Voice Arts® Awards

Between 2013 and 2015, a group of nonprofit attorneys seek nonhuman clients for whom they can advocate in two U.S. territories, in order to establish legal personhood for elephants, cetaceans and nonhuman apes in the U.S.

Set in America's rural south, on the even of the recent election a town deals with issues of immigrant integration and reckons with its segregated past.

Young people in Bridgend, South Wales die by hanging. Authorities struggle to explain connections between victims - friends, neighbors, cousins. Film examines lives and deaths through interviews, seeking explanations for the tragic events.

Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence. Their journey becomes a tribute to the fragility of the human condition, between reality and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of the spirit. Together they question their own relationship with death.

Happy New Year Hungary is Hungary's first collaborative documentary. The last day of the year is a perfect opportunity to connect people from different generations, social classes and sub-cultures. 12 professional crews were following 12 different characters during the last and the first day of the year and 300 participants contributed the project by submitting videos. The film offers a colorful tableau of a modern society by following the stories of a diverse cast of characters on New Year's Eve.

Thirty miles from Manhattan a group of mysterious mountain people fight for recognition as a legitimate Native American tribe.