda Goodman
Featured Hero: Dr. Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga
No Exit: Jordan’s Most Vulnerable Refugees
Documentary & Humanitarian Award
Louis’ Story: Child Soldier to Role Model
Shanshan Chen | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Humanitarian Award Winner: Louis Lakor
Sadako's Prayer
Animation
Sadako's Prayer
Fauzia Minallah
Featured Hero: Sadako
Remembering History
Special Hero Award
Remembering History
Trey Carlisle
Featured Hero: Brian Stevenson
Laguna Beach Police Anti-Bullying Campaign Featuring Tony Hawk
PSA
Laguna Beach Police Anti-Bullying Campaign Featuring Tony Hawk
Captain Jeff Calvert | Tony Hawk Foundation
The UN Treaty Bodies
PSA
The UN Treaty Bodies
Raj Yagnik
Featured Hero: United Nations
Educate Girls
Women's Rights
Educate Girls
Gabriel Diamond
Featured Hero: Educate Girls
The Story of Life
Overcoming Obstacles
The Story of Life
Brett G. Kim
Featured Hero: Ethan Posner
Art for Peace
Arts Heroes
Art for Peace
Shanshan Chen
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Sadako's Prayer
Animation
Sadako's Prayer
Fauzia Minallah
Featured Hero: Sadako
Drops
Animation
Drops
Karsten KJÆRULF-HOOP, Sarah Joy JUNGEN
Charles Ofori Antipem
Education Heroes
Charles Ofori Antipem
Cheikh Darou Seck
Featured Hero: Charles Antipem
Mumpsimus and Halcyon Discord
College Narrative
Mumpsimus and Halcyon Discord
Rolf Klein
The Toothmans
College Documentary
The Toothmans
Hansen Bursic
In the Eyes of Youth: Memories of Race
High School
In the Eyes of Youth: Memories of Race
Kiarra Anderson, Otto Blais-Nelson, Brendan D'Andrea, Payge Drake, Tori Ellis, Lyric Goodman, Malik Griffin, Mariya Jennings, Mikayla Jennings, Ashley Robinson
Find a Way
High School Music Video
Find a Way
Akil Carrillo, Ellie Aronica | BAYCAT
Playas de Tijuana
High School Experimental
Playas de Tijuana
Sophie Kim
Harvard-Westlake High School
Dreamers
High School Documentary
Dreamers
Luis Luna, Angel Mendonza, Daniel Valderrama
Mt. Pleasant High School
From AIDS to Advice: LGBTQ+ Seniors Tell Their Stories
High School Documentary
From AIDS to Advice: LGBTQ+ Seniors Tell Their Stories
Sophie Kim
The Magic Power
High School Narrative
The Magic Power
William Lancaster
Hoodies Up
High School PSA
Hoodies Up
Tosha Kwngano, Johan Amani, Lisa Amani, Kristen Mico
Hold the Sun in Your Hands: The Erika Jacoby Story
High School Animation
Hold the Sun in Your Hands: The Erika Jacoby Story
Righteous Conversations Project
Featured Hero: Erika Jacoby
Gray Areas
Student/Mentor
Gray Areas
Kat Swander, Jack Safir
Harvard-Westlake High School
Raye Montague's Life of Breaking Barriers
Middle School
Raye Montague's Life of Breaking Barriers
Alexandra Cannon
Raye Montague
The Wong's Wordless World
Elementary
The Wong's Wordless World
Airis Yeung, Mia Zhang
Still I Rise
Experimental
Still I Rise
Gabriel Diamond, Patrick Barnes, Phil Collis | Skoll Foundation
Still I Rise, poem by Maya Angelou

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Narrative

Arts Heroes

College Documentary

College Narrative

Documentary

Educational Heroes

Elementary School

Experimental

Health Heroes

High School Documentary

High School Experimental

High School Narrative

High School PSA

Human Rights

Overcoming Obstacles

Animation

Documentary

Professional Portrait of an Individual

Professional Portrait of an Organization

PSA

Women’s Rights

Student Animation

Student/Mentor

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