Yasuni is awarded the Award of Excellence for Indonesia’s renown International Film Festival Environment, Health and Culture.
Award of Excellence winners are also finalists for overall winner and category winners, and will be announced on the 9th May 2013 at the Awards Night in Blitzmegaplex cinema, Grand Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
SPECIAL JURY AWARDS
Robert Redford (The New Environmentalists)
Susan Sarandon (Nothing Like Chocolate)
President Rafael Correa (Yasuní: The Last Chance)
Sohan Roy (DAM 999)
Hideaki Kataoka (KIZUNA Taste of Aji Stone)
Diego Rougier (Salt)
Greg Kiss (The Tropic of Capricorn – A Time-lapse Journey)
Kelci Parker (Beauty Queen)
Pedro Opeka (Pedro Opeka, The Friend of the Poor)
Firefighter Marshall Allen (Swingman)
Grace Orsolato (Get Together Girls)
Doctor Martha Sommers (Brink of Survival)
Jon Hastie (A Life Worth Living – Pushing The Limits of Duchenne)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT – AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Directed by John Antonelli, Will Parrinello, Tom Dusenbery, USA
FEARLESS ENCOUNTERS
Directed by Talal Showaish-Salem, South Africa
VARANASI, INDIA: BEYOND
Directed by Cale Glendening, USA
THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN – A TIME-LAPSE JOURNEY
Directed by Greg Kiss, Germany
BUFFALO MUST DIE
Directed by Jesse Veverka, USA
TIGHT
Directed by Eckhard Kruse, Germany
RETURN TO THE FOREST
Directed by Patricia Sims, Canada
CANS OF HOPE
Directed by Hirokazu Kishida, Japan
TRAFFICKED-THE RECKONING
Directed by Luigi Acquisto, Australia
TOBY
Directed by Brett Saunders, USA
WHO I AM
Directed by Dawn Young, USA
THE COLOR OF MOONLIGHT
Directed by Naga Kataru, USA
NATURE’S INVITATION
Directed by Brandy Yanchyk, Canada
GIVE ME SHELTER
Directed by Kristin Rizzo, USA
RUJAK
Directed by Kenneth Feinstein, Singapore
THE STORY OF CHOLERA
Directed by Yoni Goodman, USA
SWINGMAN
Directed by Mark Birnbaum, USA
YASUNÍ: THE LAST CHANCE
Directed by Nicolas Entel, USA
SAVING 10,000 – WINNING A WAR ON SUICIDE IN JAPAN
Directed by Rene Duignan, USA
ECHOING TAROKO
Directed by Yang, Hsiang-wen, Taiwan