2015 Winners Announced
WINNER
U.S. Documentary
POWER’S WAR
Anthem Grand Prize
As America entered WWI, Congress passed a law making it illegal to speak out against the war or fail to register for the draft. These two laws led to the deadliest shootout in Arizona’s history as a family of silver prospectors silently protested America’s entry into the war. The Feds’ midnight attack on the sleeping […]
BITCOIN: THE END OF MONEY AS WE KNOW IT
AnthemVault Prize for Best Libertarian Theme
“Bitcoin: The End Of Money As We Know It” traces the history of money from the bartering societies of the ancient world to the trading floors of Wall St. The documentary exposes the practices of central banks and the dubious financial actors who brought the world to its knees in the last crisis. It highlights […]
Short narratives
WHERE WE GO FROM HERE
Audience Choice, Scripted Narrative
When a Pakistani journalist secures a rare interview with government whistleblower Edward Snowden, she doesn’t realize how much it will cost her.
Short documentaries
FARMING IN FEAR
Audience Choice, Documentary
In 2006, Martha Boneta bought a tattered, two hundred year-old farm in Paris, Virginia, on 64 beautiful acres about an hour West of Washington DC. Liberty Farm was the realization of Martha’s childhood dream to become a working farmer and bring homegrown, organic produce to her community. After two years renovating the property, she planted […]
VISION: HEALING THE BLIND IN ETHIOPIA
Best Short Documentary
VISION is the story of five blind Ethiopian farmers and housewives, helpless and hopeless and waiting for death. We follow their lives from darkness, through a simple surgical process, to the astonishing moment that sight returns and their lives become wonderfully normal and productive again. A year and a half later, we see what has […]
PRISON TERMINAL: THE LAST DAYS OF CAPTAIN JACK HALL
Excellence in Filmmaking, Documentary Feature
PRISON TERMINAL: THE LAST DAYS OF PRIVATE JACK HALL is a moving cinema verité documentary that breaks through the walls of one of Americas oldest maximum security prisons to tell the story of the final months in the life of a terminally ill prisoner and the hospice volunteers, they themselves prisoners, who care for him. […]
SHELTER
Excellence in Filmmaking, Short Narrative
SHELTER stars Clea DuVall (Argo, Zodiac, Girl Interrupted) and April Grace (Whiplash, Magnolia), and takes place in one day at a local animal shelter, where Petra (Clea DuVall), a prison inmate trustee, works to help socialize a dog deemed too aggressive for society. As tensions build between herself and her hardened supervisor (April Grace), Petra […]
IMMINENT THREAT
Best Libertarian Ideals, Documentary Feature
Executive produced by Oscar nominee James Cromwell and filmed in part at FreedomFest, this documentary examines the consequences of the War on Terror and the threat it’s causing to your civil liberties and political discourse. From the Authorization to Use Military Force passed by Congress immediately after 9/11 to the 2014 NSA revelations from Edward […]
HELIO
Best Libertarian Ideals,Short Narrative
One worker sparks a revolution when he attempts to break free of his dystopian underworld. You may watch the entire film here.
POLICE STRIKE FORCE
Best Libertarian Ideals, Short Documentary
Former Sheriff William J. “Dub” Lawrence of Davis County, Utah, provides riveting analysis of the impact of lethal force currently being used by police officers against U. S. citizens. POLICE STRIKE FORCE shows the increasing awareness and involvement of peace officers like “Dub” who are speaking out against injustice that does not represent the American […]
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