Awards and Festivals
Awards
- Society of Professional Journalists
Winner, Best Documentary, Sigma Delta Chi Award
- Press Club of Atlantic City
Winner, National Headliner Awards, Best Documentary (#3)
- International Film Music Critics
Nominee, Best Documentary Score
- Cinequest Film Festival
Winner, Special Jury Award & Audience Award
- Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival
Winner, Top 10 Audience Favourite (#3)
- Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival
Nominee, WGA Documentary Screenplay Award
- Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
Winner, Audience Award
- Orlando Film Festival
Winner, Best Documentary
- St. Louis International Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award
- National Board of Review
One of the Top 5 Documentaries of 2008
- Chicago Film Critics Association
Nominee, Best Documentary
- Online Film Critics Association
Nominee, Best Documentary and Breakthrough Filmmaker (Kurt Kuenne)
Festivals
- Slamdance Film Festival
- Cinequest Film Festival
- SXSW Film Festival
- Sarasota Film Festival
- Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival
- Silverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival
- New Zealand International Film Festivals - Wellington & Auckland
- World Film Festival, Montreal
- Calgary International Film Festival
- Edmonton International FilmFestival
- Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival
- Indie Memphis Film Festival
- San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
- Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
- Williamstown Film Festival
- Orlando Film Festival
- St. Louis International Film Festival
- Starz Denver Film Festival
- International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA)
- Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival - China
- International Filmweekend - Würzburg, Germany
- Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival - Greece
- Bradford International Film Festival - UK